In less than two months, a select group of Formula 5000 race cars will be visiting the iconic Road America...
New Season for 2023 The Formula 5000 Drivers Association is pleased to announce its racing schedule for 2023. The Association...
The sights and sounds of the world’s finest historic race cars will return to WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca August 16-19 as entry applications are now open for the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion. Celebrating its 49th anniversary of honoring motorsports history in Monterey, the historic race event has flourished from its...
The Formula 5000 Drivers Association is pleased to announce the results of its race event to close the 2022 season...
The Formula 5000 Drivers Association has announced its racing schedule for 2022. The Association will hold three official races for...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seat racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine of choice was the venerable small block Chevrolet V8 of five-liter displacement. It started as a bright idea in 1967 and ran successfully until politics among the governing body, race...
The Formula 5000 Drivers Association has announced the results of its final race event to close the 2021 season at...
Lost in Time Formula 5000 in North America By John Zimmermann Readers of VR&R will be well acquainted with the...
The Formula 5000 Drivers Association has announced its racing schedule for 2021. The Association has announced three official races for the 2021 Revival Race Series. The 2021 U.S. Formula 5000 Revival Races will take place at the following venues: • June 24-27: SVRA – Mid-Ohio SportsCar Course • July 15-18:...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seat racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
The Formula 5000 Drivers Association has announced the results of the first round of its 2020 revival racing series at...
Versatile Canadian racer and 1981 Trans-Am champion Eppie Wietzes passed away on June 10. According to his wife Barb, “Sad to say that Eppie passed away last night. He was comfortable although frustrated with the sudden progression of the illness. He had heart failure and it was exascerbated by other...
The L&M Formula 5000 Championship; Mid-Ohio, June 3, 1973. Mark Donohue in Roger Penske’s Lola T330 with AMC Javelin power,...
The Formula 5000 Drivers Association has announced its racing schedule for 2020. The Association has announced three official races for...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seat racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine of choice was the venerable small block Chevrolet V8 of five-liter displacement. It started as a bright idea in 1967 and ran successfully until politics among the governing body, race...
The Formula 5000 Drivers Association is pleased to announce the results of its race event to close the 2019 season...
The Formula 5000 Drivers Association has announced its racing schedule for 2019. The Association will host four official races for...
The Mid-Ohio Grand Prix, Mid-Ohio, September 27, 1970 John Eiteljorge with his Brabham BT21F (#74) leads the field to the start. He would ultimately finish 17th. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION PMB 219 – 65 High Ridge Road, Stamford, CT 06905-3814 USA., Tel: (203) 461-9804 • Fax: (203) 968-2970...
Ron Grable, SCCA FA/F5000 and A Sedan National Champion passed away, on Oct 31, at age 85. Born in 1933,...
Autosport International, the world’s biggest pre-season motor show, will play host to the 50-year anniversary celebrations of Formula 5000. Autosport International...
F5000 stalwarts Kevin Bartlett, Howden Ganley and Ken Smith used a visit to a very special workshop in Salinas, California, during the Monterey Motorsport Reunion, to help officially launch the 16th annual SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival Series. This season’s series again kicks off with a round...
F5000 racing stalwart, former Pro Mazda racer and Peoria, Illinois Ford dealership owner Jeff Green suffered a fatal, single car...
April 2018 Whatever Happened to the Gold Cup? by Mike Allen Once retirement is upon us, whether forced by age...
While not the greatest racecar of all time, the Cooper 86B-Maserati was that for me, as it gave me a good start in Grand Prix motor racing. Initially, I thought I’d make a great single-seater driver in the various club events that existed. I was studying Autosport magazine one day...
Over the course of nearly seven decades of Formula One history, only three men have ever won a World Championship...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seat racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
Like many motor racing fans, my original dream of becoming a World Champion racing driver started when I was a small boy, aged about five or six years old. How this was to become a reality was beyond dreams, I was the son of a Lutterworth farmer and far removed...
Franco Cortese John Fitch Photo: Mercedes 1 Guy Frequelin becomes competition chief of Citroën (1989). 2 Seven drivers (Rob Dyson,...
His nickname was always “Tony A-to-Z,” in part because his last name was Adamowicz, but in larger part because his racing career covered everything from Volvo sedans to Indycars and Ferrari sports racers. In remembrance of Tony’s recent passing and this issue’s Ferrari theme, we pay tribute by sharing some...
