We all know that life isn’t a bed of roses and, sometimes, we are dealt the cruelest of blows. Don...
Month: July 2008
On June 7–8, 1958, the Texas Region of the SCCA hosted a weekend of sports car racing 10 miles north...
Though historic racers themselves tend not to become “famous,” there certainly are a handful of very talented drivers, across the...
The history of motor sport is, in many ways, a history of barriers being broken. In the automobile’s 19th-century infancy,...
It may sound corny, but Dick Seaman’s short life really was the stuff of Hollywood movies. He was tall, handsome,...
I became involved in motor racing with some very good friends at the Midland Racing Partnership, located in my hometown...
Al Holbert—winner at Daytona, Sebring, and many times at Le Mans; Peter Gregg—4 times winner at Daytona; and Jim Busby—2...
Carroll Shelby once remarked, “There are only two people I can think of who could sit down, take a welding...
The Ferrari 330 P4 was the Scuderia’s weapon of choice for the 1967 World Manufacturers Championship. The car’s 4-liter V-12...
July 2008 Hugh C. Hunter in his lovely 8C2900B Alfa Romeo on the Campbell Road Circuit. In ths race he...
My first trip to Roebling Road (nee, Savannah-Effingham Raceway) was in the early 1960s to watch my Dad, Charlie, run...
Somewhere, just west of nowhere, sits one of Max Balchowsky’s masterpieces. Although it has been over a decade since Reagan...
2 Emerson Fittipaldi, driving a Penske PC-18, wins the CART Budweiser Cleveland Grand Prix at the Burke Lake Front Airport...
Formula Ford was a specification racing series created on the idea that the best drivers would win if all were...
Eastern Creek Raceway, Australia February 2–3, 2008...
Bathurst, Mt. Panorama, Australia March 21–23, 2008...
Greater Arizona April 5-9, 2008...
Donington Park, UK March 30,2008...
Stoneleigh Park, Coventry, UK March 14-16, 2008...
Donington Park, UK April 19-20, 2008...
Pocono Raceway, PA April 12–13,2008...
July 2008 Gentleman Jack By Graham Gauld If you know who Jack Sears is, this book will fill in all...
You could call it a long time between drinks. It’s been some 35 years since the last race meeting was...
Organizers of the Centennial Celebration of the Vanderbilt Races have announced that the fifth iteration of this unique event will...
A new chapter in the history of Lime Rock Park was written in April, as the track celebrated its groundbreaking...
David and Lorina McLaughlin, founders of two historic racing series, which have evolved into the FIA Historic Formula One Championship...
