The search for speed has motivated every racer since the dawn of the sport, obsessively driving them to go as...
If you believe that when a man puts his name on the building the products emanating from the enterprise embody...
Lloyd Ruby hailed from Wichita Falls, Texas, up in the north central part of the state, not far from the Oklahoma line. Born a year before the Depression, he was soft-spoken by nature — a wicked sense of humor notwithstanding — but not someone to be taken lightly. He began...
As Rolf Stommelen climbed behind the wheel of the front-running Andial/Meister Porsche 935K3 after co-driver Derek Bell had pitted to...
WSC Giants: Audi R8 By Ian Wagstaff In recent years, German carmaker Audi has dominated the 24 Hours of Le...
Wow Gilles!—Villeneuve, The Undying Legend By Ercole Columbo Thirty-six years after his untimely death at Zolder, the legend of Gilles Villeneuve remains intact, alive and well, even celebrated, as fans around the world refuse to forget him. The diminutive French Canadian possessed a spirit that did not understand either giving...
February 2018 Mario Andretti: A Life in Pictures By Mario Donnini The latest in author Donnini’s series of “Life in...
The term “icon” is so over-used in today’s sensationalist society that when we encounter someone or something that truly merits...
Over the course of nearly seven decades of Formula One history, only three men have ever won a World Championship Grand Prix race in a car of their own construction. Of course, none of them actually designed or built their cars all by themselves, they simply conceived, established, directed, managed...
January 2018 Ferrari: Gli anni d’oro – The Golden Years By Leonardo Acerbi In his introduction, author Acerbi notes that...
December 2017 Le Mans: The Official History 1930-39 By Quentin Spurring This fine volume is a welcome addition to others...
November 2017 Great Cars no: 10 – Lotus 18, The Autobiography of Stirling Moss’s ‘912’ by Ian Wagstaff In a little more than two years, the Porter Press Great Cars series of books has already got my bookshelves groaning under the strain, from the first published in May 2015, which documents...
September 2017 Stephen South – The Way It Was By Darren Banks Darren Banks has followed the careers of many...
August 2017 Cobra Pilote – The Ed Hugus Story By Robert D. Walker Ed Hugus was one of Carroll Shelby’s...
Emerson Fittipaldi, double Formula One World Champion, two-time Indy 500 winner and 1989 U.S. Indycar National Champion, will be the honoree for the 23rd annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance, scheduled for March 9-11, 2018, at the Ritz-Carlton, Amelia Island, Florida. “Emerson Who?” was a question widely asked after the then...
July 2017 Porsche 914 – The Racing History By Roy Smith Writing about a subject is relatively easy when there...
June 2017 Racing to Riverside By Brad R. Leach This book is subtitled: “The Untold Story of Walt Hane and...
Hall of Famer Jim McElreath passed away last Thursday, in his hometown of Arlington, Texas, at the age of 89. Already a wily veteran when he made his first Indianapolis 500 start in 1962, McElreath impressed observers by qualifying 7th and running 2nd in the early going, having passed the...
Joe Leonard who, like John Surtees, won major championships on two and four wheels, passed away last Thursday at the...
May 2017 Linda Vaughn: The First Lady of Motorsports By Linda Vaughn with Rob Kinnan If ever there were a...
Fifty years ago last week, Bruce Meyers and Ted Mangels pointed the nose of “Old Red,” Meyers’ very first Manx off-road buggy, southward out of Tijuana and set off on an adventure that would create an industry. Their destination was La Paz, well down the Baja coastline, their mission an...
April 2017 Pit and Paddock – Behind the scenes at UK and European circuits in the ’60s and ’70s By...
March 2017 Thrill of the Chase By Colin Crabbe If ever you wanted to know anything—everything—about the Scottish sportsman Colin...
Allan McCall, who enjoyed a career filled with “career moments,” from working with Jim Clark in saloon cars, F1 and at Indy to building his own line of Tui racing cars, has passed away at the age of 76, apparently succumbing to complication from heart valve surgery. Serving at various...
The “Eagles Have Landed” exhibit honoring Dan Gurney at LA’s Petersen Automotive Museum opened last Friday night with a reception...
January 2017 Can-Am 50th Anniversary By George Levy and Pete Biro Can it really be 50 years since the Canadian-American...
December 2016 Tony Bettenhausen & Sons: An American Racing Family Album By Gordon Kirby with Merle and Susan Bettenhausen Family “dynasties,” while rare, are not uncommon in motor racing, as the names Unser, Andretti, Petty, Earnhardt, Hill and Villeneuve attest, but the first of these in the modern era was...
Many were the similarities shared by young American racer Bobby Marshman and the Scottish Legend Colin Chapman called Bobby Marshman...
The Petersen Automotive Museum honored motorsports legend Dan Gurney with its 2016 Robert E. Petersen Lifetime Achievement Award — in...
Legendary automotive journalist Brock Yates, creator of the Cannonball Baker Sea to Shining Sea Memorial Trophy Dash among other things, has lost his long battle with Alzheimer’s disease, passing away last week at the age of 82. As a columnist with Car and Driver magazine beginning in the 1960s, Yates...
