Targa Florio – The Ultimate Guide The Norman conquest of southern Italy led to the creation of the Kingdom of...
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The 2008 Barrington Concours d’Elegance will be held October 3rd to 5th in Barrington and at picturesque Arlington Park in...
1959 OSCA | 1960 Lotus 18 | 1963 Brabham BT6 Regular readers of VR will know that we have a fondness for Formula Junior. We have covered some important ground with this significant racing formula, and gotten to grips with Elva, Lotus, Stanguellini, Volpini, Autosud and more. As 2008 marks 50 years...
Photo: Dennis Gray If you’ve ever attended the Monterey Historics, the Wine Country Classic, a Classic Sports Racing Group (CSRG),...
This year’s Monterey Historic Automobile Races marks the 35th running of this classic event. As shown schematically in the Laguna...
British racer Trevor Taylor is perhaps best known for being the Lotus Formula One teammate to Jim Clark in the early 1960s. However, Taylor earned his spot in Formula One by sharing the 1960 Formula Junior Championship, with Clark, at the wheel of a Lotus 18 [see this month’s Racecar...
Mario Andretti I had three different seasons in Alfa Romeo sports cars. People remember that I drove for them in...
I don’t have one favorite racecar; I have several: the Daytona Coupe I raced at Le Mans with Dan Gurney,...
This year, Crosslé, Lola, and Mallock will all celebrate their fiftieth anniversaries. The exact date of each birthday is unknown, as it is difficult to pinpoint when a special builder became a constructor. In the interest of historical accuracy, I have discussed the matter with Eric Broadley, John Crosslé, and...
French Grand Prix; Dijon-Prenois, July 1,1979. Mario Andretti with the unhappy Lotus 80. It was not a success, and the...
Ronnie Peterson Giuseppe Campari 1 James Hunt, driving a McLaren-Ford, wins the German Grand Prix on the Nürburgring. Niki Lauda...
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Selecting the overall victor at the annual Cartier ‘Style et Luxe’ automotive design competition at the Goodwood Festival of Speed...
Silverstone Classic Saturday, July 26th Results and Pictures Peter Sowerby won the first FIA Historic Formula One race of the...
1934 ERA A-Type Prototype Single-Seater Racing Voiturette Profile Ex-works/Raymond Mays/Humphrey Cook/Richard Seaman/Tim Rose-Richards/Oliver Bertram/Prinz zu Leiningen/Mrs Kay Petre/The Hon. Brian Lewis, Eugen Bjornstad – John Heath – Reg Parnell – Ashmore Brothers – David Hampshire – Philip Fotheringham-Parker – Alastair Birrell – Ron Flockhart – Bill Moss – Sandy Murray...
With an entry that runs to a total of over 700 racing drivers, the Silverstone Classic (July 25-27) features many...
The 1970 Canadian-American Challenge Cup season was the fifth season of the Can-Am auto racing series. The season began only...
After 53 Year Absence, ’34 Packard V12 and Its Owner Return to Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance In 1955, San Francisco police officer Marvin Zukor drove his 1934 Packard V12 Convertible Victoria about 100 miles down the California coast to participate in the third Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. Fifty-three years later,...
An epic collection of vintage automobiles and pre and postwar memorabilia crossed the auction block as RM Auctions proudly presented the...
We all know that life isn’t a bed of roses and, sometimes, we are dealt the cruelest of blows. Don...
On June 7–8, 1958, the Texas Region of the SCCA hosted a weekend of sports car racing 10 miles north of Fort Worth. The organizers laid out a 3-mile course at the National Guard Air Base near Eagle Mountain Lake, where 112 entries showed up to contest 10 scheduled “Sunburn”...
Though historic racers themselves tend not to become “famous,” there certainly are a handful of very talented drivers, across the...
I became involved in motor racing with some very good friends at the Midland Racing Partnership, located in my hometown...
Al Holbert—winner at Daytona, Sebring, and many times at Le Mans; Peter Gregg—4 times winner at Daytona; and Jim Busby—2 times winner at Le Mans, were the great drivers I looked up to, and tried to learn from when I first went racing. Yes, they are all men, but the...
Carroll Shelby once remarked, “There are only two people I can think of who could sit down, take a welding...
The Ferrari 330 P4 was the Scuderia’s weapon of choice for the 1967 World Manufacturers Championship. The car’s 4-liter V-12 engine produced 450 horses and, at 860 kilograms, the prototype was considerably lighter than the Ford Mk 2s and Mk 4s. The season opener at Daytona saw the Ferrari team...
July 2008 Hugh C. Hunter in his lovely 8C2900B Alfa Romeo on the Campbell Road Circuit. In ths race he...
John Zeitler Nigel Mansell Photo: Maureen Magee 2 Emerson Fittipaldi, driving a Penske PC-18, wins the CART Budweiser Cleveland Grand Prix at the Burke Lake Front Airport in Cleveland, Ohio (1989). 4 John Zeitler, driving a Zeitler, wins the first ever Formula Super Vee race, held at Lime Rock, Connecticut...
