While it is oftentimes overlooked, north of the equator, Australia and New Zealand have a long and rich motor racing...
In 1956, Colin Chapman and Frank Costin sat down and penciled a new front-engined sports racer to be powered by...
This month’s featured Web site is the official site of the U.S. Alfa Romeo Owners Club. With over 4,000 members owning everything from prewar 8C Monzas to Duetto Spiders, the AROC is a large body of like-minded individuals devoted to the maintenance, preservation and, perhaps most importantly, the racing of...
In many ways the racing career of Dave MacDonald embodies the image of the light glowing twice as bright, lasting...
This month we offer you, courtesy of YouTube, a two-part review of the 1963 running of the 12 Hours of...
Here’s a site dedicated to the technical side of Formula One, where the home page offers daily news and, not unexpectedly, technical insights. Included among the latter—at least when this was written—is a look at the nifty thermal-imaging cameras presently adding great insight to the F1 TV shows. Beyond the...
While we don’t necessarily want to become a facilitator for YouTube, even if the company does appear to be investing...
As you might expect for a site so named, Trackpedia offers a compendium of nearly 1000 racetracks around the world...
The passing of any legend will always generate a fresh wave of interest in his or her biographical history, and Phil Hill is no different. As you can see from this issue of VR, many are the tributes offered for America’s first World Champion racer. Some readers, however, may wish...
If you’re a reader of this magazine, then chances are good that you are already something of a connoisseur of...
When it comes to American racing cars, most followers of the sport reserve a special place in their hearts for...
Our featured site this month has taken on the daunting task of tracking the history of individual racecars from the 3-liter Formula One period, Formula A/5000, Center-Seat Can-Am and the Tasman Race Series. Each section is organized in such a way that there is a listing of each manufacturer that...
Triple World Champion Sir Jack Brabham’s youngest son, David, having won back the rights to the Brabham name in 2012,...
This month’s site, Prairie Street Art, features the work of Chicago-based photographer Ron Nelson, whose wide recognition includes having examples...
With the holiday season hard upon us once again, we thought it would be a good idea to take a look at a site that might possibly help you find the ideal gift for that friend who always proves most difficult to buy for. The main site here, SweetPosters.com, boasts...
Started in 1968 as Formula A in the United States, Formula 5000, as it became known, featured open-wheeled “Formula One–style”...
Dennis Gray has been a professional photographer since the ’70s and, in addition to his work in the advertising field,...
This month we bring you another You Tube link, one featuring this issue’s focus on Jaguar, Group 44 and Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. From this particular view, however, what you see all seems so matter-of-fact and that’s-just-the-way-you-do-it simple as Chip Robinson guides the Group 44 Jaguar XJR-5 around the circuit’s...
Given this issue’s focus on safety equipment, and knowing that most of our readers possess at least an appreciation for...
Long time readers of Vintage Racecar Journal will be aware of the husband-and-wife photographic team of Walt & Louiseanne Pietrowicz...
You never know where interesting collections of rare photos will turn up. While cruising through the Desert Centre Triumph Register of America’s web site, we stumbled across this fascinating treasure trove of over 1,500 photographs taken in the early 1960s. Subject matter spans everything from local SCCA road races to...
One of the curious offshoots of America’s involvement in WWII was the fact that many American GI’s developed a taste...
In the early 1950s, Donald Healey turned the British automotive industry on its ear with his affordable, mass-produced sports car, the Austin-Healey 100. Soon, other British manufacturers, such as MG and Triumph, were clamoring to come up with competitors to meet the world’s hungry demand. For the next 20 years,...
The first Studebaker vehicle, a farm wagon, was built by brothers Henry and Clement Studebaker in South Bend, Indiana, in 1852. The first electric-powered Studebaker was introduced in 1902, and the production of gasoline-powered Studebakers began two years later. Although the electric line was discontinued in 1912, gasoline-engined Studebakers continued...
From 1958 to 1968, Meadowdale Raceway in Carpentersville, Illinois, played host to a wide variety of professional and amateur racing....
Few individuals could better be thought of to embody the spirit of the American sportsman than Briggs Swift Cunningham. Born...
From the birth of the automobile to the start of World War II, a host of French and British automobiles were linked by a convoluted series of company failures, schisms and buyouts. As an example, The Clement Talbot Ltd. company was founded in 1903 under the patronage of the Earl...
