The Pikes Peak Hill Climb is the second-oldest major motor racing event in North America. The inaugural race was held...
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The FIA sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations...
New Jersey Motorsports Park, Millville, NJ October 3–4, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to paid subscribers only. Our membership removes most ads, lets you enjoy unlimited access to all our premium content, and offers you awesome discounts...
Rally legend Paddy Hopkirk reopened the Kop Hillclimb after 84 years, speeding up the hill in a 2009 Mini after...
Wakefield Park Raceway, Gouldburn, NSW Australia September 19–20, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
The 12th Goodwood Revival was a huge and complex event. Fifteen races for historic cars and motorcycles were just a small part of what went on over the four-day period. A Drivers’ Cricket Match started the ball rolling on Thursday with a proper garden tea party at Goodwood House, and...
Sports Car Digest published 510 stories in 2009, ranging from auction results, car profiles, event and vintage racing coverage, yet...
Heavens To Murgatroyd! – Big surprise at the 1969 24 Hours of Daytona Story by Louis Galanos; photos by Louis...
Mecum Auction held its Kansas City Auction on December 4-5, 2009, at Kansas City Convention Center/Bartle Hall, with total gross sales (excluding buyer’s premium) of $6.8 million. “Our Kansas City Auction continues to boast significant increases year after year in both sales and attendance, and this year was no exception...
Chaparral 2J Legend “according to Jim Hall” has the idea for the Chaparral 2J came to him through a child’s...
A Grand Sport Corvette – one of only five ever built by General Motors – is the latest addition to...
They say that if you want a job done give it to a busy man and at MotorSport New Zealand’s annual Tier 1 meeting at Christchurch’s Powerbuilt Tools Raceway at Ruapuna Park on Sunday that man was defending Battery Town Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge champion and NZV8s category front-runner Craig...
The 2010 Arizona Auction Week kicks-off on Sunday, January 17th in Phoenix with the prestigious Wheels of Wellness fundraising event,...
Worldwide Auctioneers will present the R.E. Monical Collection Auction in conjunction with next year’s Houston Classic Auction, a selection of...
The 2009 East African Safari Classic Rally sponsored by Kenya Airways was held November 22nd through December 1st, starting from Mombasa, Kenya and covering 4,300 kilometers of which 1,900 were competitive. A Ford won the Kenya Airways East African Safari Classic Rally for the second time in a row. In...
1934 MG K3 Magnette It was one of those little stories that stays with you. The first all-historic motor racing meeting...
Automobiles first came to Los Angeles just over 100 years ago. Roughly 23 manufacturers eventually set up shop in the...
In the days before data logging transformed our sport into a science, the judge of all things was the simple stopwatch. This meant that the men in the cockpits could still make a difference in the performance of their cars, and George Follmer was one of those men. The Phoenix-born...
George Follmer Biography Follmer was born in Phoenix on January 27, 1934, but it was not long before his father,...
My father, the late Colin Chapman and founder of the Lotus name, was driven by ambition—ambition to be the best...
By 1963, Cobras were doing very well in Sports Car Club of America races. Cars driven by Shelby American drivers won the SCCA A Production National Championship. In addition, they won the SCCA Production-Class U.S. Road Racing Championship. Carroll Shelby, however, wanted to enter and win the unlimited USAC Sports...
There has been much rejoicing over the return to F1 next year of Team Lotus and I cannot understand what...
Hand carved from mahogany, the Ford GT-40 shown above measures 13 inches long, 5 inches wide, and 3 inches tall,...
December 2009 Prince Bira of Siam was an excellent prewar amateur driver who could often give the professionals a run for their money. Here he enthusiastically corners his E.R.A. during the Crystal Palace Cup race on July 1, 1939. He won the first heat but had to settle for 3rd...
Nelson Ledges is a fun, fast and reasonably flat racetrack in northeast Ohio, originally raced as a dirt road course...
The story of Chet Herbert is pure inspiration. Afflicted with polio at age 20, Herbert spent his life building a...
December 2009 Italian Monster Dear Editor, Beautiful job with the Cad-Alfa (also loved the Watkins Glen story and Kessler interview). The three Torrey Pines photos were all taken at the July meet, not the December ’52 one, which I know not only because I took one of them, but because...
Michele Alboreto Photo: Maureen Magee Emerson Fittipaldi Photo: Keith Booker 1 Scuderia Ferrari is formed (1929). 3 Wendell Scott, the...
Murwillumbah Sprint Circuit, NSW, Australia September 5–6, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
Pentti Airikkala, one of the famed “Flying Finns” of Scandinavian and then worldwide rally fame, died in Berkshire, England, at age 64 after a long battle with cancer from which he had bounced back in his exuberant fashion. The Helsinki native competed in 36 World Rally Championship events over four...
