Keke Rosberg was a kind of motor racing Cinderella Man. He went from the drudgery of retiring or not even...
The history of motor sport is, in many ways, a history of barriers being broken. In the automobile’s 19th-century infancy,...
The second annual Spring Classic will take place at Laguna Seca on the weekend of May 18-20, featuring not only the usual vintage race cars (above, T.M. Hill photo courtesy of Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca) but also expanding this year to include on-track exhibitions for the Historic Motorcycles that were...
1969 Chevron B8-BMW In my book, 2006 was a good year. Got my pensioner’s bus pass, had two cataract operations,...
This September the McLaren Group will observe the 50th anniversary of the company’s founding by Bruce McLaren, but the entire...
Organizers of the famed Long Beach Grand Prix—which this year was to include an historic Formula Atlantic support race—have announced that the event has been cancelled. According to the organizers: In light of today’s announcement from the City of Long Beach prohibiting all large-scale events in the City through April...
Riddelle Gregory Vittorio Jano 1 Mercedes-Benz publishes a press release officially describing its W25 Grand Prix racecars as “Silver Arrows”...
Masters Historic Racing has announced its 2021 Masters USA Calendar with a roll-call of the classic North American road circuits. Next year’s Masters U.S. Tour takes in six stunning North American circuits in a nine-round schedule that goes full circle, starting and ending at Sebring. To add to the excitement,...
Mike Earle started his career with Derek Bell and Church Farm Racing. Over the years he has had a hand...
In the late 1960s—1969 I think—I started racing motorbikes in local races in Belgium. Not too powerful machines, just 50-cc,...
Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca has created a new vintage event for its 2017 calendar, the Spring Classic that will take place on the weekend of May 19-21 at the scenic Central California raceway. The three-day event will showcase racing by vintage racecars from several different eras, focusing on the ’70s,...
The Sportscar Vintage Racing Association has announced “The SVRA Open Wheel World Challenge,” set for the weekend of June 8-11,...
• The Motorsports Hall of Fame of America (MSHFA) presented John Mecom Jr. with its Bob Russo Heritage Award at...
Jules Goux John FitchPhoto: Mercedes 4 Jules Goux, driving a Ballot, wins the first Italian Grand Prix at Montichiari, near Brescia (1921). 5 Gilles Villeneuve wins the non-championship Formula Atlantic race through the streets of Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada, driving a March 76B (1976). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access...
I would rather be remembered as somebody who did some work against cancer than the driver who won the Belgian...
If I asked you to pick a brand associated with high performance and motorsport, chances are good the name Volkswagen would not be one of the first names to pop into your head. Known as the “People’s car”—and forever linked to the bulbous but iconic “Bug” nee Beetle—by the 1960s,...
Formula Atlantic celebrates its 35th season in 2008, standing as the second oldest training category in the world, behind only...
From a European perspective, during the 1990s Reynard had expanded as far as it could go with the various F3...
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