From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete born of his passion for speed and technology....
Breaking with the tradition that awards the Vintage Collier Cup to an MG racer selected by a vote of his...
Although neither connected to nor authorized by MG Rover Group, this site of the MG Cars Enthusiasts’ Club is a valuable resource for any enthusiast of Abingdon’s finest. This site includes a wide variety of features including recent MG news, events, MG motor sports highlights, photo galleries, a healthy classified...
1934 MG K3 Magnette It was one of those little stories that stays with you. The first all-historic motor racing meeting...
Rally legend Paddy Hopkirk reopened the Kop Hillclimb after 84 years, speeding up the hill in a 2009 Mini after the marshal dropped the Union flag. Although there had been a previous event in 1999 called the Risborough Revival, it had 150 cars present and was described as “low key.”...
The 5th annual Fabulous Fifties Concours d’Provenance at the South Coast Botanical Gardens in the Los Angeles suburb of Palos...
Under cloudy skies, fortuitously slotted between rain showers, the second Lobethal Grand Carnival opened the historic 8.7-mile Adelaide Hills road...
For all the talk today of “level playing fields” and equal opportunities for all, it has to be understood that motor sport has never really been egalitarian. Contrary to popular belief, racing runs not on gasoline, but on money. From its humble beginnings at the turn of the 20 century, the combined...
Robert Donner Jr., whose interest in cars began as a toddler while his father was an Auburn, Cord, and Duesenberg...
There is a section in The Sunday Times called In Gear and it is basically boys’ toys, with cars as the headline, plus pod things, which I do not understand. Every week it features a new supercar, and even then it doesn’t get all of them, supercars are everywhere. England...
This is the story of a hero who was more heroic than most. You may not have heard of Archie...
Here’s yet another source for rare, hand-held video of the old days as shot by those who were there. Courtesy...
Canada’s Mosport Park and VARAC’s Vintage Racing Festival served as the hosts for this year’s 15th annual “Focus Event” for MG Vintage Racers, and honors bestowed during the June event included MGVR’s Spirit Award, the Bill Parish Memorial and the MG V-8 Challenge Trophy. The first of these, chosen by...
Tom Walkinshaw began his racing career as just another youngster trying to find ways to indulge his passions, and by...
A Rogue, an XK120 and the World Record that Took 5 Years and Stirling Moss to Break. It was a...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These innovators are in an elite club with their place in automotive history guaranteed as the creators of a true classic sports car, a genuine thoroughbred. The development of the racing...
MG tradition continued at Watkins Glen this past September with SVRA’s 26th running of the historic “Vintage Collier Cup” all-MG...
“Revisited” because this is my second column about Ken. My March 2006 column was the first, but in rereading it there were some things I left out and would like to tell about. A short time ago, while looking for a photograph, I came across a negative of Miles I...
The outrageous Group B cars from the World Rally Championship of the 1980s have been added to the Donington Historic...
The man known to many as “Mr. MG,” Tony Roth, has passed away after a long fight with cancer. Roth...
This Labor Day weekend, the MG Vintage Racers will celebrate the 30th anniversary of their organization with their East Coast...
Sports car road racing started after WWII on the East Coast during the late forties. The first wheel-to-wheel event was...
Raoul “Sonny” Balcaen may not be a name with which everyone is familiar, but he grew up in Southern California in a world filled with automobiles and explored many of the pathways on that landscape. From an initial baptism in hot rodding, he moved naturally into drag racing, working with...
All six events at Pebble Beach’s fourth renewal were memorable for those lucky enough to be there, but ’53 was...
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During my mid-teens a particular photograph in Motor Sport caught my eye. It was of an old Aston Martin racing at Silverstone, and there was something about it that somehow encapsulated the excitement of motor racing and what it could be about. Peter SutcliffePhoto: Mike Jiggle Upon leaving school I...