I was down in New Zealand recently with my good friend, photographer Dave Gooley on a working vacation, searching out...
Kirk F. White, consummate enthusiast and partner with Roger Penske when the pair entered a Ferrari 512S for Mark Donohue...
The United States Grand Prix, Watkins Glen, October 3, 1971. François Cévert guided his Tyrrell 002 to a comfortable first place victory, throwing his arms in the air as he crossed the finish line. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION PO Box 8204, Stamford, CT 06905 USA., Tel: (203) 461-9804...
Mecum’s recent auction in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, held July 31-Aug. 3 at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex, saw overall sales totals...
In hindsight, I’m sure Alfa Romeo is very happy that Expo ’67 was based in Montreal. If the exposition was...
October 2017 François Cévert guides his Tyrrell 002-Ford through Casino Square during wet practice for the 1971 Monaco Grand Prix. In the race, he went off and crashed on the fifth lap, while teammate Jackie Stewart won. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION PO Box 8204, Stamford, CT 06905-8204 USA., Tel:...
When you look at any listing of Lotus competition cars built from the first Lotus VI of 1952 through to...
Mecum Auctions made quite a statement at their inaugural Seattle auction, the weekend of June 14-15, with the record-setting sale...
The 1971 season saw the arrival of the BRM P160. It won the Austrian and Italian Grands Prix in the...
Hail the “Mod Scot!” Such a thought must have flickered through many minds as 27 Group 7 machines rumbled around...
May 2011 Among the traditions of the Indianapolis 500 is the annual Front Row photo op on the Monday after Pole Day qualifying. In 1971 that group included Peter Revson on pole in the works McLaren-Offenhauser, Mark Donohue in the middle with Roger Penske’s Sunoco McLaren-Offenhauser, and Bobby Unser on the...
1971 Alfa Romeo GTV Trans-Am If you ask any pre-teenage boy what a transformer is, he’ll tell you it is...
What a question! It’s all so difficult because I’ve driven many varied cars across several eras of racing. Technology and development have played a part during my years of racing too; racecars have become better as time goes on. I started racing with a Lotus Seven at Goodwood, which was...
I have been asked, a number of times, which branch of motor sport I enjoyed the most: driving, management, or...
1971 Alfa Romeo GTAm There is a slight inclination here to refer you to Tony Adriaensen’s remarkable tome Alleggerita and let myself off a complex historical hook. Explaining the evolution of Alfa Romeo’s competition models is challenging at best and maddening most of the time. After about 25 years working...
1971 Trans-Am Javelin AMX When the typical automotive enthusiast thinks of American Motors, usually the images that are conjured are...
1971 Tecno F2 The brothers Pederzani—Gianfranco and Luciano—ran a hydraulic pump company in Bologna. In 1962, they started up a second company to manufacture racing karts, known as Tecnokarts. Amazingly, within ten years they constructed and ran an F1 car—some people would later say that they should have stuck to...
1971 Tyrrell 002 His friends and racing opponents in F3 called him “Chopper,” not because of his on-track driving style...
1971 Ferrari 312P Sports car enthusiasts with an historical bent argue three great periods of sports car racing: 1) the 1950s, when early production sports cars starting turning into prototypes (Jaguar C and D Types, Ferrari Testa Rossa, Porsche RSK); 2) The late 1960s and early 1970s, which were the...
