Alfa Romeo TZ2 By 1963, Alfa Romeo was looking for a replacement for their Giulietta SZ, which had been very...
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The Conclusion of Boyd Harnell’s First-Hand Look at the 1954 Carrera Panamericana Mexico City-Leon, Leon-Durango: November 21, 1954 The carnage...
His nickname has always been “Tony A-to-Z,” in part because his last name is Adamowicz, but in larger part because his racing career has covered everything from Volvo sedans to Indy cars and Ferrari sports racers. Casey Annis caught up with Tony to discuss his impressive career. VRJ: Your professional...
Trevor Taylor Colin Chapman 1 Ernesto Maserati dies of natural causes (1975). 3 Indy car racer Rick Mears is born...
Chichester, England Sept. 15-17 An Alfa Giulia Berlina and a Mini-Cooper pass the restored Goodwood pit enclosure. Photo: Peter Collins...
1958 Lola Mk1 The Broadley cousins were racing enthusiasts from an early age. Both built and raced Austin specials before setting about in 1956 to construct something to compete with the new Lotus VI, being built and raced by one Colin Chapman. Their original idea had been to buy a...
A First-Hand Look at the 1954 Carrera Panamericana Photos and Story By Boyd Harnell A white Jaguar convertible hurtled out...
Hershel McGriff was an up-and-coming West Coast stock car racer when a friend suggested that he run his 1950 Oldsmobile...
The truth is, I might have missed him amongst Moss, Brabham, Trintignant, Shelby, Ward and all the other motor racing luminaries at Monterey if someone hadn’t pointed him out. “That’s Norman Dewis,” my friend said, pointing to an amazingly spry white-haired man of small stature holding court with an enthralled...
Lime Rock Park, CT Sept. 1-4 The 1932 Ford Sprint car of Richard Waitec. Photo: Walt & Louiseann Pietrowicz Become...
One of only three Lola Mk 6 sports cars, used as the development prototype for the Ford GT40 program, will...
The newly formed Vintage Sedan Racers Group (VSRG) and HSR-West have announced the creation of the Magnaflow 2.5 Challenge for 2001. The series is intended for those cars which qualified for the 1970-1972 Trans-Am 2.5-liter Championship. Some of the cars eligible for competition include: Alfa Romeo 1600-2000 GTV; BMW 2002,...
1935 Maserati 4CS Photo: Peter Collins Ken Painter’s 1935 Maserati 4CS has had a highly active and dramatic existence, and...
To me, and all of us who knew him and worked with him at Shelby American, Dave MacDonald was much...
New Zealander Howden Ganley competed in 35 Grand Prix events between 1971 and 1974, raced in a number of major sports car events, and has not been off the motor racing scene since his first encounter with it in 1955. VRJ’s European Editor Ed McDonough competed against him in the...
In 1966 Ford made good on the early promise of the GT40, winning both LeMans and the Constructor’s Championship for...
John Surtees Barney Oldfield 1 Jim Clark wins his third straight USGP at Watkins Glen, New York, this time driving...
Mercedes-Benz’ incredibly successful first half of the 20th century was going to be a really tough act to follow. Ritter von Stern immediately set the Stuttgart firm on the road to untold glory in 1900 by winning the touring car class of a race at Semmering, Austria, in a 28...
Few, professional drivers can lay claim to having active racing careers that span 40 years. One of the only drivers...
This month, Carroll puts down his wrenches long enough to reminisce about some of his early Can-Am experiences. Shelby American’s...
Richie Ginther Sir Stirling Moss 3 Dario Resta dies in a crash during a speed record attempt at Brooklands, England (1924). 3 Jim McElreath wins the first California 500 at Ontario Motor Speedway in A.J. Foyt’s back-up car. Jim Hurtubise qualifies 33rd in a front-engined roadster (1970). Become a Member...
In a tragic accident during the Saturday afternoon Good-wood Festival practice runs, the 4-wheel drive Lotus 63 driven by the...
While the 2000 edition of Lord March’s Festival of Speed will be remembered by many as the year of disaster,...
European Editor Ed McDonough recently became the first person outside Team Lotus to drive one of the best kept secrets ever created by Colin Chapman, the Lotus 58, or by its proper designation, the Type 57/58. Had Jim Clark not been killed at Hockenheim in April 1968, Lotus history might...
For five years, the Monaco Grand Prix played host to the cut-throat world of Formula Junior racing. The Grand Prix...
Mountaineers have their El Capitans, their Eiger North Walls, their Everests. For racers too, certain challenges rise above all others....
August 2000 The Great Challenge: The Clark Era By D.S. Mulhearns & R.S. Schlegelmilch The Great Challenge: The Clark Era, contains a collection of photos and biographies of Jim Clark and eleven racing greats from his era: Giancarlo Baghetti, Lorenzo Bandini, Carel Godin de Beaufort, Joakim Bonnier, Jack Brabham, Richie...
HRG was a very small British manufacturer of predominantly competition-oriented sports cars from 1936-1966 – the initials were drawn from...
World championship rallying is a tough sport. Its drivers seldom compete on nice, smooth asphalt circuits where the worst that...
Bobby Rahal is one of the most well-rounded individuals to take part in motorsport. His reputation for using his brain in the cockpit was well deserved, and that intellect helped Rahal build a solid foundation for his post-driving career. Rahal retired from active CART competition in 1998 after a 17-year...
