Heveningham provides the perfect setting for a concours event with its tiered, Kim Wilkie-designed, sweeping lawn terraces to display beautiful...
My wife and I traveled back to Indianapolis for the “500” to take part in the vintage race portion of...
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...
Greg Smith is a long time vintage racing enthusiast and runs a restoration shop that has traditionally specialized in European...
To be honest, I’ve had a lot of great racecars in my career and it’s very difficult to select just...
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Subscriber exclusive Photo Gallery from the 2019 Indianapolis 500 Legends Day and Historic Pre-Race Laps, May 25–26. The Indianapolis Motor...
The roar of vintage Indianapolis 500 champions will permeate the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on May 23-25 as the IMS Museum...
This year’s Monterey Historic Automobile Races marks the 35th running of this classic event. As shown schematically in the Laguna Seca track map to the right, over the course of those 35 years, a wide variety of significant automotive marques have been honored with the distinction of “featured marque.” Interestingly,...
This week, Maserati celebrates the 80th anniversary of the Maserati 8CTF’s fantastic win at the Indianapolis 500. On Sunday May...
This year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, to be held July 6-8 in Chichester, England, will feature over 90 years of Indianapolis 500 history. Among the Indy champions planning on taking part in the prestigious hillclimb are Bobby Unser, Danny Sullivan and Bobby Rahal. “This is going to be a great...
Sam Hanks may have been a quiet man who preferred to keep to himself, but at the wheel of a...
Since the first race in 1911, the Indianapolis 500 has always been considered America’s greatest race, attracting huge crowds and...
Anthony Joseph Foyt Jr. is one of racing’s all-time great all-rounders. During a career as a driver that spanned five decades, and one as a car owner that continues to this day, Super Tex has been victorious in everything he’s tried. Before becoming the first driver to win the Indianapolis...
This large, domineering man invented the job of motor racing team manager and in doing so changed the way the...
Racer, writer, broadcaster, entrepreneur and motivational speaker Lyn St. James is the Honoree of the 26th annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance scheduled for March 4-7, 2021. Lyn’s life is a high speed motorsports adventure. Her racing career began in a Ford Pinto — her daily driver — in the 1970s...
Dan Gurney, as American as we make ’em, was once proposed to be President, and I still think our conflicted...
Homebuilt or custom-made racecars were not new to America’s racetracks as they had been appearing for decades on dirt ovals,...
Mario Andretti, one of only two drivers to win both the Daytona 500 and the Indianapolis 500, has been named Honorary Chairman for the 30th Annual Motorsports Hall of Fame of America Induction Ceremony Presented by Bridgestone, set for March 13 at the Shores Resort & Spa in Daytona Beach,...
Carlos Sainz Al Unser Jr. 2 Three-time Formula One World Champion Jack Brabham is born (1926). 3 Pierro Taruffi drives...
The third annual Arizona Concours d’Elegance, scheduled for January 23-24, 2016, will open America’s ongoing celebration of the forthcoming 100th...
One of the highlights of this year’s Arizona Concours d’Elegance, set for January 23 at the Arizona Biltmore Resort in Phoenix, will be a round table discussion among six Indy 500 winners as part of the event’s celebration of this year’s 100th running of “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing.” The...
Many might find it unusual that the 58-year old son of legendary racecar driver Dave MacDonald had never driven a...
Four-time Indianapolis 500 winner Al Unser will be the guest of honor at the 22nd annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance,...
Bill Puterbaugh, who finished 7th in the 1975 Indianapolis 500 and was named Rookie of the Year, passed away last Monday, October 9, at the age of 81. Puterbaugh originally hailed from Roxana, Illinois, and raced out of the St. Louis area for several years before moving to Indianapolis in...
In the history of motor-sport safety, few names are as universally recognized as that of Bill Simpson. Initially an active...
Bob Harkey, an Indycar regular during the ’60s and ’70s, has passed away at the age of 85. Born and...
Three-time Indy 500 winner and King of the Hill at Pikes Peak Bobby Unser will be the guest of honor at the fourth annual Legends of Riverside, scheduled for March 31–April 1 at the Riverside International Automotive Museum in the California city. “Riverside was a fantastic race track,” noted Unser,...