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 it helps (…)
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 Formula 1 engine. (…)
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 short in print, (…)
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 (…)
21 Mar 17
Formula 1 21 Mar 17
In RACER Magazine: Performance Anxiety
They look faster. And they are faster. But will Formula 1’s 2017 rule changes result in cars that actually race better? All will (…)
19 Dec 16
RACER Magazine Excerpts 19 Dec 16
In RACER Magazine: Active Service
Williams almost won the 1991 Formula 1 World Drivers’ Championship with its FW14. Adding some potent high-tech the following (…)
17 Aug 16
Racer Blog 17 Aug 16
In RACER Magazine: Culture Clash
It’s 40 years since archetypically Italian Ferrari and British-based garagiste McLaren went head to head in the 1976 Formula 1 (…)
