Arie Luyendyk is a household name in motor racing, especially in Indianapolis folklore, but it was a long and arduous...
Ex-Donald Healey Motor Company works driver, Clive Baker first began his connection with Healeys and Austin-Healeys in Tasmania. Clive went...
Before the outbreak of WWII, motor racing in South Africa had been developing strongly and, in fact, the last pre-war South African Grand Prix, held in January 1939, was the first major ‘scratch start’ event in the country and included a top class field of voiturettes comprised of nine Maseratis,...
Texas professional and historic racer Charles Nearburg has a long and diversified motorsport resume. At the profession level, he’s competed...
Tom Cantrell’s world revolves around excellence, and it seems he will go to any length to achieve perfection on, and...
Casey Annis speaks with historic racer and founder of The Masters Series, Ron Maydon, about why he chose to start a new series, the future challenges to historic racing and the best and worst cars he’s ever driven. How and when did you first become involved with cars? Maydon: I was...
Since the first race in 1911, the Indianapolis 500 has always been considered America’s greatest race, attracting huge crowds and...
I usually start off an interview by asking, “Who are you?” And how did you become interested in automobiles? Brian...
The motor racing career of Australian Vern Schuppan has been written up extensively over the years. Born in South Australia, Vern was smitten with motor racing early in his life, initially with karts before setting off to the UK, in 1969, with his wife Jennifer to become a Formula 1...
This past summer Dennis Gray had the opportunity to interview his longtime friend Giddings. Sadly, this would prove to be...
There is something about racing which gets into the blood more thoroughly than a good dose of Castrol R and...
Duncan was initially entranced by record keeping and statistics in racing events. This interest morphed into a desire to race and so he has for 22 years. However, with a keen eye for the history of the sport, his desire to race eventually juxtaposed into a desire to keep alive...
In the earlier days of his racing career, Craig Fisher (who recently passed away) raced just about everything he could...
Author Brock Yates once described Judy Stropus as a “racing personality,” since her career in motorsports has covered a gamut...
When you first meet Walt MacKay, you are struck by what a quiet, modest man he is. Currently, he runs a shop repairing, restoring and preparing vintage race cars usually Porsches, but once you dig a little deeper into his background, you find a more than merely competent racecar driver,...
John Wright speaks with the influential Canadian racer and official about the early days of racing in Canada, his tenure as the...
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Canadian industries of aerospace and racecar design were at the forefront of...
Dan Gurney is a man whose accomplishments need no introduction. In addition to winning in everything from Formula One to...
It was seeing Raymond Mays’ ERA that first drew a young John Sismey to mechanical engineering. After a grammar school...
Reg Hillary, 96-years of age as of this writing, is as sharp and lively as someone half his age. He’s also participated in many forms of motorsport, from Speedway Bikes to Daimler Dart sports cars to driving in, and winning, the first Shell Oil-sponsored cross-Canada Rally, the 4,000-mile Shell 4000,...
Over the coming months we will have a series of three interviews with former BRM mechanics who worked with the...
Following the demise of motor racing during the Second World War years, there were those enthusiastic individuals, at a very...
Ed Leavens’ career in racing could be compared to an iceberg where 9/10ths of the details of his career lie beneath the surface. He raced from the mid-1950s to around 1962, but he gave it all up for his business of selling cars in London, Ontario, Canada. Here was a...
1964 World Champion Our Ed McDonough had the opportunity to interview John Surtees on a number of occasions, investigating how...
In 1992, Tim Harvey won the British Touring Car Championship. His lengthy driving career has spanned three decades and he’s...
Kirk F. White took a circuitous route to his successful classic car business in Philadelphia, entering the workforce earlier than most young men after his father passed away when he was a pre-teen. Because he had to help keep the family afloat financially, he went to work as a gofer...
