The international Diamond Jubilee Formula Junior celebratory Tour, now on its way to North America, got rolling with five race...
Northern California’s Classic and Sports Racing Group will host its 3rd Annual David Love Memorial weekend at Sonoma Raceway in...
• Bob Bondurant has been elected to the West Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame as part of its Class of 2014. Although better known for leading the Shelby American Cobra team to the 1965 FIA World Manufacturers Championship and his lifelong dedication to his High Performance Driving School, Bondurant...
Howden Ganley Do you like your racing cars to be aesthetically pleasing? Most people do, me included. So how do...
October 2017 Matra Racing DVD, The Rebirth Many years ago I was drawn to the vibrancy of the Matra pit...
Rick Mears Howden Ganley 2 As a publicity stunt, Ford has professional racers drive Cortinas down the Cresta bobsled run in Cortina d’Amprezzo, Italy. Best time is turned in by Jim Clark, with Colin Chapman as codriver (1964). 3 Indy 500 winner Rick Mears is born in Wichita, Kansas (1951)....
Dam Problems Dear Editor Pete Lyons article (Fast Lines, Dec. 2012) was interesting because I was involved with both Jim...
Howden Ganley For the Historic Formula Junior Diamond Jubilee World Tour (quite some title) it really was the “last lap”...
David McKay Keijo Eric “Keke” Rosberg 1 Scuderia Ferrari is formed (1929). 2 Peter Gethin drives a Chevron B26 to victory in the sports car race at Welkom, South Africa (1972). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article...
Garrie Cooper Keke Rosberg 1 American Motors Corporation hires Craig Breedlove to set long-distance high-speed records with an AMX (1967)....
1964 Cooper T70 For a youthful 26 year old, the lure of winning your own country’s premier motor race in...
The author rides the iconically liveried Mirage up onto the curb while negotiating a left-hander at Silverstone. Photo: Pete Austin The Mirage story is, in some ways, a rather complex one, in that the Mirage was a rare example of a well-known racing car that had not been developed consistently year...
The Can-Am Reunion Dinner scheduled for the Saturday of Monterey Classic Car Week, August 20 at the Monterey Plaza Hotel,...
Some of the biggest names in Formula 5000 history will gather for a panel discussion in the paddock at Mazda...
Back in 1962 a group of retired Grand Prix drivers led by the great Juan Manuel Fangio and Nino Farina formed the Club Internationale Des Anciens Pilotes de Grand Prix Formula One, to organize events where they and other former Grand Prix drivers could meet. In turn, organizers of race...
Former F1 and endurance racer Howden Ganley has received his homeland’s highest motor racing honor, joining former inductees Bruce McLaren,...
I am very pleased to be able to announce that starting with this issue, racing legend and long-time friend of...
New Zealander Howden Ganley competed in 35 Grand Prix events between 1971 and 1974, raced in a number of major sports car events, and has not been off the motor racing scene since his first encounter with it in 1955. VRJ’s European Editor Ed McDonough competed against him in the...
Howden Ganley A recent visit to the famous Donington circuit in England, for the launch of a wonderful book about...
In remembering and memorializing John Fitch upon the occasion of his death, Vintage Racecar has produced this brief photographic summary...
The Road to Monaco: My Life in Motor Racing By Howden Ganley It all began for Howden Ganley at the 1955 New Zealand Grand Prix, an experience that set him on the path toward his career as a racing driver. After first competing in cars like his mother’s Morris Minor,...
Lorenzo Bandini Adrian NeweyPhoto: Pete Austin 3 Stanley Dickens and Kunimitsu Takahashi win the 1000-kilometer All Japan Sportscar Championship race at...
Garie Cooper Jurgen Barth 1 American Motors Corporation hires Craig Breedlove to set long-distance high-speed records with an AMX (1967)....
Once upon a time in a bar…well, near a bar…I was talking to a couple who had just bought a new Bentley, a name so famous in motor racing circles that even I, not normally given to huge enthusiasm for motorway cruisers, started asking questions about the technical specs. “Actually,”...
• The 1977 McLaren M26-Ford that James Hunt drove to his final Grand Prix victory in that year’s Japanese Grand...
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...
Editor Casey Annis moderates a panel discussion on the heyday of Formula 5000 with legends like series champions Brian Redman...
Montjuic translates from medieval Catalan as “Hill of the Jews,” or an alternative derivation may be from the Latin Mons...
The BRM Association held their annual track day at Blyton Park, Nr. Gainsborough, Lincolnshire. A good number of attendees including ex-employees, drivers, owners and enthusiasts enjoyed dry, although windswept conditions and witnessed demonstration runs of some of the BRM marque former challengers including the famous 1957 P25 that in the...