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 the 1961 drivers' world championship. What had...
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- 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...
- Apr 8, 2022
- 13 min
The Coronation of Stirling Moss --The 1961 Monaco Grand Prix
In the early 1960s, Stirling Moss was not only the best racing driver on the planet, but the best-known sports figure in the world, and...
- Apr 8, 2022
- 4 min
Review: "AC Cobra: The truth behind the Anglo-American legend"
Carroll Shelby dreamed of building an American sports car. It wasn't a daydream, but an actual dream he had at night. He awoke and wrote...
- Apr 8, 2022
- 3 min
The Chevrolet Connection
Overlooked in the "Ford v. Ferrari" movie, was competition from a Chevrolet powered machine, called the Chaparral. In the mid-1960s,...
- Mar 18, 2022
- 3 min
Book Review: "Faster! A Racer's Diary" by Jackie Stewart and Peter Manso
It was a magical time to be in motor racing. Anything was possible. It was a time when a sharp entrepreneur like Ken Tyrrell could...
- Mar 18, 2022
- 3 min
Ford v. Ferrari
The following is my review of the movie, Ford v. Ferrari. It was over the summer of 1963, on the heels of Ford's near miss at the...
- Mar 18, 2022
- 3 min
Dream Team
Book Review: "Edsel Ford and E. T. Gregorie: The Remarkable Design Team and Their Classic Fords of the 1930s and 1940s" Edsel Ford was...
- Mar 17, 2022
- 7 min
The Fastest Man on Wheels
If you were a hot rodder, Southern California was the place to be in the 1950s. Gasoline was cheap, the junkyards were flush with all the...
- Mar 17, 2022
- 3 min
Dan Gurney, an appreciation
Grand Prix great Dan Gurney died January 14, 2018. He was age 86. Three-time world champion Jackie Stewart described him as, “The...
- Mar 12, 2022
- 1 min
Porsche Photo Op
It was always about cars, as far back as I can remember, American cars with serious big-bore V8 engines. Then came the shift, first to...
- Mar 12, 2022
- 7 min
Joyride
It began with a joyride. A couple of teens stole a car and spent the better part of an afternoon joyriding through the green hills of the...
- Mar 12, 2022
- 4 min
Corvette-Mustang: An Appreciation
Two Reviews: CORVETTE—FIFTY YEARS, by Randy Leffingwell My brother, a car enthusiast extraordinaire, has driven them all—Porsches,...
- Mar 12, 2022
- 4 min
The Porsche Mystique
Incredible but true. Porsche is a German car that owes its popularity to California. Being a native Californian, it seems only fitting....
- Mar 12, 2022
- 8 min
Roger Corman makes a racing movie
Filmmaker Roger Corman wrote a book some years back entitled, “How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime.” Roger...
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