Luigi Fagioli Dan GurneyPhoto: Roger Dixon 1 Mario Andretti and Bruce McLaren drive a Ford GT40 MkIV to victory in...
Sebring, FL March 13-16 The 1965 Mustang of Don Nesbitt. Photo: Robert Harrington Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access...
The man at the wheel of the 2.8-liter, six-cylinder, Ford Sierra XR4i may have been a schoolmaster, but he certainly did not drive like one. In fact, beads of sweat were breaking out on my forehead as he stylishly doorhandled the winged Ford along the narrow roads of the Targa...
Sebring, FL March 16–17, 2006 Bill Mazzoni leads a group through Turn 4 in his Chevron B16 during practice.Photo: Fred...
Englishman Andy Wallace is one of only eight drivers ever to post at least one victory in each of endurance...
September 2017 The well turned out factory team of MGAs lined up prior to the start of the 12 Hours of Sebring on March 26, 1960. Two of the three cars would finish. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (&...
Aston Martin entered the1959 sports car season targeting just a single race, Le Mans, but walked away the deserving winner...
Jim Clark Frank Williams Photo: Williams F1 1 Jody Scheckter drives a Tyrrell 007 to victory in the South African...
The Qvale Sebring MGBs By 1959, the MG Car Company was looking to update the somewhat dated and underpowered MGA sports car with a new more modern design that incorporated the latest unibody construction. This new project, code-named the EX 205, was given to Sydney Enver to design and would...
Just about everything there is to write has been written about American racing legend Mario Andretti, but we would be...
The author rides the iconically liveried Mirage up onto the curb while negotiating a left-hander at Silverstone. Photo: Pete Austin The...
Joseph Pendergast, historic racer, race organizer, and collector for nearly 40 years, succumbed to complications from pneumonia on September 14, 2008, at the age of 69. Pendergast was owner and general manager of West Coast Caterers, and upon selling it to Dobbs House in 1973, he sought his Bachelor’s degree...
There is a warehouse in Houston, Texas, that is the automotive equivalent of Willie Wonka’s Chocolate Factory. There are no...
Riddelle Gregory Vittorio Jano 1 Mercedes-Benz publishes a press release officially describing its W25 Grand Prix racecars as “Silver Arrows”...
In early April, I made my way to Las Vegas for the inaugural Champ car Vegas Grand Prix. This new event featured just three races through the streets of downtown Las Vegas, the main Champ car race, an Atlantic race, and a historic Formula One race sanctioned by Historic Grand...
Sebring, FL March 14–17, 2007 The 1958 Lister Chevy of Udo Horn.Photo: Chuck Andersen Become a Member & Get Ad-Free...
Bob Wollek was a champion many times over before he even got into motor racing. He won no fewer than three gold and two silver medals in the World University Games—second only to the Olympics—in downhill, slalom and combined skiing events in 1966 and 1968. When he exploded onto the...
You never know where interesting collections of rare photos will turn up. While cruising through the Desert Centre Triumph Register...
At the 12 Hours of Sebring on March 25, 1961, John Fitch shared this Briggs Cunningham-entered Maserati T61 “Birdcage” with...
So we have lost Dan Gurney, a few months shy of his 87th birthday. Dan was one of the sport’s internationally famous and successful icons: he was a motor racing driver, car constructor and team owner, whose outstanding good looks could just as easily have qualified him for an acting...
Sebring International Raceway, FL March 12, 2008 The Ex-Group 44 1969 Triumph GT6 of Craig Disney leads Dan Mershon’s 1966...
Sebring International Raceway, Sebring, FL March 16–20, 2016 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
Tony Robinson: The Biography of a Race Mechanic By Ian Wagstaff Everyone knows that the best racing stories are those told by the mechanics, and here is a book full of them, from a man who has assisted some of the great names of the sport. Become a Member &...
In remembering and memorializing John Fitch upon the occasion of his death, Vintage Racecar has produced this brief photographic summary...
The chaotic scene just after the #88 car of Huhn/Schwarz crashed at the Nürburgring in 1970. Photo: Porsche Werk Motor...
February 2017 • Publication of the final calendar for the FIA’s 2017 Formula One World Championship means that the date for next summer’s Silverstone Classic will shift a week in order to accommodate the changes. The 2017 Silverstone Classic, featuring a 50th anniversary celebration of Formula Ford, will now take...
Dan Gurney’s motor racing career as a driver, car constructor and team owner is just about as star-spangled as his...
January 2005 12 Hours of Sebring—1970 By Harry Hurst If you poll almost anyone familiar with the history of long-distance...
Briggs Swift Cunningham: one of the greatest racing figures, car engineers and team owners in America. Racing from the ’40s through the ’60s from supercharged MG-TC’s to Porsche 904s, and famous by the color of his racing cars, white with blue stripes, almost every great driver Cunningham had drive for...
