Today, Franco Cortese is, perhaps, one of motor sport’s forgotten stars—and he shouldn’t be. He was the driver who put...
This is the story of a hero who was more heroic than most. You may not have heard of Archie...
Surtees qualified his Ferrari 158 5th for the 1964 British Grand Prix at Brands Hatch and drove up to finish 3rd behind Jim Clark and Graham Hill. How do you get to be the only man to have won both the motorcycle and Formula One World Championships in a single...
Eddie Irvine has been a shrewd operator for most of his adult life. He carefully maneuvered himself into the second...
One of my favorite motor racing personalities was Piers Courage, a talented young gentleman racer, as well as a member...
Robert KubicaPhoto: Stefan Brending He was a spectacular Formula 1 driver and the first Polish addition to the F1 circus, who had it all going for him after six years in the top echelon of motor racing. He even won the 2008 Grand Prix of Canada in a BMW Sauber...
Alessandro Zanardi is an inspiration to us all. Here is a double CART champion who lost both his legs in...
The story of the Alfa Romeo 158 is packed with heroes, starting with its designer, Gioacchino Colombo. He submitted his...
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 more ways than one, as they shared a living-for-the-moment attitude that didn’t always pay off. Surprisingly, though, Patrick’s devil-may-care lifestyle didn’t really do his motor...
I have admired Tazio Nuvolari all my life and so has just about every other motor racing enthusiast of my...
Just about everything there is to write has been written about American racing legend Mario Andretti, but we would be...
It was a word-of-mouth, invitation-only affair organized by his lovely wife Susie and a friend without Stirling Moss knowing a thing about it. No mean feat, considering about 400 people attended the celebration. How Susie kept the party from her husband I’ll never know, except that all the invitees were...
Jimmy Murphy Biography Jimmy Murphy was born in 1894 but tragedy soon struck the Murphy family when his mother died...
“Among my drivers, Giovanni Bracco was, perhaps, the one who scored the most spectacular success,” Enzo Ferrari once said about...
Robert Newman You might well ask “Who the hell’s he?” when you read the name at the top of the page. Well, he’s the man none other than Niki Lauda described as The 20th Century’s Greatest Rally Driver. Not the most popular branch of motor sport in America, but rallying...
King George V thought it was very funny. “You’re late, my boy,” he guffawed. The world’s fastest human being had...
The amply proportioned Vincenzo Lancia was a double hero, if you will. He was a successful racing driver with over...
Bob Wollek was a champion many times over before he even got into motor racing. He won no fewer than three gold and two silver medals in the World University Games—second only to the Olympics—in downhill, slalom and combined skiing events in 1966 and 1968. When he exploded onto the...
Like his uncle Gianni Agnelli, Ludovico Scarfiotti was a suave, well-mannered gentleman who was no stranger to the privileges of...
It took a racing department of 240 people and a huge budget to put Michael Schumacher on top of the...
Fathers and their sons who have each won the Formula 1 World Championship are few and far between. There are only two dads and their lads who have pulled it off. The first to climb that particular Everest were the Hills: Graham won the 1962 world title driving a BRM...
Today, Franco Cortese is, perhaps, one of motor sport’s forgotten stars and he shouldn’t be. He was the driver who...
The man at the wheel of the 2.8-liter, six-cylinder, Ford Sierra XR4i may have been a schoolmaster, but he certainly...
Some say Graham Hill was not a natural, but one who had to work hard at his motor racing. I say so what? Not many of us work so well at something that we equal Hill’s outstanding record of winning the 1962 and 1968 Formula One World Championships, 14 championship...
Fluent in six languages, tall, with regular features set off by an immaculately clipped goatee beard and moustache, Jo Bonnier...
We called it the “Bruce and Denny Show,” and it was total dominance of the Can-Am Championship by McLaren Cars...
René Dreyfus Biography The story begins in 1914 when René was nine years old. The middle of three children he speaks of his early life with fondness, growing up in Nice. He later joined the Moto Club de Nice, which was sort of a junior league Automobile Club de Nice....
Tazio Nuvolari always used to say that if your car burst into flame, jump out and save yourself before it...
Nelson Piquet Biography Nelson Piquet was born on August 17, 1952 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The son of a...
Luigi Musso acclimates himself to the cockpit of his Maserati 300S prior to the start of the 1955 Grand Prix of Bari.Photo: Maserati Archive A rather prickly young man from Rome, Luigi Musso had all the qualities of a great champion, but he was killed before he could become one....
