A detailed and moving tribute from the BMW Group PressClub USA notes that on Thursday, July 21, British motorsport idol Patrick Barron Hopkirk MBE passed away peacefully at home in Buckinghamshire.Born in Belfast on April 14, 1933, Paddy – as he was affectionately known - began a fast-paced career as...

Sir Stirling Moss once described his brother-in-law and friend Erik Carlsson as, "The best non-mechanical thing to come out of Trollhattan."Trollhattan, Sweden, is of course famous for two things. But those two things merged when Carlsson became universally known as Mr. Saab, after competing around the world so successfully in...

Simba. One word. One man. Lion. That was how the Kenyans knew Bjorn Waldegaard. And he certainly was the king of African rallying.Born in Rimbo, in the east of Sweden, Waldegaard started competing aged 19. And his natural talent was immediately obvious: he was on the podium on the Swedish...