In 1966, the rain in Spain didn’t stay mainly on the plain. It blew eastward to the Ardennes Mountains of...
It all started as a promo for Monte Carlo. Now, it’s a sport of world, European and many national championships...
Although he was first afflicted with the racing “bug” when his father took him to Reims as a child, Alliot did not enter competition himself until age 23 after attending a racing school. Working his way up the ladder of the sport he eventually found himself racing both in Formula One...
Let me get my bias out of the way, right up front—I’m not a NASCAR fan. Though I’ve tried at...
Donald Campbell was a hero, like his famous father. But that is where the resemblance ended. Sir Malcolm, who broke...
It has been three and a half years since Bernard Cahier passed away, but my memories of him still linger affectionately. I first came to know Bernard in the late fall of 1972 when I hired him as a consultant for a documentary film I was planning to make about...
It’s an interesting question to be asked one’s greatest racecar, and daftly difficult to answer. Rather than look at a...
Fabulous is one word used to describe Dexter Brown’s original painting of Graham Hill drifting the Maranello Concessionaires Ferrari 250 GTO through Madgwick Corner at Goodwood, en route to victory in the 1963 Tourist Trophy. Hill led Mike Parkes in another GTO for virtually the whole race, but behind them...
Jacky Ickx in the Ferrari 312B leads the field away from the start of the French Grand Prix at the...
If you were going to build an 850-cc sports racer in the 1960s, which engine would you choose? Larry Kropp...
Turn Up the Gane Dear Editor, Thanks for an enjoyable and diverse November issue. I would like to make a couple of comments on some of its contents. In the Time Capsule for November 17, 1957, Carroll Shelby is mentioned winning the Riverside National with John Edgar’s 4.9-liter Ferrari. As a...
1 Sportscar racer Jim Pace born (1961). 2 Al Holbert, Derek Bell and Al Unser Jr. drive a Löwenbrau-sponsored Porsche...
From 1964 to 1978, a series of flat-bottomed, formula cars were manufactured to serve as a stepping stone to Formula...
Something is missing. Look around the race tracks, the city streets, the holiday hotspots … see what isn’t there? Elegant, vivid little cars that used to be all over? Yup. No Alfa Romeos. Hardly any, anyway. There are collectors and vintage racers who sometimes bring out their Italian jewels, and...
Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone, Northants, UK October 22, 2011...
Lime Rock Park, Lakeville, CT October 14–15, 2011...
Sebring International Raceway, Sebring, FL October 13–16, 2011...
New Jersey Motorsports Park, Millville, NJ September 30–October 2, 2011...
Infineon Raceway, Sonoma, CA September 30–October 2, 2011...
Behind Le Mans, The Film in Photographs By Michael Keyser Arguably one of the most influential racing feature films of all-time, Steve McQueen’s Le Mans did not enjoy critical or financial success when released in the early ’70s, but it has gone on to become a cult classic for racing...
With this month’s Profile of Jackie Stewart’s BRM P261, we thought a deeper look into the workings of British Racing...
Margie Petersen, philanthropist, wife of the late publishing magnate Robert E. Petersen and co-founding benefactor of Southern California’s Petersen Automotive...
The seaside circuit of Zandvoort, once home to the Dutch Grand Prix, will play host to a new historic racing festival on September 1–2, with the featured categories including Grand Prix Masters, World Sportscar Masters, Sports Racing Masters and the Historic Grand Prix Car Association, which will organize races for...
Three-time Indy 500 winner and King of the Hill at Pikes Peak Bobby Unser will be the guest of honor...
Sergio Scaglietti, who died at the age of 91 on November 20, was the son of a carpenter who became...
The Hill Family and L.A.’s Petersen Automotive Museum marked the 50th Anniversary of Phil Hill’s 1961 World Championship for Ferrari at the museum last November with a tribute to America’s first F1 titlist during which various contemporaries shared memories of and stories about him. The evening was highlighted by a...
After an aborted late summer start, the inaugural Mille Miglia North America Tribute finally put rubber to the road from...
Jim Rathmann, winner of the 1960 Indianapolis 500, passed away just before Thanksgiving in Palm Bay, Florida, a week after...
Lord March has announced that the dates for the 20th Goodwood Festival of Speed will be June 28–July 1, with the event’s theme of “Young Guns—Born to Win” celebrating all those “overnight sensations” whose insatiable thirst for speed immediately earned them a place in the sport’s pantheon of stars. The...
