Duncan was initially entranced by record keeping and statistics in racing events. This interest morphed into a desire to race...
In the earlier days of his racing career, Craig Fisher (who recently passed away) raced just about everything he could...
When you first meet Walt MacKay, you are struck by what a quiet, modest man he is. Currently, he runs a shop repairing, restoring and preparing vintage race cars usually Porsches, but once you dig a little deeper into his background, you find a more than merely competent racecar driver,...
John Wright speaks with the influential Canadian racer and official about the early days of racing in Canada, his tenure as the...
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Canadian industries of aerospace and racecar design were at the forefront of...
Reg Hillary, 96-years of age as of this writing, is as sharp and lively as someone half his age. He’s...
Ed Leavens’ career in racing could be compared to an iceberg where 9/10ths of the details of his career lie...
Kirk F. White took a circuitous route to his successful classic car business in Philadelphia, entering the workforce earlier than most young men after his father passed away when he was a pre-teen. Because he had to help keep the family afloat financially, he went to work as a gofer...
The combination of GM’s Jim Musser and Jim Hall proved to be one of the most potent combinations in autosport...
You cannot pigeonhole Hugh Dibley as a pilot or a racecar driver, as he has been a racecar constructor as...
To describe 81-year-old Lee Talbot as a race driver for more than 60 years would provide only the tip of the iceberg for this interesting man. Professor of Environmental Studies at George Mason University in Virginia would be a start, perhaps, but then, that’s not enough either. How about an...
Eighty-Four Hours of Endurance Daytona/Sebring/Watkins Glen 1970-1971 By Michael Keyser This book captures the battle fought between Ferrari, Porsche and...
Haskell Wexler is an Oscar-winning cinematographer, taking home the coveted golden trophies for his work on Who’s Afraid of Virginia...
Woody Woodard was employed as a mechanic by Roger Penske, and in so doing worked closely with Mark Donohue on the Trans-Am effort, the Porsche Turbo Can-Am car and the most famous non-winning Ferrari ever, in the team’s Quixotic effort to best Porsche at the 1971 24 Hours of Le...
Over his years in racing, Eppie Wietzes drove everything on four wheels, from a Morris Minor with an Austin A40...
As we celebrate the 60th anniversary of Corvette, it is appropriate to reflect on some of the technologies that have...
From hot rods on California’s dry lakes, to the Scarabs (both sports cars and Formula One), to the Cobras and Ford GT40s (Marks I, II and IV) all over the world, Phil Remington stood on the leading edge of racing technology for some seven decades until his peaceful passing from...
From 1950 until his premature retirement from road racing and hillclimbing just three years later, Tommy Hoan set his competitors...
Warren Olson arrived in Southern California fresh out of South Dakota in the late 1940s, just in time to take...
Part II We concluded last month’s opening segment of John Wright’s interview with Bruce Kessler as he was preparing to...
Bruce Kessler had a meteoric motorsports career, which started with drag racing his mother’s Jaguar XK120, progressed to practicing for the 1958 Monaco Grand Prix, and ended with a horrific crash in a sports car race at Pomona in 1959, and it all happened in the span of six short...
When you first meet Walt MacKay, you are struck by what a quiet, modest man he is. Currently, he runs...
Bill Milliken has had an interesting life. As an engineer in both the aviation industry and later consultant to the...
Bob McKee had chutzpah. He believed he could build racecars that were as good as anyone else’s and build them safer. Not only did he build racecars, he also built components like early transaxles, which many people in the early days of mid-engined racecars sought out from him. However, a...
Someone once said that Indy car drivers would be lost if they had to turn right as well as left....
May 2008 Blood, Sweat, and Turnips By John Cordts John Cordts drove a variety of racecars over his career, but...
Augie Pabst is one of the practitioners of the skillful art of road racing from the early days of North American road racing. He began as did so many others of his contemporaries in the 1950s, went on to race with Briggs Cunningham’s team, and from there went to the...
