1975 Eagle 755 F5000 In 1967, the SCCA began a fledgling “professional” category for open-wheel formula cars known as Formula...
Forty-two years after winning the 1969 SCCA Formula Continental crown in Marvin Davidson’s Milestone Eagle, Tony Adamowicz is once again...
November 2007 Bugatti Jackpot Dear Casey, With regard to my letter “Surtees Choice,” for the sake of our avid automotive historians and chassis number fanatics, I am sorry to say that my 250F’s chassis (#2501/2523) was misprinted as 2513—an entirely different car. Since I am sending this e-mail, I can’t...
The Formula 5000 Drivers Association has announced its racing schedule for 2022. The Association will hold three official races for...
March 2011 Caribbean Capers By Joel E. Finn Subtitled “The Cuban Grand Prix Races of 1957, 1958 & 1960,” this...
Mike Smith and his brother, Pat, started shooting pictures of Southern California drag racing when they were kids in the ’50s. By the ’60s, the brothers had caught the road racing bug and began shooting at places like Riverside Raceway and Ontario Motor Speedway. This month’s featured Web site contains...
Lloyd Ruby was best known as an excellent Indy car driver who nearly won two Indianapolis 500s, but in truth,...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seat racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
February 2017 • Publication of the final calendar for the FIA’s 2017 Formula One World Championship means that the date for next summer’s Silverstone Classic will shift a week in order to accommodate the changes. The 2017 Silverstone Classic, featuring a 50th anniversary celebration of Formula Ford, will now take...
Mike Earle started his career with Derek Bell and Church Farm Racing. Over the years he has had a hand...
Trevor Taylor’s life as a racing driver began on a windswept airfield at Gamston, Nottinghamshire, England. His father held a...
A hardy group owning 32 cars made the sojourn to Albert Park in Melbourne, Australia, for the running of the 2009 support races at the Australian Grand Prix. With a support staff of at least 150, this was the largest grid of F5000s ever assembled anywhere in the world, ever!...
The Formula 5000 Drivers Association has announced its racing schedule for 2021. The Association has announced three official races for...
The recently formed Formula 5000 Drivers Association has announced three main feature races for F5000 cars in celebration of the...
March 2010 The Toleman Story By Christopher Hilton After Ayrton Senna dominated British Formula Three, he tested for four F1 teams. Only one owner offered him a contract, however, Ted Toleman. It was a brilliant move, but apart from Senna’s single season of emerging brilliance in its cars, Team Toleman...
Bobby Unser was inducted as a Legend of Riverside at the 4th annual celebration of the same name at California’s...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
3 The ISRS race at Zolder, Holland, is won by Didier Theys and Freddy Lienhard, driving a Ferrari 333SP (1997). 4 Giuseppe Campari wins the fifth Coppa Acerbo road race in an Alfa Romeo P2 (1928). 5 Glenn “Fireball” Roberts participates in his first auto race (1947). 6 Roger Penske...
Peter Gethin may have been the son of a jockey, but he pursued a different kind of horsepower, making his...
The new Historic Motorsports Productions organization has scheduled three events for its inaugural 2010 season. Watkins Glen International was the...
1 FISA bans sliding skirts on racecars (1981). 2 First South Africa Grand Prix to be held on the Kayalami track near Johannesburg is won by Pedro Rodriguez at the wheel of a Cooper-Maserati. First F1 win for Rodriguez and last for Cooper (1967). 3 Sprintcar builder and Indy 500...
April 2018 Whatever Happened to the Gold Cup? by Mike Allen Once retirement is upon us, whether forced by age...
A pair of Bruce McLaren Festival weekends will highlight the seventh season of the MSC New Zealand F5000 Tasman Cup...
The decade of the 1960s was a historic time on dear old Planet Earth, as the evolution of human civilization rolled inevitably forward, advancing hard and fast with accelerated progress on cultural, social and scientific fronts. This was certainly true for the United States, despite the decade developing against the...
My story of Formula One came into being after I’d driven my GT40 and got all that out of the...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
The Formula 5000 Drivers Association has announced the results of the first round of its 2020 revival racing series at the WeatherTech International Challenge with Brian Redman at Road America on July 25-26, 2020. Finishing first in F5000 Class A (pre-1972 cars) was George Bruggenthies in the ex-Sam Posey 1970...
His nickname was always “Tony A-to-Z,” in part because his last name was Adamowicz, but in larger part because his...
The L&M Formula 5000 Championship; Mid-Ohio, June 3, 1973. Mark Donohue in Roger Penske’s Lola T330 with AMC Javelin power, finished third behind the Lolas of Jody Scheckter and Brian Redman. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION PO Box 8204, Stamford, CT 06905 USA., Tel: (203) 461-9804 • Fax: (203)...
