Last year we celebrated a century of Grand Prix racing. The Grand Prix de l’Auto Club France was the first...
Even though the Japanese motoring industry explored sports cars decades later than European and American manufacturers, its rapid growth soon...
The 23rd annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance, scheduled for March 11, 2018, at the Golf Club of Amelia Island on the grounds of the Ritz-Carlton in Amelia Island, Florida, will feature the 200-mph, 1,000-horsepower Grand Touring Prototypes that thrilled audiences a quarter century ago. GTP cars were the spiritual descendants...
holman-moody: The Legendary Race Team By Tom Cotter and Al Pearce This second edition of a book originally published more...
WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca officials are noting a huge rise in entries for Datsun and Nissan entries (above, Bob Heathcote...
THE ELECTRAMOTIVE / NPTI NISSAN GTP ZX Nissans have been raced for far longer than most people think. Additionally, the people who have raced them have also stayed remarkably true to the marque. In 1971 the BRE Datsun team comprised: John Morton and Pete Brock as drivers (John also worked...
September 2017 • John Knepp, who with Don Devendorf founded the Datsun/Nissan performance specialty company Electramotive Engineering, has died at...
A few hours before the start of this June’s 24 Hours of Le Mans, everyone in attendance will be treated to a 45-minute contest for cars from the Group C era at the legendary event. Race fans will be able to witness machinery from Jaguar, Sauber-Mercedes, Porsche, Mazda, and Nissan,...
How one car changed the culture of Japan and the mindset of America, one sports car at a time With...
Nissan started making Group C cars in 1983. At first a Nissan engine would be mounted in a foreign-made chassis...
Eddie Rickenbacker Rick Mears 1 Roberto Lippi drives a Stanguellini to victory in the Formula Junior race at Vallelunga, Italy (1958). 2 Gerhard Mitter and Udo Schutz lead a Porsche 908 1-2-3 finish in the Targa Florio road race in Sicily (1969). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To...
In October 1969, a sleek new two-door sports car was presented at the Pierre Hotel, New York in front of...
The 41st edition of Historic Sportscar Racing’s Classic Motorsports Mitty returns to Road Atlanta, April 26-29, with a celebration of...
What a weekend! Winter Jam finally made its return to Sonoma Raceway in 2021 after a yearlong pandemic absence. With six different drift courses spread out around the 2.52-mile track and paddock area, there was plenty of room as thousands of enthusiastic spectators were shrouded in tire smoke and flying...
Car manufacturers have traditionally favored mid-engine or rear-engine layouts when designing performance vehicles. The logic is that such engine positioning...
To honor the 50th anniversary of a corporate involvement in motorsports that continues to this day, Nissan has been named...
Toyota’s first car, the AA, was a close copy of the DeSoto Airflow with essentially a 1933 Chevrolet engine. Photo: Toyota Motor Sales, U.S. Archives The decade of the ’30s was a time of incredible creativity among automobile designers and coachbuilders, especially in Europe. But it was also a decade of...
At the Fuji International Speedway, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. and Nissan Motorsports International Co., Ltd. recently announced the newly designed...
Watch this onboard footage of a Nissan Skyline GT-R Nismo R32 Group-N race car that raced the 1990 24 hours...
April 2018 • The 41st edition of Historic Sportscar Racing’s Classic Motorsports Mitty returns to Road Atlanta, April 26-29, with a celebration of all things Nissan as it honors the Japanese manufacturer. For decades Nissan has enjoyed a large presence in all forms of North American motorsports, from the ubiquitous...
Champion racing driver Tony Adamowicz, known to many as A2Z, has passed away at the age of 75 following a...
In this concluding installment of our interview with Trans-Am record-breaker Tom Kendall, we pick up the narrative just after he’s...
Walter Hayes Jim Clark 3 Carroll Shelby drives a Birdcage Maserati to victory in the Los Angeles Examiner Herald-Express International Grand Prix at Riverside, California (1960). 7 Jim Clark dies in an accident during an F2 race at Hockenheim, Germany (1968). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This...
Pentti Airikkala, one of the famed “Flying Finns” of Scandinavian and then worldwide rally fame, died in Berkshire, England, at...
This weekend, the final two races of the 2020/21 ABB FIA Formula E World Championship season will be held and...
Paddy Hopkirk Helio Castroneves Photo: Jim Hatfield 1 David Pearson wins the NASCAR Winston Cup race at Atlanta International Raceway in Hampton, Georgia (1973). 2 Tommy Milton drives the Durant Special to victory in a race on the board track in Beverly Hills, California (1922). Become a Member & Get...
Automobile manufacturers consistently look to various sources of inspiration when designing their cars. A current trend or future direction in...
Photography by Kristina Cilia (@kristinacilia_autos) and Debi Retterer (@debirettererphotography). Automotive enthusiasts will have their preference on what catches their attention...
Recently the collector car world has shifted. Although interest remains for established sectors, a new generation of enthusiasts has arrived with a passion for more modern machinery. This shift is now impacting the vintage racing scene where the definition of “vintage racecar” will continue to evolve. One sector involved in...