We all think of Ferrari and Colin Chapman as people who were extremely passionate about racing and competition, and produced road cars mainly as a […]
Porsche 908/01
For 1968, the FIA’s Commission Sportive Internationale which determined rules for sports car racing outlawed the big 7 liter engines popularized by Ford, and introduced […]
Limerock 2014
Lakeville, Connecticut. A bucolic piece of New England. A Norman Rockwell painting come to life. And right there in the middle of it is Limerock […]
A Mercedes Victory In Germany
The Formula One German Grand Prix is set to take place on July 20, 2014. For the first time in decades, a Mercedes is a […]
The Faith of Fath
History is littered with smart people who thought they could do it better than the large manufacturers, who would not compromise on their ideas when […]
Opel Ascona 400
One of the phenomena that continues to amaze, is how good an otherwise plain (or even ugly) car can look in race trim. Few people […]
Sampling Silverstone
Silverstone. Just the name suggests epic racing history. In 1948, Britain’s Royal Automobile Club went looking for a site to resume motor racing after the […]
Against All Odds
The following are excerpts from Kevin Cameron’s article King of the Boomers, which appeared in Cycle magazine in 1979. It was sent to me by […]
Teutonic 2 Strokes
Motorraderwerke Zschopau (MZ) came into being following the war based on the remnants of the old DKW factory (see Muzings) in East Germany . The […]
The Heckflosse Champion
Many fans of vintage German cars will be aware of the success of the 300SLR in the immediate postwar era. They will probably also be […]
Porsche 959 Paris Dakar
Let’s suppose you had created an FIA Group B road race car in the early 1980s and then the whole focus of Group B changed […]
Design Number 22
In October 1932, the AISCR (later to become the FIA) announced specifications for a new racing class. It was incredibly simple. A weight limit of […]
FrancoChamps
What is it about French people driving in the dirt? True, they invented motor racing back in 1894 when all of the roads were dirt. […]
A Chance Encounter
So there I was sitting in my local airport, waiting to board a flight to visit family for Thanksgiving. Waiting around in airports has often […]
The Screaming Threes
DKW is no stranger to this blog both in two-wheel (see DKW 350) and four-wheel (see DKW 1000) versions. On two wheels, DKW was a […]
Vintage Racing Economics
Vintage Racer : Once I explain this to you, I’m sure you’ll agree that it’s pretty simple to understand. It is a very lucrative pursuit. […]
NSU Missiles
Prior to WWII, Several of the German manufacturers, like many around the world, had discovered the allure of supercharging. NSU was one of them. Just […]
Bookend Mclarens
McLaren has been racing in Formula One since 1966. New Zealander Bruce McLaren was discovered by Australian Jack Brabham in the late 1950s and went […]
Passing Schumacher and Rossi
Sebastian Loeb now officially has the greatest record in Motorsports. At the Rally GB in Wales, he won his eighth consecutive world rally championship !! […]
Motorsports Roundup September 2011
Motorsports posts have not made it into the blog much this year due to a lot of riding and driving. A good thing. However, that […]