Racing’s fabled “Pink Lady,” Donna Mae Mims, the first woman to win an SCCA National Championship, has passed away at...
On September 5–7, a “Tribute to Mark Donohue” was held during SVRA’s Zippo Vintage Grand Prix at Watkins Glen. This...
History will be made at next September’s SVRA Zippo at the Glen event, when the cars and career of the late Mark Donohue will be featured. This will be the first Zippo at the Glen event to feature a driver, rather than a marque. According to Watkins Glen President Craig...
The three-hour enduro for sports cars that was part of the Los Angeles Times Grand Prix weekend at Riverside in...
PRELIMINARIES The 2023 Daytona 24 hours was the 61st year of the event. It was once again a watershed year,...
The man known as the “Flying Dentist,” Dr. Dick Thompson, has died of natural causes at the age of 94. Thompson didn’t begin racing until he was in his 30s, but despite a lack of formal training or mechanical background, he was a natural who competed for nearly 20 years,...
Racing car designer and manufacturer John Crosslé has died at the age of 83 following a brief illness. Crosslé was...
Drino Miller has lost his long battle with cancer at the age of 72. An early off-road racing legend—his Baja...
Showing more dedication than common sense, vintage racer and contributing writer John Nikas will try to avoid catastrophic fire while leaking oil and shedding parts as he drives a borrowed Austin-Healey 100 from Newport Beach, California, to Charleston, South Carolina, and then back to Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in time...
After 7,241 miles accumulated across nineteen states, John Nikas and his battered 1953 Austin Healey 100 rolled across the stage...
Driven to Win The Petersen Automotive Museum’s newest exhibit, “Driven to Win: The Automobile in Competition,” is now open in...
Goodwood Revival has announced some of the drivers and riders who will be making an appearance at the 2022 event, to be held Sept. 16–18. Goodwood has long brought together competitors from across the spectrum of motorsport and this year is no exception, with almost 30 different racing championships due...
Former F3 racer, Bev Bond, who drove for Gold Leaf Team Lotus during the late 1960s, has waged a war...
The Formula 5000 Drivers Association is pleased to announce the results of its race event to close the 2022 season...
On May 18, an impressive demonstration of historic racecars helped kick off the 2003 Mercedes-Benz Classic Days and the Mercedes-Benz Classic Center’s 10th anniversary in Fellbach, Germany. Some of the many highlights of this special event included the rollout of the fully streamlined 1954 Mercedes-Benz W 196 racing car, which...
A six-person list of racing pioneers, legends and modern-day champions joined “The First Lady of Motorsports” in a colorful and...
Dunlop’s range of classic bias-ply racing tires will finally be widely available in North America this year. Previous production runs...
When his team’s pair of Porsche RS Spyders took the green flag for July’s American Le Mans Series round at Lime Rock, Rob Dyson marked his 25th anniversary in professional racing. Dyson’s first entry was a GTO-class Pontiac Firebird that contested IMSA’s Coca-Cola Three Hours at the Connecticut track in...
Al Moss, known to almost everyone who reads this journal, died peacefully on September 25 at his home in Sedona,...
Ted Cutting, the man who designed the Aston Martin DBR1 that took Carroll Shelby and Roy Salvadori to victory at...
On September 21, a special going away party was held for the Eagle TG104 that carried Dan Gurney to a historic all-American victory at the 1965 Belgian Grand Prix at Spa, as well as victory in the 1967 Race of Champions at Brands Hatch. Built by Gurney’s All-American Racers in Santa...
The Hall of Fame Museum at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway will open “An All-American Exhibition” this Friday, May 1, featuring...
The Petersen Museum on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles is preparing to open a new exhibit honoring Dan Gurney called...
One of the primary forces in the success of Penske Racing, Earle Macmullan, has died at the age of 82. He joined the team in 1969, working on the championship-winning Trans-Am program, for which he became crew chief when Roger switched from Camaros to Javelins (above). He also oversaw Mark...
The Lotus Elite that starred at the 1958 Earls Court Motor Show is set to be sold at The Silverstone...
The International Jaguar XK Club has announced that this summer’s XK 60 celebrations will feature one of the finest displays...
In 1952, a young Ian Stewart, pioneer driver for Ecurie Ecosse, would visit Jaguar Cars in Coventry to collect his brand-new C-type. He would drive the car to its first race on Jersey to confront stiff competition from Aston Martin and Frazer Nash. The race was won at a gallop...
What if…? It’s a question that has dominated the history of the XJ13, a prototype built by Jaguar in 1966 in...
Veteran Cobra and sports car racer Ed Leslie passed away in early April after complications from a series of strokes....
Edmund Rahal, who though mainly unknown was the first of the racing Rahals, passed away last December 16 at the age of 84. Ed and Michael (the better-known father of Bobby) Rahal’s grandfathers were brothers, so Michael (a racer himself) and Bobby are distantly related to Ed. In VR’s January...
