Ferrari will run a special livery at the Italian Grand Prix this weekend, honoring Niki Lauda’s first championship with the team 50 years ago.Lauda won the 1975 drivers’ championship driving the Ferrari 312 T, taking five victories and nine pole positions in total from the 14 rounds. The title was...

From Vintage Motorsport issue 07.3-May/Jun 2007Photo: Watkins Glen, Oct. 7, 1979—Clay Regazzoni (red jacket) watches as Alan Jones' pit stop goes all wrong with the right rear wheel nut not secure, Jones losing the wheel half a lap later.Working out of my home office these days, I am more covert...

The wait for racing cars to return to the streets of Long Beach is a little longer than usual this time around. But in the decades since the inaugural event, enough stories have sprung up around the race to fill a book – which is exactly what Gordon Kirby has...

Racing cultivates a lot of self-absorbed people, but it’s the self-made ones from the good old days that are always the most interesting.Rod Campbell, who passed away Monday at the age of 88, came from nothing and earned his way to a position of power and respect in auto racing...

The first Grand Prix of Long Beach, run for Formula 5000 cars in 1975.A Formula 1 race around downtown Long Beach? Yeah, right... But bring in Dan Gurney to open doors and pretty soon it's go time.It was the summer of 1973 and Chris Pook had an idea for an...

Brian Redman climbed into the cockpit of the factory Ferrari 312PB at Daytona International Speedway in 1972, with an assist from co-driver Clay Regazzoni.That year’s race was only six hours in duration. After six years racing at the 24-hour distance, the move by the FIA from the mighty five-liter formula...

ABOVE: Alan Henry with Ferrari drivers Niki Lauda and Clay Regazzoni, looking over a copy of Motoring News in 1976. (LAT archive) Longtime Formula 1 journalist Alan Henry has passed away at the age of 68.Henry's first break in motorsport journalism came after writing a letter to Autosport to complain...

ABOVE: Chuck (far left) first worked with Clay Regazzoni in F5000 in 1973, and the two would go on to partner in F1 and become life-long friends. LEFT: Chuck at his Costa Mesa, Calif. shop with the Gurney Weslake Eagle that he once owned and a Le Mans Ferrari that...

ABOVE: Jones at Pomona in 1960. LEFT: Jones at the Monaco GP with Ensign in 1977. Chuck Jones, designer, inventor, race team owner and patron of driving talent, passed away today at the age of 84.Chuck was born in Orange County, Calif., and fully embraced the car-crazy postwar era of...

Patrick Head just wanted to build a better Lotus 79. But with the Williams FW07, he created the greatest car of Formula 1's ground-effect era. Head, Frank Williams and Alan Jones (left to right, ABOVE) made most of the FW07's history but it was Clay Regazzoni who took its first...