Forty Years ago this October, John Surtees added the Formula One Drivers Championship to his already impressive list of World...
2010 marked the 50th anniversary of the successful move John Surtees made from motorcycles to cars, and he remains the...
1964 Formula One World Champion John Surtees was honored at a charity dinner held near Northampton, England on June 29. Tributes were paid to Surtees’ unique accomplishment of being the only person ever to win world titles on two and four wheels, as over 400 fans and fellow drivers and...
American road racing pioneer John von Neumann died on Christmas night, 2003. Born December 16, 1921, he had just turned...
Parabolica Publishing and Vintage Racecar are pleased to announce that noted racing historian and author John Zimmermann has assumed the...
A rare piece of Champ car history is currently being offered for sale via private treaty, by Christie’s Motor Cars. The 1968/70 Vel’s Parnelli Jones Lola-Colt racecar, known as the “Johnny Lightning Special,” is significant in that it helped carry Al Unser, Sr., to the 1970 USAC driving championship with...
George-Francis “Johnny” Servoz-Gavin died recently, at the early age of 64, in his hometown of Grenoble. He was one of...
On April 27, Judy (Kondratieff) Ganley lost her valiant battle with cancer. Perhaps best known in recent years, as the...
The 24th annual Millers at Milwaukee Vintage Indy Car Event, sponsored by the Harry Miller Club, will be held July 13-14, 2018, at the famed Milwaukee Mile racetrack in suburban West Allis. The Miller event is one of the most impressive U.S. gatherings of Pre- and Post-WWII Indy and Champ...
Travelling to the capital of Lapland, right on the Arctic Circle, specially prepared classic Porsche 911s have taken part in...
Recently, the Kansas City, Missouri, City Council approved plans for the construction of the KCI Motorsports Park on 300 acres...
Mercedes Benz racing great Karl Kling passed away on March 19 at the age of 92. According to DaimlerChrysler board member Jurgen Hubbert, “Along with Juan Manuel Fangio and Stirling Moss, Karl Kling was one of the greatest drivers of the post-war era.” Born in Glissen, Germany in 1910, Kling...
The 14th annual Kastner Cup race will be held at Summit Point Raceway in Summit Point, West Virginia, as part...
With stopwatch in hand, as he gazed upon the action on the track, former Standard-Triumph competition boss R.W. (Kas) Kastner...
Kas Kastner enjoyed a long and distinguished career in American motorsports, to the point that each year a group of Triumph vintage racers present a deserving competitor with the Kastner Cup in his honor. Now it seems turnabout is fair play, as the TR Register and the Standard Triumph Forum...
The racing world lost one of its true pioneers on December 19, 2005, when Keith Duckworth passed away. He was...
The 1965 Shelby GT350R Prototype driven by Ken Miles sold for $3.75 million at Mecum Auctions’ recent Kissimmee sale. Recognized...
The awe-inspiring collection of John Atzbach—highlighted most notably by the first 1965 Shelby GT350R Competition Model built, known as the “Flying Mustang”—was announced today by Mecum Auctions as an offering that will serve as the headlining main attraction of Dana Mecum’s 33rd Original Spring Classic, to be held at the...
The Formula One community lost one of its finest on August 25th, when former team owner Ken Tyrrell lost his...
The International Motor Racing Research Center in Watkins Glen, N.Y., annually raffles off a desirable car as a way to...
Kevin Bartlett, one of Australia’s most popular racing drivers of the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s, has joined the line-up of motorsport legends who will celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Australian Grand Prix at the Historic Leyburn Sprints, on the Queensland Darling Downs, in August. Bartlett will attend the Sprints on August...
Teams from New Zealand and Australia drove away with top honors in this year’s Peking to Paris Motor Challenge, as...
Louis Klemantaski, arguably one of the most influential motorsport photographers of all time, has passed away at the age of...
Long Beach celebrated 30 years of racing on its famous street circuit with a full weekend of fierce competition that included a Champ Car round and the Imperial City Bank Historic Grand Prix. Rick Knoop’s 1979 Tyrrell 009, the ex-Didier Pironi Candy-sponsored car, dominated practice and the race but only...
A week after the Goodwood Revival, Buckinghamshire held its own Revival on the weekend of September 25-26 to commemorate the...
The UK’s oldest hill climb venue, Kop Hill, will once again host two days of motorsport action September 24–25, 2022. Over...
Set against the backdrop of the Chiltern Hills, Kop Hill in the Parish of Princes Risborough, England, held the now annual hillclimb in commemoration of a sporting challenge from a bygone era that included names such as Malcolm Campbell, Raymond Mays, Henry Segrave, Count Zborowski and Archie Frazer Nash. Following...
Katsuaki Kubota scored his second and third straight Masters Historic F1 race wins with his JPS Lotus 78 (above, photo...
This year’s Meadowbrook Concours, to be held August 4 in Rochester, Michigan, will pay special tribute to the legacy of...
If ever a race meeting at Kyalami captured the essence of the circuit’s most memorable races, the Classic Car Africa Kyalami 9-hour Revival managed that and then some. Everyone who was at Kyalami on Saturday November 17, left thrilled by a stunning day’s classic racing to commemorate those legendary races...
