This past February, the fifth annual Leadfoot Festival was held at international rally champion Rod Millen’s ranch on the Coromandel...
A pair of Bruce McLaren Festival weekends will highlight the seventh season of the MSC New Zealand F5000 Tasman Cup Revival Series. The full schedule of events, listed below, includes six meetings, but expectations are that the two McLaren-honoring events and the yet-to-be-confirmed Australian Grand Prix support show will draw...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
I think it is easy for those of us living in the Northern Hemisphere to underestimate the global racing contributions...
Hampton Downs Raceway Park, NZ January 18–20 & 25–27, 2013 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 ads, lets you enjoy unlimited access to all our premium content, and offers you awesome...
The 1950s and ’60s were to many involved in Australian historic motor sport, the halcyon years. It was the time...
It’s often said that one of the best aspects of historic racing is the people you meet. Having been around...
September 2010 DUNEDIN STREET RACE Dear Editor, It has been a few years now since the last running of the Dunedin Street Race and many of you will be wondering about the future of the event. Unfortunately the requirement to upgrade safety significantly resulted in the last event incurring a significant...
I am very pleased to be able to announce that starting with this issue, racing legend and long-time friend of...
Bruce McLaren Scrapbook – A Pictorial Celebration of a Kiwi Legend By Jan McLaren and Richard Becht Bruce McLaren was...
Hampton Downs Motorsport Park, North Waikato, NZ January 27–29, 2012 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 ads, lets you enjoy unlimited access to all our premium content, and offers you awesome...
Manfeild, New Zealand November 2005 The 1968 Camaro of Billy Dunn ahead of a couple of Holdens, the 1969 Monaro...
Louis Stanley Rudolf Caracciola 2 First South Africa Grand Prix to be held on the Kyalami track near Johannesburg is won by Pedro Rodriguez at the wheel of a Cooper-Maserati. First F1 win for Rodriguez and last for Cooper (1967). 3 Sprint car builder and Indy 500 crew chief Wally...
The Road to Monaco: My Life in Motor Racing By Howden Ganley It all began for Howden Ganley at the...
As you might expect for a site so named, Trackpedia offers a compendium of nearly 1000 racetracks around the world...
• Three fixtures of American racing have been inducted into the SCCA Hall of Fame. Carroll Shelby, Bobby Rahal and Skip Barber were enshrined during a March 2 dinner in Las Vegas for their contributions to SCCA racing. Shelby, more widely known as winner of the 1959 Le Mans 24...
1956 Lycoming Special The immediate post World War Two years were best described as austere times for many countries, even...
F5000 stalwarts Kevin Bartlett, Howden Ganley and Ken Smith used a visit to a very special workshop in Salinas, California,...
If you are an old car buff, love beautiful scenery and friendly people, and want to visit a place where they speak English and you can drink the water, then New Zealand is the place for you. These are classics from various events in the land down under, the land...
My wife made an offer on a house in New Zealand while vacationing there with her family a few years...
April 2017 Pit and Paddock – Behind the scenes at UK and European circuits in the ’60s and ’70s By...
New Zealand—the homeland of the two most famous drivers of the Can-Am series, Bruce McLaren and Denny Hulme—was the host to its first-ever Can-Am race in history this year. It is hard to believe that Kiwis had never seen a group of these beasts driven in anger, even though Bruce...
Hampton Downs Raceway, Waikato, New Zealand January 15-17 & 22-24, 2016 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This...
With a dad like Stan Jones it was hardly surprising that Alan became a motor racing nut when he was...
2017 Leadfoot Festival, New Zealand, February 4-5, 2017 Like from the musical ‘Porgy and Bess’…“Summertime and the living is easy…” as it is the peak of the Antipodean summer and racing is very busy in New Zealand. Rod Millen is the famed “Kiwi” racer and an American motorsports icon known for breaking...
If you’re a regular reader of Vintage Racecar (and I hope you are!), then you’ve likely noticed a recent increase...
Former F1 and endurance racer Howden Ganley has received his homeland’s highest motor racing honor, joining former inductees Bruce McLaren,...
Hampton Downs Motorsport Park, Auckland, NZ January 21–23 & 28–30, 2011 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 ads, lets you enjoy unlimited access to all our premium content, and offers you...