The Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum is scheduled to reopen to the public at 9 a.m. (ET) Tuesday, July 7, following...
1981 Indianapolis 500 Rookie of the Year Bob Lazier has passed away at the age of 81, due to complications...
General Racing, Ltd., organizers of the Monterey Historic Automobile Races, have announced that the featured marque for the 2007 Historics will be the front-engine Indy roadster. From 1952–1964, front-engine roadsters, such as the racecars constructed by renowned builders, Kurtis, Watson, Lesovsky and Epperly, were dominant at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway....
Four-time Indy 500 winner and three-time U.S. National Champion Al Unser will be honored during Legends Day at Indianapolis this...
The revered roadsters that wrote Indianapolis 500 history during the 1950s and ’60s will be featured on Legends Day with...
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway has recently announced that it will again offer a series of special “behind the scenes” tours of the famous Brickyard. Reservations are now being accepted for a series of 1.5-hour long tours that will be held on various weekends from June to September of 2003 and...
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of Fame Museum has opened a new exhibit featuring the Turbine Cars that once raced...
Duke Nalon, veteran of 12 Indianapolis 500 starts has passed away at the age of 87. Nalon made his first...
Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) has announced that two of the most popular names of Indianapolis 500 lore have announced plans to be on hand at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS) for the Brickyard Invitational – one as a driver, the other in an officiating capacity. Lyn St. James will...
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway will commence a 100-day countdown to the landmark 100th running of the Indianapolis 500, presented by...
Exhibitors have responded in force to the announcement of the 3rd International Historic Motorsport Show, to be held Feb. 24–26,...
The first annual International Historic Motorsport Show, held Feb 19–21 at Stoneleigh Park near Coventry, proved to be a resounding success. Over 16,000 paying visitors attended the three-day show that included over 400 vendors, an H&H Classic Auction, and special seminars on everything from obtaining FIA Hsitoric licensing to the...
Over 64,000 members of the public and 26,000 trade visitors packed the halls of the NEC for the annual Racing...
VR editor/publisher Casey Annis is usually the one asking the questions, but now the tables have been turned as the...
The Alfa Romeo museum at Arese, on the outskirts of Milan, Italy, has been placed under official supervision, the first step in a process that would make it part of Italy’s cultural heritage. The move has been requested by the Arese municipality, which feared the Fiat Group, to which Alfa...
The rewarding, testing and unforgiving roads of Mallorca provided a mighty challenge to the 150 cars and crews who enjoyed...
The partnership among the Thoroughbred Sports Car Club, Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, having brought a succession of special and...
It appears that Monza, home of the Formula 1 World Championship Grand Prix of Italy for the last 65 years, has been saved. A political outcome seems to have been brokered after much posturing and pontificating that gravitated right up to the cabinet level. F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone has agreed...
Following their highly successful “GT & Sports Car Cup” race series now in its third season, Flavien and Vanessa Marçais...
The restored Jaguar XK120 that set a production car world land speed record for the Flying Mile with a clocking...
On Saturday March 10th, Southern California sports car legend Jack Ernest McAfee died at the age of 84 from liver cancer. He was diagnosed with the disease just two weeks previously and spent his remaining days at a hospice in Long Beach, CA. Long before he was old enough to...
Jack Roush, racer, former Ford engineer, college physics teacher, and current CEO of a number of engineering-related companies, was honored...
Vintage Racecar was immensely saddened to hear of the passing of “Gentleman” Jack Sears following a long fight with cancer....
Jackie Cooper, who was the first child actor, to be nominated for a major Academy Award, and who enjoyed a long career as an actor and director, has died at the age of 88. Beyond his Hollywood career, Cooper also spent several years racing cars, driving mainly Austin-Healeys in more...
The son of eminent sculptor Jacob Epstein, Jackie was born in 1934 into an unorthodox family. The offspring of an...
One of South Africa’s most recognizable motor sports personalities, Jackie Pretorius, died March 30, succumbing to injuries received during a...
Goodwood plans to celebrate Sir Jackie Stewart at the 2019 Festival of Speed presented by Mastercard, which takes place from July 4-7. This year marks 50 years since Sir Jackie won his first Formula 1 World Championship, and this summer, the famous Scot will also celebrate his 80th birthday. Goodwood...
The April 13 RRDC Evening with Jacky Ickx Presented by Firestone was filled with amusing racing stories, heartfelt emotions, mutual...
In his biography of Enzo Ferrari, Brock Yates summed up Jacky Ickx in one perfect phrase writing Jacky Ickx has...
The Jaguar marque celebrates two anniversaries in 2011. The E-Type is 50 years old, while 60 years have passed since the C-Type brought Jaguar its first win at Le Mans. Shelsley Walsh hillclimb, set in the delightful English countryside, is the oldest motorsport venue in the world still in current...
