On this, the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Monterey Historics, I thought it would be interesting to look back and see...
As a racecar driver, Jack McAfee needs no introduction. He was one of the greats of early sports car racing...
Monterey, CA August 14-17 The start of Saturday’s Trans-Am race saw 32 “ground-pounders” pour into Laguna Seca’s Turn 1.Photo: Jim Williams Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to paid subscribers only. Our membership removes most...
Rush hour, Monterey-style – the start of Sunday’s Trans-Am finale. When an actor or a musician becomes a mega-star –...
The Formula Junior category was introduced in Italy in 1958 by Count Giovanni Lurani, and in 1959 it became an International Formula. Shortly thereafter, in 1960, the British began to take a serious interest in the category, thus starting the rivalry between British and Italian cars. The original FIA Formula...
Monterey, CA August 17-19 The 1920 Bugatti 13/22 of Leo Keushian. Photo: Jim Williams Become a Member & Get Ad-Free...
This year’s Monterey Historic Automobile Races marks the 35th running of this classic event. As shown schematically in the Laguna...
In early July, HMSA the sanctioning body for the annual Monterey Historic Automobile Races sent an email to all its members informing them that Steve Earle and his company General Racing, Ltd., would no longer be organizing the famed Monterey peninsula event that Earle founded in 1976. HMSA president Cris...
Al Moss, known to almost everyone who reads this journal, died peacefully on September 25 at his home in Sedona,...
Monterey, California August 18–20, 2006 Mary Grant-Jonkers in a 1953 Cooper Bristol T-23.Photo: Jim Williams Become a Member & Get...
In several sections of this month’s issue, you’ll find coverage of just a small sampling of the constellation of events that now make up the week of the Monterey Historics. It seems like every year, in this column, I make some comment on how it couldn’t possibly get any bigger...
Chaparral, one of the truly great names in American racing history, will be the Featured Marque of the 32nd Rolex...
Maserati was the honored marque at the August Monterey Historic Automobile Races for the second time since 1988, and the...
With Porsche as the featured marque for the 36th Monterey Historic Automobile Races, attendees were treated to a broad variety of machinery from the Stuttgart concern that comprised nearly a third of the 450 total entries for the event. Porsche brought a number of cars from its museum to supplement...
Monterey, California August 19–21, 2005 The 1971 Chevron B-19 of Jonathan Feiber. Photo: Jim Williams Become a Member & Get...
The Formula Junior category was introduced in Italy in 1958 by Count Giovanni Lurani, and in 1959, it became an...
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I write this month’s column from Monterey, as myself, most of our staff, and about 3,000-pounds of magazines are here...
The under 2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever changing regulations of...
This year’s Rolex Monterey Historic Automobile Races, held August 18–20, was the 33rd running of what has arguably become the world’s largest gathering of the classic car faithful. With a diverse 400-car field and a star-studded collection of famous drivers and automotive personalities, this year’s Historics paid tribute to the...
I stood back watching, as Monterey feted the Fangio marque. Fangio marque? Yes, Juan Manuel Fangio is the only person,...
Call me a jinx if you like. No sooner did I put the finishing touches on last month’s column about...
Just looking at the cover of VR this month, you’ll realize something is different. For only the second time, in our 20 years of monthly publication, there is a person featured on the cover, rather than a car. The last time was in 2008, when Phil Hill passed away. Now,...
A number of sources, including AutoWeek, are reporting that a battle is brewing over control of the famed Monterey Historic...
The under-2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports; the World Sports Car Championship from 1953–1961, the Speedworld Challenge from 1962–1963, the International Championship of Makes from 1964–1971 and the World Championship of Makes from 1972–1981. This included racing...
Photo: Dennis Gray If you’ve ever attended the Monterey Historics, the Wine Country Classic, a Classic Sports Racing Group (CSRG),...
The Formula Junior category was introduced in Italy in 1958 by Count Giovanni Lurani, and in 1959, it became an...
As we’ve done each of the ten years we’ve now been in publication, this month we focus all of the content within this issue around the featured marque at this year’s Monterey Historics. In this year’s case, we pay tribute to the famed Indy Roadster. Oddly enough, over the course...