When the greats of historic motoring racing reappear at Silverstone in July for the Silverstone Classic, many fans will have...
Edwin Barton, or “Dick” as he was affectionately known, in deference to the popular 1940s British radio series and the...
The Australian National Motor Museum is currently featuring an exhibition devoted to Australia’s famed Elfin Sports Cars. Elfin Sports Cars was founded in 1958 in Adelaide by Garrie Cooper. It quickly grew to become an amazing South Australian success story and a national motoring icon. In the late 1960s, a...
Young Timers Garage have announced the purchase of Elfin Sports Cars, a historic race car turned road car manufacturer founded...
One of the most versatile drivers motor sport has ever known is to be honored at next year’s Amelia Island...
Born in London on June 10, 1935, Vic Elford was one of the fastest drivers in the highly competitive Sixties and Seventies racing scene. Elford’s lap records include the Targa Florio, Nürburgring, Daytona, Sebring, Norisring, Monza, Road Atlanta, Laguna Seca, Riverside, and Le Mans—where he was the first driver to...
Vic Elford is this year’s recipient of the Phil Hill Award from the Road Racing Drivers Club. RRDC President Bobby...
Dr. Elio Zagato passed away in Milan, Italy, on September 15. The son of Ugo Zagato, founder of the famed...
Launched at the Earl’s Court Motor Show 50 years ago in October 1957, the Lotus Elite captured the attention of the international press for its styling, advanced design and revolutionary glass fiber monocoque construction. Its subsequent racing successes in the hands of the likes of Jim Clark, Les Leston, John...
To celebrate the 100th year of Chevrolet, Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wis., will host a special tribute to the...
The Vintage Sports Car Drivers Association held its annual Elkhart Lake Vintage Festival at Road America on the weekend of...
The 24th running of the Elkhart Lake Vintage Festival will be held at Road America on the weekend of September 11–13, with Stock Cars as this year’s featured category. Road America’s long straights and fast sweeping turns make it an ideal place for the ground-pounding stockers to stretch their legs....
The Ariens Art on Wheels Weekend, featuring the VSCDA Elkhart Lake Vintage Festival® XXXI presented by Volvo Cars USA, took...
Aficionados of the Elva marque will celebrate its 55th Anniversary with a reunion at Elkhart Lake’s Road America on the Vintage Sports Car Drivers Association race weekend scheduled for September 10-12. Apart from enjoying the gathering of Elvas of all shapes and sizes, attendees will also be able to partake...
Emerson Fittipaldi, double Formula One World Champion, two-time Indy 500 winner and 1989 U.S. Indycar National Champion, will be the...
Organizers of the famed Villa d’Este Concours have announced the first four classes for the May 23rd event, which will include...
Renowned author, VRJ contributor, race engineer and team manager for the Le Mans-winning Shelby GT40 program, Carroll Smith succumbed to pancreatic cancer on May 16th, he was 71. Born in Oswego, New York in 1932, Smith started his driving career with the family tractor and later honed his skills driving...
More than 112 vintage racers and 760 collector cars filled Oregon’s Portland International Raceway over the Labor Day weekend with...
A consortium of Southern California Devin racecar enthusiasts have banded together to purchase the entire automotive estate of famed car...
The strange story of Enzo Ferrari and his date with a firing squad has recently surfaced in Italy. Clearing out papers from an old Italian Communist Party headquarters, unnamed sources, found a Second World War diary of Doctor Giuseppe Zanarini. Zanarini was a physician and well-known wartime partisan, whose code...
The third annual Ephraim Vintage Festival will take place in the scenic Door County Wisconsin village of the same name...
Equipe Classic Racing, organizers of the Equipe GTS and Equipe Pre ’63 FIA Production Sports Car series, is introducing a new...
Lola Cars founder Eric Broadley has passed away at the age of 88. Broadley was one of the early players the post-war British racing car industry, and after his Mk1 sports racer convinced him to give up his own driving career to focus on being a constructor, his Lola designs...
Known simply as “Prof” to many in the motor racing community and Sid to his near friends, Professor Watkins may...
Swedish rally legend Erik Carlsson has died at the age of 86 following a brief illness. Carlsson was synonymous with...
For the first time since the inaugural Masters Historic Formula One race in 2011, this April 17-19 the series will race on Barcelona’s full Grand Prix circuit. The previous layout’s modern-era chicane always limited the enjoyment of the drivers, so this new configuration should prove more suitable. Titled the Espiritu...
While not well known in the United States, this April’s Techno Classica Essen proved to be one of the largest,...
On March 14, 1957, promising Ferrari driver and 1956 Mille Miglia winner Eugenio Castellotti was killed while testing a Ferrari...
The King of the Mountains is dead. Mauro Nesti, 78, winner of eight European Hill Climb Championships—six of them in succession from 1983-1988—and 17 Italian titles in the same branch of the sport, died at his home in Bardalone, Italy in November after a long illness. Nesti won the same...
