As I follow the recent political soap opera, which has become Formula One, I can’t help but think of the...
Vintage Racecar was stunned to learn of the tragic death of Henry Surtees while he was competing in Round 4...
1969 Porsche 917K In 1969 it was make-or-break time for Porsche. After over a decade of dominating small-bore racing, the factory team was ready to go for overall honors at the major endurance races, and at Le Mans in particular. Porsche was well known in the marketplace for creating the...
August 2009 Porsche: Excellence Was Expected By Karl Ludvigsen As highlighted throughout this issue, the importance of Porsche to the...
This official site for Aston Martin Racing offers an insider’s view of the marque’s competition efforts over the years. Most of the emphasis is, as you might expect, on the current crop of coupes and prototypes that are contesting the FIA GT Championship and Le Mans Series in Europe—as well...
The Formula Junior category was introduced in Italy in 1958 by Count Giovanni Lurani, and in 1959, it became an...
Five-time IMSA champion Jim Downing, one of the creators of the HANS Device, is the latest recipient of the Road Racing Drivers Club’s Bob Akin Trophy. The award was presented by RRDC president Bobby Rahal and committee chair Archie Urciuoli. Each year the Akin Trophy honors the driver who best embodies...
Lime Rock Park’s preparations for the 28th Annual Vintage Festival on the traditional Labor Day weekend are well underway. Buzz...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula or Formula One was formed by the FIA (Federation...
Throughout history, men have always competed to go faster, farther, and higher than others, and during the past century much of this has been done in motor cars. In early days no attention was paid to safety, with numerous fatalities meaning motor sport ranked second only to flying homemade aircraft...
Pete Lyons News that Formula One is so financially distressed… Wait! Let us savor this! Become a Member & Get...
February 2009 OMP Vintage Light Suit For over three decades, Italian safety manufacturer OMP has been producing driving suits and racing gear for a variety of amateur and professional motor sports, including Formula One champions like Michael Schumacher, Nigel Mansell, Mika Hakkinen, Damon Hill, and Ayrton Senna. Acknowledging the global...
The FIA sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations...
January 2009 The Automotive Art of Alan Fearnley Foreword by Murray Walker While there are—and have been—many fine automotive artists,...
Ford’s iconic GT40 will be the featured marque at this summer’s 10th annual Kohler International Challenge with Brian Redman on the weekend of July 16-19 at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. Also featured among the more than 1,000 entries in 10 race groups at the SVRA event will be...
There was something missing from the recent Olympics—motor sport. I can think of no good reason why, when we have...
Grand Prix racing comes with a new look in 2009. Among other significant technical changes—wider cars, grooveless slicks, and Kinetic...
Assuming that somehow what racing really needs is another international Formula car class, the FIA recently announced plans to resurrect a new version of the same Formula 2 category it consigned to history with the creation of Formula 3000 in 1985. This new F2 is intended to be a feeder...
Imagine what it was like for Eric Broadley to have come up with the T70 coupe after the heady days...
Karl Abarth was a magician. A waver of wands whose magic brought the exquisite pleasure of higher-performance motoring and motor...
1959 OSCA | 1960 Lotus 18 | 1963 Brabham BT6 Regular readers of VR will know that we have a fondness for Formula Junior. We have covered some important ground with this significant racing formula, and gotten to grips with Elva, Lotus, Stanguellini, Volpini, Autosud and more. As 2008 marks 50 years...
For over 50 years, the Chevrolet Corvette has been considered by many to be “America’s sports car.” And as early...
Ove Andersson, the man responsible for shaping the global motor sport presence of Toyota in both rallying and Formula One,...
Jean-Marie Balestre, the controversial president of FISA and the FIA throughout the 1980s, passed away on March 27 at the age of 86. Balestre’s notoriety started during World War II when he served in a French regiment of the Nazi SS. After France was liberated, Balestre was imprisoned for his...
My favorite Williams Formula One car, I designed, is the FW08—the car Keke Rosberg used to win the 1982 drivers...
Peter Collins Sir Stirling Moss 2 Stirling Moss drives a Maserati 250F to victory in the Glover Trophy Race at Goodwood, England (1956). 5 Jim Clark wins the unlimited sports car race and the Formula Libre race at Full Sutton, England (1958). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To...
