McLarenâs Dawn
1964 Cooper T70 For a youthful 26 year old, the lure of winning your own countryâs premier motor race in a car of your own… Read More...
Browsing: November ’10
USACâRoad Racing Part 1
Although it has nearly been forgotten now, in the late 1950s and early 1960s there was a professional road racing series that produced memorable races,… Read More...
Tony Southgate
Tony Southgate began his lengthy career in motorsports by joining Lola Cars in the early days of that venerable marqueâs existence. The young Englishman became… Read More...
Tasman Stories
I think it is easy for those of us living in the Northern Hemisphere to underestimate the global racing contributions of our southern brothers. Only… Read More...
Stig Blomqvist, Hannu Mikkola, Michèle Mouton
Two heroes and a heroine. What unites them? The Audi Quattro, rallyingâs first four-wheel-drive, turbocharged car. Hannu and Stig each won a world drivers title… Read More...
Remembering Jochen Rindtâs Championship Year
For the 1970 Grand Prix season, and still in my very early 20s, I was again a number two mechanic on Jochen Rindtâs carâhe was… Read More...
1989 Tyrrell 018
A professional racing driverâs performance is indelibly linked to the performance of a racing car he likes. I have been fortunate to have driven two… Read More...
USRRCâPart Two
After WWII, sports cars became more and more popular. As a consequence, road racing took hold in the U.S. For the most part, it was… Read More...
Eyewitness News
The BBC recently screened a documentary on the 1955 Le Mans disaster. Pierre Bouillonâs car was launched into the air at high speed from the… Read More...
CSXpress
A general homage to artist Waggerâs favorite Cobras, the USRRC 289s, in no particular race or at any particular track, just loud and messy, as… Read More...
Fast Exposure
November 2010 Entered by the French Maserati importer John Simone, this ungaily Maserati 151 was guided by Lucien Bianchi into 13th (and last) position in… Read More...