Founded by David Murray in the ’50s, the famed Ecurie Ecosse race team scored two famous wins at Le Mans...
History was both made and remembered over the Labor Day holiday when a Porsche Carrera GT production car driven by...
The MG Vintage Racers (MGVR) have recently announced that in celebration of MGVR’s 25th anniversary next year, they will be holding an All-MG race weekend at Hallett Raceway outside Tulsa, Oklahoma, on June 2–4. Billed as the “MG Vintage Racers’ Silver Anniversary Celebration at Hallet” that weekend will be the...
On January 26, 1906, Fred Marriott shocked the burgeoning automotive world when he drove the steam-powered Stanley Rocket Racer to...
The Goodwood Revival is thought by many to be the largest historic race meeting in the world and the only...
WilliamsF1 has recently announced that a hand-picked selection of more than 20 of the WilliamsF1’s Reserve Collection of Formula One cars and memorabilia, spanning the company’s entire 28-year history, will be sold at its factory headquarters in Grove, England, on December 14, 2005, by auction house Bonhams. WilliamsF1’s headquarters in...
On September 24, the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, California, opened a new retrospective exhibit honoring the automotive and...
The Masters Series, organizers of the Grand Prix Masters Historic Formula One races, and of the World Sportscar Masters events...
Tonino Ascari, the 63-year-old son of 1952–1953 Formula One World Champion Alberto, stunned the Italian motor racing community on September 10th by saying he believed Eugenio Castellotti asked his father to sort out the rear-end handling of the factory Ferrari 750 the younger driver was testing at Monza on that...
Few individuals could better be thought of to embody the spirit of the American sportsman than Briggs Swift Cunningham. Born...
Chichester, England September 16–18 Sir Stirling Moss’s driving style was as smooth as ever in this Ferrari 250 SWB. Photo:...
Watkins Glen, New York September 8–11, 2005 The 1975 Chevrolet Monza of Garry Lefever leads a pack of Group 10 cars. 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...
Racing transcends venue. I’ve done my time at grungy old bullrings, squalid street courses, insipid parking lots, sterile speedways, a...
The Canadian American Challenge Cup was co-sanctioned by the SCCA and CASC—it was a series nicknamed the “unlimited” series. Although...
Garrie Cooper Keke Rosberg 1 American Motors Corporation hires Craig Breedlove to set long-distance high-speed records with an AMX (1967). 2 Peter Arundell wins a one-car “race” at Monza, Italy. Journalist Richard von Frankenberg had accused Lotus of using an illegal engine in Arundell’s car in a race there a...
Practice—the Peco Trophy Race; Brands Hatch, August 5, 1962. John Surtees practicing at Brands Hatch in the Bowmaker Ferrari 250GTO for...
October 23rd was a significant anniversary; it marked 50 years since Tony Brooks won the Syracuse Grand Prix in a Connaught. It was a non-championship race, sure, but it was Britain’s first Grand Prix win for more than 30 years. Moreover, Brooks defeated a five-car works team from Maserati, which...
I had just been discharged from the Army and was pursuing my education with the help of the GI Bill....
In terms of greatest racecars of all time, clearly, Mercedes had some extremely innovative cars like the one Moss drove...
One of the things that comes up is a little record I am very proud of that there are only four people in the world, to my knowledge, who have taken part in the Olympics and in a World Championship Grand Prix event. One of the others was Alphonso de...
The word had gone out, I was told for the thousandth time, but I felt no better. What if the...
Not only did I enjoy reading Art Evans’ column this month on his first race as a competitor (click here...
Like many other drivers in the West, Chuck Daigh arose out of the California hot rod culture and became one of the premier drivers of his generation driving the virtually invincible Scarab sports racing cars and moving on to the unsuccessful Scarab Formula One car. An especially efficient and brilliant...
Historic Photographs As a supplier of rare period photography to VRJ, Ferret Fotographics offers prints from its 1.5 million negative...
A short history of Racing in the Far East When you read about racing in Asia, it will invariably be...
1949 Gordini 23S Anyone who has ever listened to Peter Ustinov’s fabulous motor racing spoof of the 1950s, “The Grand Prix of Gibraltar” already is familiar with Amédée Gordini. Ustinov’s parody of the Franco-Italian, Monsieur Orgini, and “eez funny leetle blue Orgini cars” was not only hysterical but drew strongly...