Heroes of the 1960s will take centre stage at the eighth Castle Combe Autumn Classic, which is confirmed for Saturday,...
The 30h running of the British Columbia Historic Motor Races (BCHMR) took place August 19-20, 2017, on the Mission Raceway...
The Vintage Racing Club of British Columbia (VRCBC) has announced that the 30th running of its annual marquee race weekend, the British Columbia Historic Motor Races (BCHMR) presented by Key West Ford, will take place on August 19 and 20, 2017, at the Mission Raceway Park Road Course in Mission,...
I can think of very few businesses—aside from magazine publishing—where the odds are more stacked against you than being a...
I couldn’t quite pinpoint why, during the research and writing of this profile, that I kept hearing the Lennon/McCartney hit...
Allen Berg Allen Berg began racing as most do, in karts, and soon progressed up the ladder to Formula Ford and Atlantic, then won the Tasman Series down under before tackling British F3 during perhaps its best season ever. A single season of F1 peaked his career, before a Mexican...
Following a chance trip to Monza with a friend, Almo Coppelli found a passion for a sport that would totally...
The 27th edition of the Silverstone Classic, now firmly established as the world’s biggest classic motor racing festival, once again...
Howden Ganley stopped by our vendor booth at the recent Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, where one of the old photos we showed him started a discussion so interesting that I’m keen to share it with you. The picture was made by Art Evans at Palm Springs in November, 1956. It...
In the history of motor-sport safety, few names are as universally recognized as that of Bill Simpson. Initially an active...
During the 1978 season, Mario Andretti and Ronnie Peterson dominated the FIA’s Formula One World Championship. From its introduction at...
Casey Annis Editor/Publisher As historic racers, to some extent our “Holy Grail” is to find a racecar with real, documented history. As such, we scour the globe (and the Internet) looking not just for a great car, but one with its original logbook. With this in mind, I recently found...
My early days of racing gave very few opportunities, starting with a Sprite I slowly progressed to Formula Ford and...
Charles Randolph “Chuck” McCain, whose Alfa Romeo “Keenan Wynn Special” was featured on the cover of VR’s October 2009 issue,...
This year, Crosslé, Lola, and Mallock will all celebrate their fiftieth anniversaries. The exact date of each birthday is unknown, as it is difficult to pinpoint when a special builder became a constructor. In the interest of historical accuracy, I have discussed the matter with Eric Broadley, John Crosslé, and...
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Northern California’s Classic and Sports Racing Group’s 14th annual Charity Challenge, scheduled for the weekend of September 29 through October...
The Classic Sports Racing Group’s annual David Love Memorial Races will be taking place this weekend, April 6-8, at Sonoma Raceway in the Wine Country north of San Francisco. The Love Memorial Races will open the season for CSRG, Northern California’s premier vintage racing organization, with two race groups as...
Northern California’s Classic Sports and Racing Group will be hosting a Formula Vee Gathering during its 2017 Thunderhill Spring race...
Corinthian Vintage Auto Racing (CVAR) has announced that it will hold a special race weekend in honor of the first...
Damon Graham Devereux Hill is the only son of a Formula 1 World Champion to have also won the title. His father, Graham, won the 1962 and 1968 championships and Damon the 1996. The 1994 Grand Prix season outlook seemed bright for Williams with Senna coming aboard to partner Hill...
As accustomed as we may become to losing our racing compatriots, there remain times when a death still comes as...
John Greenwood Rick Mears 1 John Greenwood drives a Greenwood Corvette to victory in the IMSA sports car race at...
I grew up on a farm in Northern Ireland, far removed from motor sport, and my parents strongly disapproved of my even being interested in the sport. As my mother one day said to me, “It’s not as if you’ll ever take part.” How wrong she was! From the glamor...
Lime Rock Park’s Historic Festival 37 takes its place in its traditional Labor Day weekend home: Thursday, Aug. 29, through...
Peter O. Argetsinger, a member of the International Motor Racing Research Center’s Governing Council and an international racing champion and...
The Eagle Formula Ford that I won the SCCA Runoffs with in 1978 was a car I was involved with from very early in its development, and how that happened is a bit of a funny story. I was sitting at home in Massachusetts watching a hockey game on TV...
Formula Ford was a specification racing series created on the theory that the best drivers would win if they were...
Formula Ford was a specification racing series created on the idea that the best drivers would win if they were...
Formula Ford was a specification racing series created on the idea that the best drivers would win if they were racing identical cars. The idea for this low-budget Formula was created by an Englishman named Geoffrey Clarke, who had a drivers school called Motor Racing Stables based at the Brands...