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Remembering Tommy Morrison, 1941-2020



Tommy Morrison, whose Chevy Corvettes and Camaros ruled 1980s and 1990s U.S. sports car racing, died April 2.

Morrison, a native of Glasgow, Kentucky, was inducted into the Corvette Hall of Fame in 2017. A talented driver, he achieved more fame as a team owner and manager.

His first big Corvette win was at Mid-Ohio in August 1984, when his 1985 prototype broke the Porsche/Nissan stranglehold on top-tier showroom stock road racing in the U.S. Altogether, Morrison’s Mobil 1 Corvettes and Camaros would win more than two dozen SCCA and IMSA endurance races between 1984 and 1989. In addition, his contracts to conduct tests of Corvette brake, suspension and power train systems would find him working closely with GM engineers on future products.

Read the full story at VintageMotorsport.com.

Sir Stirling Moss: 1929-2020
An icon of the sport passes




One of the greatest racing drivers in history, Sir Stirling Moss, has died at 90 years old.

Widely regarded as the best driver never to win an F1 World Championship, Moss won 16 Grand Prix between 1955 and 1961 with Mercedes, Maserati, Vanwall, and with Rob Walker’s team aboard Cooper and Lotus machinery.

His first win, at the British Grand Prix at Aintree, was the first World Championship Grand Prix win by a British Driver.

In all his seven year F1 career saw him finish second in the points standings no fewer than four times, and third a further three times.

Beyond F1 he was a regular winner in sports cars too, his greatest win regarded by many as being the victory, partnered by journalist Denis Jenkinson, in the 1955 Mille Miglia in a factory-entered Mercedes Benz 300 SLR. The pair would set an astonishing time of 10 hours, 7 minutes and 48 seconds, an average speed of 98.53 mph for the 1000 miles.



Sir Stirling was five time winner of the RAC Tourist Trophy, in Jaguar, Mercedes and Aston Martin machinery, including the infamous event at Goodwood in 1959 that sealed the World Championship for Aston Martin.

He was also four times winner of the British Empire Trophy, four times winner of the Nurburgring 1000km (beblow 1956), winner of the 1955 Targa Florio, the 1954 12 Hours of Sebring and a host of other major events worldwide in single-seater, sportscar and rally machinery.

Through his professional career Sir Stirling won no fewer than 212 of the 529 races he entered and scored many more podiums. (Below is a shot from his 1960 Nürburgring 1000km victory)

Whilst his career was cut short by a major accident at Goodwood in 1962 that left him fighting for his life and in a coma, he did return to competition from time to time, including a two year spell with Audi in the 1980s in UK national saloon racing.

Thereafter he raced only in historic racing, eventually standing down in 2011, dramatically announcing his retirement from competition, live on air to Radio Le Mans’ Joe Bradley after qualifying for the Le Mans Legends support race to the Le Mans 24 Hours.

He finally retired from public life aged 88 after suffering ill-health. He died peacefully at home.

He’ll be remembered by millions as a true icon of the sport, a survivor from an unforgiving age, and by us here at DSC as a man who was generous with his time, memories and good humour whenever we encountered him.

He is survived by Lady Moss to whom we send our profound condolences.

"For 1970, John Wyer Automotive Engineering was tasked with campaigning the works 917s for the Porsche factory. The original 917 was renowned for being incredibly fast but spectacularly ill-handling. Horsman’s proudest accomplishment was his solution to the Porsche 917’s handling issues, changing its bodywork and, most notably, shortening its tail (all of which is chronicled in in his 2006 book “Racing in the Rain”) As a result of the 917’s transformation, Porsche won the World Championship of Makes in both 1970 and 1971, and the 917 became one of the greatest sports racing cars of all time. "

Legendary Engineer Divila Passes Away at 74

Famed engineer, designer Ricardo Divila passes away after short illness at age of 74…


Renowned engineer Ricardo Divila has passed away following a short illness at the age of 74.

The Brazilian’s motorsport career spanned six decades, most notably for designing the Fittipaldi F1 cars in the 1970s and was largely involved in the open-wheel ranks until the 1990s.

Divila, who spent time in Japan, held engineering positions at Pescarolo, Dome, SARD and most recently Nissan with various sports car racing projects.

He was a key technical figure within the Nissan GT Academy graduate program, as also played roles in the DeltaWing and ill-fated Nissan GT-R LM NISMO LMP1 project.

He had continued to engineer cars with RJN Motorsport even after Nissan had pulled its backing on its European program and remained a regular visitor to the sports car racing paddocks worldwide.

In his nearly 60 years in the sport, Divila worked more than 2,600 races, including 286 F1 GPs.

hollie3sa wrote: ↑3 years ago John Paul Jr. passed away yesterday

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hollie3sa wrote: ↑3 years ago John Paul Jr. passed away yesterday

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