1 Rikky von Opel drives the Ensign F1 car he financed for the first time (1973). 3 Ligier F1 driver...
1 Jeremy Dale, driving a Spice-Oldsmobile, wins the IMSA WSC race at Phoenix, Arizona, giving Oldsmobile the IMSA Manufacturers Championship...
1959 Costin-Lister BHL133 When speaking to Brian Lister, some years ago, I asked him about the secret of his success. Just how did those Lister cars become world-beaters and icons of the era? Modestly, he replied, “My belief, in those days, was simplicity being the art of good construction, although...
More than 80 years ago, two fabulously wealthy young American brothers, accompanied by their butler, flew a primitive plywood-based biplane...
2 Frank Griswold drives an Alfa Romeo 8C 2900 to victory in the Junior Prix, the first road race through...
3 Manfred von Brauchitsch drives a Mercedes-Benz W25 to its first victory when he wins the Eifel Race on the Nürburgring in Germany (1934). 4 The first organized midget race, sanctioned by the newly formed Midget Racing Association, is held in Sacramento, California (1933). 5 Mark Donohue scores his first...
Frank Raymond Wilton “Lofty” England was not head and shoulders above many other men just because he was 6 ft...
1 Nineteen-year-old Vincenzo Lancia, in his first race, drives a Fiat to victory in the 220-km Padua-Vicenza-Bassano-Treviso-Padua race. Also this...
May 2009 At the Donington Grand Prix in England on October 22, 1938, Silver Arrows pilot Dick Seaman applies the power to his Mercedes-Benz W154—along with a touch of opposite lock. He would finish 3rd, a lap behind Auto Union’s victorious Tazio Nuvolari and teammate Hermann Lang. Photo courtesy of: ...
Having grown up the son of racer and team owner Reg Parnell, it’s little wonder that Tim Parnell has lived...
It was really very gratifying to have received so much positive feedback on the “Absent Friends” feature that we ran...
