Over 2-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports: the...
Niki Lauda Richard Petty 1 Willy Grover, better known as “W. Williams,” wins the ACF Grand Prix for sports cars...
Jerry Grant was one of the many American racing drivers who could, and did, drive virtually anything he could get his hands on or his behind into. He may have started his competitive career in the visceral world of drag racing, but soon discovered the joys of road racing and...
As the 39th annual vintage racecar festival on California’s Monterey Peninsula, the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, unfolded this past August,...
Pete Lyons Partway through an evening of kind words, warm recollections and congratulations, the moderator came on the mic and...
Pete Lyons Stirling Moss deliberately steering his Lotus into rain puddles around the Nürburgring—reading about that may have been the first time I ever really thought about racing tires. It was the German Grand Prix of 1961. The 1.5-liter formula had just come in, and the tiny, 4-cylinder Coventry Climax...
Nino Farina Jim HallPhoto: Keith Booker 1 Sports car racer Jim Pace born (1961). 2 Al Holbert, Derek Bell and...
The over two-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports;...
• Northern California’s Classic Sports Racing Group will host its 10th Annual Charity Challenge at Sonoma Raceway on the weekend of October 4-6. The event will include all the usual eight CSRG race groups, with Vintage and Historic racecars dating from pre-WWII into the 1970s. The event will feature the...
USRRC by Mike Martin Author Mike Martin has written what surely will become the reference book for the United States...
George Follmer has been named Grand Marshal of the inaugural Barber Historics at Alabama’s Barber Motorsports Park in honor of...
An evening of reunion and tribute to the United States Road Racing Championship, which ran from 1963 to 1968 and served as the immediate precursor to the Can-Am Series, will take place at the Wally Parks NHRA Museum at Pomona, California, Saturday, April 9, with cocktail service beginning at 5...
• The Cooper Car Club USA has announced the celebration of the 70th Anniversary of Cooper Cars with back-to-back events...
Riddelle Gregory Vittorio Jano 1 Mercedes-Benz publishes a press release officially describing its W25 Grand Prix racecars as “Silver Arrows”...
Sixteen racers were inducted into the United States Road Racing Championship Hall of Fame during the annual USRRC Tribute dinner last Saturday evening at the Wally Parks NHRA Museum in Pomona, California. The USRRC was a road racing series for big-engined sports racing cars that ran from 1963 to 1968,...
• The Indianapolis Motor Speedway Foundation has selected motorcycle champion Paul Goldsmith, and veteran car owner Pat Patrick as this...
Over two-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of International Motorsports; the...
Many might find it unusual that the 58-year old son of legendary racecar driver Dave MacDonald had never driven a race car on a racetrack, but it’s true. Going fast has always been in my blood—as evidenced by countless speeding tickets—but it’s only in the past five years that I’ve...
Ken Miles in the Shelby Cobra, with Shelby’s personal racing number, leads Jim Hall in the Corvette Grand Sport. Ken...
From gas station owner in 1954 to leading Le Mans in 1967, sports car racer Scooter Patrick enjoyed an amazing...
Franco Cortese John Fitch Photo: Mercedes 1 Guy Frequelin becomes competition chief of Citroën (1989). 2 Seven drivers (Rob Dyson, Elliott Forbes-Robinson, Butch Leitzinger, John Paul Jr., John Schneider, Andy Wallace and James Weaver) share the winning Dyson Racing R&S MkIII-Ford in the 24 Hours of Daytona (1997). Become a...
Over two-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports; the...
All American Racers’ DGF Formula Ford has its first track test at Willow Springs Raceway (1977). 1 – Jean-Pierre Jabouille drives a Matra MS5 to victory in the F3 race at Magny-Cours, France (1968). 2 – The All American Racers DGF Formula Ford has its first track test at Willow Springs...
1964 Elva-Porsche One of the most important characteristics of a performance or racing car is the power-to-weight ratio. The goal...
This book is about a unique car in sports car racing history. It was designed by Peter Brock, famous for...
Fourteen of the most popular run groups have been selected to participate in the annual Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, August 13-16, 2020. One of the cornerstones of the famed Monterey Classic Car Week at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca will bring together approximately 550 historic racecars from around the world to...
With the recent passing of automotive icon Carroll Shelby, it is easy to look at his amazing life through the...
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