Photo: Matt Sills “Addicted to Winning—the Unbeatable Champions of Motor Sport” has been announced as the theme for the 2014...
• The 1977 McLaren M26-Ford that James Hunt drove to his final Grand Prix victory in that year’s Japanese Grand...
A display of rare and significant McLaren racecars at the 19th annual Amelia Island Concours this March 7–9 will celebrate...
October’s Algarve Historic Festival featured a pair of 30-minute contests for the Historic Touring Car Challenge, with both being won...
Syd Fox recently lost his battle against cancer at the age of 83. Best known for his antics in Ford-powered machinery during the 1970s, Fox may have never reached his goal of Formula One, but he was one of Britain’s most respected racers in national ranking championships such as Formula...
Henry Taylor was a farmer, born in Shefford, Bedforshire, UK, and was initially smitten with Speedway (motorcycle racing) at West...
Three-time Le Mans winner Hurley Haywood was honored with the sixth annual “Spirit of Competition” Award last November 20th, presented...
The 2014 edition of Salon Retromobile in Paris will honor passionate French enthusiast Jean Rédélé, whose Alpine cars are responsible for much racing history, with a showing of 15 cars from his collection. Among the Alpines on display will be: M63 from 1963 when it contested the Charade 1,000 Kilometers...
A number of significant racing cars will be offered for sale at RM’s annual Arizona sale, January 16–17, at the...
Photo: Dennis Gray David Love, one of the founders of the Classic Sports Racing Group (CSRG) and an early driving...
Jean Alesi leads away from the start of the RAC TT Celebration race in Sir Anthony Bamford’s Ferrari 250 GTO/64.Photo: Roger Dixon Walking around the Goodwood Revival this year brought to mind the Brooklands Automobile Racing Club (BARC), which anyone was allowed to join. However, few enthusiasts could afford to,...
Photo: John Zimmermann The City of Corona, California, celebrated the 100th anniversary of the first AAA National Championship auto race...
John Grant was elected to succeed Stuart Rolt as Chairman of the British Racing Drivers’ Club (BRDC) at the Club’s...
• Betty Brabham, the first wife of triple F1 World Champion Sir Jack Brabham, has died following a brief illness at the Wesley Hospital in Brisbane. She was 87. Betty married Jack in 1951, and they divorced in 1994. Together they produced three sons, Geoff, Gary and David, all of...
Giuliano Cané, Italy’s vintage motor racing hero, has done it again. In September he won the 2013 Coppa d’Oro delle...
CSRG’s 10th Annual Charity Challenge at California’s Sonoma Raceway attracted a near-record entry, ticket sales hit an all-time record and...
One of the greatest chief mechanics in American National Championship racing history, George Bignotti, has died at the age of 97. Cars prepared by Bignotti won 85 Indycar races—second-most all-time—including a record seven Indy 500s, two each for A.J. Foyt and Al Unser, and single wins for Graham Hill, Gordon...
The three-hour enduro for sports cars that was part of the Los Angeles Times Grand Prix weekend at Riverside in...
Terry Sanger, the doyenne of 1960s saloon racing specials has died aged 79. Born in Wales, Terry moved to Bristol...
The fifth annual Put-in-Bay Road Races Reunion (PIBRRR) was held August 27-29 at historic Put-in-Bay, Ohio. Launched in 2009 by vintage racing veterans Jack Woehrle and Bob Williams, the annual event celebrates sports car races that were held on the streets of the town of Put-in-Bay on Lake Erie’s South...
Photo: RM Auctions Photo: RM Auctions The annual automotive auction frenzy unfolded as expected this August during Classic Car Week...
Photo: Paul Bonner On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Corvette’s introduction to the world in 1953, the...
• Peg Bishop, wife of John Bishop, passed away on August 20. The Bishops played a central role a golden era of American road racing, and Peg was actively involved alongside her husband. As executive director of the SCCA in the 1950s and ‘60s, John brought professional road racing to...
The 1964 Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe owned by the Larry H. Miller family in Utah topped a field of more...
The restored Jaguar XK120 that set a production car world land speed record for the Flying Mile with a clocking of 172.412 mph in 1953 won “Best in Class, Post War Racing” at the Quail Motorsports Gathering. Factory test driver Norman Dewis, who set the record on Belgium’s Jabbeke Motorway,...
• Masters Historic Racing will be expanding into North America with its acquisition of Historic Grand Prix Inc., America’s historic...
Bill Warner’s 2014 Amelia Island Concours, set for next March 7-9, will honor Jochen Mass on the occasion of the...
Not only was the Australian motor sport community deeply saddened by the death of F.A.O. “Tony” Gaze on July 29 at the age of 93, but also those around the world who remembered him fondly. The Earl of March said: “All of us at Goodwood are deeply saddened to learn...
