The distinct unmuffled rumble of brute American muscle cars will be celebrated at the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion August 12-15...
The newly formed Vintage Sedan Racers Group (VSRG) and HSR-West have announced the creation of the Magnaflow 2.5 Challenge for...
The Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance has announced that motorsports icon Parnelli Jones will be the honoree for the 13th Annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance scheduled for March 7–9, 2008, at The Golf Club of Amelia Island at Summer Beach. Jones’s career spanned many types of racing, including sports cars, sprint...
The 14th annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance, set for March 13–15, 2009, on the grounds of the Ritz Carlton Amelia...
I wrote in this space, last month, that racecar drivers are just like us in that they too are human...
One of the highlights of my many years of racing has to do with the 1966 Trans-Am Mustang that Jerry Titus (1928-1970) drove to victory for Ford and Shelby. Ford was tied up at the end of the series with Dodge, and as a result Shelby built this special, one-off...
The 18th Annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance will honor racing driver Sam Posey as its special guest and celebrate the...
John Cannon Jean Pierre Jabouille 2 Jochen Rindt, at the wheel of a Roy Winkelmann Racing Brabham BT23, wins the...
Richard Petty Emilio Villoresi 1 Richard Petty wins the NASCAR Winston Cup Talladega 500 in a Dodge Charger (1976). 2 Karl Kling leads a Mercedes-Benz 1-2-3-4 finish in the Rhineland Cup sports car race on the Nürburgring in West Germany (1952). No Subscription? You’re missing out Get immediate ad-free access...
Jerry Titus Frank Biela Photo: Stefan Warter 1 George Follmer drives a Ford-powered Lotus 70 to victory in the L&M...
Ronnie Peterson Giuseppe Campari 1 James Hunt, driving a McLaren-Ford, wins the German Grand Prix on the Nürburgring. Niki Lauda...
When Peter Gregg did his deal to race BMWs in IMSA in 1976, he asked me to take over in the Brumos Porsche. At the end of the season, Peter decided he wanted to come back to Porsche to run the Trans-Am, and my Brumos deal went South. He hooked...
Bob Tullius “I have often categorized Mosport as the most exciting and challenging track of all,”says Bob Tullius. “In fact...
Bruce BurnessPhoto: John Zimmermann When last we left Bruce Burness (April VR) he had just initiated his lasting association with Trevor Harris where they performed what he called “the ultimate male-bonding experience.” In this second part of VR Associate Editor John Zimmermann’s interview, Burness discusses the achievement he considers the...
Walter Maynard “Bud” Moore Jr., a decorated veteran of World War II and D-Day’s Normandy Invasion and a 2011 inductee...
Versatile Canadian racer and 1981 Trans-Am champion Eppie Wietzes passed away on June 10. According to his wife Barb, “Sad...
Last year the SCCA marked the 50th anniversary of its inaugural Trans-American Sedan Championship event at Sebring, Florida, on March 25, 1966. Eventually known as simply the Trans-Am, the series became the most closely contested road-racing series in America. The Tran-Am blossomed quickly, reached its zenith in 1970 and then...
Sad news this morning as it was announced by the Guldstrand family that Corvette racing legend Dick Guldstrand has passed...
In the earlier days of his racing career, Craig Fisher (who recently passed away) raced just about everything he could...
Photo: Hal Crocker It is with a great deal of sadness that I write about Dan Gurney, who died on January 15. We were close friends and our times together go back to 1955 when he raced at Torrey Pines. A number of those among us stood head and shoulders...
A number of those among us stood head and shoulder above all others during the Golden Age of Motorsports. Juan...
The basic site here is very broad-based, but in its “Racing” section is this subsection devoted to Dan Gurney’s career...
Two names have become synonymous with Corvette over the years—Zora Arkus-Duntov and Dick Guldstrand. From the airport circuits of California to the open roads of Le Mans, Guldstrand’s list of racing accomplishments is long and legendary, and on the occasion of his recent passiing we remember him by rerunning Casey...
Niki Lauda M. von Brauchitsch 1 Richard Petty drives a Ford Torino to victory in the NASCAR Grand National race...
Two of the most competitive drivers during the formative years of the Trans-Am series, Follmer and Jones will be reunited...
George Follmer, the subject of this month’s VR Interview (page 30), was inducted into the Watkins Glen Drivers Walk of Fame during ceremonies at the International Motor Racing Research Center in early October. The Walk of Fame is a project of the Watkins Glen Historic Committee, sponsored by the Research...
The late news—very late—that U.S. open-wheel racing’s long uncivil war has finally staggered to its hemorrhagic conclusion, fell with less...
In the days before data logging transformed our sport into a science, the judge of all things was the simple...
Gordon McCall is founder of the Motorworks Revival at the Monterey Jet Center and co-founder of The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering VR: Let’s start off right at the beginning. How did you first get started with cars? GM: Real early in life, like a lot of people in my demographic range,...
