Joseph Pendergast, historic racer, race organizer, and collector for nearly 40 years, succumbed to complications from pneumonia on September 14,...
1964 Porsche 904 GTS Resplendent in its red and white Scuderia Filipinetti livery, 904 #079 looks lean and lithe and...
My father ran in the first NASCAR Cup race in 1949, when I was 11 years old, but I went along to spectate. When I was old enough, I became a racer too. Let me say though I was nearly 21 years old before I sat behind a wheel to...
Edmund Rahal, who though mainly unknown was the first of the racing Rahals, passed away last December 16 at the...
Two liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever changing regulations of international motorsports;...
Sad news this morning as it was announced by the Guldstrand family that Corvette racing legend Dick Guldstrand has passed away at the age of 88. During the 1950s, Guldstrand majored in Engineering at UCLA and began his racing career in Midget and Sprint cars in Southern California. By 1957,...
Away from the start of Race 3 at Eagle Mountain in April of 1957, Dave Tallaksen’s 3.4-liter XK-SS (#147) shares...
The Motorsports Hall of Fame of America will celebrate its 25th Annual Induction Ceremony on Wednesday, August 21, 2013 at...
Tom Kendall may be best remembered for his dominant 1997 championship season in the SCCA’s Trans-Am series when he set a record with 11 consecutive victories in Jack Roush’s All Sport Ford Mustang on the way to his fourth Trans-Am crown, but he’s much more than that. He began his...
Masters Historic Racing has announced an eight-race European schedule for next year, beginning with the Masters Festival at Zolder, Belgium,...
Indy Dear Editor, Just read this months Vintage Racecar while lying in my bed (NASCAR on in the background) at...
The best weather of the week provided the perfect backdrop for a colorful and competitive conclusion of the Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) Classic Daytona presented by IMSA that was run for the seventh time this past weekend at Daytona International Speedway (DIS). Under a clear and sunny sky with temperatures...
February 2010 The Spirit of Competition By frederick a. Simeone, M.d. Dr. Simeone began collecting cars before he could drive,...
Famed Corvette racer John Greenwood has died at the age of 71. The son of a General Motors executive, Greenwood...
Officials from Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) and Peter Auto have announced an exclusive partnership that will allow both organizations to adopt a common set of rules and regulations for the premier Group C category. The new regulations will get their first outing this weekend, November 8-12, at HSR’s Classic at...
October 2003 Daytona 24 Hours By J.J. O’Malley In the world of professional sports car racing, only two events have...
Daytona Beach, Florida February 5, 2005 The 1979 Ferrari 512BBLM of Kurt Schultz. Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access...
• Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) has announced that American racing legend Bobby Rahal has entered the second annual Classic 24 Hour at Daytona, presented by IMSA, November 12–15 at Daytona International Speedway. Rahal is a three-time Indycar National Champion and winner of the Indianapolis 500 as both a driver (1986)...
The 24 Hours of Daytona was won in both 1970 and 1971 by the Porsche 917. The race was for...
Ralph DePalma John Surtees 1 Sportscar racer Jim Pace born (1961). 2 Al Holbert, Derek Bell and Al Unser Jr....
George Follmer, Can-Am champion, Trans-Am champion and a winner in virtually every form of racing he tried, was honored by the Road Racing Drivers Club with its 2012 Phil Hill Award at the RRDC dinner prior to January’s Rolex 24 at Daytona. RRDC president Bobby Rahal presented the award. Since...
PRELIMINARIES The 2023 Daytona 24 hours was the 61st year of the event. It was once again a watershed year,...
November 2007 Racing Sports Cars, Memories of the Fifties By Art Evans Readers of this magazine will no doubt be...
Head-to-head battle between a Jaguar XJR-5 and Porsche 962 at Daytona during HSR’s 24-hour vintage event....
Louis Stanley Rudolf Caracciola 2 First South Africa Grand Prix to be held on the Kyalami track near Johannesburg is...
In an unlikely turn of events, the historic GTP cars brought by HSR to support this year’s 24 Hours of...
Chevrolet recently debuted the new Corvette Z06 GT3.R racecar, a year before it makes its competition debut at the 2024 Rolex 24 At Daytona. Making its public debut at Daytona International Speedway ahead of the Rolex 24, the Corvette Z06 GT3.R is Chevrolet’s first racecar that fully meets FIA technical...
Looking Back on a Brilliant Career… One Photographer’s Personal Recollections of the Most Successful American Endurance Racer of All Time...
As you’ll read in this month’s news, Bloomberg News recently confirmed that a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO has been sold...
In this concluding installment of our interview with Trans-Am record-breaker Tom Kendall, we pick up the narrative just after he’s won his first Trans-Am crown and been invited to compete in the International Race of Champions. Then came the downside, and his big leg-smashing GTP crash at Watkins Glen, where...