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...
I was pleasantly surprised to receive so many positive emails supporting my premise last week that the Ferrari 365 GTC/4 is one of the great, unsung, Enzo-era V-12s. In fact, I wrote back to one kind reader, all the way in Tasmania, to thank him and made the joke that...
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...
Well, I don’t know that any of us saw that coming! If you watched the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix then you witnessed one of the truly great, virtuoso driving performances. No, not the race winner’s, I’m referring to the elder statesman of Formula One, Fernando Alonso. First off, in what...
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,...
A couple of weeks ago, you may recall I bared my soul to you with the admission that I drove my Alfa Romeo so little that I had to have the carbs rebuilt, in order to get it running again (Neglectful Owner). Shame…I know. But one detail I didn’t think...
As you’ll read in one of the news pieces below, the F1 world has been all atwitter, over the recent...
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 this, but I’ve sadly had to come to terms with it. I’ve owned a 1962 Alfa Romeo Giulia Spider Veloce for nearly 20 years now and I am, apparently,...
In my experience, most auto enthusiasts tend to live dual lives, we have our automotive life (cars, car-friends, events, etc)...
It is with a profound sense of sadness and loss that I must share that long-time contributor and friend Mike...
At the end of June, a commercial tribunal, in Bologna, Italy, handed down a stunning decision that could have massive implications for the collector car world. And yet, I’ve hardly seen a mention of it in anywhere in the automotive media world. The case in question was a lawsuit, brought...
What’s the single most important component, for maximal performance, on a racecar? The engine? Suspension? In the grand scheme of...
This man was a motor racing whirlwind, journalist, author of seven motor sport books, vintage car fan, ran driving courses...
The Internet has changed our lives in so many ways. In just the past 20 years, the Internet has both opened up the expanse of our immediate world and at that same time made it all closer to hand than we ever could have imagined. It is as a result...
Imagine it’s 1973 and you’re an aspiring racer/car builder. Working out of your little shotgun shack, single-car garage, you’ve welded...
By now, you’ve presumably seen at least some of our extensive coverage of this year’s Porsche Rennsport Reunion VI, from...
Last Friday I was mindlessly killing some time on Facebook, when I happened to stumble across the livestream of Goodwood’s Kinrara Trophy race for over 3-liter GT cars. Dubbed as the world’s most expensive race grid, this one-hour twilight race featured 8 Ferrari 250 SWBs, 8 Jaguar E-Types, 4 Ferrari...
The history of the racing engine—and perhaps to a lesser extent the road going engine as well—has been driven by...
The sport of automobile racing is arguably about 130-years old, assuming you subscribe to the notion that the first organized...
You hold in your hands, the 225th issue of VR! Seems hard to believe that we’ve been doing this, month in and month out, for 20 years…that’s like 175, in publishing years! Throughout these past 20 years, we’ve evolved not only in our quality and content, but also in response...
On February 20, the Alfa Romeo Sauber F1 Team launched its new challenger, the C37, for the 2018 Formula 1...
Just looking at the cover of VR this month, you’ll realize something is different. For only the second time, in...
As you’ll read in this month’s news, Bette Hill, wife of World Champion Graham and mother of World Champion Damon, has passed away at the age of 91. After meeting future husband Graham, at a rowing club function in 1950, Bette would four years later be swept up into the...
