Recently, my family and I had to venture back to Scotland for a funeral, which was sad, but we decided...
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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 running…whew!… that realization hit kind of hard when it dawned on me that this was the 48th Long Beach Grand Prix that I’ve attended! The inaugural Long Beach Grand Prix,...
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...
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...
If you’ve ever lamented that there is nowhere left in the world to find “dry”, good value, classic cars, then take heart…I think I may have just accidentally stumbled across just such a utopia. The world works in strange ways and the classic car world, in particular, is both strikingly...
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)...
It is with a profound sense of sadness and loss that I must share that long-time contributor and friend Mike Lawrence has passed away at the age of 78. Mike preferred to say, “…that highly qualified medics were fighting the cancer on his behalf, with his body as the battleground,”...
At the end of June, a commercial tribunal, in Bologna, Italy, handed down a stunning decision that could have massive...
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 for the British police and was the founder, president or vice-president of some of the UK’s most prominent motoring and racing organizations. And he kept up that pace until he...
The Internet has changed our lives in so many ways. In just the past 20 years, the Internet has both...
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 Monterey [Click here for our coverage]. At this point, if Rennsport is news to you, you would have to have been in an automotive coma for the past month or...
Last Friday I was mindlessly killing some time on Facebook, when I happened to stumble across the livestream of Goodwood’s...
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 race, using gasoline-powered internal combustion engines, occurred in France in 1887. But looking back across this 130-year history, there are a number of significant events that stand out from the...
You hold in your hands, the 225th issue of VR! Seems hard to believe that we’ve been doing this, month...
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 our 20 years of monthly publication, there is a person featured on the cover, rather than a car. The last time was in 2008, when Phil Hill passed away. Now,...
As you’ll read in this month’s news, Bette Hill, wife of World Champion Graham and mother of World Champion Damon,...
As you’ll read in this issue’s news, the much-revered Lyndley Bothwell collection was recently sold by Bonhams. Of particular interest...
A little over 20 years ago, I made a radical switch from research scientist to magazine publisher. That ridiculous move was crazy enough, but I never thought I’d go from magazine publisher to private detective, but that seems to be the arc my life is following. A little over 20...
