If there is a single quality that best defines Marc Surer it must be determination. When you consider that he...
In my time as a racing driver I have had the opportunity of driving many types of racing car. I...
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Though often overlooked by many historians, the history of Australian road racing is rich with a long and varied selection...
Northern California’s Classic Sports Racing Group will host its 10th Annual Charity Challenge at Sonoma Raceway on the weekend of...
Photo Gallery from the June 17, 2018 British Car Field Day in Sussex, Wisconsin....
The 2013 edition of Race Retro will honour the motorsport legacy of racing’s Team Lotus and the rallying success of...
Dan Gurney’s All American Racers has been entrusted by The Henry Ford Museum with the conservation of the 1967 Le Mans 24 Hours-winning GT40 MkIV that carried Gurney and A.J. Foyt to history’s only all-American win in the French endurance classic. “I don’t think we could have found a better...
Peter Brock Carroll Shelby 1 Stirling Moss drives a race car for the first time in over a year—since the...
Losing a child is one of the harshest agonies of life, and even people who don’t personally know John and...
The Formula Junior category was introduced in Italy in 1958 by Count Giovanni Lurani, and in 1959 became an International Formula. Shortly thereafter, in 1960, the British began to take a serious interest in the category, beginning the rivalry between British and Italian cars. The original FIA Formula Junior regulations...
I defected to Ford racing with Alan Mann, driving Lotus Cortinas, Mustangs and Falcons. In formula racing, I was driving...
Now here is a man of his word—and it cost him dearly. In 1961, Innes agreed to drive for Formula...
Jochen Rindt Richard Attwood 2 Dave Heinz and Dave Yarborough drive a Jaguar XJS from the U.S. Atlantic Coast to the Pacific Coast in a record 32 hours and 51 minutes to win the fifth and final Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash (1979). 3 Vern Schuppan and Naohiro Fujita...
In the history of racing there have been formulae that quickly become popular and continue to grow, while others are...
Prices are based on an average of values submitted by our panel of expert consultants who this month include: Kent...
Sex, infidelity, theft, intrigue, a lightly raced car, a tragic airplane crash and a pack of lifelong friends…some famous, some not—this is the twisted tapestry of this month’s Hidden Treasure. The story begins in Woodside, California in the 1950s. Locke de Bretteville says he fell in love with racecars at...
The Monaco Grand Prix; Monte Carlo, May 10, 1964. Peter Arundell in the second works Lotus leads Richie Ginther’s B.R.M....
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motor sports: the...
During the sixties, Carroll Shelby tried almost anything having to do with cars and racing. A little-known episode was his effort at Indianapolis. The Shelby Indycar was one of the famous, or infamous if you will, turbine-powered cars. Here’s how it came about. Turbines had been tried at Indy before,...
For the 1970 Grand Prix season, and still in my very early 20s, I was again a number two mechanic...
I was born in Capetown, South Africa, a very long way from the epicenter of motor racing, Central Europe. Motorsport,...
1960 Lotus Elite Series II For Sale Details: 1200cc inline Coventry Climax 4 cylinder with twin Weber 40 DCOE; close ratio ZF 4-speed; White with Blue Stripe and grey interior; Seller Fantasy Junction is asking $85,000 Market: The 2008 May – August Cars That Matter Price Guide advocates a $37,200...
Can you imagine the sheer agony if you were a Formula One fan and had to watch two dozen Grand...
Spiking interest in F3 Dear Editor, Your story on Spike Rhiando and the Trimax gave me the impetus needed to...
Formula Ford was a specification racing series created on the idea that the best drivers would win if they were racing identical cars. The idea for this low budget Formula was created by an Englishman named Geoffrey Clarke, who had a driver’s school called Motor Racing Stables based at the...
As a team manager my experience of driving racing cars is limited, although at the start of my motor racing...
Formula Ford was a specification racing series created on the idea that the best drivers would win if they were...
The 29th Lotus Owners Gathering, known by Lotus insiders as LOG 29, will take place May 28th – June 1st in Birmingham, Alabama. Lotus Limited, America’s largest Lotus car club, hosts the annual national meet to celebrate all things Lotus. Lotus enthusiasts from all across the country converge to enjoy...