After nearly 40 years since its last appearance in an International sports car race, Maserati has recently unveiled its new...
The Historic Formula Super Vee Register will hold its 2004 Reunion Event at the June 25–27 International Vintage Racing Festival...
Sebring International Raceway’s Hall of Fame Selection Committee has announced its 2004 inductees, which include Sir Stirling Moss; Mario Andretti; Carroll Shelby; Bobby Rahal; Bob and Al Holbert; race official Ford Heacock, Sr.; and the legendary manufacturer Ferrari. Induction ceremonies will take place on March 19, the day before the...
On January 16, writer, former BRM chairman and Formula One safety advocate Louis Stanley passed away at the age of...
Alan Brown, influential British racer and team owner, died of a heart attack on January 20 in Spain. Brown was...
Grand opening festivities for Jim Hall’s Chaparral Gallery at the Petroleum Museum in Midland, Texas, have been set for the weekend of April 15–17. In addition to a Chaparral celebrity golf tournament, tours of Hall’s historic Rattlesnake Raceway, an automotive art exhibit and a gala dinner, the museum has announced...
This month’s featured Web site was created by a British group of enthusiasts dedicated to preserving the U.K.’s motor racing...
April 2004 From R to GT3R: The Racing Porsches 911 & 930 By John Starkey Hats off to John Starkey...
Recent discussion in these pages about a supposed sixth Grand Sport racing Corvette rang two bells with me. First, I can confirm at least part of the story. Zora Duntov himself once told me that he’d built an extra GS, in secret, for Chevrolet engineers to play with. But he...
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsport: the World...
Walter Hayes Paddy Hopkirk 1 Count Eliot Zborowski is killed in an accident during La Turbie Hillclimb at Nice, France...
When Porsche decided to wage a complete assault on overall victory at Le Mans in 1970, they entered the French classic with three awesome racers. Sold to the John Wyer-Gulf Team and painted light blue with orange roofs, these were the ultimate weapons of the day. Unfortunately, all three Gulf...
I once accepted a commission to write a book called AZ of Sports Cars. It was to cover the post-war...
The first Chaparral, the front-engine car, wasn’t my design, that was done by Dick Troutman and Tom Barnes. They came...
As historic racing participants we often go to great lengths—and spend a great deal of time—attempting to recreate racing history. We spend countless hours researching our cars’ histories; we spend thousands of dollars restoring our cars to period-correct configuration and—with those who are more zealous—we even go so far as...
John Cordts is a quiet, modest man, which is likely the reason why many fans of the sport are not...
The 12-Hours of Sebring remains the oldest established sports car endurance race to be held in the United States, although with a partly glorious, somewhat patchy history. Always a popular spring break destination, Sebring enjoyed an oftentimes “wild” party atmosphere in the ‘70s-sometimes on a par with Watkins Glen’s infamous...
Ex-Coppa Florio 1907 Wolsit Factory Racer A little-known aspect of the history of the British Wolseley firm was its Italian...