Monoposto Racing, one of North America’s finest open-wheel vintage racing organizations, has announced that Barry Durham and Joe Blacker have...
One of the great things about the growth of historic racing over the past decade is the wide variety of...
I read with some interest the other day an account of this year’s gathering of the faithful at Hershey. For those not familiar, Hershey is probably one of the—if not the—largest classic car gatherings in the United States. What caught my attention in this account, however, was the fact that...
James Duncan Hamilton was the epitome of the 1950s racing driver, fast and full of joie de vivre. A fighter...
In this guide we are going to cover the popular single-seater series of Formula B, Formula Atlantic and Formula Two....
Graham Hill Ronnie Peterson 1 Bobby Rahal, Bob Garretson and Brian Redman drive a Porsche 935 K3 to victory in the 24-Hours of Daytona. First IMSA GTP race (1981). 1 Mike Lawrence buys his first copy of “Motorsport” magazine. Twenty-seven years later, he becomes its editor (1957). Become a Member...
It had to be at least one of the biggest gatherings of Ferraris and Maseratis of all time: 250 racing...
Monza, Italy October 30-31, 2004 Harry Leventis had two good races in his 4-liter Ferrari P4, an ex-Rodriguez car. Photo:...
Grand Prix Masters, the international race series for historic Formula One cars from 1966–1978, is expanding its role in historic motorsport with the acquisition of Group 4 Racing, the organizers of the European Sports Prototype Trophy. Ron Maydon, owner of Grand Prix Masters, has announced that well-known racer and series...
An Argentinean senator slipped into the cockpit of Michael Schumacher’s 2004 Formula One World Championship–winning car at Ferrari’s private Fiorano...
Pete Lyons Mr. Cozza lifted the right side of the center-hinged bonnet and bent over the long, bristling racing engine. His colleague, Mr. Torbelli, flipped switches in the stark open cockpit. There was a complexity of mechanical grunting noises, then a sudden, staccato burst of machine gunfire—16 cylinders raucously voicing...
The Friends of Triumph (FOT) and the MG Racers Group have announced that both will come together at HSR’s “Walter...
I drove the McLaren F1 with the Alfa Romeo engine. It had the same problem that the Alfa Tipo 33 had…weight. With that car, we could have done well even with less power than the Cosworth, and very well with the same power except for the weight. When I drove...
Legendary racecar driver Phil Hill was honored at a special event at the Petersen Automotive Museum on November 11, 2004....
February 2005 Ferrari: A Champion’s View by Phil Hill It turns out that Phil Hill—America’s first world champion, three-time Le...
Alfa Romeo Tipo 33/3 It’s a bit of a euphemism to say that cars have personalities… of course they don’t....
Pete Lovely said it best: “We couldn’t believe they would let us race through this beautiful park, which was almost...
As if plucked straight from an edition of “Boy’s Own Annual” Tony Gaze competed at Brooklands in the ’30s, flew a Spitfire during World War II, raced in Formula One and sports cars during the 1950s and eventually went on to represent Australia in gliding. Our Australian correspondent, Patrick Quinn,...