SPEAKING OF WARNER As a longtime Road & Track photographer and writer, Warner was present at hundreds of noteworthy races. The Other Side of the Fence: Six Decades of Motorsports Photography, Warner’s new book, debuted at the Concours, and it contains some never-before-seen images from F1, NASCAR, IndyCar, IMSA, Le Mans and other sanctioning bodies taken from 1959 to the present day. It will be available on Amazon.com June 1.
SEMINARS A SUCCESS
As usual, there were a pair of well-attended seminars on racing topics: Friday was on “Chevy Thunder,” the history of Chevrolet’s small-block V-8 engine, introduced in 1955, with the basic architecture still in use today. Panelists included moderator Ray Evernham, racer Dale Earnhardt, Jr., former GM racing head Herb Fishel, NASCAR’s Dr. Eric Warren, and racers David Hobbs, Brian Redman and George Follmer.
Loic Duval is set to miss next month's second round of the World Endurance Championship at Portimao owing to a clash with his IMSA SportsCar Championship commitments.
Kinetic Canvases: BMW Art Cars Share
As Art Basel returns to Hong Kong in 2021, Jon Wall traces the 46-year history of the BMW Art Car and the roster of artists who created these extraordinary automobiles
Almost from the day when Carl Benz dropped a two-stroke petrol engine into the back end of a tricycle, thus laying the foundations of the motor age and a vast global automobile industry, artists have taken inspiration from cars – and car makers, in their turn, have been inspired by art. Perhaps that was inevitable, as few modern inventions had such a profound effect on society and culture in the 20th-century as the motor car. As its use became widespread, the automobile became for time a liberating force, one that enabled its owners to travel far more widely, independently and spontaneously than they’d ever previously imagined possible, and especially so in the United States, where it became an essential theme in popular and even high culture.
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Quick Vic Elford Needs Our Help
Legendary Porsche racer Vic Elford is facing another battle with prostate cancer. Fellow driver Brian Redman is helping raise funds to ensure his future care. Bernard CahierGetty Images
Vic Elford, known by the nickname Quick Vic, is an icon of the golden age of auto racing. He is a two-time class winner at Le Mans, an overall winner at Sebring, and a Monte Carlo Rally winner, all in the span of seven years. He is also currently in need of our help.
Elford is most famous for his stretch driving Porsches in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the earliest glory days of the 911 and peak of the 917 program. His Sebring win came in a 917, and if not for a mechanical failure he would have been behind the wheel of another for what would have been Porsche s first-ever overall win at Le Mans in 1969. In addition to endurance racing, he triumphed in all-out competitions like the Targa Florio and European rallying events. In 1968, all of this came together