The Formula 5000 Drivers Association has announced its racing schedule for 2020. The Association has announced three official races for...
Brian Redman has been named the Grand Marshal for the Vintage Automobile Racing Association of Canada’s Vintage Grand Prix at...
A little bit of almost everything could be found at last weekend’s 76th Members’ Meeting at Goodwood, March 17-18, as vintage racecars and their drivers braved grey and sometimes snowy conditions to open their 2018 historic racing season. In addition to the 11 featured “Cup” races, fans were also treated...
While not the greatest racecar of all time, the Cooper 86B-Maserati was that for me, as it gave me a...
Fresh from winning the FIA Founding Members’ Heritage Cup for last year’s event, the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion will try...
Over the course of nearly seven decades of Formula One history, only three men have ever won a World Championship Grand Prix race in a car of their own construction. Of course, none of them actually designed or built their cars all by themselves, they simply conceived, established, directed, managed...
To mark the 50th Anniversary of the birth of Formula 5000 — initially Formula A — the Formula 5000 Drivers...
The Formula 5000 Drivers Association closed its 2017 racing season at the SVRA National Championships at Circuit of the Americas...
Horst Kroll, a 1994 inductee into the Canadian Motorsports Hall of Fame, passed away on October 26 at the age of 81. After escaping from his East German homeland in the late 1950s, the Scarborough, Ontario, resident enjoyed a racing career than spanned more than 25 years, with success in...
Northern California’s Classic Sports Racing Group’s annual Charity Challenge took place last weekend, September 29-October 1, at Sonoma Raceway, with...
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...
His nickname was always “Tony A-to-Z,” in part because his last name was Adamowicz, but in larger part because his...
The Formula 5000 Drivers Association has announced a 2017 schedule of events that features four race weekends in association with notable vintage racecar weekends around the country. The season kicks off on the weekend of June 8-11 as part of the SVRA’s Open Wheel World Challenge at the Indianapolis Motor...
Champion racing driver Tony Adamowicz, known to many as A2Z, has passed away at the age of 75 following a...
Rick Parsons and Mark Harmer secured their respective Formula 5000 class championships for 2016 during the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association’s...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine of choice was the venerable small-block Chevrolet V8 of 5-liter displacement. It started as a bright idea in 1967 and ran successfully until politics between the governing body, race organizers...
Tom Kendall may be best remembered for his dominant 1997 championship season in the SCCA’s Trans-Am series when he set...
It started with a phone call from the photographer/journalist Bernard Cahier. He said, “Carl Haas has a problem. Brian Redman...
Robby Unser and Andre Ahrle combined to take Ahrle’s 1965 Shelby Cobra Comp R to victory in the featured Indy Legends Charity Vintage Pro/Am race during the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association’s third annual Brickyard Invitational meeting at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. While Unser and Ahrle topped the A Production portion...
Longtime racer Bob Nagel has died at the age of 91. Nagel competed regularly as a privateer for more than...
A four-race 2016 calendar has been announced by Formula 5000 Drivers Association President Seb Coppola. Also revealed was a 2018...
After concluding arrangements with Patricia and Amanda McLaren, widow and daughter of the late Bruce McLaren, TMP, the company that owns and operates the international motorsport park at Taupo, New Zealand, has renamed the multi-purpose facility Bruce McLaren Motorsport Park. McLaren is, of course, the Kiwi-born racecar designer, driver and...
Beating Peter Gethin for the European Formula 5000 champion-ship was something really special. I had a great car and tremendous...
The Formula 5000 Drivers Association crowned its 2015 champions at its season finale, part of SVRA’s U.S. Vintage Racing National...
A four-race 2016 calendar has been announced by Formula 5000 Drivers Association President Seb Coppola. Also revealed was a 2018 return to the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca as a featured race group. The F5000 races were among the most popular at this year’s Rolex event,...
The Formula 5000 Drivers Association crowned its 2015 champions at its final race of the season, run as part of...
David Hobbs has been selected to receive the “Spirit of Competition” award from the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum at the...
I wrote in this space, last month, that racecar drivers are just like us in that they too are human and suffer many of the same issues and problems that we all do. Of course, our image of the professional racecar driver tends to be more along the lines of...
