Two-time Indy 500 winner and two-time U.S. National Champion Al Unser Jr. will serve as Grand Marshal for the 20016...
Roger Penske will be honored by the International Motor Racing Research Center with its Cameron R. Argetsinger Award for Outstanding...
At last weekend’s 14th running of Race Retro, the international historic motorsport show drew a global audience that included VR’s European team. Indeed, VR’s stand welcomed visitors from France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Denmark and even farther afield, including Canada and Singapore. Barry Walker’s stunning 2002 Jordan EJ12, profiled in the...
Historic Festival 34 Chairman Murray Smith has announced an all-new race group for Lime Rock Park’s 34th Historic Festival, scheduled...
• The Cooper Car Club USA has announced the celebration of the 70th Anniversary of Cooper Cars with back-to-back events...
The Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles hosted the Brock Racing Enterprises (BRE) 50th Anniversary Reunion last Saturday. The legendary team, featuring principal Peter Brock and driver John Morton, took the SCCA C Production Championships in 1970-1971 and the 2.5 Trans-Am Championships in 1971-1972 with Datsuns. A large standing room...
Alfa Romeo has confirmed it will send Hans Stuck’s 1977 Watkins Glen Alfa Romeo-powered Brabham BT45 to Florida as the...
A 1953 Austin-Healey that raced in the inaugural New Zealand Grand Prix will make its public show debut at Race...
The oldest race in the world, Italy’s Targa Florio, celebrates its 100th edition this year with no fewer than four motor sports competitions held May 5-8 in what is being called “the week of historical Italian motor sports.” The four events are the Targa Forio Classic, Targa Florio Historic Speed,...
Northern California’s Classic Sports Racing Group will kick off its 2016 season with the David Love Memorial Races at Sonoma...
George Follmer has been named the Guest of Honor at this year’s annual pre-Long Beach Grand Prix Road Racing Drivers...
British racing legend, Formula One television analyst, 2009 Motorsports Hall of Fame inductee, businessman and all-around raconteur David Hobbs will share his escapades as the highlighted guest speaker during the annual Picnic in the Park at this year’s Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion on Saturday, August 20. The annual picnic is...
A documentary film that offers an inside look at the Indianapolis 500 through the eyes of the race’s 1963 winner,...
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway will commence a 100-day countdown to the landmark 100th running of the Indianapolis 500, presented by...
Jim Travers, who first rose to prominence along with his partner Frank Coon as the “Whiz Kids” behind Bill Vukovich’s success at Indianapolis, and later founded famed engine house Traco Engineering, has died at the age of 95. Collaborating with constructor Frank Kurtis, Travers (at right, above) and Coon built...
Masters USA has announced a series of five North American races for its Historic Grand Prix cars, kicking off with...
The Historic Motor Sports Association is inviting Formula B cars to take part in its annual Spring Club Event at...
For the third year, Vintage Racecar magazine has supported the British Women Racing Drivers Club by offering awards and trophies to those who excel in three disciplines of motorsport, Racing, Speed Events and Rallying. From the winners of those three categories (above) a Champion of Champions is selected. At the...
Artcurial Motorcars has claimed to have broken the all-time record for an automobile sold at auction (based on Euros or...
The Historic Motor Sports Association (HMSA), in association with ZOOM Motorsports and the Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum, has announced that...
Competitors preparing for this summer’s Silverstone Classic, set for July 29-31, are being offered an opportunity to test their cars in advance for free. The Silverstone Classic is not only the world’s largest classic motor racing festival, but also the world’s biggest race meeting. The packed program features a full...
The Motorsports Hall of Fame of America (MSHFA) has announced its 28th class of inductees, continuing a long-standing tradition of...
Five-time Grand-Am Prototype champion and five-time Rolex 24 at Daytona overall winner Scott Pruett has been named as the 2016...
Next July’s Silverstone Classic has announced plans to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the legendary Can-Am Series with a pair of special commemoration races at its annual summer event, set for July 29-31. The two races will be the culmination of a three-round Can-Am 50 Interserie Challenge being organized by...
The two-time British National Hillclimb Champion who also gave five-time Le Mans winner Derek Bell his initial international opportunity to...
A four-race 2016 calendar has been announced by Formula 5000 Drivers Association President Seb Coppola. Also revealed was a 2018...
After concluding arrangements with Patricia and Amanda McLaren, widow and daughter of the late Bruce McLaren, TMP, the company that owns and operates the international motorsport park at Taupo, New Zealand, has renamed the multi-purpose facility Bruce McLaren Motorsport Park. McLaren is, of course, the Kiwi-born racecar designer, driver and...
The theme for Goodwood’s 2016 Festival of Speed, set for the weekend of June 23-26, will be “Full Throttle—The Endless...
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the launch of the Porsche 924, the car that would ease Porsche out...
• The Fabulous Fifties held its annual Lindley Bothwell Award dinner in early December at the Proud Bird restaurant near Los Angeles International Airport, where it honored George Follmer with its Lifetime Achievement Award. Follmer is, of course, the only driver ever to win two major U.S. professional racing championships...
