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Jun 15, 20245 min read
Maserati v. Ferrari, the real story
It wasn't as melodramatic as the family-feud between the Montagues and the Capulets, in "Romeo and Juliet", and Modena certainly couldn't...
May 17, 20243 min read
Finding the right Auto Repair Shop
Gary, a friend from my college days (we were roommates) who lives in California, was dissatisfied with the service he was getting from...
Dec 29, 20233 min read
Review: Ferrari, the movie
Unless you're a hard-core motor racing fan--and I do mean hard core--you're not going to find this movie particularly compelling. Set in...
Dec 1, 20231 min read
King for a Day--outline
Table of Contents Forward -- The Stuff of Dreams Lapping Brands Hatch in Dan Gurney's F-1 Eagle 1 - The Coronation of Stirling Moss The...
Nov 14, 202313 min read
The Ragged Edge
Chapter 1 -- Round One: South Africa, January 1 Nothing could touch him now. Before, there had been the crowd pressing him, wanting his...


Jun 24, 20236 min read
C. Harold Wills, the Man, and his Amazing Automobiles
He was wealthy, a brilliant engineer, and the manufacturer of a car that was well ahead of its time--the Wills Sainte Claire. Never heard...
Jun 2, 202315 min read
Gurney Luck--The 1964 French Grand Prix
Mention Rouen to any self-respecting Frenchman, and he may think of France's Patron Saint, Joan of Arc. Or, perhaps be reminded of...
May 16, 20237 min read
Rindt Serves Notice--1969 U.S. Grand Prix
"If Jochen Rindt ever wins a Grand Prix, I will shave off my beard." This was the word of no less an authority than Denis Jenkinson, the...
May 14, 20239 min read
F-1's Quintessential Number-Two Driver, Snags a Win in Mexico City--The 1965 Mexican Grand Prix
This was not exactly the role Richie Ginther had envisioned for himself. What he had been hired to do was to be a test driver, and...
May 8, 202312 min read
Jackie Stewart Assumes the Crown--The 1968 German Grand Prix
Somewhere in motor racing's collective consciousness, the Nurburgring will always exist, awaiting some desperate hour: Tazio Nuvolari in...
May 6, 202310 min read
Tony's Playpen
There was three feet of snow in Denver when the ARS transporter departed from the team headquarters on First Street. Three days later,...
May 5, 20238 min read
McLaren on the Verge: The 1967 Canadian Grand Prix
NINETEEN SIXTY-SIX was a disastereous year for McLaren Cars. The money they had spent developing the Ford Indy engine for their...
May 2, 20236 min read
Taffy Revels in the Rain--The 1961 British Grand Prix
The sky over northeast England matched Phil Hill's mood perfectly--dark and foreboding. Two days earlier, Hill had departed Reims in a...
Oct 30, 202215 min read
Triumph of the Antihero -- The 1961 Italian Grand Prix
It seems like a bad dream to Phil Hill, coming to Monza as the underdog to win the 1961 drivers' world championship. What had promised...
Sep 26, 20223 min read
Book Review—The Unfair Advantage—Mark Donahue Tells All
“The Unfair Advantage” is proof-positive that nice guys finish first—if they work hard. To say Mark Donohue was modest about his driving...
Sep 5, 202213 min read
Black Jack Rolls a Seven in Champagne Country -- The 1966 French Grand Prix
While making the motion picture "Grand Prix" in 1966, filmmaker John Frankenheimer went to Reims, site of that year's French Grand Prix,...
Aug 26, 202213 min read
Fearless John Surtees drives his last race for Ferrari -- The 1966 Belgian Grand Prix
Henry Manney, wit, sage, and European Editor for ROAD & TRACK magazine in the 1960s, would stand behind a stone barn outside Burnenville...
Aug 14, 202211 min read
You Can't Always Get What You Want: Graham Hill and the elusive British Grand Prix
It seems ironic, even cruel, that the quintessential British racing driver, Graham Hill, should never have won the British Grand Prix. ...
Apr 9, 202213 min read
The Stuff of Dreams
DRIVING DAN GURNEY'S EAGLE AT BRANDS HATCH, 1967 Imagine driving a Formula One. The circuit is Brands Hatch, near the south coast of...
Apr 8, 20226 min read
Why I wrote "The Ragged Edge"
To me motor racing is a feeling, a feeling that beguiles the soul, and captures the imagination. Writing "The Ragged Edge", was my...
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