1957 12 Hours of Sebring. In color.

March 19, 2010 Racing No Comments

My dad raced here in 1957 in a 1500cc MGA.

Mille Miglia

June 8, 2009 Racing, Retrospective No Comments

1948

1951

 

1958 Monaco

May 28, 2009 Racing, Retrospective No Comments

One more I just couldn’t pass up without posting.  Thank you to whoever found this film in their attic and decided to digitize it.

1969 German Grand Prix

May 28, 2009 Racing, Retrospective No Comments

Just shut up and watch.

YouTube really is an amazing thing.  If nothing else, the amount of history (of everything, not just motorsport) that is posted on there is just remarkable.  It truly is wonderful to be able to access this kind of information so readily.

14 years ago today…

May 1, 2008 Racing, Retrospective No Comments

Aryton Senna drove the final lap of his life, in the San Marino Grand Prix at Imola. Senna was World Champion in 1988, 1990, and 1991, and was one of the greatest drivers in the history of Formula One. More importantly, Senna was a true hero off the track, donating the vast majority of his fortune to start the “Ayrton Senna Foundation“, with the aim of helping poor and needy young people in Brazil and around the world.

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Senna dueling with Alain Prost, Mexico GP 1990

His last lap, May 1st, 1994.

Da da daaaaaaaaaaa!

January 12, 2008 Racing No Comments

The Cannonball Run is returning to America. Named for the highly illegal (and surely equally entertaining) Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash founded by Car & Driver vet Brock Yates, this celeb and party-soaked cross-country run is actually an unsanctioned offspring of the franchise started by the aforementioned elder statesman of automotive journalism. Yates himself still presides over the One Lap of America, the original’s heir operating in a toned-down format that keeps the points-scoring events to a changing cast of racetracks around the nation.

In the past, the Cannonball’s route has been something of a secret until the green flag drops, largely in hopes of minimizing legal wranglings and a level playing field for competitors. The 2006 iteration will actually be run under the Great American Run banner for one week, beginning July 29.

In an unorthodox development, racers will actually start the event in their choice of four U.S. cities: Atlanta, Miami, New York, and Washington D.C., with 16 checkpoints punctuating the 3,000 mile drives. Either way, the cars will all wind up in Los Angeles for the traditional debauchery-laden afterparty.

Interested? Find yourself an amusing car (preferably a fast one) and the $10,000 entry fee, and sign up to be one of the 400 fun-loving scofflaws.

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