A year of celebration and change at the home of British Motorsport. Silverstone celebrated 75 years of motorsport at the...
A mere hundred years have passed since the first Grand Prix d’endurance de 24 heures, a somewhat humble beginning for...
After one hundred years of providing some of the finest motor racing on the planet, the Automobile Club de l’Ouest(ACO) has presented the motorsport world with a spectacle par excellence. This year is not the 100th race, its actually the 91st race as the Le Mans 24 Hours was not...
The son of a wealthy Tennessee family, Pete Kreis had grown up during the time that European manufacturers dominated automobile...
On May 9th, 1992, Roberto Guerrero earned the pole position for the 76th running of the Indianapolis 500-mile race. Piloting...
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...
There is a road in Bennington County, Vermont, called Skyline Drive. It takes you to the top of Mt. Equinox....
For years, a collection of the most extraordinary, unrestored Bugatti cars has sat, meticulously cared for and researched, in a...
Can it be? Well, yes it is! 50 years since Emerson Fittipaldi took his first F1 World Championship. At 25, Emerson was, at the time, the youngest champion in F1 history. Completing the double that year, Team Lotus also won the F1 Constructors Championship using the Lotus 72, or John...
New Zealand motor sport enjoyed a golden age during the 1960s and early 1970s when no less than three drivers...
Unleashing the rampant horsepower of its global ‘Total Performance’ campaign, Ford funded many racing stables but could never quite commit...
Some 38 years ago, there was a vintage event like no other. It was the 1985 Palm Springs Vintage Grand Prix. Why was it so different? Would you believe 19 Formula One and Indy veterans on the same grid, all in competitive open-wheel cars? How about Dan Gurney in his...
The search for speed has motivated every racer since the dawn of the sport, obsessively driving them to go as...
Back in 1977, a group of Atlanta car folk had a need for speed but didn’t want to end up...
What began as a study of Asian automobile advertising of the late 1950s has unearthed a rare tale of a unique racecar that resided in Hong Kong, Singapore and Selangor between 1955 and 1971. Adestne quisquam de Maranello? You might want to sit down for this one. Become a Member...
Louis Gerard. Five years after Whitney Straight’s historic trip to South Africa to take part in the First South African...
Alfa Romeo has a long history in racing that dates back to 1910 and extends to Formula One today. Throughout...
In 1965, I enjoyed a working holiday in London. On Friday 18 June that year I took the cheapest tour I could find to the Le Mans 24 Hours, via a rickety old plane and a bus. It proved to be one of the most remarkable races in the event’s...
Brausch Niemann had a brief but successful career in motor sport and took part in two world championship Grands Prix,...
America’s premier sports car endurance race started at an abandoned WWII Army Air Corps base in Florida. “The 12-Hours of...
Click here to read “Chargers Part 1—World Rallying 1957–1965 The CSI struck again in 1965, this time putting out a much more comprehensive 17 pages of regulations called Appendix J to better govern the sport. And that was the year a works Lancia team, later to become a mighty force...
Mike Costin (left) and Keith Duckworth. A single-seater Brabham arrives in Singapore for the 1969 Singapore Grand Prix. On the...
There were no rally cars, as such, during the sport’s first 50 years or so, just the bog standard daily...
In 2015, it was announced that the Malaysian city of Kuala Lumpur would hold a street Grand Prix for GT3 cars and a variety of sports cars. However, this was by no means the first time that Malaysia’s capital city had played host to racing in the streets. The 1949...
