Road Racer
1953 Austin-Healey 100 Is this the ideal sports car of the 1950s? The car that sparked thousands of people into thinking they could buy a… Read More...
Monthly Archives: March, 2009
A Coke and a Smile
The J. Frank Harrison story Given today’s racing environment with its multi-million-dollar corporate budgets, it can be hard to imagine a time when private individuals… Read More...
Andy Wallace
Englishman Andy Wallace is one of only eight drivers ever to post at least one victory in each of endurance racing’s Big Three signature events,… Read More...
Shifting Times
I read a statistic the other day that totally floored me. In the United States, less than 10% of the population knows how to drive… Read More...
Hans Stuck
Hans Stuck first met Adolf Hitler in 1925, when a mutual friend brought the budding Führer to the racing driver’s farm near Freiburg, Germany, for… Read More...
First Time Winner
What is it among first experiences that’s supposed to be the most unforgettable? A boy’s first kiss? I certainly remember that. First bicycle? Ditto. A… Read More...
1971 Martini Racing Porsche 917LH
I have been asked, a number of times, which branch of motor sport I enjoyed the most: driving, management, or loosely speaking designing, as my… Read More...
Remembering Sam
During the early fifties, one of the biggest sports stars in the United States was Sam Hanks. Notice I said “sports,” not motor sports. He… Read More...
The Works
When people learn that I write about motor racing, they assume I am always jetting off to exotic locations. I have to tell them that… Read More...
Frank Gardner OAM
Frank Gardner was the classic sportsman, excelling in swimming, rowing, surfing, and boxing before he began to race speedway bikes in the 1940s. Jaguars were… Read More...
Fast Exposure
March 2009 The Portuguese Grand Prix; Monsanto, August 23, 1959. Shortly before the race Phil Hill and Ferrari’s chief designer Carlo Chiti exchange views while… Read More...