• Plans are proceeding for the re-paving and re-opening of the historic road course at Thompson International Speedway in Thompson,...
This September the McLaren Group will observe the 50th anniversary of the company’s founding by Bruce McLaren, but the entire...
(19) Rick Hall, 1957 Maserati 450S, (16) John Long, 1959 Devin SS, (6) Derek Bell, 1957 Maserati 300S.Photo: Brad Fox The 41st vintage racecar festival at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, the 2014 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, celebrated 100 years of Maserati and 50 years of the Sunbeam Tiger as part...
George Follmer has been named Grand Marshal of the inaugural Barber Historics at Alabama’s Barber Motorsports Park in honor of...
Jimmy Bryan Ayrton SennaPhoto: Bury Mason 4 Colin McCrae and Derek Ringer win the Acroplis Rally in a Subaru Impreza...
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John GrantPhoto: Kary Jiggle John Grant is the current Chairman of the British Racing Drivers Club, and since taking on...
The fifth global gathering of Porschephiles, Rennsport Reunion V, took place before a record crowd of some 57,531 under sunny...
2015 F5000 Revival Race Series By Checkered Flag Films Let’s get this over with right away. You need not read this review, just order this two-disc DVD. Regular readers will be familiar with my enthusiasm for Formula 5000, but even if I had no such bias, I would find this...
This Saturday’s Japanese Classic Car Show at the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California, will feature several historic Mazdas, including...
Johnny of the ready smile and blonde hair was a motor racing shooting star who might have aspired to becoming...
April 2017 • The Sportscar Vintage Racing Association has announced that it will offer season-long National Championships for both the short sprint races and longer endurance contests on its 2017 schedule of events. Previously, SVRA’s season-long points championships were centered in the eastern USA. Points awarded for finishing positions will...
The addition of early first-generation Spec Miatas to vintage racecar grids has been expanded to include both the early 1.6-liter...
If you read my column this month on the other side of the magazine, you’ll see I take a little, personal look back at the strange treatment that the Datsun 240Z has received over the past 30 years in the classic car and historic racing world. Considered a virtual pariah...
The third edition of Historic Sportscar Racing’s Classic 24 Hour at Daytona, set for November 8-12 at Datona Interntional Speedway,...
The 2017 San Marino Motor Classic displayed more than 350 rare cars and welcomed 10,000 attendees to Lacy Park in...
The car that laid the foundation for Mazda’s tradition of distinctive innovation, the Cosmo Sport, was launched on May 30, 1967, as a stylish two-seater that marked the beginning of a legacy of fun-to-drive cars and motor sport success powered by unique technology. The Cosmo Sport was the first car...
The 23rd annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance, scheduled for March 11, 2018, at the Golf Club of Amelia Island on...
With its current naming rights contract with Mazda set to expire at the end of this month, the still-named Mazda...
Author Brock Yates once described Judy Stropus as a “racing personality,” since her career in motorsports has covered a gamut of disciplines including, her almost savant ability to accurately time and score endurance sports car races before the introduction of computers, driving race cars, and becoming an author and an...
The arrival of every new year heralds a raft of exciting anniversaries and, in the car world, 2019 is crammed...
When Rod Millen hit the starter on his custom-designed and built four-wheel drive, four-rotor 1985 Mazda RX7 the explosion made...
From Hiroshima cork producer to global car manufacturer, 2020 sees Mazda celebrate a century of engineering success. One hundred years of business that has also seen a fair share of records achieved by Mazda over the course of its vibrant history. Even Mazda’s first passenger car created a record-breaking sales...
The holy grail of land speed records resides in the vast solitude of a formerly thriving prehistoric lake. 14,000 years...
After celebrating its centenary in 2020, 2021 sees the 50th Anniversary of one of Mazda’s most interesting, adaptable and successful...
At 4pm on the June 23rd, 1991, Johnny Herbert crossed the finish line at the Le Mans 24 Hour race to mark a unique achievement. Mazda had become the first Japanese manufacturer to win the world’s most famous endurance race, not only that they’d done it with a totally unique engine...
In 1970, at the Tokyo Motor Show, Mazda debuted the RX500 concept car. A radical departure from the Japanese firm’s...
Nestled in the woods in the Pacific Northwest, Pacific Raceways still puts on a good show. It’s been the home...
Mazda Motor Corporation’s Museum, located in its Hiroshima headquarters, has undergone a full renovation. The museum showcases historic vehicles and exhibits of the company’s history since its foundation more than a century ago. Due to open to the public on the 23rd of May this year, the museum’s spatial design...