1964 Cooper T70 For a youthful 26 year old, the lure of winning your own country’s premier motor race in...
Although it has nearly been forgotten now, in the late 1950s and early 1960s there was a professional road racing...
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 the first drawing office employee of founder Eric Broadley’s growing company, a firm that would serve as fertile ground for a number of aspiring young...
I think it is easy for those of us living in the Northern Hemisphere to underestimate the global racing contributions...
Two heroes and a heroine. What unites them? The Audi Quattro, rallying’s first four-wheel-drive, turbocharged car. Hannu and Stig each...
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 now the number one driver for Gold Leaf Team Lotus. Eddie Dennis was the number one mechanic and my immediate boss. As a mechanic, I...
A professional racing driver’s performance is indelibly linked to the performance of a racing car he likes. I have been...
After WWII, sports cars became more and more popular. As a consequence, road racing took hold in the U.S. For...
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 back of another competitor and caused carnage. The name may be unfamiliar to some because Bouillon raced under the name, Levegh, as did his uncle,...
November 2010 Entered by the French Maserati importer John Simone, this ungaily Maserati 151 was guided by Lucien Bianchi into...
Matt Jones is one of the neatest car guys I’ve ever met. His love and enthusiasm for Italian automobiles is palpably contagious, and he’s fluent in the language. So, it was natural that Jones launched Re-Originals in 1991, a company that provides both new-old-stock and remanufactured parts from original suppliers...
2 Jacky Ickx and David Hobbs drive a Gulf Ford GT40 to victory in the Rand 9 Hour Race at...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These innovators are in an elite club with their place in automotive history guaranteed as the creators of a true classic sports car, a genuine thoroughbred. The development of the racing...
It reads like a plot line no real screenwriter would dare pitch: A little-known transmission engineer who has never designed...
Der Nürburgring, Nürburg, Germany August 13–15, 2010...
Silverstone Circuit, Northants, England September 10-12, 2010...
Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, Monterey, CA August 13–15, 2010...
Morgan Park Raceway, Warwick, Queensland AUS July 24–25, 2010...
Silverstone Circuit, Northants, England July 23–25, 2010...
Road America, Elkhart Lake, WI July 15–18, 2010...
Le Circuit de la Sarthe, Le Mans, France July 10–11, 2010...
November 2010 Can-Am Cars in Detail By Pete Lyons and Peter Harholdt Only in the 1960s could the Can-Am have existed. Many of society’s antiquated rules, procedures, and ways of thinking were cast aside as the burgeoning postwar generation asked of virtually everything its signature question: “Why not?” In motor...
By now everyone should be familiar with YouTube as a source for long-lost films from the old days, and these...
The Silverstone Classic Endurance race, in support of the 1000 Kilometer event, proved to be a race of surprises, with...
By honoring 45 years of Carroll Shelby’s Mustangs and a full century of Alfa Romeos, The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering, celebrated its eighth renewal during this year’s Monterey Classic Car Week. Crowds once again flocked onto the grounds of the Quail Lodge golf course in Carmel Valley to soak in...
A total of 26 cars sold for more than $1 million during Classic Car Week in Monterey, California this August,...
Danny Margulies was but a boy when he visited his home Grand Prix of Bucharest in 1937 and first opened...
The indomitable Sir Stirling Moss made a popular comeback after his frightening accident at his home in March to join one thousand drivers racing in the Silverstone Classic Festival between July 23–25. At the wheel of his own 1956 OSCA FS372, co-driven by Ian Nuthall, Sir Stirling competed in the...
