The organizers of the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion have announced that Jaguar will be the featured marque for this year’s...
Porsche Rennsport Reunion IV has been scheduled for Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca on the weekend of October 14–16, featuring a...
The weekend of October 14–16 will bring perhaps the world’s largest gathering of Porsche racecars, racers and personalities to California’s Monterey Peninsula. At Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, Porsche Cars North America will hold Rennsport IV, the fourth iteration of its quasi-triannual homage to its racing past. This October’s Rennsport will...
Well-known vintage racer Peter Giddings has been honored by Northern California’s Motor Sports Press Association as its Motorsportsman of the...
Well-known America racing driver Pete Lovely has died at the age of 85 from complications of Alzheimer’s Disease. Lovely’s career...
This month we bring you another You Tube link, one featuring this issue’s focus on Jaguar, Group 44 and Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. From this particular view, however, what you see all seems so matter-of-fact and that’s-just-the-way-you-do-it simple as Chip Robinson guides the Group 44 Jaguar XJR-5 around the circuit’s...
Contingency Plans Dear Editor, I would not dare to take my Avanti replica of the 1958 Lister-Chevy to the track,...
Jack Brabham Francois Cevert 2 Frank Griswold drives an Alfa Romeo 8C 2900 to victory in the Junior Prix, the...
Phil Hill, who became America’s first F1 World Champion 50 years ago, is the subject of a special exhibit at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. Scheduled to run from early September through Thanksgiving weekend, the exhibit, Phil Hill: The Life of a Legend, includes photos, trophies and memorabilia...
With stopwatch in hand, as he gazed upon the action on the track, former Standard-Triumph competition boss R.W. (Kas) Kastner...
The 38th renewal of the annual vintage racecar celebration at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, enjoyed...
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That’s a question I found occupying (the few) idle moments of my mind during October’s Porsche Rennsport Reunion IV at...
After three celebrations on the East Coast at Daytona and Lime Rock, Porsche’s triennial Rennsport Reunion came to California in...
Classes have been announced and entries have opened for the 2012 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, scheduled for August 17–19 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. The featured marque is the Shelby Cobra, in honor of the 50th anniversary of its creation. Approximately 550 cars will be accepted, with each entry scrutinized...
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Alessandro Zanardi is an inspiration to us all. Here is a double CART champion who lost both his legs in...
The Hill Family and L.A.’s Petersen Automotive Museum marked the 50th Anniversary of Phil Hill’s 1961 World Championship for Ferrari at the museum last November with a tribute to America’s first F1 titlist during which various contemporaries shared memories of and stories about him. The evening was highlighted by a...
Turn Up the Gane Dear Editor, Thanks for an enjoyable and diverse November issue. I would like to make a...
One of the cars involved in motor racing history’s worst accident, the Le Mans disaster of 1955, in which more...
Riverside has at last completely disappeared, wholly obliterated under new development. No longer can you find your way to the last remaining section of the old International Raceway and pluck out a souvenir chunk of asphalt, as I wrote about doing in the VR of September 1999. Pete Lyons By...
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Bertone Design, Concorso Italiano will feature several prominent concept cars from the Bertone...
Alain ProstPhoto: Maureen Magee Mike SpencePhoto: John Fenning Collection 1 Ivor Bueb wins the 1500-cc sports car race at Brands...
The Don Dear Editor, These days I tend to read Vintage Racecar from the back forward, in as much as I particularly enjoy Mike Lawrence’s “Last Lap” articles. “The Don” rang a strong bell with me, as Don was always a hero of mine, and while a little on the...
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Niki Lauda Richard Petty 1 Willy Grover, better known as “W. Williams,” wins the ACF Grand Prix for sports cars...
In honor of the 60th anniversary of Chevrolet’s Corvette, the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion has selected “America’s sports car” as the featured marque for next August’s edition of the annual vintage racecar festival at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. A large turnout of Corvette racers is expected to be on hand...
François Cevert Eddie Rickenbacker 1 Helene Delange, who raced between the world wars under the name of Hele Nice, dies...
Driving in to the office the other morning, I was listening to a comedian on the radio. His name is Adam Corolla and much to my pleasant surprise he was riffing on having just come back from competing at the Rolex Monterey Motorsport Reunion. When asked about the race he...