If I asked you to pick a brand associated with high performance and motorsport, chances are good the name Volkswagen...
Vintage Racecar Features
I couldn’t quite pinpoint why, during the research and writing of this profile, that I kept hearing the Lennon/McCartney hit...
The author enjoyed slipping snugly into 2617 and giving it a proper run during an HGPCA test day at Silverstone. Photo: Pete Austin In 1966, the rain in Spain didn’t stay mainly on the plain. It blew eastward to the Ardennes Mountains of Belgium, and hurled itself down onto the Belgian Grand...
All right, I suppose I should start off with a confession. I am a mad, keen Austin-Healey enthusiast, and have...
With the recent passing of automotive icon Carroll Shelby, it is easy to look at his amazing life through the...
Like most German industrial companies, World War II left much of Mercedes-Benz’s Stuttgart factory in ruins. However, with time Mercedes rebuilt and returned to what it knew best, manufacturing passenger vehicles. But Mercedes-Benz also had a passion for competition on the world stage and so by 1951 factions within the...
Formula Ford, as unlikely as it may seem now, brought me closer to being on the inside of professional motor...
Twenty years ago, CSRG (Classic Sportscar Racing Group) decided they wanted to work with the then named “Sears Point Raceway”...
A year of celebration and change at the home of British Motorsport. Silverstone celebrated 75 years of motorsport at the Northamptonshire circuit, Ever since 1948, when the first license was granted to the Silverstone Aerodrome to hold the RAC International Grand Prix, racing has grown from strength to strength on...
At the iconic Goodwood Motor Circuit, the Goodwood Revival pays homage to the illustrious period of motor racing spanning from...
National Motor Museum mechanics have discovered time capsule finds during the start of the restoration of Land Speed Record breaker...
The Pearl Collection The Concours of Elegance 2023 at Hampton Court, is set to extend a warm welcome to Fritz Burkard, a renowned classic car enthusiast from Switzerland, who will be honored with the title ‘The Collector.’ This prestigious Concours is proudly presented by A. Lange & Söhne and is...
Another great VSCC race meeting at Donington Park; being British we have to mention the weather: scorching sun to torrential...
Il Commendatore Research the Ferrari automobile, and it will soon become apparent that it was built from one man’s passion...
A mere hundred years have passed since the first Grand Prix d’endurance de 24 heures, a somewhat humble beginning for the race now considered the ultimate test of man and machine, a grueling challenge set over 24 hours where the world’s best drivers fight for one of the ultimate prizes...
The upcoming 2023 Goodwood Festival of Speed will feature the renowned Mazda 787B, the victorious car from the 1991 Le...
Over the weekend of June 15 to 18, 2023, the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association held the Brickyard Invitational at the...
From our friends at Broad Arrow Auctions comes one of the holy grails of post-war sports cars; the 1956 A6G/54 with a “Double-Bubble” Zagato roof. Highlights of Chassis No. 2155 One of 20 Zagato-bodied A6G/54 Berlinettas Likely the only A6G/54 with a “Double-Bubble” Zagato roof Raced in the 1956 Mille...
After one hundred years of providing some of the finest motor racing on the planet, the Automobile Club de l’Ouest(ACO)...
Retrospect from 1949 to 2023 Having just conquered the most prestigious challenge in endurance racing, Ferrari’s overall win at the...
The son of a wealthy Tennessee family, Pete Kreis had grown up during the time that European manufacturers dominated automobile racing at the Indianapolis 500. When he broke into big-time racing in 1925, Pete and his American compatriots were eager to demonstrate that cars and drivers from the U.S. could...
On May 9th, 1992, Roberto Guerrero earned the pole position for the 76th running of the Indianapolis 500-mile race. Piloting...
This Hustler is not an unsavory men’s magazine, nor is it Jackie Gleason playing a pool shark, nor a con...
The Ford Motor Company recently announced its entrance into a technical partnership with defending Formula One World Champions Red Bull Racing, opening what the company’s executive chairman William Ford termed “an exciting new chapter” in the firm’s long and illustrious motorsports history. New FIA engine regulations for Formula 1 are...
1955 Aston Martin DB 2/4 Four days, four countries, more than 1,000 kilometers, in cars that are the envy of...
The 2012 European Grand Prix at the forgotten, abandoned Valencia Street Circuit. Image via Planet F1 Formula One, by its...
PRELIMINARIES The 2023 Daytona 24 hours was the 61st year of the event. It was once again a watershed year, as this was the first year of the new GTP (Grand Touring Prototype) cars. These of course are the new prototypes that came out of the combined rule set between...
These are not happy times for Aston Martin. The British luxury carmaker is fighting ferociously for its survival in a...
The first few years of the 1950s saw sports car events evolve from chummy club gatherings for “gentlemen racers” into...
The Targa Florio is like an opera. Dramatic, historic, and totally Italian. An event orchestrated to honor tradition and emotion, with all the characters you’d expect from an Italian classic. Drivers first raced these roads in 1906 (Targa Florio history), back when they were little more than dirt paths winding...