Tag: Cosworth

• Moss and Gurney to star at Monterey

  August 11th, 2010 | Gordon Kirby | 27 Comments
  

  The guests of honour at this weekend’s Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion at Laguna Seca are Sir Stirling Moss and Dan Gurney. The irrepressible Moss will make his return to US competition driving his own Porsche RS-61 following last spring’s terrible elevator accident, while Gurney and a fleet of All-American Racer’s… Read more

  Sections: Blogs, Historic Racing

  Tags: 1981 Eagle-Chevy, Bobby Unser, Boundary Layer Adhesion Technology, Camoradi, Cosworth, Dan Gurney, Eagle, Eagle Toyota GTP, Frank Arciero, Geoff Brabham, Goodwood, Jerry Grant, Laguna Seca, Lotus, Lotus 19, Lotus 79, Lucky Casner, Maserati, Mike mosley, Milwaukee, Mosport, Nurburgring, Porsche RS-61, Riverside, Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, Stirling Moss, Trevor Harris

• Parnelli Jones’s radical ideas

  May 2nd, 2008 | Gordon Kirby | 7 Comments
  

  Parnelli Jones is one of the living legends of American racing, up there in the pantheon with Mario Andretti, AJ Foyt and Dan Gurney. Jones dominated three of the seven Indy 500s he started and won the race in 1963, beating Jim Clark. He looked to be a clear winner… Read more

  Sections: Blogs, Historic Racing, IRL, NASCAR, Personalities, Sportscars

  Tags: AJ Foyt, Al Unser, Can-Am, Chevrolet, Cosworth, Dan Gurney, Ford, Honda, Indy 500, Jim Clark, Joe Leonard, John Barnard, Lotus, Mario Andretti, Mark Donohue, Parnelli Jones, Tony George, Toyota

• California Dreaming

  April 25th, 2008 | Gordon Kirby | 1 Comment
  

  The inaugural Formula 5000 race in 1975 at Long Beach.
  I’ve enjoyed the pleasure of covering all thirty-four Long Beach Grands Prix, from the inaugural Formula 5000 race back in 1975 through eight Formula One races from 1976-’83 and twenty-five CART or Champ Car races from 1984-2008. This year’s race… Read more

  Sections: Blogs, Events, Formula 1, Historic Racing

  Tags: Brian Redman, CART, Cosworth, Formula 5000, Honda, Long Beach, Manufacturer, Mario Andretti, Panoz, Turbo

• IRL and Champ Car merger is the first of many steps

  February 22nd, 2008 | Gordon Kirby | 2 Comments
  

  As NASCAR’s Big Show moves from Daytona to southern California, news broke this week that IRL and Champ Car are on the brink of announcing a formal merger. The great chimera of reunification of American open-wheel racing is at hand after a bitterly debilitating twelve-year civil war.
  Will this desperate,… Read more

  Sections: Blogs, IRL, NASCAR

  Tags: Cosworth, Daytona, Honda, Manufacturer, Panoz

• Latest Issue – March 2008

  January 31st, 2008 | Web Editor

  Senna’s legacy
  Away from the track, the Brazilian was determined to make life better at home
  Team-mates: Prost on Senna
  How years of intense rivalry gave way to friendship, and that weekend at Imola
  John Barnard and mario Illien on F1
  Respected engineers on how they’d develop the next generation… Read more

  Sections: Issue index, Magazine

  Tags: Alain Prost, Ayrton Senna, BMW, Cosworth, Ferrari, FIA, GT, Imola, John Barnard, Lunch With, Mario Illien, Mario Theissen, Maserati, Matra, McLaren