03 Oct 18
Formula 1 03 Oct 18
In RACER Magazine: Flying Too Close to the Sun
Brabham designer Ron Tauranac, though somewhat more wary than Lotus’ Colin Chapman of unchecked development in an unexplored area, upstaged (…)
23 May 18
RACER Magazine Excerpts 23 May 18
In RACER Magazine: The 1981 Eagle - ‘An Upside Down F-16’
Dan Gurney’s favorite Indy car was the 1981 Pepsi Challenger, or the Eagle 8100, to give it its official nomenclature. A year earlier, (…)
14 Dec 17
RACER Magazine Excerpts 14 Dec 17
In RACER Magazine: Improving the Breed?
When motorsports adopts and adapts technologies, it’s almost always for entirely selfish reasons: to find a winning advantage. If (…)
21 Sep 17
RACER Magazine Excerpts 21 Sep 17
In RACER Magazine: Veni, DFV, Vici
The best couple hundred thousand bucks ever spent in racing? That’s got to be Ford’s investment in the Cosworth DFV (…)
19 Jul 17
RACER Magazine Excerpts 19 Jul 17
In RACER Magazine: Green Light
A Churchillian figure, blimpish in stature and occasionally attitude, Britain’s Guy Anthony “Tony” Vandervell – GAV for (…)
07 Jun 17
RACER Magazine Excerpts 07 Jun 17
In RACER Magazine: Ford's 1967 Le Mans triumph
Defending winner Ford headed to the 1967 24 Hours of Le Mans with even more GT40 firepower. As many favorites self-destructed, cool, (…)
27 Apr 17
Formula 1 27 Apr 17
In RACER Magazine: The Andretti Factor
The spring of 1976: Lotus was in a rut, but thinking big, and Mario Andretti was suddenly out of a drive. Joining forces, they won (…)
