1 NASCAR driver Richard “Richie” Panch dies in an airplane crash near Winnsboro, South Carolina (1985). 2 Wolfgang Kaufman and...
1 The Women’s Global GT race at Portland, Oregon, is won by Sara Senske in a Panoz Esperante GT (1999)....
1 Louis Chiron leads an Alfa Romeo 1-2-3 finish in the French Grand Prix at Montlhéry (1934). 2 AMC wins its second straight SCCA Tran-Am title when George Follmer drives his Roy Woods Javelin to a race win at Donnybrooke Speedway near Brainerd, Minnesota (1972). 4 Carl Goudy wins the...
1 Frederick Woodruff “Ted” Field, entrepreneur, media mogul, and owner of Interscope Racing is born (1953). 3 Jackie Ickx, driving...
1 The BPR Global GT race at Dijon, France, is won by the Venturi 600LM of Michel Ferté and Michel...
1 The Mercedes 450 SLC is homologated into Group 4 for rallying (1979). 2 Tom Sneva wins the USAC Texas 200 Indy car race at Texas World Speedway in College Station, Texas, driving a McLaren M24-Cosworth for Penske Racing (1977). 4 The Opel Ascona 400 of Ari Vatanen and Terry...
1 Wendy Markey-Amey, British dancer and touring car racer dies at the age of 75 (2021). 4 NASCAR great Buck...
1 Randy Bernard is introduced as the Indy Racing League’s new CEO (2010). 2 Mark Donohue and Chuck Parsons drive...
1 Test driver Norman Dewis O.B.E. begins a 33-year career at Jaguar (1952). 2 Tobacco advertising on radio and TV is banned in the United States. This will help cause an influx of tobacco sponsorship money into U.S. auto racing (1971). 3 John “Hogie” Hogan, who was in charge of...
1 Scuderia Ferrari is formed (1929). 2 British sports car racer and entrant David Piper is born (1930). 5 South...
1 Ricardo Rodriguez dies in an accident during the non-championship Mexican Grand Prix on the Magdalena Mixhuca Circuit in Mexico...
1 Australian touring car driver Tony Longhurst is born in Sidney, New South Wales, Australia (1957). 4 Bobby Rahal wins the CART Bosch Spark Plug Grand Prix in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, driving a Team Rahal Lola T92/00-Chevrolet (1992). 5 Colin Bond and Tony Roberts win the Bathurst 1000 on Mount Panorama...
1 The Spa 1000 km WEC race is won by Bob Wolleck, Mauroi Baldi, and Ricardo Patrese in a Lancia...
1 The CART Michigan 500 is won by Nigel Mansell driving a Newman Haas Lola T93/00-Ford /Cosworth (1993). 3 Jaguar...
2 The Tony Southgate designed TWR Jaguar XJR-5 is tested for the first time, at Snetterton, England (1985). 3 Kurt Ahrens Sr. drives a Cooper to victory in the Halle-Saale-Scheife Formula II race in East Germany (1955). 4 Ralph Hepburn wins the final 300-mile “Cactus Classic” motorcycle race at Dodge...
1 Zora Arkus-Duntov, who will go on to become the “Father of the Corvette”, is hired as an engineer by...
1 The Subaru Impreza 555 is homologated for Group A rallying (1993). 4 Niki Lauda drives a McLaren-Cosworth to victory...
1 Engineer Adrian Newey joins Red Bull Racing (2006). 3 Ernst Loof, engineer, racer, and co-founder of Veritas GmbH, dies in Bonn, West Germany, of a brain tumor (1956). 5 Audi Quattros finish 1-2 in the Rallye de Portugal. Stig Blomqvist winning ahead of Michelle Mouton (1983). 6 The first...
1 Karl Mauer replaces Tony Fall as head of European Motorsports at Opel (1989). 2 Preston Henn, Bob Wollek, Claude...
1 The Lancia Rally (037) Evo 2 is homologated for Group B rallying (1984). 5 Billy Wade is killed when...
1 Jackie Ickx and Jochen Mass win the 800Km of Selangor in Sham Alam, Malaysia, driving a Porsche 962C (1985). 2 Roger Penske drives a Ferrari 250 GTO to victory in the Tourist Trophy race at Nassau in the Bahamas (1962). 7 Mario Andretti drives the STP Brawner/Hawk-Ford to victory...
1 Allan Moffat and Jackie Ickx drive a Ford Falcon Cobra to victory in the Bathurst 1000 at Mount Panorama...
1 Australian touring car driver Tony Longhurst is born in Sidney, New South Wales, Australia (1957). 3 Jim Epler becomes...
1 Ferdinando Minoia drives an Isotta-Fraschini to victory in the Coppa Florio race in Italy (1907). 2 Belgian racer Willy Mairesse, no longer able to bear the physical and psychological damage suffered in a crash at Le Mans the previous year, commits suicide in his hotel room in Ostend, Belgium...
1 The Prest-O-Lite smokestack outside of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway is torn down. Carl Fisher, who built IMS, also co-founded...
1 Greg Moore wins the Miller 200 at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for his first CART victory (1997). 2 Lancia finishes 1-2...
1 Zora Arkus-Duntov, who will go on to become the “Father of the Corvette”, is hired as an engineer by General Motors (1953). 3 Jo Siffert and Brian Redman drive a Gulf Porsche 908/3 to victory in the Targa Florio on the Italian island of Sicily (1970). 4 F1 and...
1 The Lancia 037 rally car makes its competition debut at the Rally Costa Smerelda in Sardinia. Both cars will...
1 Ernst Loof, Werner Miethe, Lorenz Dietrich, and George “Schorsch” Meier form the racing car company Veritas GmbH (1947). 2...
1 Bobby Rahal, Bob Garretson, and Brian Redman, drive a Porsche 935 K3 to victory in the 24 Hours of Daytona. First IMSA GTP race (1981). 3 Paul Goldsmith drives Smokey Yunick’s Pontiac to victory in the last stock car race on the beach at Daytona, Florida (1958). 4 Richard...
