The late Benny Parsons became best-remembered by many fans during NASCAR’s explosive growth in the 1990s, as a smiling color...
100 years to the day since the first race win for a Bentley, the winning car itself – known as...
This summer’s Silverstone Classic will celebrate Bentley’s 100th birthday with a very special anniversary race dedicated to honoring the illustrious British marque’s most significant historical milestone. To be staged on Saturday evening at the world’s biggest classic motor racing festival, the Bentley Centenary Trophy for Pre-War Sports Cars comes almost exactly...
The Bentley Drivers Club’s popular annual race meeting — an institution on the British motor-racing calendar – once again produced...
In last week’s item about the Bentley Drivers Club’s August 5 outing at Silverstone, we apparently misinterpreted the results and...
Bentley shined on center stage as this year’s featured marque at the Monterey Historic Automobile Races on August 17-19. According to John Crawford, Director of Public Relations for Bentley’s North American operations, this year’s event was the second largest gathering of Bentleys ever held, with well over 100 cars in...
General Racing, Ltd. recently announced that Bentley will be the featured marque for the 2001 Monterey Historic Automobile Races to...
One of the most thrilling and iconic cars from Bentley’s history – Sir Tim Birkin’s 1929 supercharged 4½-litre “Blower” –...
Bentley Mulliner is to bring the iconic Speed Six back to life with a new and highly exclusive Continuation Series of 12 cars, each mechanically and aesthetically authentic to the Bentley racers that won Le Mans in 1929 and 1930. Created to honor the achievements of the original cars and...
The arrival of every new year heralds a raft of exciting anniversaries and, in the car world, 2019 is crammed...
This year’s Donington Historic Festival (May 4 & 5) will celebrate the 100th anniversary of Bentley’s first win at the...
Donington Park will reverberate to the unmistakable sound of Bentley engines spanning nine decades on Saturday, June 7, 2014, as Bentleys of all ages come together in a unique one-marque race at the legendary British circuit. The iconic British marque will be celebrating the 90th anniversary of its first win...
Vintage Bentleys dominated the Endurance Rally Association’s inaugural Baltic Classic Rally, taking the three top spots in the Vintageants category....
Glorious weather blessed the 60th Anniversary Bentley Drivers Club weekend at Silverstone on August 8-9, a meeting first held in...
When in last month’s review of his latest book we referred to Bernard Cahier as F1’s original photojournalist, we used the present tense, making it all the more difficult to report his early July passing from a series of strokes. He leaves an unrivalled legacy of not only his words...
Bertil Sollenskog, a popular and successful engine builder who produced winning engines for Super Vee, Formula Atlantic, Formula Three and...
Famed Italian carrozzeria Bertone has announced the opening of a new workshop, Bertone Classic, which will now offer restoration work...
The 2013 Goodwood Festival of Speed, scheduled for July 5-7, will celebrate the “best” of the landmark event’s first 20 years. “The biggest, best, fastest, loudest and most outrageous vehicles of all time will be invited…” reads the event’s promotional release, and if history is any indicator that is exactly...
“I suppose I’m pretty special being the only woman to be wife and mother of two Formula One World Champions,”...
Betty Skelton, a pioneer in both aviation and auto racing who was once known as the fastest woman on Earth,...
Four-time Indianapolis 500 winner Al Unser (above, IMS Photo) will return to racing at the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association’s Indy Legends Charity Pro-Am at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on June 17. The Hall of Famer will join his son, two-time Indy 500 winner Al Unser Jr., in the race, marking...
On Nov. 2–6, noted Jaguar expert Terry Larson and his wife, Darlene, hosted their 6th annual Arizona tour for Jaguar...
The “Nitro Revival” scheduled to be part of Laguna Seca’s second annual Spring Classic meeting, set for the weekend of...
The Formula Junior Racing Association has a full calendar of events planned for its 2000 season. In addition to the seven-round FIA Lurani Trophy series at tracks like Monza and the Nurburgring, there will also be a 14-round UK championship, as well as races at Monaco, Goodwood and the Coys...
With over 400 entrants, the September 2001 historic race meeting held at Sydney’s Eastern Creek Raceway went down in the...
The organizers of July’s Silverstone Classic are claiming to have brought together the biggest gathering of Grand Prix cars ever...
News emerged last week that former Super Vee champion and Indycar racer Bill Alsup (above, David Hutson photo) had died in a crane accident in the mountains near his home in Colorado. The crane tipped over as he was negotiating a steep hill and pinned Alsup underneath, killing him instantly....
Scottish racer, Bill Dobson, who passed away on October 13, 2008, was one of the first drivers to join David...
Fifties road racing legend Bill Murphy passed away on July 17; he was 93. Though born in Sitka, Alaska on...
Bill Noble, a quintuple SCCA National Champion in Formula Vee and one of the category’s most prolific and successful engine builders, died January 18 at the age of 69 following a lengthy fight with blood cancer. Characterized as “a bear of a man who had a gentle touch with both...
