McLaren’s Dawn
1964 Cooper T70 For a youthful 26 year old, the lure of winning your own country’s premier motor race in a car of your own… Read More...
Browsing: November ’10
USAC Road 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 marque’s 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, rallying’s first four-wheel-drive, turbocharged car. Hannu and Stig each won a world drivers title… Read More...
Remembering Jochen Rindt’s Championship Year
For the 1970 Grand Prix season, and still in my very early 20s, I was again a number two mechanic on Jochen Rindt’s car—he was… Read More...
1989 Tyrrell 018
A professional racing driver’s performance is indelibly linked to the performance of a racing car he likes. I have been fortunate to have driven two… Read More...
USRRC Part 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 Bouillon’s car was launched into the air at high speed from the… Read More...
CSXpress
A general homage to artist Wagger’s favorite Cobras, the USRRC 289s, in no particular race or at any particular track, just loud and messy, as… Read More...