1953 Austin-Healey 100 Is this the ideal sports car of the 1950s? The car that sparked thousands of people into...
Month: March 2009
The J. Frank Harrison story Given today’s racing environment with its multi-million-dollar corporate budgets, it can be hard to imagine...
Englishman Andy Wallace is one of only eight drivers ever to post at least one victory in each of endurance...
I read a statistic the other day that totally floored me. In the United States, less than 10% of the...
Hans Stuck first met Adolf Hitler in 1925, when a mutual friend brought the budding Führer to the racing driver’s...
What is it among first experiences that’s supposed to be the most unforgettable? A boy’s first kiss? I certainly remember...
I have been asked, a number of times, which branch of motor sport I enjoyed the most: driving, management, or...
During the early fifties, one of the biggest sports stars in the United States was Sam Hanks. Notice I said...
Frank Gardner was the classic sportsman, excelling in swimming, rowing, surfing, and boxing before he began to race speedway bikes...
March 2009 The Portuguese Grand Prix; Monsanto, August 23, 1959. Shortly before the race Phil Hill and Ferrari’s chief designer...
Turn 7 at the newly opened New Jersey Motorsports Park Lightning course is as pivotal as it is exciting. It...
Don Blenderman is koo-koo for Kurtis cars. And why not? Frank Kurtis is arguably the greatest American racecar builder of...
2 Rupert Manwaring, team manager and assistant team manager for several F1 teams, is born (1956). 3 Nobuhiko Kawamoto, Honda...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula or Formula One was formed by the FIA (Federation...
You know how someone’s opposing opinion, one that seems inconsequential enough to let slide at the time, can keep gnawing...
Eastern Creek Raceway, NSW, Australia December 5–7, 2008...
Sebring International Raceway, FL December 4-7, 2008...
North Cotswold, UK November 22, 2008...
Phoenix International Raceway, Phoenix, AZ November 21-22, 2008...
Gyndier Drive, Tewantin, Queensland, Australia November 15-16, 2008...
Sandown Circuit, Melbourne, Victoria,Australia November 7-9, 2008...
Goodwood Circuit, West Sussex, UK October 25, 2008...
March 2009 Maserati 300S By Walter Bäumer Maserati’s 300S is one of the great machines that helped make sports car...
The 59th Annual Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, scheduled for Sunday Aug. 16, 2009, will feature the fabled marques of Bentley...
MG Vintage Racers has selected SVRA’s June 4-7 Heacock Classic Gold Cup race event at Virginia International Raceway, as its...
The Bentley Drivers Club will celebrate six decades of racing at Silverstone with an unprecedented two-day meeting on August 8-9....
For the past quarter century, Bob Carlson was the face of Porsche public relations in North America, a friend and...
A brand-new, purpose-built racing facility on the western edge of the Great Plains, an hour east of Denver, is scheduled...
