Ex-Formula 1 driver and racecar constructor Howden Ganley is the epitome of New Zealand’s "She’ll be right" stereotype: laidback, competent, adaptable. Everybody, however, has a breaking point: McLaren’s fraught Formula 1 debut of May 1966 was his."I did Monaco with them – then resigned," he says. "I couldn’t see where...

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. Bolted to the beautifully sparse Lotus 49, it made its winning debut in the 1967 Dutch Grand Prix and never looked back.Downtown Motown, June 5, 1983: Milan's...

ABOVE: Nichols (at right) with UOP Shadow's Alan Rees and designer Tony Southgate at the 1973 Spanish Grand Prix. Don Nichols, the American founder of the Shadow Racing team that rose to prominence in Formula 1 and Can-Am during the 1970s – especially with its black-liveried Universal Oil Products (UOP)-backed...

A couple of engines take center stage in our sixth annual Great Cars Issue. Two Cosworths, to be precise – Formula 1's DFV V8 and Indy car racing's DFV-derived DFX. Their gestations are fascinating (and contentious, in the case of the DFX), but it's the way each went on to...

Two-time Formula 1 world champion Mika Hakkinen has been all smiles since turning his first laps at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Emerson Fittipaldi's 1974 title-winning McLaren M23B.The Finn, a guest of McLaren at the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, is spending the weekend turning demonstration laps in the Cosworth DFV-powered...

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...