The recently formed Formula 5000 Drivers Association has announced three main feature races for F5000 cars in celebration of the...
The Formula 5000 Drivers Association has announced its racing schedule for 2020. The Association has announced three official races for...
With the recent passing of automotive icon Carroll Shelby, it is easy to look at his amazing life through the lens of his greatest achievements—the revered Cobra and GT350 being but two that will immediately pop to mind for most casual enthusiasts. But Shelby’s career as a constructor and team...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seat racing cars built to a specific set of rules and powered...
In less than two months, a select group of Formula 5000 race cars will be visiting the iconic Road America...
A four-race 2016 calendar has been announced by Formula 5000 Drivers Association President Seb Coppola. Also revealed was a 2018 return to the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca as a featured race group. The F5000 races were among the most popular at last year’s Rolex event,...
A four-race 2016 calendar has been announced by Formula 5000 Drivers Association President Seb Coppola. Also revealed was a 2018...
Even a weekend of changeable weather conditions at Road America couldn’t stop some great racing for Masters USA, at the...
Ford’s iconic GT40 will be the featured marque at this summer’s 10th annual Kohler International Challenge with Brian Redman on the weekend of July 16-19 at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. Also featured among the more than 1,000 entries in 10 race groups at the SVRA event will be...
Tragedy struck on Friday, July 27, during an open test session, when historic and SCCA racer Jim Victor was involved...
A field of nearly 40 Can-Am cars is expected to be in action at the 2016 WeatherTech International Challenge with...
Soon after motor vehicles were invented they were raced. Initially the contests were held on open roads, often from city to city. The very first I have been able to find documented involved two steam-driven tractors chugging between Madison and Green Bay, Wisconsin, on July 16, 1878. The problems of...
Photo Gallery from the Jul 14-17, 2022, International Challenge with Brian Redman at Road America. Subscribers click here for more...
The combination of GM’s Jim Musser and Jim Hall proved to be one of the most potent combinations in autosport...
Fernando Alonso Jim Hall Photo: Keith Booker 1 Nineteen-year-old Vincenzo Lancia, in his first race, drives a Fiat to victory in the 220-km Padua-Vicenza-Bassano-Treviso-Padua race. Also this is the first race for Felice Nazzaro (1900). 2 The first official Formula Ford race is held at Brands Hatch, England (1967). Become...
John Zeitler Nigel Mansell Photo: Maureen Magee 2 Emerson Fittipaldi, driving a Penske PC-18, wins the CART Budweiser Cleveland Grand...
Antonio Ascari Pedro Rodriguez 2 Camille Jenatzy, driving a Mercedes 60 HP, wins the Gordon Bennett race. He covers the...
Vic Elford Lucien Bianchi 1 Derek Bell, Hans Stuck and Al Holbert drive a Porsche 962 to victory in the 24-Hours of Le Mans. Jo Gartner dies in an accident during the early morning hours (1986). 1 Rudolph Caricciola, driving a Fanfir, finishes 4th in his first auto race, at...
June 2017 What Ifs… Dear Editor, Just finished reading your column about “What ifs”….and when it came to you mentioning Jerry Titus. 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...
September 2007 BMW Drivers Dear Editor, Read your article on the prewar BMW with great interest. Although I knew he had a prewar racing career, I never knew that Huschke von Hanstein was one of their racing drivers. But what intrigued me more was learning about one of their lesser...
Imagine what it was like for Eric Broadley to have come up with the T70 coupe after the heady days...
To mark the 50th Anniversary of the birth of Formula 5000 — initially Formula A — the Formula 5000 Drivers...
Having taken the first steps into the world of vintage and historic racing at SVRA’s Auto Club Speedway outing in California last month, Mazda’s Miata Heritage Cup has announced four further races that will comprise the new championship’s first season. Those standalone races for first-generation Miatas — those built between...
Mike Rahal, father of three-time Indycar National Champion and 1986 Indianapolis 500 winner Bobby Rahal and the grandfather of current-day...
Two events, one forever unforgettable, the other somewhat less memorable, shared the same Sunday, 40 years ago. Heading up the...
Nearly 10 years ago in this space (“Sleuths Wanted,” February 2002) I asked if anyone could ID a Can-Am car I didn’t know and had seen only once, at Road America in 1967. Ah, the power of Vintage Racecar! Immediately, reader Tor Caraway wrote in from Wisconsin with the answer....
