The Petersen Automotive Museum honored motorsports legend Dan Gurney with its 2016 Robert E. Petersen Lifetime Achievement Award — in...
Mazda Laguna Seca Raceway, host of the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, has announced that this year’s event, scheduled for August...
On October 29, 2014 at The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, the Museum’s Board of Directors and Board President Patricia Mooradian will honor Dan Gurney with the Edison/Ford Medal in recognition of his “ingenuity and innovative achievements in racing and beyond.” Gurney is, of course, a genuine American racing...
The concept of the annual Road Racing Drivers Club dinner in Long Beach was expanded this year to recognize the...
All American Racers founder Dan Gurney was honored last week at the International Historic Motoring Awards in London, which awarded...
Driving legends Janet Guthrie and Dale Earnhardt will comprise the 2020 inductee class of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of Fame. The two drivers – who pushed forward the envelope in motorsports in very contrasting ways – will be honored at the 2020 IMS Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony and...
The name Guy Griffiths may not be familiar to many motorsports enthusiasts in the United States but in the United...
Former F1 driver and constructor Guy Ligier has died at the age of 85. Although he contested only a dozen...
The Reno Historic Races, organized by the Historic Motor Sports Association (HMSA), will honor the H-Modified racing class, one of the longest-lived internationally sanctioned racing classes in existence, at this year’s event. The fourth annual Reno Historic Races will take place May 4–6 at the Reno-Fernley Raceway, in Reno, Nevada. Out...
Fans of the H-Modified category of small displacement racing specials can rejoice at the news that the Over the Hill...
Hagerty has announced its acquisition of the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance. The move follows Hagerty’s recent acquisitions of other premiere...
Twenty years after earning his second consecutive Formula One drivers’ championship, Mika Häkkinen will demonstrate his considerable driving talents behind the wheel of the 1970 McLaren M8D/3 “Batmobile” at the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion on August 15-18 at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. American racing legend Dan Gurney and British Formula...
For the second successive year, Formula One World Champion Mika Hakkinen will return to the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion to...
The announcement came late last week that two-time World Champion Mika Hakkinen would substitute for the originally scheduled Jenson Button...
Noted British historic racecar restorers Hall & Hall are offering for sale a 1966 McLaren M2B, the first McLaren Formula One car, powered by a destroked Ford DOHC Indy V8. The car has been fully restored by the company’s craftsmen, and represents an important element of McLaren history. Price is...
Jim Hall, creator of the legendary Chaparrals and the man who gave Gil de Ferran his first Indycar drive, was...
The Motorsports Hall of Fame of America (MSHFA) is on the receiving end of a $2.5 million grant from the...
The Motorsports Hall of Fame of America held its 22nd annual induction ceremonies at the Fillmore Theater in Detroit during the last week of August. This most recent class of inductees includes: drag racing legend Dale Armstrong; daredevil stuntman Joie Chitwood; underdog stock car champion Alan Kulwicki; motocross hero Jeremy...
50th Anniversary Rolex 24 at Daytona.Photo: Chuck Andersen The Motorsports Hall of Fame of America has announced that it will...
The Motorsports Hall of Fame of America (MSHFA) announced its 2017 class of inductees last week at Daytona International Speedway,...
The Motorsports Hall of Fame of America will celebrate its 25th Annual Induction Ceremony on Wednesday, August 21, 2013 at the Fillmore Theater in Detroit. Inducted into the Hall that night will be racing industry legends Jack Chrisman, Harvey Firestone, Masten Gregory, Brad Lackey, Bud Moore, Robert E. Petersen and...
The 10-time Grand Prix winning car of Lewis Hamilton will be run by Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport at The Sonoma Speed...
Italian-born, Swiss-national Hans Ruesch died on August 27 in Lugano, Switzerland, at the age of 94. He was one of...
Alfa Romeo has confirmed it will send Hans Stuck’s 1977 Watkins Glen Alfa Romeo-powered Brabham BT45 to Florida as the centerpiece of the “Cars of Hans Stuck” class for the 21st annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance, to be held March 11-13 on the fairways of The Golf Club of Amelia...
Lola Cars, the world’s oldest racing car constructor announced in mid-May that it was entering financial administration due to cash-flow...
I had the privilege of interviewing Harold John Coombs a couple of years ago for Vintage Racecar’s Jaguar XKE issue...
Harold Pace was a once-in-a-lifetime Texas car guy and a dedicated student of the automobile. He studied his craft with pure passion and was blessed with a photographic memory. These attributes resulted in an encyclopedic understanding of the history of the motorcar, and brought Harold to the pinnacle of his...
Briton Steve Hartley wrapped up both the Post-1978 class and the overall Masters Historic F1 Championship by winning the season’s...
Famed Hollywood cinematographer and one-time racing enthusiast Haskell Wexler has died at the age of 93. Wexler is best known...
A number of years ago the 500-cc Club of America instituted a very special perpetual award of recognition aimed at celebrating people who had made a personal contribution to 500-cc formula car racing in America. Sadly, this unique trophy has gone missing… The award was named for and dedicated to...
