The Formula 5000 Drivers Association has announced its racing schedule for 2019. The Association will host four official races for...
Haskell Wexler is an Oscar-winning cinematographer, taking home the coveted golden trophies for his work on Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Bound for Glory. Not many car enthusiasts, however, know about his racing experiences. Wexler took driving lessons from Carroll Shelby, but gave it up when he discovered just...
Under crisp blue skies on the Monterey Peninsula, the 2022 First Orion Monterey Motorsports Celebration unfolded beautifully, hosted by racing...
Well-known vintage racer Peter Giddings has been honored by Northern California’s Motor Sports Press Association as its Motorsportsman of the...
As WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca celebrates its 65th racing season, we take a look back at some of the legendary characters who helped mold the mystique of the now world-renowned race track. The 1970s saw an explosion of horsepower burst onto the Laguna Seca circuit. The decade saw many big-time...
Photo Gallery from the August 18–19, 2018 running of the Monterey Motorsports Pre-Reunion at Weathertech Laguna Seca. Subscribers click here...
Officials of Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca have announced that the Historic Motor Sports Association (HMSA) will be the sanctioning body...
1964 Elva-Porsche One of the most important characteristics of a performance or racing car is the power-to-weight ratio. The goal is to maximize power, but not at the expense of too much weight or unreliability. Not enough power means you can’t keep up with other cars. Add in the engine...
The annual pilgrimage of motoring enthusiasts to Monterey will return August 12-15, 2021, for the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion. Owners...
1960 Kieft Formula Junior The history of British motorsport is rife with postwar racecar manufacturers that saw their genesis in...
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+...
In a surprise announcement, the new General Manager of WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, John Narigi, announced the return of several...
The Don Dear Editor, These days I tend to read Vintage Racecar from the back forward, in as much as...
After three celebrations on the East Coast at Daytona and Lime Rock, Porsche’s triennial Rennsport Reunion came to California in 2011 for a wonderful October weekend at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. Rennsport Reunion IV was well-received by a large, enthusiastic crowd, and proved a fitting, though unstated, tribute to the...
In an unusually early announcement, officials from WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca and the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) today announced...
The Can-Am Reunion Dinner scheduled for the Saturday of Monterey Classic Car Week, August 20 at the Monterey Plaza Hotel,...
Following in the tire marks of the USRRC Tribute dinner at the NHRA Wally Parks Museum, Dave Wolin’s non-profit Racing History Project has announced that a similar intimate “Tribute to the Can-Am – 50th Anniversary” dinner will take place Saturday, August 20, during the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion at Mazda...
Masters Historic Racing USA made a West Coast stop at WeatherTech Raceway, Laguna Seca, April 1st through 3rd. Masters brought...
Driving down to Laguna on Thursday morning, my compatriot Bill Wagenblatt and I were reminiscing about past vintage Laguna events. From...
Tazio Nuvolari James Hunt Photo: Dennis Gray 1 Dick Johnson and John Bowe drive a Ford Sierra to victory in the Toohey’s 1000 at Mount Panorama in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia (1989). 2 Bernd Rosemeyer, driving an Auto Union, wins the last race of the 750kg racing formula, the...
A 1955 Ferrari 750 Monza Spider, chassis no. 0510 M, that was successfully raced in period by three top American...
Looking Back on a Brilliant Career… One Photographer’s Personal Recollections of the Most Successful American Endurance Racer of All Time...
Jack Brabham Francois Cevert 2 Frank Griswold drives an Alfa Romeo 8C 2900 to victory in the Junior Prix, the first road race through the streets of Watkins Glen, New York (1948). 3 Brian Redman drives a BRM-Chevrolet to victory in the Interserie race at Hockenheim, West Germany (1971). Become...
When the sports car scene started to heat up again in ’65-’66, I went to work for Motorsport Design in...
This September the McLaren Group will observe the 50th anniversary of the company’s founding by Bruce McLaren, but the entire...
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...
Fresh from winning the FIA Founding Members’ Heritage Cup for last year’s event, the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion will try...
Subscriber exclusive Photo Gallery from the Oct 15-16, 2022, Velocity Invitational at Weathertech Laguna Seca. #6 Jeffrey O\’Neill – 1960...
One of the most enjoyable events of Monterey Classic Car Week, The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering, returns to the lush green grasses of Quail Lodge & Golf Club in Carmel, California, on Friday, August 19. This year’s event will celebrate multiple featured themes, including: Rivalries of the Ages; the 100th...