What else can you do but build your own car, if you cannot afford to do anything else? And what...
An new racing facility outside of Toronto, Canada called Oro Station has begun construction. The groundbreaking officially marks the start...
While the weatherman was calling for a wet day the 7th annual Cobble Beach Concours d’Elegance endured only a brief shower in the morning allowing the festivities to proceed as planned. A large crowd visited in the afternoon to enjoy the fine showcase of automobiles presented. The winners; post-war was...
Canadian motorsports owes a huge debt to the team of Jim Fergusson and his wife, Alice. Their efforts were almost...
In the earlier days of his racing career, Craig Fisher (who recently passed away) raced just about everything he could...
When you first meet Walt MacKay, you are struck by what a quiet, modest man he is. Currently, he runs a shop repairing, restoring and preparing vintage race cars usually Porsches, but once you dig a little deeper into his background, you find a more than merely competent racecar driver,...
Bronte, Canada September 3, 2017 1934 Austin Racecar 750-cc side-valve.Photo: Bob Harrington Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To...
Nick Pratt shares what Canadian vintage racers turn to, during the cold winter months. My brief foray into ice racing came to an abrupt halt last year after main bearing failure in Richard Poxon’s 2004 Chevy Aveo, so I was pleasantly surprised to receive a call from him in the...
Ed Leavens’ career in racing could be compared to an iceberg where 9/10ths of the details of his career lie...
The Canadian-American Challenge Cup was co-sanctioned by the SCCA and CASC; it was nicknamed the “unlimited” series. Although there was...
If he lasted long enough—that is, if he didn’t get killed in the process—canny observers thought this young South African could become a Formula One World Champion. Not even their crystal ball, though, could have predicted how: it was when driving a Ferrari 312T4 at Monza, the holiest of holies...
From West Coast Juniors comes word of a global celebration of the formula’s Diamond Jubilee that will begin this January...
Born to a Paris butcher and his wife in April 1937, the late Jean-Pierre Beltoise had won the incredible number...
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...
Eighty-Four Hours of Endurance Daytona/Sebring/Watkins Glen 1970-1971 By Michael Keyser This book captures the battle fought between Ferrari, Porsche and...
Villeneuve won four races, including Indy, on his way to the 1995 CART Indycar crown. Photo: John Zimmermann Collection This...
Canada’s Georgian Bay is set to become the backdrop for a new concours d’elegance. Location has always been paramount for the most elite concours around the world—from the esteemed Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este in Lake Como, Italy, to the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance in Monterey, California—the new Cobble Beach golf...
Pete Lyons THIS IS OLD news to you, but as I write, we mountain folk are still buzzing about February’s...
Allen Berg Allen Berg began racing as most do, in karts, and soon progressed up the ladder to Formula Ford...
Bricklin Company namesake and founder, Malcolm Bricklin. Malcolm Bricklin has more balls than a Christmas tree. Charismatic and effervescent, his personality bubbles over with enthusiasm for his next project, sometimes at the cost of his present project. Jonathan Bricklin, Malcolm’s son said it best: “My father started 30 companies and...
There are so many great racecars. I have always liked the Cobra, and I would be very pleased for someone...
The Canadian American Challenge Cup, co-sanctioned by the SCCA and the CASC, was essentially an “unlimited” series. Although there was...
As accustomed as we may become to losing our racing compatriots, there remain times when a death still comes as a shock, and one of those was the news that David Loring had died in mid-September at the age of 62. Although he had endured and survived previous internal ailments,...
Canadian Big Healey Dear Editor, I enjoyed the article “Big Healey” in the March 2012 issue of Vintage Racecar. In...
As you might expect for a site so named, Trackpedia offers a compendium of nearly 1000 racetracks around the world...
Unlike those of Jim Clark, Mario Andretti and Michael Schumacher, not a name at the forefront of all our minds....
The Canadian American Challenge Cup was co-sanctioned by the SCCA and CASC—it was a series nicknamed the “unlimited” series. Although...
