This weekend is the 22nd renewal of the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance on the grounds of the Ritz Carlton in...
A special class of Mercedes-Benz 500K – 540K will take center stage at the 24th annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance...
Sixty years ago, an American sportsman built his own cars to tackle the world’s greatest endurance race Many in America today see road racing as more a sub-genre of motor sport, with the nation thoroughly consumed by oval racing on tracks that seem to dot the continental 48-state landscape with...
Luigi Fagioli Dan GurneyPhoto: Roger Dixon 1 Mario Andretti and Bruce McLaren drive a Ford GT40 MkIV to victory in...
John Cannon Jean Pierre Jabouille 2 Jochen Rindt, at the wheel of a Roy Winkelmann Racing Brabham BT23, wins the...
Tim Mayer Photo: autopics.com.au A.J. Foyt Photo: Jim Hatfield 2 Hermann Lang drives a Mercedes-Benz to victory in the Grand Prix race run in Pau, France (1939). 3 Battista “Pinin” Farina, auto racer and coach builder, dies (1966). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
Walter Hayes Paddy Hopkirk 1 Count Eliot Zborowski is killed in an accident during La Turbie Hillclimb at Nice, France...
Toyota’s first car, the AA, was a close copy of the DeSoto Airflow with essentially a 1933 Chevrolet engine. Photo: Toyota...
RM Auctions concluded its 2009 season on a high note in London, posting £10.9 million in total sales with a strong 87 percent of all lots sold at the third annual “Automobiles of London” event. Held in association with Sotheby’s, the single-day auction presented some 84 motor cars, consigned from...
Audi has recently reacquired an extremely rare Auto Union Silver Arrow racing car consisting largely of original parts. It is...
Peter Revson Alan Jones Photo: Pete Austin 2 Sports car racer Louis Krages, aka “John Winter,” born (1949). 3 Ronnie...
Watch this DTM legend, a 1994 1994 Mercedes-Benz C-Class, as it accelerates pretty quickly up the hillclimb course at the Goodwood Festival of Speed while creating some fantastic sound coming from up its V6 engine....
As preparations proceed for the 2nd Annual Bahamas Speed Week Revival, scheduled for November 24 through December 2 in Nassau,...
1976 Holden Torana L34 A month or so back, Vintage Racecar interviewed Leo Geoghegan, a true icon of Australian motorsport. While Leo may have started his racing career in an early model Holden, he later became a household name from his successes with a series of Lotus open-wheelers. While this...
1965 Ford Cortina GT500 First used as a motor racing circuit back in 1938, for the Australian Grand Prix of...
Howden Ganley stopped by our vendor booth at the recent Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, where one of the old photos...
This son of a German garage owner had never raced a car until May 26, 1935, at the superfast Avus circuit near Berlin. But by the end of 1936, he was the king of all he surveyed—the 1936 European Champion, with six Grand Prix victories to his credit. All scored...
Bertha Benz, one of the first female automotive pioneers, was inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame in July. As...
Eight distinguished automobiles have been selected as finalists for the 3rd annual Peninsula Classics Best of the Best Award, with...
Every Brit in motor racing of a certain age blames Bill Boddy and Denis Jenkinson for the fact that we were diverted from leading useful lives. As youngsters, we read Motor Sport. Mike Lawrence Nothing about it made any sense according to any business model. It would drive any teacher...
When Mercedes-Benz and RM Sotheby’s confirmed the rumors about a one-of-two 300 SLR Uhlenhaut coupé being auctioned off on May...
I was fifteen years karting, and ten years karting and car racing. I started with Mercedes Benz as a mechanic;...
The 10th annual Boca Raton Concours d’Elegance presented by AutoNation and Mercedes-Benz, will take place February 19-21, 2016, at the...
Mike Lawrence There is a minor industry in new James Bond novels and if we include Young James Bond and...
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The collection of one of America’s preeminent collectors and conservators of vintage automobiles, that of Lindley and Ann Bothwell, will...
Prof. h.c. Bodo Buschmann, founder and CEO of BRABUS, the world’s largest independent automotive refinement specialist and renowned manufacturer of high-performance...
Briggs Cunningham was one of the most important figures in U.S. road racing during the era of the 1950s. He raced automobiles and yachts, manufactured sports cars, established a significant auto museum and distributed Jaguars. His overriding goal was to win Le Mans with an all-American car driven by Americans....