If there’s one thing that sets a vintage racing car apart from a modern one, it’s the use of aluminum....
41 year-old German Christian Danner is one of a very small number of active drivers with connections to the heady…and...
John Surtees Barney Oldfield 1 Jim Clark wins his third straight USGP at Watkins Glen, New York, this time driving a Lotus-Ford (1967). 2 First event held on the board track at Sheepeshead Bay, New York (1915). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
Holman & Moody This is the official web site of this venerable Ford racing and tuning specialist. This site features...
From time to time someone asks how I got into this business – apparently it looks like fun – and...
The recent British “fuel crisis” failed to stop the third edition of Lord Charles March’s Goodwood Revival Meeting, though the pundits had been predicting that all social and sporting events would come to a grinding halt. In fact, thousands of period-attired racing fans managed to find their way to Goodwood,...
Janet Guthrie Carlos Pace 1 NASCAR racer Dave Marcis is born (1941). 2 Sports car racer Nino Vacarella is born...
Sears Point, CA May. 19-21 The 1956 Jaguar D-Type of Frank Pritt leads the 1959 Lotus 11 of Pete Lovely....
“If Moss’s win in the Rob Walker-entered, 2-liter T-45 Mk3 Cooper at Argentina in early 1958 came as a surprise, Maurice Trintignant put the message clearly on the wall at Monaco in May. Driving an Alf-Francis modified, Walker-entered, 2-liter Mk3, the unobtrusive veteran set a new record while winning against...
Thanks to the Ice Age, we were given the Bonneville Salt Flats upon which thousands of land speed racers have...
Lee Petty, NASCAR’s first three-time champion and patriarch of the Petty racing dynasty, passed away on April 5th in Greensboro, North Carolina. Petty was 86 years old. Petty began his racing career in NASCAR’s inaugural 1949 season. He went on to win NASCAR championships in 1954, 1958 and 1959. Petty’s...
On February 6, 2000, the racing community lost one of its true gentleman racers with the passing of Phil Walters...
November 2000 Dan Gurney—The Ultimate Racer By Karl Ludvigsen Mention the name Dan Gurney and what comes to mind? The...
Maserati 300S The modern era in motor racing began shortly after the end of WWII, when there was a huge leap in technological development and a serious shift toward racing becoming a professional sport. Ever since that time, now 50 years ago, enthusiasts and racers have argued nonstop about the...
Over 30,000 spectators streamed into Visalia, California’s Mooney Grove Park for the Second Visalia Motorsports Festival held May 27-28. Over...
On May 27-28, the streets of Monaco filled with the sounds of racecars… historic racecars. Six previous Grand Prix winners...
Gilles Villeneuve Jean-Pierre Wimille 1 Sports car racer James “Hap” Sharp is born (1928). 11 American John Walter Christie, free-lance engineer, auto builder and racer dies. Christie helped build first submarine and designed tanks used by Britain in WWII. His 1907 WC-5 Grand Prix racer was the first to use...
Have you ever sat in front of the television watching a beautifully filmed documentary about the archaeological wonders of Egypt,...
1972 Giannini Gruppo 2 Corse The story of Giannini is the tale of the Italian car tuners, the specialists who...
Trevers Walkett, one of four Walkett brothers that formed Ginetta Cars, passed away on January 5th at the age of 76. Founded in 1960, Ginetta cars specialized in the production of “kit cars” for racing and later graduated to the production of road cars. In 1961, Ginetta created the G4,...
Many phrases have come to be synonymous with the Indy 500: “Gentlemen Start Your Engines”, “Back Home in Indiana”, and...
Hello, Posterity. This is the past calling. Writers and readers being separated by the editor’s deadlines, it’s still 1999 for...
The truth is, I might have missed him amongst Moss, Brabham, Trintignant, Shelby, Ward and all the other motor racing luminaries at Monterey if someone hadn’t pointed him out. “That’s Norman Dewis,” my friend said, pointing to an amazingly spry white-haired man of small stature holding court with an enthralled...
The original Morgan factory built by H.F.S. Morgan in 1905 is due to be demolished if a Malvern garage gains...
Dave Friedman Photography If you’re a regular reader of VRJ, then you’re probably familiar with the breathtaking photographic work of...
Classic Sports Racing Group (CSRG) will host the Elva Reunion celebrating 45 years since the founding of Elva cars by Frank Nichols. The event will be held at Sears Point Raceway in Sonoma, California, on November 27-29, 2000. All Elva cars are welcome and CSRG will include an all-Elva race,...
Phoenix International Raceway, AZ Feb. 18-20 The 1971 Titan Mk6A of Bob Sawyer (#7) dices with the 1972 Royale RP-16...
Jean-Pierre Jarier Jim Hall 2 Giancarlo Baghetti wins the French Grand Prix (1961). 2 Future F1 racer Piers Courage meets...
The Titan Registry has recently announced a Titan Formula Car Reunion will be held at Gingerman Raceway, as part of the VSCDA’s South Haven Sports Car Races the weekend of July 6-9, 2000. In addition to a Titan-only feature race on Saturday, Registry director Andy Antipas has announced that several...