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...
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- May 17
- 3 min
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, 2023
- 3 min
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, 2023
- 1 min
Mastery 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, 2023
- 13 min
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, 2023
- 6 min
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, 2023
- 15 min
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, 2023
- 7 min
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, 2023
- 9 min
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, 2023
- 12 min
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, 2023
- 10 min
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, 2023
- 8 min
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, 2023
- 6 min
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, 2022
- 15 min
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, 2022
- 3 min
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, 2022
- 13 min
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, 2022
- 13 min
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, 2022
- 11 min
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, 2022
- 13 min
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, 2022
- 6 min
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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