Mosport, Canada June 23–25, 2006 Seb Coppola’s 1970 Lola T192 is followed closely by the 1967 Chinook MkV of Ray...
Victory in the Canadian Grand Prix at Mosport on September 26, 1964, fell to Luigi Chinetti’s North American Racing Team,...
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Pete Lyons The year was 1970. The year the ground turned over under America’s greatest sports racing car series. It...
John Surtees, the only man yet to win World Championships on both two and four wheels, has been named an...
Richard Petty Carl Haas 1 Chuck Daigh, driving a Lotus 19-Climax, wins the USAC-sanctioned sports car race at Mosport, Ontario, Canada (1963). 2 Henry Seagrave drives a Sunbeam to victory in the French Grand Prix at Tours (1923). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
Vintage racer Dino Crescentini, from Rochester Hills in suburban Detroit, was killed when his Wolf-Dallara Can-Am car crashed during the...
Just as we were going to press last month, we learned of the …..tragic death of historic racer Dino Crescentini,...
Canada’s Gilles Villeneuve (1950-1982) was a driver so passionately single-minded that when watching him race one sensed that he would either win a World Championship or die trying. Sadly, the latter was his fate. Graduating from snowmobile racing to the Formula Atlantic series Villeneuve’s victory at Trois Rivieres in 1976...
John Fitch Bob Tullius 4 Jules Goux, driving a Ballot, wins the first Italian Grand Prix at Montichiari, near Brescia...
There is a warehouse in Houston, Texas, that is the automotive equivalent of Willie Wonka’s Chocolate Factory. There are no...
Jimmy Clark Biography Jimmy Clark was born in Kilmany, in the county of Fife to a Scottish farming family, roots that would stay with him for the rest of his life. He was the only son in a family of four daughters. His early racing exploits were initially met by...
In retrospect, the end of the 1973 Can-Am championship was the pinnacle of the series. Porsche’s turbocharged “Panzer” 917/30 had...
When the sports car scene started to heat up again in ’65-’66, I went to work for Motorsport Design in...
From West Coast Juniors comes word of a global celebration of the formula’s Diamond Jubilee that will begin this January and run deep into 2017. This Formula Junior festival will kick off with a three-race serie in South Africa, beginning at Zwartkops (January 29-30), Killarney (February 5-6) and East London...
1988 Jaguar XJR9 & 1991 Jaguar XJR12 Almost all of Jaguar’s competition effort in the post-war period became directed at a...
Dan Gurney is a man whose accomplishments need no introduction. In addition to winning in everything from Formula One to...
Riverside has at last completely disappeared, wholly obliterated under new development. No longer can you find your way to the last remaining section of the old International Raceway and pluck out a souvenir chunk of asphalt, as I wrote about doing in the VR of September 1999. Pete Lyons By...
Tiger Tales Dear Editor, I have to point out a rather large error in your article about the Sunbeam Tiger....
The MG Vintage Racers celebrated their annual “Focus Event” during SVRA’s Heacock Classic Gold Cup race at Virginia International Raceway, June 5–7. Despite the depressed economy, an impressive 66 MG racers—ranging from Prewar MGs to MGB-GT-V8s—showed up to have a go. The weekend featured two special races, Saturday’s MG–Morgan Challenge,...
April 2017 Away from green at the Labatt’s 200 Can-Am race at Mosport on June 13, 1971, Jackie Stewart’s Lola...
The Lotus 19 took sports car racing to a whole new level upon its debut in 1960, rendering rivals such...
The Vintage Automobile Racing Association of Canada (VARAC) and Lola Heritage announce that the 29th Annual Vintage Festival at Mosport International Raceway, on June 20–22, will honor the 50th Anniversary of Lola cars. A Lola from each race group will be selected for a special award based on preparation, history,...
John Wright speaks with the influential Canadian racer and official about the early days of racing in Canada, his tenure as the...
Brian Redman has been named the Grand Marshal for the Vintage Automobile Racing Association of Canada’s Vintage Grand Prix at...
Automobile manufacturers have long used racing as a tool for both exploring new technologies and advancing marketing agendas, and one of the richest of these competition records belongs to Jaguar. In North America, much of that history has been written by Bob Tullius’ Group 44 Inc. Commencing with an SCCA...