It’s been 21 years since the last race was run at Riverside International Raceway in California, the historic venue succumbing...
A hardy group owning 32 cars made the sojourn to Albert Park in Melbourne, Australia, for the running of the...
In looking for some Formula 5000 video, we recently stumbled across this fantastic piece of a documentary on YouTube that was mistakenly labeled. This 3-minute video segment features racing legend Frank Gardner taking the viewer on a lap of Oulton Park, in 1973. The quality of the video is excellent...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seat racing cars built to a specific set of rules and powered...
Once upon a time it was not unusual to find American constructors on Grand Prix entry lists… With February’s announcement...
A new organization, Historic Motorsports Productions, is seeking to raise the game of vintage and historic racing in North America to match its demographic. The group’s three principals—three-time National Champion and 1986 Indy 500 winner Bobby Rahal, Just Marketing founder Zak Brown, and longtime vintage racer and entrepreneur Peter Stoneberg—made...
Al Unser Jr., David Hobbs, and Les Richter (l to r above) headline the 2009 class of inductees to the...
In the days before data logging transformed our sport into a science, the judge of all things was the simple stopwatch. This meant that the men in the cockpits could still make a difference in the performance of their cars, and George Follmer was one of those men. The Phoenix-born...
The new Historic Motorsports Productions organization has scheduled three events for its inaugural 2010 season. Watkins Glen International was the...
Most readers should be familiar with the work of Bernard Cahier and his son Paul-Henri as chroniclers of the Formula...
When I first talked with Vintage Racecar editor Casey Annis in 2005, the conversation revolved around the subject of me writing about the fifties, the fabulous fifties as it were. After all, this was what I was known for. I had written seven books about the decade. One of my...
FIA Safety Delegate Any organization is, in truth, only as good as the people in it, and motor sport’s global...
March 2010 The Toleman Story By Christopher Hilton After Ayrton Senna dominated British Formula Three, he tested for four F1...
Despite a still-recessionary economic climate, the annual International Racing Car Show in Birmingham, UK, celebrated it’s 20th Anniversary in a positive mood. The heady days of lavish opulence have hit hard times everywhere, and while it has to be said that the show is but a shadow of its former...
Mike Earle started his career with Derek Bell and Church Farm Racing. Over the years he has had a hand...
May 2010 The Strasbourg Sunbeams By Neville S. Webb It is amazing that the four Grand Prix Sunbeams built by...
Rick Parsons and Don Devine have formed the Vintage Indy Racing Group to facilitate the further inclusion of Indycar racing within the historic racing community. Parsons is a former new era Can-Am competitor and currently races in Historic Formula 5000, while Devine once drove the fabled Scarabs for the Meister...
Unlike many racing drivers, none of my family was associated with motor sport or the motor trade. Spain, my country,...
Peter Gethin may have been the son of a jockey, but he pursued a different kind of horsepower, making his...
1976 March 76B I have a confession to make. When I was but a pubescent young man, I used to lie in bed at night and fantasize…that I was Gilles Villeneuve. In an era before in-car cameras, I could close my eyes and visualize a complete lap of the U.S....
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
A couple of years and a bit ago I suggested in this spot that, during these times of economic stress,...
We concluded last month’s opening segment of John Zimmermann’s interview with David Hobbs as he was preparing to turn his attention toward North America. Even though he would still contest a number of major races in Europe, the main focus of his competitive efforts turned toward the USA where he...
The Formula 5000 Drivers Association has published a five-race 2011 schedule that takes the high-powered series to some of North...
March 2011 Caribbean Capers By Joel E. Finn Subtitled “The Cuban Grand Prix Races of 1957, 1958 & 1960,” this...
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 5.0 liters displacement. It started as a bright idea in 1967 and ran successfully until politics between the governing...
Forty-two years after winning the 1969 SCCA Formula Continental crown in Marvin Davidson’s Milestone Eagle, Tony Adamowicz is once again...
Bobby Unser was inducted as a Legend of Riverside at the 4th annual celebration of the same name at California’s...
Bruce BurnessPhoto: John Zimmermann When last we left Bruce Burness (April VR) he had just initiated his lasting association with Trevor Harris where they performed what he called “the ultimate male-bonding experience.” In this second part of VR Associate Editor John Zimmermann’s interview, Burness discusses the achievement he considers the...