Mika Hakkinen will he get behind the wheel of Emerson Fittipaldi's 1974 world championship-winning McLaren M23 at the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca on August 17-20. Hakkinen is filling in for Jenson Button, who was originally slated to drive the McLaren M23.The Flying Finn drove 130...

When Jenson Button announced his "sabbatical" from Formula 1, he said he wanted to be able to try some new motorsport events – and at least one of them will be stateside. The Briton will get behind the wheel of Emerson Fittipaldi's 1974 world championship-winning McLaren M23 at the Rolex...

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,...

Nobody designs or builds a racecar for reasons as amorphous as "greatness." Mostly, they do it for more tangible goals: to be as fast and competitive as possible, and hopefully win races and championships.Greatness, however you choose to define it, might then follow. But more often than not it doesn't......

Between them, Jackie Stewart and Alain Prost accounted for seven World Championships and 78 grands prix victories. So why is it, when we look back, that neither of them was ever regarded as the fastest man of his era? Or that they were overshadowed on that score in their day...