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Watch this video of the last 10 laps of the 1983 Indianapolis 500 and you’ll quickly realise why the climax to America’s biggest race that May is remembered as one of the best.
The 67th running …
Formula One legend Sir Stirling Moss has been injured after falling three stories down a lift shaft in his London home over the weekend.
After calling the lift to his floor, Moss stepped into empty space …
Today is the 7th Anniversary of the passing of Motorcycling legend Barry Sheene.
When Barry Sheene decided to up stumps from his country mansion in England and move his entire family to the Gold Coast in …
Sir Jackie, you’re a regular visitor to Bahrain and its Grand Prix but this year it’s the venue of the 60th anniversary celebrations of the world championship. How special does that make this year’s event …
Here a couple of lovely videos featuring Chad McQueen talking about being on the set of Le Mans with his Dad, Steve, in 1970.
In the first video, Chad talks about sitting on his Dad’s lap …
Manama, 4th March 2010: Juan Manuel Fangio II, nephew of five-time Formula 1™ world champion Juan Manuel Fangio, will take to the track at the wheel of a Maserati 250F as the world’s biggest annual …
All but two surviving F1 champions have been confirmed to be in attendance of this year’s Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix weekend running from the 12th to the 14th of March.
Manama, 28th February 2010: American motor racing legend Mario Andretti will play a starring role in the Kingdom of Bahrain as the 2010 FIA Formula 1™ World Championship season starts at the Gulf Air Bahrain …
An intensely personal documentary, it takes an in depth look at one of Australia’s motorcycle racing legends, the man who won the 1990 Australian Grand Prix with a broken bone in his wrist, during his breakout 1986 season with Honda.
This has to be one of the most ridiculous and completely avoidable crashes I have ever seen. The tragic part is that it claimed the life of popular Italian driver Ignazio Giunti
Giunti, from Rome, made …
In the days when the AMA Grand National Championship included road races, Rex Beauchamp stayed on the dirt and came close to winning a championship anyway.
Inducted into the Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 2007, Beauchamp …
In 1984 Dick Johnson was in a bit of trouble. The new Group A racing rules were coming the following year and Ford Australia was not at all interested in helping him racing their local …
The motorcycling bug bit Sammy Miller whilst watching motorcycle racing in Ulster. He went on to compete and win his first event in 1953. The rest as they say, is history.
Millers career was an …
The Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion enters a new dawn of historic racing by honoring one of the true legends of motorsports- Dan Gurney – the Cars He Built, the Cars He Drove – August 12-15 …
Greg Pretty was one of the most versatile riders of his generation, and hugely respected by his peers.
Aussie race legend Greg Pretty lost his life in a terrible head-on accident on January 16, 2010 aboard …
In 1948 Colin Chapman was finishing up his education, racing cars he designed and gearing up to turn motor racing on its head.
As NASCAR’s Sprint Cup daredevils get ready for this weekend’s season-opener, the Daytona 500 at the fearsome Florida Speedway, it’s worth wallowing in a bit of stock car nostalgia.
The blue-riband 500 has been the most …
Here are some video snippets from a documentary called Trans Am 1970.
The 1970 Trans Am series is regarded by most racing enthusiasts as the high water mark of American road racing.
Six full factory teams prepared …
Here is a full length video of the season opening Argentine 500cc Motorcycle Grand Prix from 1982.
The opening parts of the video are arguably the best bits with some good interviews with Sheene, Croz and …
This is a fascinating and very well written account of the politics behind the extraordinary Auto Union and Mercedes ” Silver Arrows ” grand prix cars of the 1930s.
Eberhard Reuss is a German motor sport …










