A dirt-track star who learned to excel on asphalt, Kenny Roberts and his Yamaha YZR500 beamed down in Europe in 1978 and changed the face of grand prix racing. At the 2009 MotoGP finale in Valencia, Spain, Texan Tech 3 Yamaha rider Colin Edwards coined an enduring epithet when he...

Dan Gurney was a true renaissance man of motorsports; an innovator for whom the path of least resistance was anathema, as well as a racer revered by his peers.Of those peers, Jim Clark was perhaps the greatest. At Clark's funeral in his beloved Scottish Borders, his father told Gurney that...