New race courses keep blinking onto our radar screens, which seems like a good thing until they turn up on...
The International Motor Racing Research Center at Watkins Glen is welcoming two highly distinctive and historic racecars to the Center this year. A rare Cunningham C4R has begun a four-month stay at the Center, with its arrival on March 14. The C4R was the most successful of the American racecars...
In response to the repaving project scheduled to commence at Watkins Glen in August, the Glenora Wine Cellars U.S. Vintage...
We concluded last month’s opening segment of John Zimmermann’s interview with David Hobbs as he was preparing to turn his...
Watkins Glen International has announced that David Hobbs has accepted an invitation to serve as Grand Marshal for the Hilliard U.S. Vintage Grand Prix at The Glen, September 7-9. Hobbs, a former racing driver with over 30 years of experience including time in Formula One, will recite the most famous...
This year’s Formula One World Championship commenced without the reigning champion in the field, something that has not happened since...
What kind of racing driver is it who forgets how many times he’s won? One of the most successful, of...
Derek Gardner will be remembered, by many, as the designer of one of the most radically designed cars ever to win a Grand Prix; the Tyrrell Project 34 six-wheeler. However, they overlook his greatest achievement as the designer of racing cars that took the Tyrrell team to 16 Grand Prix...
Dave Friedman in his book on American sports car racing in the golden era of racing called Dr. Dick Thompson...
Known simply as “Prof” to many in the motor racing community and Sid to his near friends, Professor Watkins may have made more of a mark on motor racing safety over the past 30 years than anyone else. Indeed, his dogged determination and stubbornness to get things right nearly cancelled...
With F1 about to try another comeback in the U.S., next year in Texas, our minds inevitably reach back half...
Rick Parsons and Mark Harmer secured their respective Formula 5000 class championships for 2016 during the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association’s...
The recently formed Formula 5000 Drivers Association has announced three main feature races for F5000 cars in celebration of the 40th anniversary of Formula 5000 in 2008. The first event will be held May 30–June 1, 2008, at Infineon Raceway, in conjunction with the Wine Country Classic. The second race...
The Formula 5000 Drivers Association has announced its racing schedule for 2020. The Association has announced three official races for...
The Formula 5000 Drivers Association has published a five-race 2011 schedule that takes the high-powered series to some of North...
The Watkins Glen 6 Hours, on July 21, 1973, served as the final round of that year’s World Sportscar Championship where Derek Bell took this Mirage-Ford-Cosworth M6 he shared with Howden Ganley to a 4th-place finish. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To...
RM Sotheby’s has announced that its third New York sale, entitled ICONS, set for December 6 at Sotheby’s Manhattan headquarters,...
The notion of a halo conjures images of angelic cherubs and enlightened bliss in nearly everyone…except, apparently, for Formula One...
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...
Fifty years ago last June, Henry Ford II’s dream of winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans came true as...
Two of the longest established and most successful vintage racing organizations in the United States have announced a new series...
I cannot allow the twenty-fifth anniversary of the death of Gilles Villeneuve to pass unnoticed but it is, at the same time, both distressing and a pleasure to write about him. I make absolutely no apology for admitting that he was my last “hero” in Formula One racing. Nobody else...
This painting depicts Gilles Villeneuve wininng the 1979 USGP East at Watkins Glen. The victory, his third of the season,...
That sound! A wild shriek spearing out of the new Japanese F1 sliced like a samurai sword through the dronings...
This painting depicts Graham Hill and the BRM 261, which he drove to victory in the 1964 U.S. Grand Prix at Watkins Glen. This win was the second of his three straight U.S. GP wins. Among his many other accomplishments on the track were five Monaco G.P. wins, victories in...
Artist John Rice created this watercolor painting of Dan Gurney and his Eagle 104-Weslake racing in his home GP, the...
Watkins Glen, N.Y. July 4-6,2008 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access...
Moving ahead with its ambitious agenda for advancing vintage racing, Historic Motorsports Productions has named the featured marques for the first two Bobby Rahal Signature events of its inaugural season, and added a fourth event. Mario Andretti and Lotus will be honored by the Legends of Motorsports series at Alabama’s...
