Two of the longest established and most successful vintage racing organizations in the United States have announced a new series...
This Labor Day weekend, the MG Vintage Racers will celebrate the 30th anniversary of their organization with their East Coast...
1990 Penske PC19-Ilmor Chevrolet I first saw Roger Penske racing a Maserati Birdcage at Lime Rock Park in Connecticut. He won a superb battle with Peter Ryan’s Lotus 19. Penske was smooth…in every way. He was young, good-looking and very determined. My interest was also sparked by the fact that...
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The Scene: The #25 factory BMW CSL is well known for its rich racing history and many race wins. Epic...
April 2011 Out of the Shadows By Roger Lane In the late 1960s, by a chance meeting, Roger Lane was given a brief by film manufacturer Agfa-Gevaert that most motor racing fans would have given their right arm to do. In short, he was asked to capture the atmosphere and...
MG tradition continued at Watkins Glen this past September with SVRA’s 26th running of the historic “Vintage Collier Cup” all-MG...
Although it has nearly been forgotten now, in the late 1950s and early 1960s there was a professional road racing...
During the years following WWII, road racing in the U.S. initially developed as an amateur sport, mostly run by the Sports Car Club of America. U. S. professional racing was governed by the American Automobile Association, but the function was taken over by the United States Auto Club in 1956...
Canada’s Mosport Park and VARAC’s Vintage Racing Festival served as the hosts for this year’s 15th annual “Focus Event” for...
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Mike Earle started his career with Derek Bell and Church Farm Racing. Over the years he has had a hand...
When asked by my good friend Rick Roso to write a piece on how “to do” one of my favorite turns, my immediate reaction was to describe the awesome Eau Rouge at Spa Francorchamps in Belgium. However, that story has been done many times before, so my thoughts instead wandered...
Another of racing’s good guys left us on December 7, when Bill Scott lost his battle with cancer. The man...
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Arthur Francis Riley, endurance-race driver, and owner of Art Riley Motors in Port Washington, N.Y., for a quarter of a century, has passed away at the age of 93. Garage owner and master mechanic Riley was granted one of America’s early Volvo franchises in 1957. “As soon as I drove...
Le Mans champion Roy Salvadori once wrote in a UK magazine, decades ago, about driving his winning Aston Martin DBR1...
There is a man who is not only unknown to the general public but also to much of the racing...
Motor racing’s senior statesman, 92-year-old John Fitch, is being threatened with the loss of his home near Lime Rock where he has lived for more than 50 years. The house was built before the American Revolution. The state now claims, however, that a pair of 1,000-gallon underground heating oil tanks...
Lime Rock Park’s preparations for the 28th Annual Vintage Festival on the traditional Labor Day weekend are well underway. Buzz...
Pete Lyons You know how someone’s opposing opinion, one that seems inconsequential enough to let slide at the time, can...
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This one picture is why I’m writing these thousand words. I’m doing so in the first week of August 2008—precisely...
When his team’s pair of Porsche RS Spyders took the green flag for July’s American Le Mans Series round at Lime Rock, Rob Dyson marked his 25th anniversary in professional racing. Dyson’s first entry was a GTO-class Pontiac Firebird that contested IMSA’s Coca-Cola Three Hours at the Connecticut track in...