Long Beach celebrated 30 years of racing on its famous street circuit with a full weekend of fierce competition that...
Motor Racing Legends has renamed its JD Classics Challenge race series, for 1966-’85 Touring Cars, as the Historic Touring Car...
In what is believed to be one of the few one-make series in historic racing, Masters Historic Racing has launched a championship intended solely for FIA specification pre-1966 Minis. Rounds of the series will be held at Masters Festivals and Top Hat meetings in 2010, highlighted by two races at...
• Stu Hilborn, widely known as the Father of Fuel Injection, has passed away at the age of 96. While...
February 2008 Dan Gurney’s Eagle Racing Cars By John Zimmerman Dan Gurney had already established himself as one of America’s...
Historic Formula Junior racing in Britain and Europe has steadily grown over the past decade in both the total number of events and in their prestige. With fields at such events as Monaco, Goodwood, and Porto, F.Jr. has regained a level of interest in Europe not seen since its heyday...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was formed by the FIA (Federation...
On August 15–28, 2013, historic rallying will return to the Caribbean island of Barbados for the 12th annual Barbados Historic...
Grand Prix Masters and the World Sportscar Masters series have both been given new names and become fully sanctioned FIA championships. The new FIA Masters Historic Formula One Championship will start its season at Barcelona on April 12-14. With sporting and technical regulations relatively unchanged from previous years, the aim...
Castle Combe Circuit, Chippenham, Wiltshire, UK April 9, 2012 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (&...
The FIA sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations...
Some of the world’s finest classic and antique automobiles will take center stage at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway during the one-time-only Centennial Era Concours d’Elegance on June 18-20, 2010. The event was announced by Speedway president, Joie Chitwood, at the recent Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance in Florida. The event will...
Mark Knopfler driving his Maserati 300S in the Maserati Centenary Trophy race at Donington. Photo: Pete Austin As a boy,...
The outrageous Group B cars from the World Rally Championship of the 1980s have been added to the Donington Historic...
The Crosslé Car Company Limited, the UK’s oldest constructor of racing cars, has undergone a change in ownership and management that entails exciting plans for its future. Last November, Arnie Black handed the company over to long-time Crosslé customer and enthusiast Paul McMorran, who brings 32 years experience as an...
Wandering through that great Goodwood paddock of my mind, I delight in thousands of historic racing machines at every hand....
George Follmer, the subject of this month’s VR Interview (page 30), was inducted into the Watkins Glen Drivers Walk of...
The over two-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports; the World Sports Car Championship from 1953-1961, the Speedworld Challenge from 1962-1963, the International Championship of Makes from 1972-1981. This included racing in the great endurance races such as the...
Donington Park, Castle Donington, UK May 5–6, 2012 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
A brand-new series of historic races, for the Sir Stirling Moss Trophy, has been launched by Motor Racing Legends (MRL)....
Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Monza, Italy July 10–11, 2015 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to paid subscribers only. Our membership removes most ads, lets you enjoy unlimited access to all our premium content, and offers you awesome discounts on...
Arguably, one of the core tenets of vintage and historic racing is the notion of the rolling time frame, that...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was created by the Federation Internationale...
If you dig through the internet long enough, occasionally you will discover an unexpected surprise. Such is the case with this month’s featured Web site devoted to photos taken at the Indy 500 during the early ’70s. This interesting gallery of color photos was created by a current motorsport photographer...
Roll-Over Protection or Abstract Art Dear Editor, As a dedicated classic / historic racecar, roadcar enthusiast I am horrified how...
Long time readers of Vintage Racecar Journal will be aware of the husband-and-wife photographic team of Walt & Louiseanne Pietrowicz...
• Masters Historic Racing will be expanding into North America with its acquisition of Historic Grand Prix Inc., America’s historic Formula One organizer. While the combined organization will initially be directed from the existing Masters office in the UK, events in the USA will continue to be run from a...
The enjoyment of Lime Rock Park’s 32nd Historic Festival was muted somewhat by the tragic loss of veteran vintage racer...
Racemaker Press, The Winners Book • US$65 plus shipping and handling Noted racing historian James O’Keefe has compiled an incredible...
A primer on in-car video systems for the historic racer. Humans are such visual animals that even when our eyes are closed, some form of imagery usually plays across the big screen of our consciousness as we remember, imagine, or dream of things both real and not. This reality has...
