Simply The Best – 1989 BMW M3 E30
Way back in 1973 the actor Orson Wells, chosen for his deep and imposing voice, appeared on commercial television as the then public face of… Read More...
Browsing: August ’16
BMW’s Motorsport Heart & Soul
BMW has long followed a policy of racing cars and engines derived from production vehicles. Until BMW entered Formula One with Williams using its V10… Read More...
Tom Kendall – Part 2
In this concluding installment of our interview with Trans-Am record-breaker Tom Kendall, we pick up the narrative just after he’s won his first Trans-Am crown… Read More...
Loaners
Have you ever temporarily loaned someone your car, had them keep it for 50 years, cut it in half, weld it back together and then… Read More...
Patrick Depailler
When he was a kid in Clermont-Ferrand, France, Patrick Depailler’s idol was French motorcycle champion and racing driver Jean Behra. The two were alike in… Read More...
Belatedly Following in Dad’s Footsteps
Many might find it unusual that the 58-year old son of legendary racecar driver Dave MacDonald had never driven a race car on a racetrack,… Read More...
Bentley 3-Liter
I’ve been fortunate to race Bentleys for 25 years. Indeed, most of my earliest memories involve sitting in the back of Bentleys going to events.… Read More...
The Stuck Saga – Part 1
At the first Shelsley Walsh meeting after the war, only the weather was as predictable as the belief among spectators that Raymond Mays would establish… Read More...
1975 IMSA BMW CSL
Coupe Sport Leicht (CSL) is a name synonymous with BMW racecars. Of all the BMW CSLs, none was as outrageous as the 1975 IMSA contender… Read More...
Fast Exposure: August 2016
This was the start of the racing career of Sir Stirling Moss, who drove a BMW 328 owned by his father, in the UK’s Poole… Read More...
1964 Brabham BT8
Oscar Wilde wrote, “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” This sounds a lot like the car hobby to me. In April, I received… Read More...