2 Jean Behra dies in an accident during the German Grand Prix at Avus (1959). 4 Dan Gurney wears the...
1949 Gordini 23S Anyone who has ever listened to Peter Ustinov’s fabulous motor racing spoof of the 1950s, “The Grand...
Laury, Lucy O’Reilly and Harry Schell were father, mother and son. They were all larger than life characters who made their very distinct contribution to the colorful playboy image that some aspects of motor racing projected before the Second World War and immediately after it. At first, the main culprit...
Although it has nearly been forgotten now, in the late 1950s and early 1960s there was a professional road racing...
When he was a kid in Clermont-Ferrand, France, Patrick Depailler’s idol was French motorcycle champion and racing driver Jean Behra....
1 Richard Petty wins the NASCAR Winston Cup Talledega 500 in a Dodge Charger (1976). 2 Jochen Rindt drives a Lotus 72-Ford to victory in the German Grand Prix at Hockenheim (1970). 3 Jean Behra, driving a Porsche RSK, wins the six-lap sports car race on the Nürburgring in West...
Aspiration and reality are often diametrically opposed. Dreams, however, do come true every time an amateur driver clambers aboard, or...
Maria Teresa De Filippis, the first woman to contest a World Championship Grand Prix, has passed away at the age...
Sexual debauchery, a regime’s imminent downfall and a kidnapping fit for a gentleman were some of the highlights of the 1958 Grand Prix of Cuba for sports cars. Racing during the fifties was noted for some remarkable events. The horrific 1955 Le Mans when almost 100 spectators lost their lives...
Immediately after the Second World War, Jean-Pierre Wimille, Louis Chiron, Philippe Etancelin, and Raymond Sommer carried France’s colors back into...
1962 Porsche 804 Dan Gurney was about as versatile as a racecar driver could ever be. He pretty much skipped...
The Nürburgring 1000-km Race; Nürburgring, June 7, 1959. Jean Behra (right) has just leaped out of his Ferrari 250TR/59 as co-driver Tony Brooks fills the tank. They would finish 3rd behind the sister car of Phill Hill and Olivier Gendebien while the Aston Martin DBR1 of Stirling Moss and Jack...
Jean Behra about to go out for practice in the special streamlined Maserati 250F which, it was thought, would be...
For the burgeoning Formula Two category for 1½-liter cars, French star driver Jean Behra based a new racing car of...
Devin in the Details Dear Casey, I would like to add a few things to my friend Mark Brinker’s article in your January 2013 edition. I have been associated with Bill Devin since 1954. We were good friends for his lifetime. At the insistence of his widow, I delivered the...
2 Twenty-two year old Peter Ryan dies from injuries suffered the day before in a crash during the Formula Junior...
