Next weekend we’ll have the pleasure of enjoying the 40th Long Beach Grand Prix. Long Beach of course, is America’s most successful, longest-running street race and is the prototypical example…
This year’s Sebring 12 Hours was a fierce race all the way with 10 different leaders and more than half a dozen cars capable of winning. In the end, it…
Last week Jacques Villeneuve announced he’s returning to race in this year’s Indianapolis 500 for the first time since winning the race 19 years ago. Villeneuve is 42 and has…
Rain caused a six-and-a-half hour delay to this year’s Daytona 500 but when the chequered flag finally waved at 11.30 on Sunday evening ‘NASCAR Nation’ couldn’t have been happier. That’s…
This week I’m going to explain why I believe Mark Donohue and the remarkable Can-Am turbo Porsche 917/30K deserve places in Motor Sport’s roll call of racing’s greatest drivers and…
I have to say I was shocked when I read last week’s list of the sport’s greatest drivers. Missing from the list were three of America’s greatest racers of all-time…
A great deal of unhappiness and toxic comment has been aired on the web about the Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona. Many fans were displeased with the excessive, unnecessary use…
After leading 492 laps at Indianapolis in seven starts between 1961-’67 and dominating but failing to win the ’67 500, Parnelli Jones retired from racing open cockpit cars. Parnelli went…
A few weeks ago Paul Fearnley documented Colin Chapman’s last Formula 1 cars, including the twin-chassis Lotus 88. Chapman was renowned for pushing the limit and breaking new ground, which…
It wasn’t a single moment that caught my eye this year. It was watching a pair of relentless, season-long efforts by Jimmie Johnson and Scott Dixon and their teams on…
In 1971, Jackie Stewart raced not only in Formula 1 for Ken Tyrrell but also for Carl Haas in the Can-Am series. In those days the McLaren team dominated the…
It happened 51 years ago in the summer of 1962. Porsche had raced a couple of F2-based four-cylinder cars for Dan Gurney and Jo Bonnier in the ’61 World Championship.…
