Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
News has come from the Mayo Clinic that American racecar driver and designer Bruce Eglinton has died at the age...
The 42nd annual vintage racecar festival at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, otherwise known as the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, once again delighted crowds with a full slate of racing and other automotive activities as it celebrated the 50th anniversary of its Featured Marque, the Shelby GT350 Mustang, last weekend. Two...
A panel discussion featuring some of the biggest names in Formula 5000 history will take place in the paddock at...
When last we left Formula 5000 (VR April 2014) Jody Scheckter had just overcome challenger Brian Redman for the 1973...
Some of the biggest names in Formula 5000 history will gather for a panel discussion in the paddock at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca during next month’s Rolex Monterey Motorpsorts Reunion. The panel lineup currently includes Brian Redman, Vern Schuppan, Tony Adamowicz, John Morton, Howden Ganley and Shadow team owner Don...
The old, established events in historic racing never cease to amaze the participants and spectators who flock here to Road...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
• Three fixtures of American racing have been inducted into the SCCA Hall of Fame. Carroll Shelby, Bobby Rahal and Skip Barber were enshrined during a March 2 dinner in Las Vegas for their contributions to SCCA racing. Shelby, more widely known as winner of the 1959 Le Mans 24...
Tony Robinson: The Biography of a Race Mechanic By Ian Wagstaff Everyone knows that the best racing stories are those...
Sam Posey was presented with the Spirit of Competition award at a gala dinner at the Simeone Automotive Museum in...
Pete Lyons Partway through an evening of kind words, warm recollections and congratulations, the moderator came on the mic and said: “George, we’ve had several speakers here; I’m surprised the term ‘anger management’ hasn’t been used yet!” Poor George Follmer could only join the laughter filling the Petersen Museum’s banquet...
The 18th Annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance will honor racing driver Sam Posey as its special guest and celebrate the...
George Follmer Photo: Walter Pietrowicz Jacques Laffite Photo: Mike Jiggle 1 Ricardo Rodriguez dies on the way to the hospital...
Now firmly re-established as one of the biggest and best historic racing festivals, the Silverstone Classic provided plenty of interest over the weekend of July 20-22. The event boasted a 1000-car entry list, made possible by using both sets of pits and paddocks on the full British Grand Prix circuit....
• It’s always nice when the CEO of a major automaker shows an interest in motor sport, and an excellent...
Small independent shops are keystones of the automobile restoration industry, and among the more notable of these is Cavaglieri Restorations,...
Jerry Grant was one of the many American racing drivers who could, and did, drive virtually anything he could get his hands on or his behind into. He may have started his competitive career in the visceral world of drag racing, but soon discovered the joys of road racing and...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seat racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
Two races at this year’s Silverstone Classic, scheduled for the weekend of July 20–22, will be dedicated to the memory...
Lola Cars, the world’s oldest racing car constructor announced in mid-May that it was entering financial administration due to cash-flow problems caused by ongoing global economic conditions. The move includes both Lola Cars International Limited and Lola Composites Limited, and a prepared statement said it “allows the board to continue...
Bruce BurnessPhoto: John Zimmermann When last we left Bruce Burness (April VR) he had just initiated his lasting association with...
Bobby Unser was inducted as a Legend of Riverside at the 4th annual celebration of the same name at California’s...
Forty-two years after winning the 1969 SCCA Formula Continental crown in Marvin Davidson’s Milestone Eagle, Tony Adamowicz is once again king of Formula 5000, having claimed victory in three of the five F5000 Drivers Association revival races to secure the 2011 title. Driving the same 1969 Eagle Mark 5-Chevy he...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The...
March 2011 Caribbean Capers By Joel E. Finn Subtitled “The Cuban Grand Prix Races of 1957, 1958 & 1960,” this...
The Formula 5000 Drivers Association has published a five-race 2011 schedule that takes the high-powered series to some of North America’s classic motorsports venues. The year kicks off at Watkins Glen on June 9–12 as part of the SVRA weekend at the upstate New York track, then visits Quebec’s Le...
We concluded last month’s opening segment of John Zimmermann’s interview with David Hobbs as he was preparing to turn his...
A couple of years and a bit ago I suggested in this spot that, during these times of economic stress,...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine of choice became the venerable small block Chevrolet V-8 of 5-liter displacement. It started as a bright idea in 1967 and ran successfully until politics between the governing body, race...
