Stock car icon Dale Earnhardt, two-time Indy 500 champion Gordon Johncock, sports car and F5000 legend Brian Redman and pioneering...
Portland, OR July 12-14 The 1969 Saab Sonnett of Alisa Kincaid leads the 1969 Saab Sonnett of Todd Cook.Photo: Jim...
Monaco Jan. 25-30 The Plymouth Barracuda “S” of Canadian Tom Jones and American Ralph Beckman at Lachamp Rafael.Photo: Ed McDonough Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to paid subscribers only. Our membership removes most ads,...
As highlighted in this month’s Racecar Profile (pg. 20), the Porsche 914-6 competed at both the professional and amateur levels...
As you’ll read in this month’s news, there is exciting news brewing on Long Island, as a strong movement is...
Recently, I was invited to a birthday party. Now, in my current life, this always translates into jumping up and down in a scorching hot inflatable “bouncy castle” with ten sweaty toddlers amped up on frosting. So, with this thought in mind, I didn’t really pay much attention to yet...
Roy Thomas, designer of the Titan formula cars for Charles Lucas Engineering and later co-owner of Titan Cars, passed away...
American racing fans will soon be able to enjoy a rare piece of ’70s Formula One history now that the...
The Lola T70 certainly had a rich and storied racing career. This ex-Foyt T70 is seen here doing battle during the opening laps of the 1966 Los Angeles Times Grand Prix at Riverside against some rather good company – no less than 17 Lola T70’s took the green flag including,...
The son of a wealthy textile manufacturer from Vercelli, near Milan, Italy, Marquis Antonio Brivio was one of the great...
Duncan Hamilton Jeff Andretti 1 Moises Solana wins the USRRC race in Mexico City, Mexico (1968). 2 Motorcycle and F1 racer Mike “The Bike” Hailwood is born (1940). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to...
Mark Donohue Bruce McLaren 1 “Big Daddy” Don Garlits becomes the first dragracer to run the 1/4 mile at more...
Wangaratta, Australia June 1-2 American Dean Butler and his gorgeous 1939 Indy Maserati 8CTF.Photo: Stephen Oom Become a Member &...
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the debut of the Austin Healey at the 1952 Earls Court Motor Show. As such, plans are under way for a major week-long celebration July 28 – August 4 organized by the Austin Healey Club of the UK. Some of the racing-related events...
On June 8-9, more than 170 historic racing machines descended on Vernasca, Italy, for this year’s Silver Flag Hillclimb. Known...
The National Motor Museum at Beaulieu in Hampshire is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. On March 19 the museum kicked off the celebration with the opening of a new Motorsport Gallery featuring Britain’s outstanding achievements in Grand Prix and Le Mans racing, as well as rallying, with a number...
BeaveRun Motorpsorts Complex, the East Coast’s newest road racing facility, recently opened the first of two road racing courses that...
Best of 2001 Photo: Walt Pietrowicz Photo: Jim Williams Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (&...
With over 400 entrants, the September 2001 historic race meeting held at Sydney’s Eastern Creek Raceway went down in the records as being the largest racecar meeting ever held in Australia. The Eastern Creek meeting, while large, was typical of how Australian events have become, with a total of 34...
Early in 1996, I met up with some fellow hacks and someone mentioned that so-and-so was working on Jacques Villeneuve’s...
You’ve just signed super-rookie Mario Andretti as your driver for the 1965 season, and you need a chassis. Everybody’s going...
It’s nice to be asked back! (Taylor was featured in an interview in VRJ in March 1999). Especially to talk about the old days and the people I found so interesting. I always considered that I was lucky to have been close to some of the real characters of the...
I had a mission at one point to try and paint all the world champions (I have since re-evaluated my...
Tragedy marred this year’s Walter Mitty Challenge when historic racer, car preparer and 2-time Sebring champion Bob Akin was killed while driving a 1988 Nissan GTP ZX-Turbo during a Friday practice session. Details of the accident are still not entirely clear, but apparently Akin was being overtaken by another GTP...
The U.S. racing community was deeply saddened recently to learn of the passing away of racer, team owner and USAC...
In early May, the American motorsport community lost another member of its postwar road racing pioneers when Bob Grossman succumbed to multiple myeloma. Born in Philadelphia, in 1923, Grossman was a multi-talented individual who was not only a trained artist, but also a professional baritone singer. However, like many of...