Robby Unser and Andre Ahrle combined to take Ahrle’s 1965 Shelby Cobra Comp R to victory in the featured Indy...
As a packed house assembled at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway last Sunday morning, the hours leading up to the 100th...
That’s some ride from West Lothian, Scotland to winning the great Indianapolis 500 three times, not to mention four IndyCar Series Championships. It’s a ride Dario Franchitti took from 1996 until 2013. On the way Dario, born in Bathgate, West Lothian on May 19, 1973, and whose family has profound...
A pair of million-dollar Shelby Cobras took top honors at Dana Mecum’s 29th Original Spring Classic, at the Indiana State...
We all know their names, and they all would tell you that we do because they won this one race....
Rick Mears will always be known as one of the few men ever to win the Indianapolis 500 four times, but despite an Indycar career of legendary proportions, the guy once called “Rocket Rick: The Fastest Man on Four Wheels” was no one-trick pony. As we know, he started out...
Eddie Rickenbacker Rick Mears 1 Roberto Lippi drives a Stanguellini to victory in the Formula Junior race at Vallelunga, Italy...
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway Foundation has announced a pair of inductees for this year’s class at its Auto Racing Hall...
The 29th Annual Mecum Original Spring Auction returns once again to the Indiana State Fairgrounds in Indianapolis on the weekend of May 17-21 for an event headlined as usual by American muscle cars. The five-day sale attracts consignments from across the nation and tens of thousands of spectators annually, with...
Bob Harkey, an Indycar regular during the ’60s and ’70s, has passed away at the age of 85. Born and...
One of the highlights of this year’s Arizona Concours d’Elegance, set for January 23 at the Arizona Biltmore Resort in...
Can you imagine two cars chained together, nose to nose, engines thundering on the infield of the 1930 Indianapolis 500? In one corner, wearing black coachwork with gray interior weighing in at 3,650 pounds, the 1929 Ruxton factory special known as the Muller Front Drive Special. And in the other...
• The proposal by the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association to hold a race meeting in conjunction with the Amelia Island...
A four-race 2016 calendar has been announced by Formula 5000 Drivers Association President Seb Coppola. Also revealed was a 2018...
John Greenwood Rick Mears 1 John Greenwood drives a Greenwood Corvette to victory in the IMSA sports car race at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida (1974). 2 Alpine Renault A110s finish 1-2-3 in the Tour de Course rally in France, with Jean-Pierre Nicolas and Michel Vial on board...
• Goodwood has announced provisional dates for its 2016 Festival of Speed and Revival meetings, planning to stage the former...
The Sportscar Vintage Racing Association has announced its event schedule for 2016, the 16-weekend slate once again featuring the Brickyard...
Hermann Lang Bernd Rosemeyer 2 Louis de Palma drives a Benz to victory in the Vanderbilt Cup race in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (1912). 3 George Follmer wins the SCCA Trans-Am race at Riverside, California in an AMC Javelin (1971). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
At last weekend’s Brickyard Invitational at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway five members of Albuquerque’s foremost racing family, the Unsers, drove...
The 2nd Annual Brickyard Vintage Racing Invitational, organized by the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway will...
Two-time World Champion Jim Clark raced at Indianapolis five times, winning once and officially finishing 2nd twice, with both of those results mired in controversy that could have made him a three-time winner. In 1965 Clark dominated the race to score the first win for a rear-engined car, but in...
1949 Kurtis Sports Car [dropcap]F[/dropcap]rank Kurtis built racecars. He built many of the cars entered in the Indy 500 from...
Four-time Indy 500 winner and three-time U.S. National Champion Al Unser will be honored during Legends Day at Indianapolis this...
Casey Annis Editor/Publisher Elsewhere in this issue you’ll read of the passing of an individual that you’ve likely never heard of. Yet, this gentleman is probably responsible for preserving more significant racing history than nearly anyone else in the past 50 years. His name was Bill Spoerle and from 1963...
Villeneuve won four races, including Indy, on his way to the 1995 CART Indycar crown. Photo: John Zimmermann Collection This...
Photo: Michael Casey-DiPleco Vintage racecar driver Howard Katz has been named the third recipient of The Gorsline Cup, honored during...
Joe “The Kid” Dawson headed for victory in the 1912 Indianapolis 500-Mile Race in his National. Each May, I am reminded of one of the most exciting races ever seen at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Unfortunately, none of us were around to see it. It was the second running of...
At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in May of 1971, Mario Andretti waits to qualify the McNamara-Ford that he would start...
In many ways the racing career of Dave MacDonald embodies the image of the light glowing twice as bright, lasting...
• The 1977 McLaren M26-Ford that James Hunt drove to his final Grand Prix victory in that year’s Japanese Grand Prix, was the top seller at November’s RK Motors Collector Car Auction in Charlotte, N.C., attracting the event’s top bid of $1.2 million. • The Grand Prix Drivers Club (GPDC),...
