As the weather turns warmer, race tracks across the country awaken from a wintertime nap to launch a new season of competition, and what played out this past Saturday at Wall Stadium in New Jersey is just one example. At Wall Stadium, which held its first opening...
“An earth-shaker from Great Britain” is how the influential writer Ken Purdy described the original Jaguar XK-E, a car stunning in looks and performance when it made its debut on March 21, 1961, and a car that remains stunning in looks and performance to this day. How...
On February 28, 1940, Mario Andretti and his twin brother, Aldo, were born in Montona, a town on the peninsula of Istria which at the time was a part of Italy. We mention Aldo because, while today Mario is known worldwide as a championship-winning racing driver, few...
On February 7, 1958, the Dutch truck manufacturer DAF introduced its first passenger car, the DAF 600, in Amsterdam. Groundbreaking in neither size nor appearance, the car is remembered for having a continuously variable transmission. The “Variomatic” transmission...
January 19, 2016 A year ago we wrote of how enthusiastic the spectators were when Rico Abreu won the Chili Bowl, the uniquely American indoor dirt track race that draws over 300 participants. The more than 15,000 fans packed into the Tulsa Expo Center chanted Rico...
