More than 60 classic cars battled their way between the UK’s Land’s End and John O’Groats on this year’s LeJog...
Trans World Historic Rallying has announced the return of the epic London to Sydney Marathon Rally, last run in 2004,...
Markku Alén is the person-ification of his favorite rallying expression: maximum attack. Words he lived by throughout his illustrious career, firmly establishing himself as one of the world’s greatest rally drivers. Markku was World Champion in 1978, the last year of the FIA Cup, and ruled the rally world again...
VR: It was recently announced that you have been chosen to be the chief judge for the Pebble Beach Concours...
Les Leston was born in 1920 named Alfred Lazarus Fingleston. He worked in the motor accessory business and was an...
The Austin Seven motor car celebrates its 90th birthday this year and the occasion is being marked by a major event organized by the 750 Motor Club at Beaulieu, in the UK. Austin Sevens were built between 1922 and 1939. Today over 8,000 are thought to still exist and hundreds...
We’re spectating on a rally special stage. The Monte Carlo, Britain’s RAC, the Acropolis in Greece. Anywhere, it doesn’t matter...
My recollection of getting to know Archie was that my father went to Cambridge University and was a member of...
1985 Audi Quattro E2 Simply put, when the Audi Quattro appeared, it immediately had its detractors. The immense power output with much of the weight at the front looked impossible to take seriously. Then it ran, and the detractors quickly went quiet. It was indeed a beast of a car...
I was blessed with car-friendly parents and grandparents. My mother, who took part in several rallying events as a driver,...
The outrageous Group B cars from the World Rally Championship of the 1980s have been added to the Donington Historic...
Two heroes and a heroine. What unites them? The Audi Quattro, rallying’s first four-wheel-drive, turbocharged car. Hannu and Stig each won a world drivers title with the German groundbreaker, and Michèle would have done the same if Walter Röhrl hadn’t got in her way. But she still beat 21 top...
Frank Raymond Wilton “Lofty” England was not head and shoulders above many other men just because he was 6 ft...
Aficionados of fine automotive engineering will once again gather in the French town of Angouleme on the third weekend of...
Unlike many racing drivers, none of my family was associated with motor sport or the motor trade. Spain, my country, had its sporting roots in bull fighting, football, and golf. Motor racing was for a minority of people. During the 1960s, I was a spectator at the Rally of Spain,...
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Say what you will about Bernie Ecclestone, but you cannot deny the fact that he has an eye for a...
Newcastle to Peebles, UK October 30–November 1, 2009 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 discounts on...
Quadruple Monte Carlo Rallye winner Walter Röhrl dominated December’s FIA European Rally Championship for Historical Cars event in the Spanish...
My time with the BMC competitions department saw me racing the big Austin Healeys, and later racing at Le Mans...
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.”...
Pentti Airikkala, one of the famed “Flying Finns” of Scandinavian and then worldwide rally fame, died in Berkshire, England, at...
The glorious sunshine and exceptional calibre of racing stars brought motorsport enthusiasts out in their thousands to visit Race Retro...
In 2007 I attended the Press Day prior to the Goodwood Festival of Speed. You can be a passenger in a drive up the hill, but there was the new rally stage, designed by Hannu Mikkola, which was a proper forest stage. I staked my place, so I had first...
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1953 Austin-Healey 100 Is this the ideal sports car of the 1950s? The car that sparked thousands of people into...
In a recent letter to Vintage Racecar, David Carroll mentioned that he owns an HRG. Regardless of anything else, like what it might do to your dental fillings, the “Hurg” is one of the most elegant cars of the 1930s. It also reminded me about what government decisions have done...
I write this month’s column from Monterey, as myself, most of our staff, and about 3,000-pounds of magazines are here...
Karl Abarth was a magician. A waver of wands whose magic brought the exquisite pleasure of higher-performance motoring and motor racing to men and women of modest means. His speciality was conversion. And he turned the Fiat 500 and 600 low-powered tin boxes into teeth-gnashing, tire-smoking predators that won thousands...
