With this month’s feature story about the early sports car races at Goleta Airport near Santa Barbara, California, we thought...
The first Studebaker vehicle, a farm wagon, was built by brothers Henry and Clement Studebaker in South Bend, Indiana, in...
Grand Prix De Monaco In the world of Formula One, few races can lay claim to more history than the Monaco Grand Prix. The official web site of the Monaco Grand Prix is an interesting insight into this evocative racing venue. Features include: current F1 news; circuit specifications; listing of...
Have a hankering for Healeys? Then you probably already know about this site, but just in case…. It’s maintained by...
Although neither connected to nor authorized by MG Rover Group, this site of the MG Cars Enthusiasts’ Club is a valuable resource for any enthusiast of Abingdon’s finest. This site includes a wide variety of features including recent MG news, events, MG motor sports highlights, photo galleries, a healthy classified...
Created by a quartet of members from the Binghamton Automobile Racing Club, this site bills itself as a repository for...
As outlined in this month’s Racecar Profile, the Formula Super Vee series served as an important rung on the racing...
This month’s featured Web site is the official site of the American-based Historic Grand Prix (HGP) race group. Made up of over 40 3-liter historic Grand Prix machines and their owners, HGP conducts races at a number of events each year including the United States Grand Prix at Indianapolis and...
If you dig through the internet long enough, occasionally you will discover an unexpected surprise. Such is the case with...
This month’s featured Web site is devoted to the long and rich history of the Sunbeam marque. Founded as early...
Step through this time portal and journey into the past for another look at the oft-examined history of Mercedes-Benz. The home page opens with seven rotating segments including (at press time) Goodwood Festival of Speed, Motorsports in Close-up, In a Thousand Miles, Hollywood Love Affair, Timeless—The SL and its Legendary...
Holman & Moody This is the official web site of this venerable Ford racing and tuning specialist. This site features...
This official site for Aston Martin Racing offers an insider’s view of the marque’s competition efforts over the years. Most of the emphasis is, as you might expect, on the current crop of coupes and prototypes that are contesting the FIA GT Championship and Le Mans Series in Europe—as well...
The subject of this month’s VR Profile, Bugatti, is one of the legendary names of automotive history, and this link...
From Barney Oldfield to Ayrton Senna, the greatest names in motorsport history are enshirined in the International Motorsports Hall of...
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...
With more than 60 chapters across the U.S. and Canada, Jaguar Clubs of North America is undoubtedly one of the...
Few would argue with the fact that Scottish racing great Jim Clark ranks as one of the greatest Formula One...
Over the years, Vintage Racecar has been fortunate to have been able to include the work of talented cutaway artist Shin Yoshikawa in numerous features and Racecar Profiles. Japanese-born Yoshikawa began drawing cars when he was 10 years old, and over the past 50 years has come to be known...
With this month’s cover Profile of the King Cobra, it seemed only natural to access this site where one can...
In looking for some Formula 5000 video, we recently stumbled across this fantastic piece of a documentary on YouTube that...
Safe Is Fast is a site presented by the Road Racing Drivers Club and supported by the FIA Institute for Motor Sport Safety and Sustainability that provides advice and answers to common (and probably uncommon) questions faced by aspiring racers. In this case, the word “safe” is really an acronym...
When the subject of discussion turns to French racecars, the famed name of Delage always features prominently. Though Louis Delage...
As an accompaniment to this month’s cover feature, and for readers wanting to learn more about the history of Lola...
In 1956, Colin Chapman and Frank Costin sat down and penciled a new front-engined sports racer to be powered by the tidy and powerful Coventry Climax 1100 cc engine. This new car, dubbed the “Eleven”, featured a 70 lb tubular spaceframe reinforced with stressed aluminum panels and slippery Costin-designed aluminum...
Luigi Fagioli Biography Luigi Fagioli was born on June 9th, 1898 to a wealthy family in the small city of...
With the return of the month of June comes the return of one of racing’s most prestigious and historic races – the 24-Hours of Le Mans. This month’s Website is devoted not only to the current 24-hour race, but also to its rich history. From a historical perspective, this site...
