The 10th edition of the Goodwood Festival of Speed continued its tradition of bringing huge crowds onto the grounds of...
Recently FIA president Max Mosley suggested that the FIA might revive the F2 category as a way of stimulating competition in F1. “I can see the system used in football being introduced,” Mosley told Auto, Motor, und Sport. “The best F2 team could then be promoted to F1, while the...
Despite dreary weather for much of the weekend, Virginia International’s Gold Cup Historic Races was judged an unqualified success by...
The roar of Can-Am thunder will once again reverberate through the hills of Laguna Seca Raceway in Monterey, California, when...
A historically unlikely motorsport marriage was consummated at the end of July. Former Ligier and Williams Formula One driver Jacques Laffite joined forces with the Morgan car company to race a Morgan Aero 8 GT at this year’s 24 Hours of Spa. The French racing star, who scored six wins...
October 2003 Daytona 24 Hours By J.J. O’Malley In the world of professional sports car racing, only two events have...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These early innovators are in an elite club with their place in automotive history guaranteed as the creators of a true classic sports car, a genuine thoroughbred. The development of the...
Huffaker Engineering has been more successful, over a longer period of time, and in more forms of motorsport, than any...
Chichester, U.K. July 11–13, 2003 John Surtees prepares for a run in the 1967 Honda RA 300 which won the...
Derek Bell Andrea de Adamich 1 The Lancia Fulvia 1.6 is homologated for rallying (1969). 2 The first post-WWII road race in the United States is run through the streets of Watkins Glen, New York (1948). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More)...
The 18th annual OLD/NOW Car Festival was held on the Childrens Day public holiday at Tsukuba circuit, an hour and...
Uwe Meissner, of Germany’s Modena Motorsport, held his annual Ferrari Driving Days at the Nürburgring on June 23–24 and more...
Virginia International Raceway, VA June 5-8, 2003 The rare 1933 MG L2 “monoposto” of George Chilberg. Photo: Gordon Jolley 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, lets you...
Sir Stirling Moss had a fall from his motor scooter on Thursday, July 17 while crossing Lambeth Bridge in London....
I was involved in racing in a very interesting time, when a lot of good things happened and a lot...
While often overlooked in the annals of motorsport history, from 1963 to 1988 the European Touring Car Championship (ETCC) provided some epic production car racing. In its early days, the ETCC was an affordable entry point for young drivers to hone their craft. Future stars like Baghetti, Ickx and Whitmore...
Mansfield, OH June 19-22, 2003 A “50th Anniversary of the Corvette” feature race included over 28 entrants. Photo: Jim Hatfield...
Over the course of his life, Frank Gardner has been a boxer, a surfer and a motorcycle mechanic before moving...
1958 Devin D Porsche Across the southern hills of the Dolomite Mountains of Italy, north of a line drawn between Schio, Marostica and Bassano del Grappa, lie some of Europe’s most beautiful and challenging roads…long and fast sweeps coming down from 3,000 meters, medium speed twists across alpine meadows, and...
Le Circuit Mt. Tremblant, St. Jovite, Canada July 4–6, 2003 The 1967 Lotus 49B of Pete Lovely. Photo: Robert Harrington...
Eighty-six-year-old sports car racing legend John Fitch will attempt to enter the record books one more time when he takes to the Bonneville Salt Flats in a Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Gullwing. Fitch will attempt to break the World Land Speed Record in the F/GT production class on August 18, when...