Third-time charm! That’s what we Can-Am fans were hoping for 40 Septembers ago. On the first of this month in...
Imagine what it was like for Eric Broadley to have come up with the T70 coupe after the heady days...
Andre Boillot Rex Mays 1 Mika Hakkinen wins the Japanese GP and his first Formula One world title at Suzuka in a McLaren-Mercedes (1998). 3 Ferrari wins the World Sportscar Championship as the Maserati factory team is destroyed in the final round at Caracas, Venezuela. Afterwards, Maserati abandons their racing...
Joseph Pendergast, historic racer, race organizer, and collector for nearly 40 years, succumbed to complications from pneumonia on September 14,...
Roger Penske was honored with induction into the Legends of Laguna Seca during ceremonies preceding this year’s mid-October American Le...
December 2008 Birdcage Buzz Dear Editor, Your magazines arrived today and they certainly look like a lot of fun. Incidentally, Stirling [Moss] drove that Camoradi Maser Birdcage at the 1960 Sebring where I drove Donald Healey’s little Falcon-bodied Sprite. He lapped me about every seven laps, with a cheerful wave...
The 46th birthday of Formula Vee will be celebrated at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca this April 4–5, in a vintage...
Turn 7 at the newly opened New Jersey Motorsports Park Lightning course is as pivotal as it is exciting. It...
Emerson Fittipaldi has an impish sense of humor and, one day at Brands Hatch, he unloaded it on my poor pal Mike Doodson, live before a throng of thousands. Nominally, “The Dood” was a journalist like me, and remains so today, but for a few seasons in the ’70s, he...
The Lotus 19 took sports car racing to a whole new level upon its debut in 1960, rendering rivals such...
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Turn 5 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca may not be one of the first corners that everyone talks about when discussing this track, but it’s certainly one of those corners that has more going on than it first appears. And it can be a major player in the course of...
In early July, HMSA the sanctioning body for the annual Monterey Historic Automobile Races sent an email to all its...
A new organization, Historic Motorsports Productions, is seeking to raise the game of vintage and historic racing in North America...
Today almost exclusively remembered as the genius behind the competition cars named for a road-running bird in the southwest, Jim Hall did not get the inspiration for his innovative designs overnight. Although he grew into an accomplished engineer, an excellent mechanic, and a top driver, it took Hall almost seven...
New race courses keep blinking onto our radar screens, which seems like a good thing until they turn up on...
Jim Hall, creator of the legendary Chaparrals and the man who gave Gil de Ferran his first Indycar drive, was...
Officials of Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca have announced that the Historic Motor Sports Association (HMSA) will be the sanctioning body for the 2010 Monterey Historic Automobile Races as well as the Monterey Pre-Historics. HMSA will provide rules, regulations, and oversee technical inspection. Although the Featured Marque was not announced, the...
Like a large number of enthusiasts in the historic racing community, I was at first startled and then fascinated by...
Mazda Laguna Seca Raceway, host of the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, has announced that this year’s event, scheduled for August 12–15, will honor one of the true legends of motorsports, Dan Gurney. “We are proud that Dan has accepted our invitation to be our first featured guest at the Rolex...
Soon after motor vehicles were invented they were raced. Initially the contests were held on open roads, often from city...
To help celebrate the 50th anniversary of the American Bugatti Club, one of the feature races at this year’s renewal...
In addition to the event’s tribute to Dan Gurney, attendees at August’s Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion will be able to enjoy a double dose of Trans-Am glory as well, since the weekend will feature both the muscular 5-liter sedans and the nimble machines from the Under-2-Liter class that enlivened the...
Tazio Nuvolari James Hunt Photo: Dennis Gray 1 Dick Johnson and John Bowe drive a Ford Sierra to victory in...
Looking Back on a Brilliant Career… One Photographer’s Personal Recollections of the Most Successful American Endurance Racer of All Time...
For only the second time in the 37-year history of summer’s annual vintage racecar festival at Laguna Seca on California’s Monterey Peninsula, this year’s event celebrated a man rather than a marque. Just as Juan Manuel Fangio was honored in 1991, so was Dan Gurney the event’s featured guest in...
USAC Road Racing Fades as the SCCA Overcomes Its Aversion to Racing for Money When we left the USAC road...
A new and exciting chapter was written in the competition history of Triumph with the Ninth Annual International Triumph Challenge held last August in Topeka, Kansas. Challengers from more than ten states and the United Kingdom competed under the watchful eye of former Standard-Triumph competition boss R.W. (Kas) Kastner on...