Photos and words by Dennis Gray A week after running WeatherTech Laguna Seca Raceway, the SVRA drivers, crews, and cars...
Driving into Monterey’s Laguna Seca on Thursday, the weather did not look good. A cold rain was accented by an...
Breaking with the tradition that awards the Vintage Collier Cup to an MG racer selected by a vote of his or her peers as “best representing the spirit of MG vintage racers,” this year’s silver anniversary Collier Cup was awarded to all 53 MG racers who took part in the...
MG tradition continued at Watkins Glen this past September with SVRA’s 26th running of the historic “Vintage Collier Cup” all-MG...
If you’re searching for an American racetrack with a unique history, look no further than WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca on...
Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) has announced that Al Unser Sr. will serve as grand marshal for the May 31 – June 3 Sonoma Historic Motorsports Festival, one of their most important events of the season. The 12-turn, 2.52-mile Sonoma Raceway is an American epicenter of elite car collections and...
Building on the success of the 40th anniversary races in 2008, the Formula 5000 Drivers Association has announced an expanded...
Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) and the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) have agreed to end their decade-long alliance. A consequent...
Four-time Indianapolis 500 winner Al Unser (above, IMS Photo) will return to racing at the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association’s Indy Legends Charity Pro-Am at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on June 17. The Hall of Famer will join his son, two-time Indy 500 winner Al Unser Jr., in the race, marking...
Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) has announced that father and son Geoff and Matt Brabham will race 1971 Brabham BT35...
The 2nd Annual Brickyard Vintage Racing Invitational, organized by the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway will take place this weekend in the Hoosier capital. It all begins tomorrow, Thursday June 11, with group Practice Sessions and road course qualifying and continues Friday with further qualifying sessions,...
Carl Jensen, a long time driver, official, director, event promoter and great friend to many, suffered a fatal heart attack...
The Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) has announced a collaboration with Hagerty and the Blain Motorsports Foundation to produce a...
Two-time World Champion Jim Clark raced at Indianapolis five times, winning once and officially finishing 2nd twice, with both of those results mired in controversy that could have made him a three-time winner. In 1965 Clark dominated the race to score the first win for a rear-engined car, but in...
Notice has been received that the Coronado Speed Festival at North Island Naval Base in San Diego cannot take place...
The Cooper Car Club USA has announced that it will celebrate the 70th Anniversary of Cooper cars with back-to-back events...
The 18th Fleet Week Coronado Speed Festival took place last weekend, with more than 200 cars contesting 11 run groups of the annual event, run under the auspices of the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association for the first time this year. Hot and sunny skies greeted both participants and the multitude...
Four drivers posted double victories in the twin races for their respective race groups during last weekend’s 19th Coronado Speed...
Watkins Glen International has announced that David Hobbs has accepted an invitation to serve as Grand Marshal for the Hilliard...
Marty and Lee Talbot holding Explorers’ flag.Photo: Lee Talbot Family Collection To describe 81-year-old Lee Talbot as a race driver for more than 60 years would provide only the tip of the iceberg for this interesting man. Professor of Environmental Studies at George Mason University in Virginia would be a...
The Formula 5000 Drivers Association crowned its 2015 champions at its season finale, part of SVRA’s U.S. Vintage Racing National...
Rick Parsons and Mark Harmer secured their respective Formula 5000 class championships for 2016 during the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association’s...
The Formula 5000 Drivers Association has published a five-race 2011 schedule that takes the high-powered series to some of North America’s classic motorsports venues. The year kicks off at Watkins Glen on June 9–12 as part of the SVRA weekend at the upstate New York track, then visits Quebec’s Le...
MG Vintage Racers has selected SVRA’s June 4-7 Heacock Classic Gold Cup race event at Virginia International Raceway, as its...
Two of the longest established and most successful vintage racing organizations in the United States have announced a new series...
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,...
The Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) has announced that legendary Le Mans 24 champion and IndyCar veteran Geoff Brabham will...
With the Heacock Classic Gold Cup meeting on the first weekend of autumn at Virginia International Raceway, the Sportscar Vintage...
Well-known vintage racing enthusiast and patron Ford Heacock III was suitably honored with the VIR Gold Cup at the annual Black & White dinner during Virginia International Raceway’s Heacock Gold Cup historic race weekend in early June. The award was presented “in the vintage spirit to someone who embodies performance,...