When the FIA announced the 1984 Formula 1 calendar, I saw that Dallas Texas had been given the 9th race...
December 2017 Le Mans: The Official History 1930-39 By Quentin Spurring This fine volume is a welcome addition to others in the series and steps back to the decade of Le Mans 24-hour racing immediately prior to the Second World War. The era begins with the Bentley Boys continuing their...
Portland International Raceway, Portland, OR September 2-3, 2017...
Lime Rock Park, Lakeville, CT September 2-4, 2017...
Watkins Glen Int’l., Watkins Glen, NY September 6-10, 2017...
Circuit Paul Armagnac, Nogaro, France September 9-10, 2017...
Goodwood, Chichester, UK September 8-10, 2017...
The Canadian American Challenge Cup was co-sanctioned by the SCCA and the CASC; it was a series nicknamed the “unlimited” series. Although there was a basic set of rules, the cars had to be twoseaters with bodywork covering the wheels, have doors, a windscreen, brake lights and various safety requirements,...
1 Canadian open-wheel racer Claude Bourbonnaise born (1966). 2 Charlie Kolb wins the Nassau Tourist Trophy race driving a NART...
I want to be Rich Plavetich. Is he cool? Check. Does he have a wonderful and beautiful wife who also loves cars? Check. How about a fabulous career? Check (General Manager, Nissan Design America). But does he have a car collection? Check, and it’s awesome! (see Hidden Treasures, December, 2016)....
December 2017 When Colin Chapman was investigating four-wheel drive for his Lotus Formula One cars, he designed the Type 63,...
This is Fernando Hoyos’ depiction of the 1939 Plymouth raced by C. Hortal in the 2,751-mile-long Gran Premio Extraordinario between...
“Mirror, mirror, on the wall; Who is the fastest of them all?” Many are the racing drivers, fast and slow, who would like to answer “Me” to that question. Unfortunately, with few exceptions, the response to that has to be “No, it isn’t you.” I usually try to stay well...
Ron Harris was a wealthy man who had a company distributing 16-mm films, obviously prior to the days of video,...
An Alfa Romeo car mechanic who rose to become one of the greatest endurance drivers of his generation, the man responsible for establishing Ferrari in the United States and patron of his own highly successful motor racing team. Almost too much to be rolled into one man, but that, in...
A little over 20 years ago, I made a radical switch from research scientist to magazine publisher. That ridiculous move...
It was seeing Raymond Mays’ ERA that first drew a young John Sismey to mechanical engineering. After a grammar school...
Forty years ago, in 1977 and ’78, Mario Andretti was the man to beat in Grand Prix racing aboard Colin Chapman’s JPS Lotus 78 and 79 Formula One cars. Andretti made his Grand Prix debut with Lotus in 1968, qualifying on pole for the United States GP at Watkins Glen....
“Boy’s Own” Racer Personally speaking, I’m not an advocate of racing specials, especially those cars built that have little, or...
