The combination of GM’s Jim Musser and Jim Hall proved to be one of the most potent combinations in autosport...
Many enthusiasts are aware of Ettore Bugatti’s marvelous sports cars and exemplary GP cars. However, not many people know that...
Eighty-Four Hours of Endurance Daytona/Sebring/Watkins Glen 1970-1971 By Michael Keyser This book captures the battle fought between Ferrari, Porsche and Alfa Romeo for the World Endurance Championship during the 1970 and 1971 seasons. The weapons those factories created for this fight—Ferrari’s 512S, Porsche’s 917 and Alfa Romeo’s T33/3—remain among the...
From 1950 until his premature retirement from road racing and hillclimbing just three years later, Tommy Hoan set his competitors...
Dan Gerber started racing in midwest SCCA events in an Austin-Healey in 1961, while in 1962 he also started racing...
John Wright speaks with the influential Canadian racer and official about the early days of racing in Canada, his tenure as the head of Mosport, the creation of the Canadian Grand Prix, vintage racing and a host of other topics. VR:Okay, Phil. Who are you? Phil Lamont:Well, I was born in Winnipeg...
Reg Hillary, 96-years of age as of this writing, is as sharp and lively as someone half his age. He’s...
Jim Rathmann’s career in motor racing is marked not only by a hard-fought win in the 1960 Indy 500 but also by an unusual name change with his brother Jim…or rather Dick. Jim was underage in 1943 and could not race legally. So, he and his brother exchanged identities, Jim...
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 get his hands on, from used DKW Monzas at Harewood Acres to Abarth Simcas at Le Circuit Mont Tremblant and even the ferocious Comstock EXP at Mosport. He also raced...
From hot rods on California’s dry lakes, to the Scarabs (both sports cars and Formula One), to the Cobras and...
Someone once said that Indy car drivers would be lost if they had to turn right as well as left....
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...
In the late 1930s, Vic Edelbrock Senior started up his automotive business in a small way, in a small garage...
Over his years in racing, Eppie Wietzes drove everything on four wheels, from a Morris Minor with an Austin A40 engine to Lotus and Brabham Formula One cars, as well as various Lola and McLaren Formula 5000 racecars. He won the 1981 Trans-Am championship with a Corvette. Inducted into the...
John Cordts is a quiet, modest man, which is likely the reason why many fans of the sport are not...
There isn’t much Karl Kainhofer hasn’t done in over 50 years of involvement in motorsports, from motorcycle racing in Austria...
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...
Back in the 1960s, if you raced or rallied an Austin Mini Cooper, you would have met and probably been...
As we celebrate the 60th anniversary of Corvette, it is appropriate to reflect on some of the technologies that have...
Dave Friedman in his book on American sports car racing in the golden era of racing called Dr. Dick Thompson one of the finest American drivers of his era. Dick started racing with an MGTD in 1952 and leaped into racing from the deep end when he and a friend...
Part II We concluded last month’s opening segment of John Wright’s interview with Bruce Kessler as he was preparing to...
Bill Milliken has had an interesting life. As an engineer in both the aviation industry and later consultant to the...
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...
When you first meet Walt MacKay, you are struck by what a quiet, modest man he is. Currently, he runs...
May 2008 Blood, Sweat, and Turnips By John Cordts John Cordts drove a variety of racecars over his career, but he was such a quiet and reserved man that very few people saw that there was more to this Swedish-born Canadian than met the eye. Cordts’s autobiography fleshes out the...
