This past weekend saw the 100th anniversary of the 24 Hours of Le Mans and an exciting showdown between the...
This past weekend my younger daughter turned 21 and during a brief lull between morning Mimosas and evening Margaritas, she...
Recently, my family and I had to venture back to Scotland for a funeral, which was sad, but we decided to make the most of it and so spent an extra week touring the Highlands, where my wife and her family are from. I did a lot of driving in...
The car hobby has many tropes, but one of the more common — and perhaps most accurate — is that...
This past weekend I made the annual pilgrimage to the Long Beach Grand Prix. This year was the event’s 48th...
If you’ve been reading the editorials written by Casey Annis for a long time, you might already know of me. As his eldest daughter, I’ve had a couple of mentions throughout the years, like when I first learned to drive or when I got into college. Having a racecar driving/car...
I was pleasantly surprised to receive so many positive emails supporting my premise last week that the Ferrari 365 GTC/4...
I think I’ve well established, in this space, my bona fides as an old school Ferrari snob. I grew up...
If you’re an automotive enthusiast, and you spent any kind of time in Southern California from 2006 to 2014, then you likely have experienced one of the all-time great automotive gatherings—the famed Cars & Coffee at the Ford Design Center, in Irvine. Arguably, the progenitor of all Cars & Coffee...
Well, I don’t know that any of us saw that coming! If you watched the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix then...
We tend to make a lot out of automotive anniversaries, which is why I’ve been surprised that last month’s 60thanniversary...
Once upon a time, it used to be that the most talented drivers made it into Formula One. Quaint notion, I know, but that was way back in Ye Olde Times. Then it came to pass that most drivers couldn’t make it into Formula One on talent alone… they also...
The Design Concepts of Jean Bugatti As a freethinking engineer and designer, his automobile creations were exceptional, daring to break...
A couple of weeks ago, you may recall I bared my soul to you with the admission that I drove...
As you’ll read in one of the news pieces below, the F1 world has been all atwitter, over the recent announcement that Ford is officially returning to Formula One as the engine “supplier” for Red Bull. Yes, I put supplier in air quotes because the concept of engine suppliers in...
If you’ve ever lamented that there is nowhere left in the world to find “dry”, good value, classic cars, then...
I have to confess to you that I am the worst classic car owner. Trust me, I take no pride...
In my experience, most auto enthusiasts tend to live dual lives, we have our automotive life (cars, car-friends, events, etc) and then we tend to have a separate parallel life (work, family, other hobbies). But I always find it a little surreal when—once in blue moon—these two separate lives intersect. As...
It is with a profound sense of sadness and loss that I must share that long-time contributor and friend Mike...
One of my favorite automotive books is Doug Nye’s “Motor Racing Mavericks”. Published in 1975, it explores failures—high-end failures—in Grand...
Not long before his untimely death a few years ago, our Robert Newman wrote this tribute to his friend and hero Stirling Moss. As the director of Public Relations for Pirelli for many years, Robert worked with Moss on a variety of projects and came to know both Moss and...
Now available on Netflix is “A Life of Speed: The Juan Manuel Fangio Story.” The 92-minute movie originates in Argentina...
Bristol, once a significant marque, has relocated to the “Great Paddock In The Sky.” For some time it had been...
For most of my adult life I have lived within two miles of the Goodwood Motor Circuit. Between the last in-period race meeting in 1966 and the first Revival Meeting in 1998 it did not lie fallow. It was used for testing by F1 teams until 1982. It hosted club...
Before WWII, the company which became Jaguar was called Swallow Sidecars and it had diversified into making special bodies for...
Aston Martin has announced a collaboration with revived motorcycle company, Brough Superior, to make the AMB001, a limited edition track-only...
Lloyd Ruby hailed from Wichita Falls, Texas, up in the north central part of the state, not far from the Oklahoma line. Born a year before the Depression, he was soft-spoken by nature — a wicked sense of humor notwithstanding — but not someone to be taken lightly. He began...
For the majority of VR’s readers, 2019 has been the 50th anniversary of Formula Ford, although it actually started in...
Bentley is to make 12 “continuation” examples of the supercharged 4.5-liter Birkin “Blower,” one of those cars whose legend far...
When he competed in his first Formula One race, Eddie Cheever was even more baby-faced than when I got to know him, which is saying something. It was the 1978 South African Grand Prix and Eddie, who looked about 16 at the time, had actually just turned 20. He qualified...
