Who else but Ferrari could turn on such a magnificent birthday party? Four days of celebrations at Maranello and the...
Lime Rock Park’s annual Sunday in the Park Concours and Gathering of the Marques, held September 1, during Historic Festival...
A rare, “pontoon-fendered” Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa will headline RM Auctions’s 25th Anniversary Sports and Classics of Monterey event during Auto Week this August. The Scaglietti-designed TR is one of the most prized Ferraris ever, with only 21 built during a two-year run in 1957-’58. This car, chassis number 0738...
Lime Rock Park’s Historic Festival 37 takes its place in its traditional Labor Day weekend home: Thursday, Aug. 29, through...
Peter O. Argetsinger, a member of the International Motor Racing Research Center’s Governing Council and an international racing champion and...
The FIA has announced that due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 editions of the FIA European Historic Sporting Rally Championship, FIA Masters Historic Formula One and Sports Car Championships, as well as FIA Historic Formula 3 European Cup, have been cancelled. The direct consequences of the...
On October 30, the historic racing community was saddened to learn that vintner and historic racer Gil Nickel had lost...
The Sports Car Racing Association of the Monterey Peninsula (SCRAMP) has been awarded the prestigious FIA Members Heritage Cup in...
Sir Stirling Moss, one of the greatest all-around racing drivers of his generation, was honored at the recent FIA Gala awards with the presentation of the FIA Gold Medal for Motor Sport. The FIA Gold Medal, which was presented to Sir Stirling in a VIP pre-awards ceremony at the Monaco...
Grand Prix Masters and the World Sportscar Masters series have both been given new names and become fully sanctioned FIA...
Assuming that somehow what racing really needs is another international Formula car class, the FIA recently announced plans to resurrect...
One of the premier historic motorsport championships has a new title. Effective immediately, the Thoroughbred Grand Prix series, which features the classic F1 cars of the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s, will carry the title, the FIA Historic Formula One Championship. The new title more correctly illustrates the makeup of the...
The Sicilian husband and wife duo of Giovanni Moceri and Valeria Dicembre, in their 1939 Fiat 508C, have won the 2020...
The first of three ‘new’ 16-cylinder P15 V16 BRM racing cars, built to commemorate the marque’s 70th anniversary, was shaken...
On January 15, 2000, the Vintage Racecar Journal in cooperation with the Vintage Auto Racing Association (VARA), were proud to present the First Annual Vintage Racecar Show & Concours. This new event, which was open to any vintage racecar, was held at the new Irwindale Speedway in Irwindale, California. At...
A century ago, a Bentley 3 Litre would become the first British car and the first Bentley to compete at...
Cavallino Classic Cup, the brand-new racing series dedicated to all Ferraristi with a racing soul, just ended in Spielberg (Austria)...
A film festival that celebrates the life of the two-time World Champion racing driver, Jim Clark, will take place at Eynsham Hall, near Witney, Oxfordshire, on February 23, 2008. Clark scored his last race victory almost 40 years ago to the day of the event. The program will include film...
An unusual bridge in American racing history was crossed this past August when British racer Lorina McLaughlin became the first...
The first ever Lotus 72 Grand Prix car, as campaigned by both John Miles (Team Lotus) and double World Champion...
Gooding and Company will be offering the first 275 GTS/4 Ferrari built during its August 21 auction following the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. This Ferrari, carrying serial number 09437, was the brainchild of Luigi Chinetti, Snr., the American Ferrari distributor and New York City dealer whose North American Racing Team...
RM Sotheby’s has announced the latest offering for its upcoming Porsche 70th Anniversary auction, set for October 27, at the...
A near-perfect recreation of the Pontiac Tempest that shocked the racing world in 1963 by beating Ferrari GTOs and factory...
Tyrrell 001, the very first complete racecar built by Ken Tyrrell’s Tyrrel Racing Organisation, was unveiled at the end of June after undergoing an extensive restoration by noted restorers Hall & Hall. Driven by Jackie Stewart during the last part of the 1970 Formula One season and the first part...
Sixty cars, ranging from a 1925 Bugatti Type 35 to a 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning EV and 2022 Lucid Air...
After 40,000 hours of work, Bentley Mulliner has completed the first new Bentley Blower in 90 years, with the delivery...
Readers may recall that last month we brought you the story of John Fitch’s planned attempt to break an existing class record at Bonneville in a Mercedes Gullwing. Unfortunately, Fitch’s attempt was thwarted partway through, due to mechanical problems. Fitch was attempting to drive car owner Bob Sirna’s Mercedes Benz...
Sports car racing driver, team manager and safety engineer John Fitch has been inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame,...
American racing pioneer John Fitch’s contributions to Lime Rock Park, (and sports car racing in general) will be recognized when...
More than 100 friends of John Fitch gathered at his home in Lime Rock, Connecticut, to honor him on the occasion of his 95th birthday. A number of interesting cars were on display, including the one and only Fitch Phoenix and a beautiful two-tone burgundy Cunningham C-3 Cabriolet (#5233/5441) in which...
