The Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum is teaming up with Spotfund – an all-new and innovative fundraising platform that supports only...
Twenty years after earning his second consecutive Formula One drivers’ championship, Mika Häkkinen will demonstrate his considerable driving talents behind...
Since the first race in 1911, the Indianapolis 500 has always been considered America’s greatest race, attracting huge crowds and media attention around the world. 200 laps around a 2.5-mile oval was a grueling test of driver and his car, a real test of endurance. From the beginning, the winning...
It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. I think someone already used that as an...
All sports have heroes. But there are some individuals who transcend their sport: Muhammad Ali, Joe Montana, Wayne Gretzky, Michael...
January 2019 1 FISA bans sliding skirts on racecars (1981). 5 Sports car racer David Donohue, the son of Mark Donohue, is born (1967). 6 The Yenko Stinger version of the Chevrolet Corvair is homologated by the SCCA for D Production racing (1966). 7 Honda announces...
October 2018 1 – F1 & sports car racer Willy Mairesse is born in Momignies, Belgium (1928). 3 – Jackie...
The annual Road Racing Drivers Club dinner on the eve of the 44thToyota Grand Prix of Long Beach celebrated an Evening with Johnny Rutherford Presented by Firestone before a capacity crowd at the Long Beach Hilton last Thursday, April 12. The three-time Indy 500 winner joined RRDC president Bobby Rahal...
1 • Dan Gurney, driving a Climax-powered Lotus 18, wins the USAC Road Racing Championship Formula Libre event at Hilltop...
1966 Eagle-Weslake It is a privilege to update and run my test of the Eagle-Weslake. At Vintage Racecar we were...
It is with a great deal of sadness that I write about Dan Gurney, who died on January 15. We were close friends and our times together go back to 1955 when he raced at Torrey Pines. A number of those among us stood head and shoulders above all the...
Dan Gurney is a man whose accomplishments need no introduction. In addition to winning in everything from Formula One to...
Just looking at the cover of VR this month, you’ll realize something is different. For only the second time, in...
So we have lost Dan Gurney, a few months shy of his 87th birthday. Dan was one of the sport’s internationally famous and successful icons: he was a motor racing driver, car constructor and team owner, whose outstanding good looks could just as easily have qualified him for an acting...
Our Pepsi Challenger Eagle from 1981 was sort of unique. It didn’t owe anything to Europe, it was developed right...
There comes a time, all too often in history, when there arrives the “end of an era,” and with the...
Artist John Rice created this watercolor painting of Dan Gurney and his Eagle 104-Weslake racing in his home GP, the United States Grand Prix at Watkins Glen, in 1967, where he qualified 3rd but retired with suspension problems. Rice grew up about 100 miles from Watkins Glen, and was 9...
March 2018 Dan Gurney scored his initial Grand Prix victory in this 8-cylinder Porsche 804, seen here at Nouveau Monde...
Last weekend’s Race Retro, the 16th edition of Europe’s finest historic motorsport show at Stoneleigh, was another super show and...
The term “icon” is so over-used in today’s sensationalist society that when we encounter someone or something that truly merits the appellation, it may seem somehow diminished. Well, the shining light that was Dan Gurney will not be diminished by being called an icon, for he is truly deserving of...
Over the course of nearly seven decades of Formula One history, only three men have ever won a World Championship...
Ask anyone who was the first American to win a Grand Prix and chances are they will say Phil Hill...
When the sports car scene started to heat up again in ’65-’66, I went to work for Motorsport Design in Connecticut, and we built a McLaren M6A for John Cannon. After that I was hooked on the Can-Am so I moved back to California, when I became Peter Revson’s mechanic...
It was seeing Raymond Mays’ ERA that first drew a young John Sismey to mechanical engineering. After a grammar school...
An Alfa Romeo car mechanic who rose to become one of the greatest endurance drivers of his generation, the man...
2017 Holiday Gift Guide Leather Tool Bag The GARNY leather tool bag was influenced by the traditional 1930s design. Handmade from U.S.-sourced vegetable-dyed leather. The dark brown is harness leather, will turn to a slightly lighter, reddish brown color. Leather thickness is 8-10 oz., 3.2mm-4mm. The side panels are saddle...
The Canadian American Challenge Cup was co-sanctioned by the SCCA and the CASC; it was a series nicknamed the “unlimited”...
Goodwood’s 76th Members’ Meeting, set for March 17-18, 2018, will offer a pair of new races, named for American racing...
One week after the 1966 12 Hours of Sebring, the racing world experienced another tragic weekend, this time in France, at the Le Mans test. Probably due to the proximity of the Sebring event, both Chaparral and Ferrari chose not to attend, leaving Ford with little to compare their performance...
