Le Mans, Nascar, Sports Cars

By: Brooklands Books . Matra production started very slowly in 1965, a few hundred cars being sold in Europe, in the meantime their Formula 3 cars were having some successes.  The Djet 5 soon became the Djet 5S. The M530 was introduced in 1967 and...

By: Ed McDonough . Book Description The late 1960s and early 1970s were a significant era in the world of international sports car racing. As the motor racing rule-making body moved back and forth between cars that less and less resembled road going...

By: Roy Smith . Sports prototype racing is about endurance, for the drivers, for the teams and for the companies involved. In this story we see the effort, the blood, the sweat and the tears, reputations won and lost, life and also death. The cars were...

By: Roy Smith . Sports prototype racing is about endurance – for the drivers, for the teams, and for the companies involved. Under the new management at Renault, and with assistance from Elf, the state-owned French oil company, Alpine made a...

By: Ralph Kramer . 100 years after the transformation from cornfields and pastureland to a playground unlike any other, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway has become an international icon as the world's greatest racing venue. In conjunction with the 100th...

By: Anthony Pritchard . The success of British sports/racing cars during the 1950s was an integral part of the growth of British motor racing power in the post-war years. Two major British teams led from the front, Aston Martin and Jaguar...they...

By: Paul Parker . Description Though the 1970s started and finished with Porsche domination, the decade's sports car racing saw a wide range of cars and drivers take part in dramatic races on some of the world's greatest tracks. The atmosphere of sports...

By: Bob Zeller . The story of stock car racing at Daytona Beach, Florida is rich with color and characters. It all began in the 1930s, when drivers competed on a makeshift track of hard-packed beach sand on one side and a public roadway on the other. But...

By: Karl Ludvigsen . The spirit of innovation was still strong in the 1970s, which Ludvigsen calls "The Last Creative Decade" at the great Speedway. The turbocharged decade witnessed the extinction of the venerable four-banger Offy and the rise of the...

By: Karl Ludvigsen . For the Old World, caught up in the traumas of a bitter conflict, America?s Indianapolis 500-mile race was a New-World beacon of auto-racing speed and excitement during the 1940s. While racing stopped in Europe in 1939, the Indy 500...

By: Robert C. Auten . Sebring 12-Hour 1970 Photo Archive is a collection of photographs featuring some of the greatest drivers and cars in motor sport history. An album of fascinating images from the Alec Ulmann Collection. Mario Andretti won in a...

By: Anthony Pritchard . Sports racing cars — built specially for competition work — date back to the 1920s when manufacturers first modified production cars for long-distance endurance racing. Early examples were the Lorraine- Dietrich 3...