Future Classic? By D. Randy Riggs from VM issue 2005.1 - Jan/Feb 2005Seems as though each day there are reminders that I am growing older faster than I’d like, and recently the realization set in that I am on the front row of the “Baby boomer” generation, those of us...

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...

For three decades he was a designer, builder, fabricator, dreamer, adventurer and racer to the core. He gave Jimmy Clark his final IndyCar ride, brought the first female driver to Indianapolis in 1976 with Janet Guthrie and helped Len Sutton, Billy Foster, Cale Yarborough and Tom Sneva start their careers.But...

There was one moment on his first visit to the Racing Capital of the World – a fact-finding mission in October 1962 — when Jimmy Clark's pride got the better of him. He was not impressed at having to take Indianapolis Motor Speedway's compulsory Rookie Test. A driver used to...

Full race coverage of Round 5 of the 1968 Tasman Series from Surfers Paradise, Australia. It was the second of four wins for Jimmy Clark and led to his third Tasman championship crown in four years. Tragically, just two months after this race, and one month after clinching the title,...

Back in January, we ran a story about favorite racecars and asked RACER.com readers to select their top five. Your votes flooded in and, in the end, we had more than 400 different racecars to consider… but 10 clear favorites emerged.Many of you had found it tricky to narrow your...

Jarrod Krisiloff, Senior Director of Marketing at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, is competing this January in The Rickshaw Run, a rickshaw race across India to benefit charities, and RACER.com is following along. Here is the first of Jarrod's blogs explaining the process as he and his team gear up for...