September 2008 The Tourist Trophy: Dundrod Circuit (northern Ireland), September 11, 1954. Masten Gregory slides out of the Hairpin with...
1929 Tourist Trophy – A Great Irish Triumph By the Hon. H.R.S. Birkin The chief threat to a Bentley victory...
June 2009 Spewing flame on a downshift, Carroll Shelby presses onward with the Aston Martin DBR1 at Goodwood’s six-hour Tourist Trophy race on September 5, 1959. Joined by Stirling Moss, he and Jack Fairman won the race to give Aston the 1959 World Sports Car Championship. Photo courtesy of: THE...
1933 Tourist Trophy – Sensation at Syracuse By Richard Hough “It seems perfectly apparent,” wrote Sammy Davis after the 1932...
On behalf of Australia’s Victorian Historic Racing Register (VHRR), well-known vintage racer Peter Giddings is seeking four cars and drivers...
Now here is a man of his word—and it cost him dearly. In 1961, Innes agreed to drive for Formula One team UDT-Laystall run by Ken Gregory and Alfred Moss, respectively Stirling’s manager and father. Literally a day later, Ireland was asked to become Graham Hill’s teammate at BRM but...
U.S. Presidential election fever hit Goodwood, and the Revival candidate was none other than Dan Gurney. Posters, pin badges and...
John Fitch lived a life filled with adventure and invention that is difficult to capture in a brief such as this. For starters, his namesake ancestor built the first successful steamboat 11 years after the Declaration of Independence severed the bond between colonial America and Mother England. In his own...
In remembering and memorializing John Fitch upon the occasion of his death, Vintage Racecar has produced this brief photographic summary...
Quite simply, cars raced by Dick Seaman are few and far between. The British driver was active in our sport...
Hermann Paul Müller’s Auto Union heads into Schwantz Curve in 1938.Photo: Simon Lewis Donington devotee John Bailie is researching, designing and editing a book, planned for launch later this year, which focusses on the venue’s pre-war history and the dramatic progress it made in just a few full seasons of...
Karl Kling Mark DonohuePhoto: Hal Crocker 1 Ronnie Peterson drives a Tecno to victory in the F3 race at Skarpnack...
Photo: Allen Kuhn American road racing star Jim Jeffords has passed away at the age of 87. Jeffords was a...
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Now Auto Union’s number one driver after replacing the dead Bernd Rosemeyer, Tazio Nuvolari and his Auto Union Type D...
John GrantPhoto: Kary Jiggle John Grant is the current Chairman of the British Racing Drivers Club, and since taking on...
Way back in 1973 the actor Orson Wells, chosen for his deep and imposing voice, appeared on commercial television as the then public face of the Danish brewing company Carlsberg. He was the first person to utter to the masses the slogan, “Carlsberg, probably the best lager in the world.”...
Mercedes W 196 Car: Mercedes W196 / Engine: 8-Cylinder In-line / Maker: Mercedes-Benz / Bore X Stroke: 76 mm X...
We push Pete Thelander’s 1934 MG NE Magnette out into the sunlight. Its red paintwork gleams and dazzles. The car...
Motor Racing Legends has announced a one-day meeting to be held on the full Silverstone Grand Prix Circuit on Sunday October 25th. The highlight of the day will be an entirely new three-hour race for Pre-’66 GTs and Touring Cars and Fifties Sports Cars, named in honor of the Royal...
The Tourist Trophy; Oulton Park; April 29, 1966 Jack Brabham with the one-off Brabham BT17, a kind of enlarged BT8...