Monday, June 1, 1970. Bruce McLaren is flying in every sense of the word. Everything seems to be going his way. The first Can-Am race of the season is 12 days away, which he and his team will enter as defending champions. At the moment he is on a plane...

It's 40 years since archetypically Italian Ferrari and British-based garagiste McLaren went head to head in the 1976 Formula 1 World Championship, 312T2 vs. M23. Two different cultures. Two very different cars. One epic season.During a lull at the 1976 Belgian Grand Prix in May, James Hunt clambered aboard friend,...

Dan Gurney's 1972 Eagle Indy car was fast – unbelievably fast – and it was for sale, too. With the orders flooding in, it would dominate for four seasons. It was the perfect storm: a rulebook ripe for the picking converged on by a wily, free-thinking leader oozing with racing...