1 Willi Kauhsen drives a Porsche 917/10 to victory in the Interserie race at Imola, Italy (1973). 5 Jacky Ickx...
I feel that 1981 was a year where I could have won the F1 World Championship, but we gave silly...
Tyrrell’s Project 34 six-wheel Formula One car was one of those refreshingly radical cars that used to come into Grand Prix racing in the 1970s, designs seldom seen today. Many look back on this car as a total failure, forgetting the early success it had in 1976, for Jody Scheckter...
Jackie Stewart once said: “If, for some reason, I could only take part in one race each season, it would...
The Historic Sports Car Club is targeting the 1600-cc Formula 3 cars of the early 1970s for a revival in...
Fluent in six languages, tall, with regular features set off by an immaculately clipped goatee beard and moustache, Jo Bonnier crammed a lot into his 42 years. He was an accomplished Formula One and sports car racer, president of the Grand Prix Drivers Association and proprietor of his own art...
Laury, Lucy O’Reilly and Harry Schell were father, mother and son. They were all larger than life characters who made...
On the very rare occasion of two current Grand Prix drivers having their first taste of historic motor racing at...
Howden Ganley stopped by our vendor booth at the recent Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, where one of the old photos we showed him started a discussion so interesting that I’m keen to share it with you. The picture was made by Art Evans at Palm Springs in November, 1956. It...
1 Mario Andretti and Bruce McLaren drive a Ford GT40 MkIV to victory in the 12 Hours of Sebring endurance...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete, with a passion for speed and technology. These...
There isn’t much Karl Kainhofer hasn’t done in over 50 years of involvement in motorsports, from motorcycle racing in Austria to being Porsche’s man in the USA, to his involvement in virtually every facet of Penske Racing. Born just before the Second World War in Vienna, Austria, Kainhofer became involved...
The more in-depth summaries of the life and career of Phil Hill have focussed on three significant aspects: the racing...
2 First South Africa Grand Prix to be held on the Kyalami track near Johannesburg is won by Pedro Rodriguez...
2 Jochen Rindt, at the wheel of a Roy Winkelmann Racing Brabham BT23, wins the Pau Grand Prix Formula 2 race in Pau, France (1967). 3 Leo Kinnunen drives a Porsche 917/10 to victory in the 300-kilometer Interserie race on the Nürburgring in West Germany (1972). 5 Jim Hall drives...
The 4th Grand Prix Historique de Monaco, held May 15–16, was again over-subscribed and Jean Sage, former team manager for...
The Formula Junior category was introduced in Italy in 1958 by Count Giovanni Lurani, and in 1959, it became an...
Karl Kling was born too late to join Rudolf Caracciola, Manfred Von Brauchitsch and Hermann Lang in their rampage through Grand Prix motor racing of the Thirties, and too early to give Juan Manuel Fangio, Stirling Moss and Hans Herrmann any real competition in the W196 of 1954 and 1955....
Monte Carlo, Monaco May 15–16, 2004...
Jackie Stewart leads the way during the 1973 Monaco GP in the iconic Tyrrell 006, followed by his close friend and teammate François Cevert. Stewart went on to win by 1.5 seconds from Emerson Fittipaldi; Cevert finished 4th after suffering a puncture on lap two. This was Stewart’s 25th career...
Grand Prix racing comes with a new look in 2009. Among other significant technical changes—wider cars, grooveless slicks, and Kinetic...
Hans Stuck first met Adolf Hitler in 1925, when a mutual friend brought the budding Führer to the racing driver’s...
Known simply as “Prof” to many in the motor racing community and Sid to his near friends, Professor Watkins may have made more of a mark on motor racing safety over the past 30 years than anyone else. Indeed, his dogged determination and stubbornness to get things right nearly cancelled...
The Formula Junior category was introduced in Italy in 1958 by Count Giovanni Lurani, and in 1959 it became an...
The prize money for winning the 1972 Formula One “Race of Champions” at Brands Hatch in a BRM P160 allowed...
Over the course of nearly seven decades of Formula One history, only three men have ever won a World Championship Grand Prix race in a car of their own construction. Of course, none of them actually designed or built their cars all by themselves, they simply conceived, established, directed, managed...
1962 Porsche 804 Dan Gurney was about as versatile as a racecar driver could ever be. He pretty much skipped...
Following the steep rise known as the Montee du Beau Rivage, the Virage de Massenet is a relatively quick and...
April 2008 Carlo Demand In Motion and Color By Gary Doyle Due to the volume and prevalence of racing photography available over the years, it is easy to lose sight of the historical contribution made by automotive fine artists throughout the history of motor sport. From the dawn of the...
