Over this Long Beach GP weekend, which for so many year featured Formula 1, and as we prep for the 2021 United States Grand Prix at Circuit of The Americas, Oct. 22-24, it’s in keeping with the enthusiastic mood to look back 54 years at another USGP on the other...

Last week at Hethel, lead mechanic Lewis Cullington fired up the ex-Graham Hill Lotus 38/8S for the first time in 50 years, in readiness for a test track shakedown.Classic Team Lotus’ Cullington and Aaron Banks spent considerable time restoring the Champ car raced by the late Graham Hill in the...

Having announced a new virtual event less than three months ago, Goodwood Road & Racing already is preparing to get SpeedWeek underway.Most importantly, Goodwood wants to be sure that fans have all of the details on how to have the best online experience during the Oct. 16-18 action.With Goodwood celebrating...

Most people would be irate if a shipping company took 54 years to complete a delivery. In this rarest of cases, an overdue shipment by more than a half-century came as a welcome surprise as 1996 Formula 1 world champion Damon Hill, son of 1966 Indianapolis 500 winner and two-time...

The 1968 Indianapolis 500 will forever be remembered by most as the race where the turbine failed for the second straight year – just a few miles from the checkered flag.But the untold stories were the dominance of winner Bobby Unser, and another strong run of Lloyd Ruby that ended...

Former Team Lotus driver John Miles has died at the age of 74.A multiple championship winner in assorted British sportscar series during the 1960s, Miles's Formula 1 opportunity came when neither of Graham Hill nor Jochen Rindt wanted any part of developing the Lotus 63 4WD, which they believed to...

Dave "Beaky" Sims was 27 years old when his driver, two-time Formula 1 world champion Jim Clark, died in the Formula 2 car he prepared. Today, the veteran mechanic and team manager is better known as the silver-haired man behind Risi Competizione's illustrious sports car operation, and at 76, he...

Fifty years ago the unfathomable happened in Hockenheim, Germany when Jimmy Clark lost his life in a Formula 2 race. It shocked the entire racing world – not just in Formula 1 – because the Flying Scot had also left a most impressive mark at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.In five...

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...

It was 50 years ago today – June 4, 1967 – that Jim Clark and his Lotus 49 scored the first grand prix victory for the Ford Cosworth DFV (for "Double Four Valve") V8 in the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort. And it happened in the debut race for the...