It wasn't as melodramatic as the family-feud between the Montagues and the Capulets, in "Romeo and Juliet", and Modena certainly couldn't...

Gary, a friend from my college days (we were roommates) who lives in California, was dissatisfied with the service he was getting from...

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...

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...

Chapter 1 -- Round One: South Africa, January 1 Nothing could touch him now. Before, there had been the crowd pressing him, wanting his...

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...

Mention Rouen to any self-respecting Frenchman, and he may think of France's Patron Saint, Joan of Arc. Or, perhaps be reminded of...

"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...

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...

Somewhere in motor racing's collective consciousness, the Nurburgring will always exist, awaiting some desperate hour: Tazio Nuvolari in...

There was three feet of snow in Denver when the ARS transporter departed from the team headquarters on First Street. Three days later,...

NINETEEN SIXTY-SIX was a disastereous year for McLaren Cars. The money they had spent developing the Ford Indy engine for their...

The sky over northeast England matched Phil Hill's mood perfectly--dark and foreboding. Two days earlier, Hill had departed Reims in a...

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...

“The Unfair Advantage” is proof-positive that nice guys finish first—if they work hard. To say Mark Donohue was modest about his driving...

While making the motion picture "Grand Prix" in 1966, filmmaker John Frankenheimer went to Reims, site of that year's French Grand Prix,...

Henry Manney, wit, sage, and European Editor for ROAD & TRACK magazine in the 1960s, would stand behind a stone barn outside Burnenville...

It seems ironic, even cruel, that the quintessential British racing driver, Graham Hill, should never have won the British Grand Prix. ...

DRIVING DAN GURNEY'S EAGLE AT BRANDS HATCH, 1967 Imagine driving a Formula One. The circuit is Brands Hatch, near the south coast of...

To me motor racing is a feeling, a feeling that beguiles the soul, and captures the imagination. Writing "The Ragged Edge", was my...