On Thursday, April 7, two multiple-race winners of the streets of Long Beach—Alex Zanardi and Bill Auberlen—will be inducted into...
Organizers of the famed Long Beach Grand Prix—which this year was to include an historic Formula Atlantic support race—have announced...
Two long-time veterans of racing on the streets of Long Beach—Willy T. Ribbs and Oriol Servia—will be honored by induction into the Long Beach Motorsports Walk of Fame on Thursday, April 16. “Willy T. Ribbs and Oriol Servia both made history as drivers, and it is a privilege to welcome...
The Road Racing Drivers Club has announced that it will be hosting an “Evening with Rick Mears” Dinner with proceeds...
Photo Gallery of HMSA’s Historic IMSA GTO race at the April 12–14, Long Beach Grand Prix. [button link=”https://sportscardigest.com//historic-imsa-gto-at-the-long-beach-grand-prix/” color=”blue”]Subscribers click...
Subscriber only Photo Gallery of HMSA’s Historic IMSA GTO race at the April 12–14, Long Beach Grand Prix. # 4 – 1985 Mercury Capri – Cal Meeker # 33 – 1991 Chevrolet Camaro – Bill Ockerlund # 30 – 1983 Chevrolet Camaro – Cary Eisenlohr # 95 – 1989 Nissan...
When the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach takes over the streets for racing this coming Friday through Sunday (April...
The Long Beach Grand Prix has announced that in addition to the Indycar and IMSA WeatherTech Sports Car Championship races,...
Jim Crawford would have turned 70 this year. After a brief stint in Formula One with Lotus he rebuilt his career in America during the 1980s. Following a devastating crash at Indianapolis, Jim made a fairytale comeback. He died aged just 54, but the good natured and courageous Scotsman is...
Just looking at the cover of VR this month, you’ll realize something is different. For only the second time, in...
Three-time Indianapolis 500 winner and 1980 Indycar National Champion Johnny Rutherford will be the guest of honor at the 10th...
Forty years ago, in 1977 and ’78, Mario Andretti was the man to beat in Grand Prix racing aboard Colin Chapman’s JPS Lotus 78 and 79 Formula One cars. Andretti made his Grand Prix debut with Lotus in 1968, qualifying on pole for the United States GP at Watkins Glen....
Frank Falkner got me into racing way back when, he was my mentor who lived in my hometown of Louisville,...
Streets of Long Beach, CA April 7-8, 2017 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
June 2017 • Master automotive craftsman Joe Cavaglieri was named the 2017 recipient of the Racing History Project’s Peter Bryant Challenger Award at the project’s “Tribute to IMSA Dinner presented by Mazda,” held in early April at the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum in Pomona, California. The award recognizes outstanding...
Nearly two dozen cars from one of racing’s more golden ages took to the streets of Long Beach last weekend...
The recreation of Peter Bryant’s Ti22 MkII Can-Am car will make its public debut at next month’s Toyota Grand Prix...
It’s not often that a Formula One driver can turn his hand to World Championship rallying. Look at 2007 F1 world champion Kimi Raikkonen. He cut his Grand Prix career short in 2010 to join Citroën, but could only turn in mediocre results, before returning in 2012 to what he...
This Saturday’s Japanese Classic Car Show at the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California, will feature several historic Mazdas, including...
That’s some ride from West Lothian, Scotland to winning the great Indianapolis 500 three times, not to mention four IndyCar...
George Follmer has been named the Guest of Honor at this year’s annual pre-Long Beach Grand Prix Road Racing Drivers Club banquet, scheduled for Thursday, April 14 at the Long Beach Hilton. Follmer could, of course, drive the wheels off of anything, and did. He tackled all the sport’s various...
If he lasted long enough—that is, if he didn’t get killed in the process—canny observers thought this young South African...
Nate JonesPhoto: John Zimmermann I first got involved with the Long Beach Grand Prix after a phone call from my...
Young Brazilian Nelson Piquet drove his Gordon Murray-designed Brabham BT49-Cosworth to his first Formula One victory in Long Beach on March 30, 1980. Note the sliding skirts along the edges of the undercar tunnels. Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to...
• Plans are proceeding for the re-paving and re-opening of the historic road course at Thompson International Speedway in Thompson,...
Pete Lyons Stirling Moss deliberately steering his Lotus into rain puddles around the Nürburgring—reading about that may have been the...
One of the most inspiring stories in the history of motorsport recently took place, and though few in the motorsport world have realized its significance, chances are good that they will, sometime in the next few years. At Brands Hatch a series of dramatic, world-class races resulted in a familiar...
Longtime SCCA stalwart Andy Porterfield died in mid-April at the age of 80 from complications following heart valve surgery. Beyond...
Telling about cannibalizing a pickup truck engine for his racecar, he said, “Any of you would have really enjoyed” that...
Let me get my bias out of the way, right up front—I’m not a NASCAR fan. Though I’ve tried at various times to convince myself that I like NASCAR—in the same way that I occasionally try to convince myself that I like Brussell Sprouts—I just can’t do it. So this...
