During the late ’60s and early ’70s few racecar drivers better fit the image of the playboy racer than Frenchman...
This month’s featured Web site is devoted to the history of the Corvette, with an emphasis on its racing history...
Jack Turner began building his own racing special in 1951 and early successes with the car quickly led to a series of commissions for friends. As demand grew, Turner converted a blacksmithing operation in Wolverhampton, England, into a small shop dedicated to the production of small displacement sports cars. From...
Arguably, of all the Italian car manufacturers, few possess the depth of road and racing history as that of Alfa...
The Web is a funny old place… there is no shortage of sites devoted to the greatest Formula One drivers...
This month’s featured Web site is an impressive and extensive archive of photos and results from the last 40 years of professional motorsport. The organization of this site separates the content into decade-by-decade sections devoted either to Formula One or professional sports car racing. Pick a decade from the ’60s...
While it is oftentimes overlooked, north of the equator, Australia and New Zealand have a long and rich motor racing...
While the famed Nürburgring circuit tends to be the one that most people associate with German motorsport, the scenic Solitude racecourse, located outside of Stuttgart, also enjoys a very long and rich motorsport tradition. First used as a hillclimb course for motorized bicycles in 1903, Solitude went on to hold...
Few would argue with the fact that Scottish racing great Jim Clark ranks as one of the greatest Formula One drivers of the post-war era. His successes in everything from a Grand Prix Lotus to a Ford Galaxie have made him a household name in Britain, in the same way...
While often overlooked in the annals of motorsport history, from 1963 to 1988 the European Touring Car Championship (ETCC) provided...
Like so many great racing drivers over the ages, Swede Savage was a talented, up-and-coming racing driver who was snatched...
From 1954–1967, Wilmot Hills Raceway, in Wilmot, Wisconsin, played host to a wide variety of road races. Built by the Chicago region of the SCCA just north of the IllinoisWisconsin border, the 1-mile circuit at Wilmot Hills was one of the first purpose-built race circuits in the Mid-west. The circuit...
Luigi Fagioli Biography Luigi Fagioli was born on June 9th, 1898 to a wealthy family in the small city of...
Founded in 1911 by a Japanese engineer trained in the United States, the Datsun Motor Car Company ranks as one of Japan’s oldest automobile manufacturers. Not only has Datsun been producing automobiles almost as long as the Ford Motor Company, but it also enjoys a rich racing heritage dating back...
This month’s featured Web site was created by a British group of enthusiasts dedicated to preserving the U.K.’s motor racing...
Long time readers of Vintage Racecar Journal will be aware of the husband-and-wife photographic team of Walt & Louiseanne Pietrowicz...
Ever wanted to know where you can race in Angola, or what the course at Charade looks like turn by turn? Well fear not, because there is a Web site devoted to cataloguing information for race tracks from around the world. This month’s featured Web site has information on damn...
This month’s featured Web site is devoted to the many models of MG cars spanning from 1928 to today. This...
As one of the most recognized names in motorsport, the blood red cars of Ferrari are perhaps one of the...
In 1956, Colin Chapman and Frank Costin sat down and penciled a new front-engined sports racer to be powered by...
Though often overlooked by many historians, the history of Australian road racing is rich with a long and varied selection...
With more than 60 chapters across the U.S. and Canada, Jaguar Clubs of North America is undoubtedly one of the largest Jaguar enthusiast organizations anywhere in the world. As such, this month’s featured Web site is a vast, well-organized site devoted both to the club’s numerous activities and the history,...
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,...