From 1964 to 1978, a series of flat-bottomed formula cars were manufactured to serve as steppingstones to Formula One and...
Vintage Racecar’s European team kick off the 2018 racing season with their annual presence at the 16th edition of Race Retro,...
The FIA sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations set forth by the FIA (Federation International Automobile) in the International Championship of Makes from 1964-1971, and the World Championship of Makes from 1972-1981. The regulations changed somewhat as the...
A Lola B09/86 prototype racecar that Dyson Racing campaigned to a pair of championships in the American Le Mans Series...
“Boy’s Own” Racer Personally speaking, I’m not an advocate of racing specials, especially those cars built that have little, or...
The Canadian American Challenge Cup was co-sanctioned by the SCCA and the CASC; it was a series nicknamed the “unlimited”...
The third edition of Historic Sportscar Racing’s (HSR) Classic 24 at Daytona presented by IMSA concluded Sunday November 12 at...
The Formula 5000 Drivers Association closed its 2017 racing season at the SVRA National Championships at Circuit of the Americas (COTA) in Austin, Texas on November 5, 2017, crowning Seb Coppola (1970 Lola T192-Chevrolet) as overall champion of the 2017 F5000 Revival Race Championship Series and the winner of Class...
Katsuaki Kubota scored his second and third straight Masters Historic F1 race wins with his JPS Lotus 78 (above, photo...
1970 Nomad-BRM Mk3 After the war years in the UK, a certain Churchillian spirit prevailed, which left many with an...
Following victories for AC Cobra drivers at Donington and on the Silverstone Grand Prix circuit earlier in the season, lithe sports racing cars had the upper hand at the Castle Combe Autumn Classic, an exciting — and very different — new third stop on the GT & Sports Car Cup’s...
Fifty years after its first victory, to the day, Ford returned to Le Mans and won again, this time in...
The third edition of the annual Les Grandes Heures Automobiles (LGHA), held last weekend, September 23-24, at the legendary banked Linas- Montlhéry Autodrome circuit just south of Paris, was unanimously declared to be the best one yet by both the hundreds of participating competitors, and the record number of attendees...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seat racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
1978 Eagle DGF There is a historical trope in the racing world, which suggests that a talented craftsman could build...
August 2017 Datsun vs. Ferrari Dear Editor, Read with some amusement your comment on the similarities between the Daytona and the 240Z. Couldn’t help thinking about Rhod Gainer a character from the New Zealand comedy, Small Poppies. He spent five years turning his 240Z into a 275 GTB/4. Become a...
The 35th Lime Rock Park Historic Festival will bring three days of spirited historic racing by upwards of 230 drivers...
With the recent passing of Lola founder Eric Broadley, the Motor Racing Legends team has announced a special Eric Broadley...
The Formula 5000 Drivers Association opened its 2017 racing season at the SVRA Open Wheel World Challenge at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on June 11. The overall win and victory in Class B, for 1972-1976 cars, went to Rick Parsons in his ex-Brian Redman 1976 Lola T332C-Chevrolet, while 2nd overall and...
1966 Lola T70 SL71/48 Proper warming up of components and attention paid to maintaining balance with the handling were the...
Engineer, Champion Rider, Champion Driver and Team Manager John Surtees, four-time motorcycle World Champion, aboard one of his title-taking MV Agusta...
1964 World Champion Our Ed McDonough had the opportunity to interview John Surtees on a number of occasions, investigating how Surtees had his first test in a Formula One car in a Vanwall, and later became the only person ever to race Vanwall’s short-lived rear-engine car in 1961. As part...
John Surtees Photo: Mike Jiggle I first drove what was to become Graham Hill’s 1966 American Red Ball Special Indy...
It is an unfortunate fact of life that as we age, so we lose more and more friends to the...
Richard Petty Carl Haas 1 Chuck Daigh, driving a Lotus 19-Climax, wins the USAC-sanctioned sports car race at Mosport, Ontario, Canada (1963). 2 Henry Seagrave drives a Sunbeam to victory in the French Grand Prix at Tours (1923). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
Lola Cars founder Eric Broadley has passed away at the age of 88. Broadley was one of the early players...
The Formula Junior category was introduced in Italy in 1958 by Count Giovanni Lurani, and in 1959 it became an...
Nearly two dozen cars from one of racing’s more golden ages took to the streets of Long Beach last weekend as part of the Historic Motor Sports Association’s Can-Am Challenge, which brought high-horsepower racing to the fabled seaside city streets as part of the 43rd Toyota Grand Prix of Long...
