This month’s featured Web site showcases the race photography of Larry Neuzel. Organized by race series and year, this site...
One of the Petersen Automotive Museum’s latest exhibits, “Corvettes in Competition: Racing America’s Sports Car,” continues to create quite a...
Like any good race-nut, over the years I’ve tried to chip away at my list of the “great automotive wonders of the world” that I want to attend at least once, before I register for that big enduro in the sky. For some reason, I have never managed to get...
Pete Lyons You know how someone’s opposing opinion, one that seems inconsequential enough to let slide at the time, can...
Le Mans champion Roy Salvadori once wrote in a UK magazine, decades ago, about driving his winning Aston Martin DBR1...
Roger Penske was honored with induction into the Legends of Laguna Seca during ceremonies preceding this year’s mid-October American Le Mans Series finale at the track. He joins Pete Lovely, Wayne Rainey, Bobby Rahal, Dan Gurney, Eddie Lawson, and Kenny Roberts Sr. on the expanding honor roll at the Monterey...
The American Le Mans Series has announced that it will create a series of races for historic IMSA GTP cars to...
Pete Lyons Got paper and pen at hand? Or simple fingers will do: Try coming up with a list of the long-distance sports racing cars you’ve seen or learned of over the years, and that you still hold in reverence. Cunninghams, Jaguars, Ferraris, Fords, Porsches, classic enduro racers that you...
During the first 60 years of the Corvette’s existence, each of its six model designations raced at Le Mans. To...
Michael Andretti Al UnserPhoto: Jim Hatfield 1 Jody Scheckter drives a Ford-powered Tyrrell 007 to victory in the South African...
From May 27 to July 3, Lime Rock Park underwent a major transformation. Not only was the original 7-turn configuration completely re-paved, re-curbed and re-guardrailed, but Skip Barber went a step further. He designed and had built two new (optional) corner complexes, at The Uphill and West Bend. Mainly in...
Well-known American historic racer Duncan Dayton has announced that he and his team, Highcroft Racing, have purchased an ex-Dyson Racing...
Carlo Chiti Emerson Fittipaldi 1 Scuderia Ferrari is formed as the Alfa Romeo factory racing team (1929). 2 Peter Gethin drives a Chevron B26 to victory in the sports car race at Welkom, South Africa (1972). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More)...
December 2009 Ferrari 312P & 312PB By Ed McDonough and Peter Collins Billed as “the story of a great car...
There is a warehouse in Houston, Texas, that is the automotive equivalent of Willie Wonka’s Chocolate Factory. There are no...
Jim Hall, creator of the legendary Chaparrals and the man who gave Gil de Ferran his first Indycar drive, was the honoree during festivities surrounding de Ferran’s final race as a driver at Laguna Seca’s American Le Mans Series finale. After beginning his Indycar career with Hall’s team in 1995,...
The American Le Mans Series has announced that HSR will organize three Historic IMSA GTP races to be held in...
Brian RedmanPhoto: Mike Jiggle Jacques Villeneuve.Photo: Michael Casey-DiPleco 2 Gilles Villeneuve wins the South African Grand Prix at Kyalami in...
When his team’s pair of Porsche RS Spyders took the green flag for July’s American Le Mans Series round at Lime Rock, Rob Dyson marked his 25th anniversary in professional racing. Dyson’s first entry was a GTO-class Pontiac Firebird that contested IMSA’s Coca-Cola Three Hours at the Connecticut track in...
Vaso Bill Vukovich Sr. John Cobb 1 John Greenwood drives a Greenwood Corvette to victory in the IMSA sports car...
The late news—very late—that U.S. open-wheel racing’s long uncivil war has finally staggered to its hemorrhagic conclusion, fell with less...
You’ve certainly heard many of us here at Vintage Racecar lament the fact that today’s racecar drivers seem to be so homogenized and politically correct, as to be seemingly devoid of any kind of real character or personality. Perhaps even worse, however, so many of today’s drivers seem to combine...
