Gallery


Fourth Indy Win
The Indianapolis 500 is now 100 years old, and ROAD & TRACK magazine has just honored the Brickyard in style, featuring articles on Jim Clark’s 1965 Lotus-Ford, Joe Dawson’s 1912 National and Rodger Ward’s 1962 Watson-Offy roadster, as profiled by Indy winners Dario Franchitti and Bobby Rahal, and 500 veteran Sam Posey, respectively. View >

Old Gray Mare
At Indy in 1964, A.J. Foyt Jr. called his Sheraton - Thompson Special "The Old Gray Mare", hoping that the front-engine A. J. Watson built roadster still had enough left in her to win the 500 against the increasingly common rear-engine competition. View >

Race of Two Worlds
This was the introductory picture for a story that Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s historian and statistician Donald Davidson wrote for ROAD & TRACK about the Two World Trophy 500 Mile Races, run in 1957 and 1958 on the new, more steeply banked track with sunken, non-convex banks, rebuilt at Monza, in the Royal Park near Milan. View >

The First Grand Prix
Editorial illustration has its tricks, especially if the subject matter is automobile racing. Most of the times artwork is better appreciated by the readers if it reflects accurately the technical details mentioned in the text, but there are instances that call for capturing the spirit of the story, with the car being only one component... View >

Santa's Supply Train
Kids may be amazed by the heartwarming wonder of traveling to Santa’s North Pole in a fleet passenger train. But we practical adults know the less fantastic truth: The only trains to reach those frigid parts are the ones that transport year round the enormous amount of supplies needed by Santa Claus to prepare for his punctual delivery of presents every December 25th. View >

Santa's Warm Up
Another ROAD & TRACK Christmas card shows Santa Claus warming up for his annual around-the-world high speed run. A gifted tin man and preternaturally skilled wrench turner, Santa seems to have borrowed heavily from the great Myron Stevens when crafting the three-piece bodywork of his wind-cheating streamliner... View >

On Fire
A popular brand’s first win in major league stock-car racin. View >




Lewis Hamilton - McLaren MP4-22 / Mercedes-Benz FO 108T
Race cars in general, and Formula One cars in particular, have changed so much in the last times that, other than from colorful liveries, it's hard to find in them the intervention of man's sense of taste and aesthetics. View >

Fangio at Silverstone
...when Bergandi said, "I am going to do a painting of you at the British Grand Prix", Fangio thought for a few moments and then said, "Well, yes, that is actually a valuable race in my memory because it took place just two weeks after Reims, and I had such severe chemical burns that when I went through my pre-race physical the doctor said, "You cannot race. You are too badly burned." To that I smiled and said, "If you want to tell the organizers that I am not going to run, that is okay with me. That's up to you." And when the doctor went to the organizers he said, "He runs!" View >

The End of the Gala
A couple leaves the Dodge mansion in their 1932 Packard, after an evening of charm and reverie. In their way back to an everyday world, he focuses on clearing the narrow bridge that points to the grand estate's exit. Meanwhile, she already starts reminiscing on what they're just starting to leave behind, a Mona Lisa-like half smile masking mysteriously the nature of her thoughts.
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Bobby Marshman / Epperly-Offenhauser
After working in the aeronautic industry and playing second fiddle for Frank Kurtis, Quin Epperly had his moments of glory in 1957 and 1958, when the all-conquering Belond Spl. conceived and prepared by George Salih won consecutive Indy 500s. View >


Parnelli Jones & Ol' Calhoun
First you saw it in ROAD & TRACK magazine, illustrating a story I wrote, titled "THE NAME IS PARNELLI". And then, chances are that you saw the original painting in only one show before it was rapidly sold. View >

Juan Manuel Fangio
It was 1955, back in those days when Spa-Francorchamps was double the size it is today an mostly made of narrow roads carved through the dense Ardennes forest. View >

Juan Cassoulet
Mythological racing giant Juan Cassoulet won the first Gran Premio Argentino, with Julian Garcia and Luis Pica riding along over secondary public roads. View >

Buick's Speed Goddess
Many of you are familiar with my painting of Buick's Speed Goddess, as it appeared in both ROAD & TRACK magazine and W.M. Motta's outstanding book " Fifty Years of ROAD & TRACK - The Art of the Automobile". View >

1970 Porsche 917 LH
It is in every history book that Porsche won their first 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1970. View >

Alfisti Notabili
Alfa Romeo drivers always captured my attention in an admiring way.
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Reutemann Rules
Had just one or two things gone his way, Carlos Reutemann could have won the 1974 World Driving Championship and, title in hand, the rest of his career might have been a wholly different story.
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Renault A442B
Svelte, mighty, stunning under a livery derived from corporate graphics freshly redesigned by Parisian guru Victor Vasarely, the Renault A442B looked like a car ahead of its time.
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Vuke’s Pole Run
Back in 1950, stunt and race driver Joie Chitwood, doubling for Clark Gable in "To Please a Lady", was shown on screen as qualifying for the Indianapolis 500 during the arrival of a violent storm.
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Nicely Equipped
Between its headlamps, this Stutz sports a less ornate, yet very useful, directional third unit.
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