In honor of the 60th anniversary of Chevrolet’s Corvette, the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion has selected “America’s sports car” as...
Like so many great automobiles of our time, the Mercedes-Benz SL series can trace its origins directly to the racetrack. With the rebuilding and recovery of Europe ongoing six years after the end of World War II, Mercedes competition boss Alfred Neubauer was told that the resources for a resumption...
As you’ll see, throughout both sides of the magazine, this month we recognize and celebrate the 60th anniversary of Mercedes-Benz’s...
The 1962 24 Hours of Le Mans did not look as though it would be a walkover for Phil Hill,...
Longtime SCCA stalwart Andy Porterfield died in mid-April at the age of 80 from complications following heart valve surgery. Beyond being honored with the club’s premier award, the Woolf Barnato Trophy, in 2009, Porterfield’s list of on-track accomplishments are highlighted by an unprecedented 22 Southern Pacific Division championships, back-to-back B-Production...
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Few auctions in the world can match Dana Mecum’s Original Spring Classic for variety, and fewer still are able to...
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Pete Lyons We start the new season with two interesting notes on the subject of pulchritude. Near the end of...
This year marks the 50th Anniversary of the race that began as the Daytona Continental in 1962 and evolved into today’s Rolex 24 at Daytona, but not all of those races were run for a full 24 hours. The first two runnings had a three-hour duration, while the next two...
Betty Skelton, a pioneer in both aviation and auto racing who was once known as the fastest woman on Earth,...
The 3rd annual Motorsports and Memories event, set for September 17 at historic Meadowdale Raceways in Carpentersville, Illinois, will feature...
Automobile manufacturers have long used racing as a tool for both exploring new technologies and advancing marketing agendas, and one of the richest of these competition records belongs to Jaguar. In North America, much of that history has been written by Bob Tullius’ Group 44 Inc. Commencing with an SCCA...
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1990 Penske PC19-Ilmor Chevrolet I first saw Roger Penske racing a Maserati Birdcage at Lime Rock Park in Connecticut. He...
To celebrate the 100th year of Chevrolet, Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wis., will host a special tribute to the marque on the weekend of August 18–21, as the Sunday finale of the circuit’s American Le Mans Series weekend. One part of the Corvette World Tribute will be a rededication...
For a baker’s dozen of years in the late 1950s and early ’60s, Nassau in the Bahamas Islands hosted a...
In 1953, the very first Corvettes hit Chevrolet Dealers’ show rooms. Hailed by some as the long-awaited American sports car,...
By now everyone should be familiar with YouTube as a source for long-lost films from the old days, and these two new links take you back in time to a position trackside at two of America’s favorite racing grounds, Watkins Glen (not Kent, Washington as suggested) and Riverside. The first...
A total of 26 cars sold for more than $1 million during Classic Car Week in Monterey, California this August,...
Looking Back on a Brilliant Career… One Photographer’s Personal Recollections of the Most Successful American Endurance Racer of All Time...
A number of those among us stood head and shoulder above all others during the Golden Age of Motorsports. Juan Fangio, Stirling Moss, Carroll Shelby, John Fitch, Dan Gurney and Phil Hill immediately come to mind. Only one from that exhalted group, however, was proposed for President of the United...
With June’s running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Corvette marked the 50th anniversary of its first participation in...
From time to time, event organizers make the mistake of asking me to speak or MC at their event. You...
Sixty years ago, an American sportsman built his own cars to tackle the world’s greatest endurance race Many in America today see road racing as more a sub-genre of motor sport, with the nation thoroughly consumed by oval racing on tracks that seem to dot the continental 48-state landscape with...
The International Motor Racing Research Center in Watkins Glen, N.Y., annually raffles off a desirable car as a way to...
Racing’s fabled “Pink Lady,” Donna Mae Mims, the first woman to win an SCCA National Championship, has passed away at...
Today almost exclusively remembered as the genius behind the competition cars named for a road-running bird in the southwest, Jim Hall did not get the inspiration for his innovative designs overnight. Although he grew into an accomplished engineer, an excellent mechanic, and a top driver, it took Hall almost seven...
