Story by Jim Casey and photos/captions by Louis Galanos The weather was nearly perfect for the 2009 running of the...
The 2009 East African Safari Classic Rally sponsored by Kenya Airways was held November 22nd through December 1st, starting from...
The 2009 East African Safari Classic Rally will take place November 22nd through December 1st, starting from Mombasa, Kenya and covering 4,300 kilometers of which 1,900 will be competitive. Forty one local and international drivers have already signed up for this year’s rally and Kenya Airways announced a sponsorship package...
The 6th annual Fairfield County Concours d’Elegance was held September 12-13, 2009 at the Fairfield County Hunt Club in Westport,...
There is a warehouse in Houston, Texas, that is the automotive equivalent of Willie Wonka’s Chocolate Factory. There are no...
The Formula 5000 Drivers Association released their racing schedule for 2009. Building on the success of the 40th Anniversary races in 2008, the Association has announced an expanded race program for 2009 consisting of four events spanning from the west to the east coast of the U.S. According to Seb...
The Earl of March announced many of the key attractions due to appear at this year’s Festival of Speed, held...
The Earl of March has confirmed the theme of the 2009 Goodwood Festival of Speed as “True Grit – Epic...
Wayne Gardner took his customary win in the second half of the Barry Sheene Memorial Trophy, riding John-Lee Pemberton’s Matchless with his usual élan. Ian Bain made the best start with a ten ’bike-length lead by the time all the riders first arrived at St. Mary’s but he soon dropped...
Although there was never a race called the Brooklands Trophy in Goodwood’s heyday, it was not unusual to see pre-war...
The Glover Trophy was originally presented to the winner of the Richmond Formula 1 race, which was for contemporary F1...
In Goodwood’s heyday, especially in the circuit’s earliest years, the Goodwood Trophy race was for older (essentially pre-war) single seater racing cars, although the trophy was also used for sports cars. At the Goodwood Revival, it is a race for Grand Prix and Formule Libre single seaters of a type...
Nicky Leventis and Bobby Verdon-Roe claimed a resounding Lavant Cup victory, the latter anchoring the win with an epic drive...
Maserati charger Lukas Huni dominated the Madgwick Cup that featured sports cars with under two litre engines. The pole-sitter was...
The Goowood Tourist Trophy was a three-hour endurance race for World Championship sports cars, and later for GT cars. This race evolved from the Nine Hours race, and was one of the showpiece occasions of the Goodwood season. At the Goodwood Revival, this is the main race on Sunday afternoon:...
Named after the Duke of Richmond and Gordon, the Richmond Formula 1 race was traditionally for contemporary F1 cars. It...
Racing legend and Goodwood Revival favorite Sir Stirling Moss established another milestone on September 17th, 2009 when he turned 80...
The Mini reached its 50th birthday in 2009 and this year’s St Mary’s Trophy saloon car race was dedicated entirely to Cooper models driven by such marque legends as Rauno Aaltonen, Alec Poole, John Fitzpatrick and Barrie ‘Whizzo’ Williams. As always, the St Mary’s Trophy is run in two parts...
Julian Bronson mastered his monstrous McLaren M1B to win the final race of the 2009 Goodwood Revival meeting – a...
Bonhams held its annual Goodwood Revival auction on Friday, September 18th, with more than £3.87 million changing hands by the...
A record number of motor racing enthusiasts and retro-fashion fans flocked to the Goodwood Revival on September 18-20, 2009 to join in the fun and celebrations at the world’s largest historic motor race meeting. Visitors again traveled from around the world to attend the Goodwood Revival, with the vast majority...
The ninth Grand Prix de Pau Historique was held May 22-24 on the historic street circuit in southwestern France. The...
Participants in the 2009 Gstaad Classic Audemars Piguet should enjoy a great start to the fall season. From September 2nd...
Every year the first Sunday of November serves as the Concours d’Elegance of the Hilton Head Island Motoring Festival. One Hundred and Fifty vintage vehicles line the fields of Honey Horn, a historic Southern plantation, under the spreading oaks and flowing Spanish moss characteristic of the South Carolina Lowcountry to...
Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) released their 2009 vintage race schedule, which includes a new season February kick-off race at Moroso...
Historic Trans-Am released their 2009 vintage race schedule, which only features vintage races on the West Coast. However, don’t be...
The 2009 HSR Sebring Endurance Challenge was held March 5th – 8th at the famed Sebring International Raceway in Sebring, Florida. Event action included a Classic and Race Car display at the Sebring Town Square, the Klub Sport Porsche Challenge, the Rolex Historic/Classic GT/IMSA Classic 3 Hour Enduro, Anglo-American Challenge,...
The International Motorsports Hall of Fame recently inducted five new members to its Hall of Fame, J.C. Agajanian, Donnie Allison,...
Mecum Auction held its Kansas City Auction on December 4-5, 2009, at Kansas City Convention Center/Bartle Hall, with total gross...
Keeneland Concours d’Elegance announced that their 6th annual event will be held Saturday, July 18th at the Keeneland Horse Racing Course in Lexington, KY. The featured marque for the will be Morgan, in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the British car maker....
