It hardly seems credible, but the 13th Goodwood Revival Meeting has just taken place and it was as good as...
The FIA sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations...
The FIA’s vaunted Formula One World Championship celebrated its 60th anniversary last year, with gala reunions of all its living champions (well, most of them) and tributes to the grandest of all spectacles, or so they would have us believe. Most serious followers of auto racing history know, however, that...
1971 Alfa Romeo GTV Trans-Am If you ask any pre-teenage boy what a transformer is, he’ll tell you it is...
By almost anyone’s measure, one of the things that made the Golden Era golden was the Canadian-American Challenge Cup or...
Looking Back on a Brilliant Career… One Photographer’s Personal Recollections of the Most Successful American Endurance Racer of All Time This photo montage shows (clockwise from bottom) Haywood in Bruce Leven’s Porsche 956, at Porsche-palooza in 1981, all smiles after his third victory at Le Mans in 1994, and celebrating...
During the years following WWII, road racing in the U.S. initially developed as an amateur sport, mostly run by the...
Tazio Nuvolari James Hunt Photo: Dennis Gray 1 Dick Johnson and John Bowe drive a Ford Sierra to victory in...
The Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal rejoined the FIA’s World Championship for Formula One calendar this year after a one-year hiatus, and among the events supporting the featured contest on Le Circuit Gilles Villeneuve was an appearance by the cars and drivers of Historic Grand Prix. HGP’s members present cars...
The Car that Made McLaren McLaren In these modern days of disposable everything (or so it seems), one can quickly...
There is a section in The Sunday Times called In Gear and it is basically boys’ toys, with cars as...
The Formula Junior category was introduced in Italy in 1958 by Count Giovanni Lurani, and in 1959 became an International Formula. Shortly thereafter, in 1960, the British began to take a serious interest in the category, beginning the rivalry between British and Italian cars. The original FIA Formula Junior regulations...
I think it was in 1957 that I saw Fangio race at Silverstone, it was a catalyst for me to...
My love of motorsport is more a love of speed rather than racing, although it could be considered as a...
In what is believed to be one of the few one-make series in historic racing, Masters Historic Racing has launched a championship intended solely for FIA specification pre-1966 Minis. Rounds of the series will be held at Masters Festivals and Top Hat meetings in 2010, highlighted by two races at...
The Road Racing Drivers Club has chosen Monterey Historics founder Steve Earle as the recipient of its Bob Akin Award,...
Say what you will about Bernie Ecclestone, but you cannot deny the fact that he has an eye for a...
The title of my column reads: “The Fabulous Fifties.” The era is one I know something about. During that time, I raced, rallied, officiated, and was an SCCA Regional Board member. In addition, I shot photos, wrote articles, and had a wide friendship that included some of you. Also, I...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was created by the Federation Internationale...
FIA Safety Delegate Any organization is, in truth, only as good as the people in it, and motor sport’s global governing body, the FIA, is no different. One of the men who help make a difference there is Englishman Charlie Whiting. Whiting started out in Club racing and worked his...
Quadruple Monte Carlo Rallye winner Walter Röhrl dominated December’s FIA European Rally Championship for Historical Cars event in the Spanish...
The FIA sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations...
Officials of Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca have announced that the Historic Motor Sports Association (HMSA) will be the sanctioning body for the 2010 Monterey Historic Automobile Races as well as the Monterey Pre-Historics. HMSA will provide rules, regulations, and oversee technical inspection. Although the Featured Marque was not announced, the...
The new Historic Motorsports Productions organization has scheduled three events for its inaugural 2010 season. Watkins Glen International was the...
Jean Sage, who headed up Renault’s original factory effort in Formula One, has died at the age of 68 at...
My column in the October 2006 edition of Vintage Racecar was titled, “Shelby, the Early Years.” For the most part, it was about Carroll Shelby’s racing career that culminated in winning Le Mans in 1959. I followed up on the column with the publication of my book, Shelby, the Race...
I’ve had a dream, one of the rare ones I remember clearly and can’t stop thinking about. That must mean...
Several record-breaking sales of racing cars were made during the auction activities surrounding Monterey Auto Week 2009. Topping the list...
Once upon a time it was not unusual to find American constructors on Grand Prix entry lists… With February’s announcement of a new American constructor preparing to contest the Formula One World Championship in 2010 and subsequently landing a spot on the official FIA entry list, came a resurgence of...
