Brescia in Black
1924 Bugatti Type 13 While many racing cars of the Edwardian period and the early 1920s and 1930s were huge—behemoths to some, especially on dirt-covered… Read More...
Monthly Archives: January, 2011
Head of Red, Foot of Lead
Pat Flaherty’s time on racing’s grandest stage may have been all too brief, but he managed to make it count. When a slim, red-headed Irish-American… Read More...
David Hobbs – Part 2
We concluded last month’s opening segment of John Zimmermann’s interview with David Hobbs as he was preparing to turn his attention toward North America. Even… Read More...
Historic Professionals
Recently, I was judging at a racecar concours in Southern California, when I ran into an old friend named Dave Wolin. Dave was showing an… Read More...
Carlo Pintacuda
Carlo Pintacuda was one of the Florentine greats, a motor racing elite from the Tuscan city that also included Gastone Brilli-Peri, Emilio Materassi, Clemente Biondetti… Read More...
Oriental Surprise
My story of winning the 1981 Macau Grand Prix actually began two weeks before, when I first raced the Hayashi 220P-Toyota at Suzuka, Japan. I… Read More...
1978 Renault R5 Alpine
In my era as a race and rally driver, we were expected to assist in both the general and technical development of the particular car… Read More...
Racing Corvettes, the Early years
In 1953, the very first Corvettes hit Chevrolet Dealers’ show rooms. Hailed by some as the long-awaited American sports car, for the most part they… Read More...
Goodwood’s Good Bloke
It hardly seems credible, but the 13th Goodwood Revival Meeting has just taken place and it was as good as ever. It is all credit… Read More...
Goodwood Legend
Jim Clark, driving the John Ogier Aston Martin DB4 GT Zagato (0183/R), finished 4th in the Goodwood Tourist Trophy race on August 19, 1961. He’s shown… Read More...
Fast Exposure
January 2011 In the L&M F5000 Championship round at Michigan International Speedway on May 20, 1973, Peter Gethin raced this Chevron B24-Chevrolet for Marathon/Shierson Racing, claiming… Read More...