Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, Monterey, CA March 17–18, 2012 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (&...
The Don Dear Editor, These days I tend to read Vintage Racecar from the back forward, in as much as...
Alain ProstPhoto: Maureen Magee Mike SpencePhoto: John Fenning Collection 1 Ivor Bueb wins the 1500-cc sports car race at Brands Hatch, England, driving a Copper-Climax (1955). 3 Brian Redman drives a Chevrolet-powered Lola T-600 to victory in the 100-mile IMSA sports car race at Laguna Seca, California (1981) Become a...
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Bertone Design, Concorso Italiano will feature several prominent concept cars from the Bertone...
One of the cars involved in motor racing history’s worst accident, the Le Mans disaster of 1955, in which more than 80 people died, has sold for £843,000 ($1.3 million) at the Bonhams auction held at Mercedes-Benz World in Weybridge, southern England. The Austin-Healey 100S had been in storage for...
Turn Up the Gane Dear Editor, Thanks for an enjoyable and diverse November issue. I would like to make a...
The Hill Family and L.A.’s Petersen Automotive Museum marked the 50th Anniversary of Phil Hill’s 1961 World Championship for Ferrari...
Alessandro Zanardi is an inspiration to us all. Here is a double CART champion who lost both his legs in a devastating motor racing accident in 2001, nearly bled to death, underwent more surgery in which his legs were further shortened to allow them to heal, fought back through a...
Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, Monterey, CA October 14–16, 2011 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (&...
Classes have been announced and entries have opened for the 2012 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, scheduled for August 17–19 at...
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...
That’s a question I found occupying (the few) idle moments of my mind during October’s Porsche Rennsport Reunion IV at...
Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, Monterey, CA August 19-21, 2011 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (&...
The 38th renewal of the annual vintage racecar celebration at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, enjoyed another glorious weekend in mid-August, with drivers from 13 countries in some 550 cars taking part in races for 17 classes as the event honored the 50th anniversary of the...
With stopwatch in hand, as he gazed upon the action on the track, former Standard-Triumph competition boss R.W. (Kas) Kastner...
Phil Hill, who became America’s first F1 World Champion 50 years ago, is the subject of a special exhibit at...
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...
Contingency Plans Dear Editor, I would not dare to take my Avanti replica of the 1958 Lister-Chevy to the track,...
This month we bring you another You Tube link, one featuring this issue’s focus on Jaguar, Group 44 and Mazda...
Well-known America racing driver Pete Lovely has died at the age of 85 from complications of Alzheimer’s Disease. Lovely’s career in racing as a driver and entrant covered more than 50 years, including a dozen Formula One starts, victory in the very first race ever held at Laguna Seca, and...
Well-known vintage racer Peter Giddings has been honored by Northern California’s Motor Sports Press Association as its Motorsportsman of the...
The weekend of October 14–16 will bring perhaps the world’s largest gathering of Porsche racecars, racers and personalities to California’s...
Porsche Rennsport Reunion IV has been scheduled for Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca on the weekend of October 14–16, featuring a world-class collection of Porsche racing cars and many of the drivers who helped make them famous. After three previous iterations at Lime Rock and Daytona, this is the first time...
The organizers of the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion have announced that Jaguar will be the featured marque for this year’s...
A new and exciting chapter was written in the competition history of Triumph with the Ninth Annual International Triumph Challenge...
January 2011 Alesi’s Tyrrell Dear Editor, Loved the article about Jean Alesi’s favorite car, the Tyrrell 018. It’s a strikingly beautiful F1 car and was better in every way than the predecessor car, the 017. I’ve attached a comparison of lap times; it’s anywhere from a second (Monaco) to nearly...
USAC Road Racing Fades as the SCCA Overcomes Its Aversion to Racing for Money When we left the USAC road...
For only the second time in the 37-year history of summer’s annual vintage racecar festival at Laguna Seca on California’s...
Looking Back on a Brilliant Career… One Photographer’s Personal Recollections of the Most Successful American Endurance Racer of All Time This photo montage shows (clockwise from bottom) Haywood in Bruce Leven’s Porsche 956, at Porsche-palooza in 1981, all smiles after his third victory at Le Mans in 1994, and celebrating...
