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The 2016 edition of Patrick Peter’s 25th Anniversary Tour Auto Optic 2000 will take place April 18-24 over a new...
The late 1960s brought a host of changes to the famed 24 Hours of Le Mans. The wave of “professionalism” that was sweeping across other forms of motorsport began to exert its influence at Le Mans. With increased money and prestige now flowing through professional racing, the caliber of teams...
Born to a Paris butcher and his wife in April 1937, the late Jean-Pierre Beltoise had won the incredible number...
The Classic 24 Hour Daytona 2015 was not a vintage event. It was a historical recreation. Presented by Historic Sportscar...
The Classic 24 Hour Daytona 2015 was staged November 11-15 at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. Sanctioned by Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR), the 2nd running of Classic 24 was dedicated to the cars and drivers that raced in Daytona’s classic endurance races of the past. Six period correct...
A great selection of endurance racers and drivers are entered for the 2015 Classic 24 Hour, scheduled for November 12–15...
The Tour Auto Rally 2016 will be staged April 18th to 24th along the secondary roads and racing circuits of...
The fourth annual Concours of Elegance took place on 4-6 September 2015 at the Royal Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, Scotland. A total of 60 automobiles from around the world graced Edinburgh’s Palace of Holyroodhouse, joined by displays of hundreds of other motor cars from manufacturers and car clubs. Nearly...
Nelson Piquet Charles Stewart RollsPhoto: Rolls Royce 3 Dario Resta is killed and his riding mechanic, Bill Perkins, is injured...
Former F1 driver and constructor Guy Ligier has died at the age of 85. Although he contested only a dozen...
The largest-ever grid of Grand Prix cars from the Cosworth DFV era will be among the major highlights at the 2015 Silverstone Classic, to be held 24-26 July at the 18-turn, 3.6 mile Silverstone Grand Prix circuit in Northamptonshire, England. The 25th anniversary Silverstone Classic will feature the glorious three-litre...
The Goodwood Festival of Speed 2015 was held June 25-28 at Goodwood House and the 9-turn, 1.16-mile Goodwood hill climb...
Italian automaker Maserati will be the featured marque at next month’s Keeneland Concours d’Elegance at the historic Keeneland racecourse in...
A GT40 hot on the “Longtail” of a Porsche 906/6 as they leave the Esses. Photo: Roger Dixon During the 1960s the annual 24-hour auto race near a small town southwest of Paris generated international racing drama like none seen before Ford’s concerted effort to defeat Ferrari at Le Mans actually...
Jean-Pierre BeltoisePhoto: Thierry Lesparre Over a period of years, VR’s Mike Jiggle and Ed McDonough have had the opportunity to interview...
Seen here at Monaco, Laffite scored two of his six Grand Prix wins in 1981, taking his favorite Talbot Ligier JS17-Matra to victory in Austria and Canada.Photo: Maureen Magee I feel that 1981 was a year where I could have won the F1 World Championship, but we gave silly points away...
While the 2015 Goodwood Festival of Speed will celebrate the theme ‘Flat-Out and Fearless – Racing on the Edge’, an...
Christopher TatePhoto: Kary Jiggle Christopher Tate is the Managing Director of Donington Race Circuit in the UK. In his career,...
Elio de AngelisPhoto: Maureen Magee Colin ChapmanPhoto: Maureen Magee 2 Johnny Rutherford, driving a McLaren-Offenhauser, wins the USAC Indycar race at Trenton, New Jersey (1976). 3 The Mercedes-Benz W194 “Gullwing” makes its race debut in the Mille Miglia (1952). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (&...
The Road to Monaco: My Life in Motor Racing By Howden Ganley It all began for Howden Ganley at the...
The inaugural Goodwood Members’ Meeting was staged March 29-30, 2014 at the 2.4-mile Goodwood Motor Circuit in West Sussex, England....
Jean-Pierre Beltoise has passed away at the age of 77 following a series of strokes at his vacation home in Senegal. Parisian-born Beltoise started racing on motorbikes, winning several national championships, but in his first foray into four-wheel racing had a big crash at Reims that permanently damaged his left...
A pair of Formula 1 cult heroes, Jean-Pierre Jarier and the Shadow DN5, will be reunited for the first time...
Harold Pace was a once-in-a-lifetime Texas car guy and a dedicated student of the automobile. He studied his craft with...
The man who, as marketing manager for the fledgling French petroleum company Elf, effectively engineered the Pilote Elf program that...
The FIA Sports Prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations...
The debut Goodwood Members’ Meeting was staged March 29-30, 2014 at the 2.4-mile Goodwood Motor Circuit in West Sussex, England. The Members’ Meeting was revived in 2014 for Members of the Goodwood Road Racing Club to continue the tradition of the 71 club motor sport events held at Goodwood from...