The Canadian American Challenge Cup was co-sanctioned by the SCCA and CASC—it was a series nicknamed the “unlimited” series. Although...
By almost anyone’s measure, one of the things that made the Golden Era golden was the Canadian-American Challenge Cup or...
Donington Park in the English Midlands, the historic site of 1930s Grands Prix, has once again echoed to the sound of vintage motor racing. The circuit closed last year for major landscaping work instigated by new leaseholders whose ambitious plan to extend and re-profile the facility and wrest the British...
Steve Davis has emerged as the overall champion of the 2010 F5000 Revival Race Series on the strength of taking...
Patrick Peter’s Classic Endurance Racing series came to a fine season-ending round at the Paul Ricard circuit in France, with...
Tony Southgate began his lengthy career in motorsports by joining Lola Cars in the early days of that venerable marque’s existence. The young Englishman became the first drawing office employee of founder Eric Broadley’s growing company, a firm that would serve as fertile ground for a number of aspiring young...
The indomitable Sir Stirling Moss made a popular comeback after his frightening accident at his home in March to join...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
John Gunn, an independent entrant who contested some of North America’s most prestigious auto racing championships during a career that lasted 20 years, has died of heart failure at his Florida home at the age of 71. Gunn began racing on the Club level in 1965, winning the SCCA’s SEDiv...
1962 Porsche 804 Dan Gurney was about as versatile as a racecar driver could ever be. He pretty much skipped...
For all the great drivers who contested the old Can-Am, few did well. Your Amons, Andrettis, Brabhams, Elfords, Joneses, Halls,...
There was a summer of my life when I often walked back home from an evening ramble in a European city to the outlying village where I had a job in a sawmill. A lengthy stretch of the way was dead straight and lit in the eerie orange of sodium...
Rick Parsons and Don Devine have formed the Vintage Indy Racing Group to facilitate the further inclusion of Indycar racing...
The Formula Junior category was introduced in Italy in 1958 by Count Giovanni Lurani, and in 1959 became an International...
As Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) was growing and expanding a quarter century ago, one of the ways it sought to perpetuate itself was to create a “feeder series” originally called the American Racing Series. Organized by Roger Bailey and Rafael Sanchez, the ARS used converted Formula 3000 March chassis...
As enthusiasts and students of racing history, we have a natural tendency to idolize, if not deify, the great men...
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motor sports: the...
Although he will probably be remembered mainly for a contrasting pair of Indycar accomplishments, Jerry Grant was yet another of the American all-rounders who could, and would, drive virtually any kind of car. After a tour of duty as chauffeur for the head of NORAD Command in Colorado, the Washington...
This August 7-8, the British Automobile Racing Club (BARC) will host the Lola Heritage International Sports Car Challenge race on...
Ken Tyrrell once said that, contrary to what had been written about him, he had no special talent for spotting...
From 1964 to 1978, a series of flat-bottomed, formula cars were manufactured to serve as a stepping stone to Formula One and the upper echelons of open-wheeled racing. In the late ’50s, F2 and F3 were consolidated into Formula Junior. However, with that category’s demise at the end of 1963,...
The FIA sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations...
The 12th Goodwood Revival was a huge and complex event. Fifteen races for historic cars and motorcycles were just a small part of what went on over the four-day period. A Drivers’ Cricket Match started the ball rolling on Thursday with a proper garden tea party at Goodwood House, and...
The Canadian-American Challenge Cup was a series nicknamed the “unlimited” series co-sanctioned by the Sports Car Club of America and...
Several record-breaking sales of racing cars were made during the auction activities surrounding Monterey Auto Week 2009. Topping the list was the highest price ever paid for an American car at auction, the $7.25 million brought in by the Mecum Auctions offering of the FIA Manufacturers championship-winning 1965 Shelby Daytona...
The latest incarnation of the Silverstone Classic took place around the full Grand Prix circuit on the weekend of July...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seat racing cars built to a specific set of rules and powered...
Pete Lyons How do you stop a racing runaway? Well, you might try throwing more races in its way. Ending McLaren Can-Am domination—that may have been one goal of series officials when they scheduled their fourth season, 1969, with nearly twice as many rounds as before. Become a Member &...
