Heavy Burden
1967 BRM H-16 The history of Grand Prix racing is dotted with great and successful winning designs, and is equally littered with no-hopers—the Life Grand… Read More...
Monthly Archives: January, 2005
Ferrari’s Great Ace
No other Grand Prix winner has ever sung Puccini, Verdi and Leoncavallo in public or been able to cook like Chicago’s star chef, Charlie Trotter—no… Read More...
Hans Ruesch
Hans Ruesch has had an amazing life. At age 23, he won the Donington Grand Prix (with Richard Seaman as co-driver). By age 40, two… Read More...
Insuring Our Future
If you examine the incredible growth in participation and popularity of historic racing over the past couple of decades, one of the biggest contributing factors…
Jenks and the Mille Miglia
I did 525 races. I had five wheels come off, I’ve had seven or eight brake failures, and I have had the steering shear twice…where… Read More...
Rules
One of the odd things about being a motor racing enthusiast is that most of us have no idea what the rules are. I know… Read More...
January in Racing History
2 The first South Africa Grand Prix, held on the Kyalami track near Johannesburg, is won by Pedro Rodriguez at the wheel of a Cooper-Maserati… Read More...
FIA Sports Prototypes
The FIA sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations set fourth by the FIA… Read More...
Andretti’s Attic
This month Pete is recovering from a “close encounter of the surgical kind.” Pete is doing well and will return next month. Please enjoy one… Read More...
Chrysler Classic, Speed Festival
NAS North Island, Coronado, CA October 8-9, 2004 Read More...