The epic battle between Ferrari and Cobra had begun, but initially the Italian cars were still the best. The winner...
Famed racer, team owner and international businessman Roger Penske is the honoree of the Silver Anniversary Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance...
The late 1960s brought a host of changes to the famed 24 Hours of Le Mans. The wave of “professionalism” that was sweeping across other forms of motorsport began to exert its influence at Le Mans. With increased money and prestige now flowing through professional racing, the caliber of teams...
Carlos Sainz Al Unser Jr. 2 Three-time Formula One World Champion Jack Brabham is born (1926). 3 Pierro Taruffi drives...
Roger Penske will be honored by the International Motor Racing Research Center with its Cameron R. Argetsinger Award for Outstanding...
Augie Pabst is one of the practitioners of the skillful art of road racing from the early days of North American road racing. He began as did so many others of his contemporaries in the 1950s, went on to race with Briggs Cunningham’s team, and from there went to the...
Giuseppe Campari Riddelle Gregory 3 The ISRS race at Zolder, Holland, is won by Didier Theys and Freddy Lienhard, driving...
Ronnie Peterson Giuseppe Campari 1 James Hunt, driving a McLaren-Ford, wins the German Grand Prix on the Nürburgring. Niki Lauda...
Howden Ganley stopped by our vendor booth at the recent Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, where one of the old photos we showed him started a discussion so interesting that I’m keen to share it with you. The picture was made by Art Evans at Palm Springs in November, 1956. It...
News emerged last week that former Super Vee champion and Indycar racer Bill Alsup (above, David Hutson photo) had died...
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Canadian industries of aerospace and racecar design were at the forefront of...
Briggs Cunningham was one of the most important figures in U.S. road racing during the era of the 1950s. He raced automobiles and yachts, manufactured sports cars, established a significant auto museum and distributed Jaguars. His overriding goal was to win Le Mans with an all-American car driven by Americans....
Bruce Leslie McLaren won the first-ever Grand Prix of the United States in 1959, but really established his life’s legacy...
In our January 2007 issue, Pete Lyons shared some remarks about the grand old Canadian-American Challenge Cup series made by...
By almost anyone’s measure, one of the things that made the Golden Era golden was the Canadian-American Challenge Cup or the Can-Am. It was the pinnacle of American road racing. The cars were the ultimate in racing machines, to the extent that they were faster than Indycars and those running...
Tony SouthgatePhoto: Pete Austin At the end of the 1972 season, I left BRM to join Don Nichols and his...
Last year the SCCA marked the 50th anniversary of its inaugural Trans-American Sedan Championship event at Sebring, Florida, on March...
Ken Miles in the Shelby Cobra, with Shelby’s personal racing number, leads Jim Hall in the Corvette Grand Sport. Ken Miles won the GT class and finished 2nd overall, as the Grand Sport driven by Hall, Roger Penske and Hap Sharp finished 3rd overall behind the winning Ferrari 250LM with...
Sunoco was approached by Roger Penske, in the fall of 1965, to sponsor his newly formed racing team. After the...
To Salute Dan Gurney’s selection as Featured Guest for the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, we asked the All American Racer...
We concluded last month’s opening segment of John Zimmermann’s interview with David Hobbs as he was preparing to turn his attention toward North America. Even though he would still contest a number of major races in Europe, the main focus of his competitive efforts turned toward the USA where he...
The L&M Formula 5000 Championship; Mid-Ohio, June 3, 1973. Mark Donohue in Roger Penske’s Lola T330 with AMC Javelin power,...
Ed Leavens’ career in racing could be compared to an iceberg where 9/10ths of the details of his career lie...
Post your best caption on the “Fall Caption Contest” forum thread (click here) by Sunday Octobber 11, 2015 at 11:59 p.m. PST. The editorial staff at Vintage Racecar|Vintage Roadcar will review all captions and choose the winner. We will announce the winner on the forum Tuesday, October 13, 2015. Winner...
May 2011 Among the traditions of the Indianapolis 500 is the annual Front Row photo op on the Monday after...
December 2010 Driving his unique Zerex Special, a converted Cooper Formula One car, Roger Penske was a force in sports...
Roger Penske Fred Offenhauser 3 Paul Goldsmith drives Smokey Yunick’s Pontiac to victory in the last stock car race on the beach at Daytona, Florida (1958). 4 Porsche 907s sweep the top three finishing positions in the 24 Hours of Daytona with the Elford/Neerspatch/Siffert/Stommelen/Herrmann car winning (1968). Become a Member...
Warwick Brown drives a Lola T430 to victory in the Australian GP at Oran Park in Sydney (1977). 1 •...
This year marks the 50th Anniversary of the race that began as the Daytona Continental in 1962 and evolved into...
The man who facilitated Danny Sullivan’s rise to motor racing stardom has died of cancer at his home in Milan, Italy. Garvin Brown, whose great grandfather founded the Brown-Forman Corp. that produces Jack Daniel’s Tennessee whiskey, and who’s best known in automotive circles as the patron who enabled a struggling...