Reminiscent of its renowned win at the same track, the Maserati 8CTF “Boyle Special” (serial number 3032) relived its final...
Vintage Racecar Features
1930 Riley Brooklands. Photo: Pete Austin Inspired by J.G. Parry Thomas and Reid Railton, the Brooklands Riley—the sporty member of the...
Photo: Harold Pace Just in case anyone hadn’t heard the famous Sheb Wooley song, one car carried a license plate that spelled it out.Photo: Harold Pace The Minis raced in the SCCA’s Texas Region, which had its own popular Drivers Club for those competing in the 1960s.Photo: Harold Pace Everyone...
Tony Parella They say there is no greater zealot, than a recent convert. Though he came to the sport fairly...
Ferrari has a storied history at the Monaco Grand Prix, having won the famous race eight times, yet it was...
Report and Photos by Victor Varela Mazda Laguna Seca Raceway hosted the third race of the season for the popular one-make, sports car series – the Ferrari Challenge. The mechanical opera of the new Ferrari 458 Challenge EVO race car made their return to Monterey, California on May 16-18, 2014...
Jaguar will build six reproductions of the original, race-bred Lightweight E-type that was created in 1963. The new cars are...
In June of 2014, Porsche will return to Le Mans with a newly designed LMP1 racing machine. With 16 overall...
Sir Jack Brabham AO, OBE, triple Formula 1 World Champion, has died at the age of 88. Sir Jack passed away peacefully at his Gold Coast, Australia, home on Monday 19th May 2014. Formula 1 World Champion in 1959, 1960 and 1966 and double Constructors’ Champion (1966 and 1967), Sir...
The streak of Chamber of Commerce conditions that blessed the first three rounds of the 13-race 2014 TUDOR United SportsCar...
Creating a replacement for the hugely successful 250 series of Ferraris was a daunting task for the engineers at Maranello....
Jack Johnson behind the wheel. Black participation in American motorsports dates back to 1909, when then heavyweight champion Jack Johnson won several races in a Southern California race carnival. In 1910, at a time when the American Automobile Association (AAA) approved racecar driver licenses, Johnson submitted an application. It was...
He is, after all, Mario Andretti, one of the most accomplished racing drivers of all time, the only man to...
1960 Sebring 12-Hours Grand Prix – Porsche Racks Up Their First Overall Win at Sebring By Louis Galanos | Photos...
The Larry H. Miller Total Performance Museum in Utah purchased the 1964 Ford GT40 chassis P-104 that sold for $7,000,000 at the Mecum Auctions event in Houston, Texas, on April 12, 2014. The second-oldest existing Ford GT40 joins the Museum’s collection of five additional historically significant GT40s. “We are thrilled...
In early 1956, Tony Parravano, a wealthy American housing developer, commissioned Maserati to build a new large-bore V-8 for use...
By Louis Galanos | Photos as credited The legendary nature of the Sebring 12 Hour Grand Prix extends way beyond...
Photo: Pete Austin Cars don’t come much better than this. Born in a golden era of sportscar racing, this French beauty has the most amazing pedigree. Raced at Le Mans by Juan Manuel Fangio and Louis Rosier, driven in the Monaco Grand Prix by Maurice Trintignant and currently in ownership...
Scheckter’s Laguna Seca win was his first of four in a row that established a points lead he never relinquished.Photo:...
Photo: John Zimmermann Before 1975, sanctioned automobile races through city streets in North America were rare, the only real example...
In June of 2014, Porsche will return to Le Mans with a newly designed LMP1 racing machine. With 16 overall victories at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the pinnacle of endurance motor racing, Porsche is the most successful manufacturer in the race’s history. Their last win, though, was back...
The 2014 running of the 12 Hours of Sebring was held Saturday, March 15th at the 3.74-mile, 17-turn Sebring International...
The philosophy of constantly assessing, developing and re-engineering through the life cycle of a Formula 1 car was fundamental in...
Karl Kling, Mercedes W196.Photo: courtesy of Chris Bayley Automobilia (www.chrisbayleyautomobilia.co.uk) Lost in the sands of time for nearly 60 years a photographic collection has recently been unearthed by Automotive Collector Chris Bayley. These original photos, which are believed not to have ever been previously published, transport us back to the...
A well-known name in Australian motor sport circles, Brian Foley commenced racing during the 1950s behind the wheel of an...
The prototype 1964 Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe (serial number CSX2287) became the first automobile to be recorded under the Secretary...
By Stephen Mitchell After a year or so of Jaguar E-Type ownership (‘There’s nothing like Jaguar motoring!” D.S. Jenkinson was fond of writing in Motor Sport magazine), I had grown weary of breaking down at the side of the road albeit in some very picturesque locations — the California desert,...
By Leigh Dorrington World Rally Champion Sebastian Ogier’s victory in the 2014 Monte Carlo Rally in a Volkswagen Polo R...
It really had been a sad few years for new sports car buyers, especially since 2008. There were good sports...
By Trevor Ely After shoving an industrial-looking lever into what felt like it must have been first gear, I heard a familiar ‘back-talk’ from the small displacement flat six that surely provided a thrilling noise for the onlookers. As I entered a corner, I remembered that this clumsy-looking beast was...
