The upcoming 2023 Goodwood Festival of Speed will feature the renowned Mazda 787B, the victorious car from the 1991 Le...
Vintage Racecar Features
The 49th running of the Rolex 24 at Daytona will be held January 29-30, 2011 on the 11-turn, 3.56 mile...
Audi scored their ninth overall victory at the 78th edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans after a fierce battle between their teams and the Peugeots. After winning the 24-hour race at Le Mans last year, Peugeot was the defending champion, but in the early hours of Sunday, the...
The 24 Hours of Le Mans 2012 was held 16-17 June at the 38-turn, 8.469 mile Circuit de la Sarthe...
The 24 Hours of Le Mans 2013 was held 22-23 June at the 38-turn, 8.469 mile Circuit de la Sarthe...
The 24 Hours of Le Mans 2014 was held 14-15 June at the 38-turn, 8.469 mile Circuit de la Sarthe in France. The 82nd edition of the 24 Heures du Mans will live long in the memory. Action in all four categories went down to the wire; racing was compelling,...
The 24 Hours of Le Mans 2015 was held 13-14 June at the 38-turn, 8.469 mile Circuit de la Sarthe...
The 24 Hours of Le Mans 2016 was held 18-19 June at the 38-turn, 8.469 mile Circuit de la Sarthe...
The 24 Hours of Le Mans 2017 was held 17-18 June at the 38-turn, 8.469 mile Circuit de la Sarthe in France. As the curtain fell on the 85th running of the world’s greatest endurance race, motorsport enthusiasts were treated to a sensational edition of the 24 Hours of Le...
Thirty years have passed since the official presentation of the F40, which took place on 21 July 1987 at the...
2016 marks the 30th anniversary of a motoring legend, one which revolutionised the mid-size sports car segment when its production...
This year’s Monterey Historic Automobile Races marks the 35th running of this classic event. As shown schematically in the Laguna Seca track map to the right, over the course of those 35 years, a wide variety of significant automotive marques have been honored with the distinction of “featured marque.” Interestingly,...
It was 35 years ago, in monsoon conditions, that a determined young Brazilian raced to his first Formula 1 victory...
Prior to the Second World War, simply driving a motor car in Europe was almost a noteworthy event, and thus...
Italian marque Alfa Romeo will celebrate fifty years since the debut of the iconic Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale, a model renowned for its blend of cutting-edge technology, racing mechanics and beauty. Designed by Franco Scaglione, the 33 Stradale debuted on 31 August 1967, on the eve of the Italian Formula...
Twenty Lamborghini Espada and Islero models gathered on 7 September 2018 in Perugia, Italy to tour the region in celebration...
The Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Roadster (W 198) made its premiere 60 years ago at the Geneva Motor Show from 14...
The Porsche Museum in Stuttgart, Germany opened the “70 Years of the Porsche Sports Car” exhibition on Friday, June 8th, 2018. On this very day in 1948, the Porsche 356 ‘No. 1’ Roadster received its general operating permit. With this special exhibition, Porsche presents numerous stories and milestones through which...
Alfa Romeo will be 100 years old on June 24 and its motor sport pedigree almost 99—one of only a...
Alfa Romeo had gone from zero to hero and beyond from the 1911 Targa Florio to the 1936 Mille Miglia. Its motor racing exploits were followed by the entire Italian nation as cars like the 1750 Super Sport, 8C 2300 Monza, P2 and then the P3 drove it to the...
After one hundred years of providing some of the finest motor racing on the planet, the Automobile Club de l’Ouest(ACO)...
The J. Frank Harrison story Given today’s racing environment with its multi-million-dollar corporate budgets, it can be hard to imagine...
1988 Jaguar XJR9 & 1991 Jaguar XJR12 Almost all of Jaguar’s competition effort in the post-war period became directed at a single target, winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans. It was an effort that was immensely successful, and having done it once, Jaguar waited for a period of years and...
A GT40 hot on the “Longtail” of a Porsche 906/6 as they leave the Esses. Photo: Roger Dixon During the 1960s...
Over the last decade, McLaren Automotive has built their reputation with their exclusive, luxury, high-performance supercars, and recently, they revealed...
A Good (Car) Guy is Hard to Find: A Girl’s Memoir By Petra Perkins with Louis Galanos Memory: A blazing fireball was racing into the stands — headed straight at me — so I fled in a panic. High-pitched engines shriek by, one after another, in endless, killing, head-splitting noise....
The late 1960s brought a host of changes to the famed 24 Hours of Le Mans. The wave of “professionalism”...
Sam Hanks may have been a quiet man who preferred to keep to himself, but at the wheel of a...
Robert Newman examines the men and machines that made the Mille Miglia one of the world’s greatest races. The Mille Miglia was a manifestation of raw courage. The courage of the top drivers, whose lives hung in the balance for a day as they forced themselves to take appalling risks...