The Baxter Auto Parts Portland Historic Races will commemorate the legendary Shelby Mustang GT350R at this year’s 29th annual vintage...
French Formula One racing legends Alain Prost and Jean-Pierre Jabouille recently made their respective returns to active competition when the...
At its January 28th Arizona Biltmore sale, RM Auctions will offer a rare piece of Aston Martin history in the form of a 1962 Aston Martin DB4 GT “Zagato” Coupe. One of only 19 ever built, this particular car is the 1962 Brands Hatch race winner, driven by sports car...
The Motor Racing Legends Pre-War Sports Car Series is coming to the U.K. for the first time in 2005. On...
Recognized as Australia’s first professional racing driver, David McKay died on Boxing Day, December 26, 2004. Starting out racing MGs during the mid-1950s, McKay soon realized that his income as a motoring writer did not support his sport. As early as 1958, he convinced Australian oil company Ampol of the...
In August 2000, we first ran Ed McDonough’s interview with Maurice Trintignant, as tribute to this wonderful man’s life story,...
Northern California April 24-28, 2005 The 1939 Chevrolet Master Deluxe of Steve Moal and David Nelson. Photo: Bob Dunsmore Become...
January 2005 12 Hours of Sebring—1970 By Harry Hurst If you poll almost anyone familiar with the history of long-distance endurance racing and ask them what one of the most exciting, epic seasons of all time was, nine times out of ten the response will be 1970. The 1970 endurance...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These...
Pete Lyons Occasionally here you may notice me express disdain for the twisted state modern Formula One has gotten itself...
The Brighton National Speed Trials is probably one of the oldest surviving race event on the British calendar. This year was the 68th meeting, but marked 99 years since the seafront course of Madeira Drive, on the south coast of England, was opened specifically for racing. Much has changed within...
Hans Ruesch has had an amazing life. At age 23, he won the Donington Grand Prix (with Richard Seaman as...
There is obsession…and then there is obsession! How about a Web site that is attempting to provide photos of every...
Monaco January 27–February 2, 2005 11-time American rally champion John Buffum was 2nd overall in the Plymouth Barracuda S with co-driver Ralph Beckman. This photo was taken near the village of Tregance. Photo: Peter Collins Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access...
Close racing, the largest field in the history of the series and great weather combined to create an exciting start...
This stained glass window was commissioned by Kye Yeung, owner of European Motor Car Works in Costa Mesa, California. The...
It is sadly poignant to have to report the unexpected death of Cliff Allison at the age of 73. Allison was a personal friend and an admitted VRJ fan, something he reiterated recently at the Lotus Show at Donington Park only two weeks before his death. Allison started racing in...
Karl Kling Jim Clark 1 Lloyd “Lucky” Casner drives a Ferrari Testa Rosa to victory in a race at Opa-Locka,...
Australia’s Historic Sports & Racing Car Association (HSRCA) has announced the creation of a 1960s-era Tasman Revival race meeting to be held December 1–3, 2006 at Eastern Creek Raceway near Sydney. Cars from the 1960s Tasman Series races in New Zealand and Australia will be the centerpiece of this three-day...
Chichester, England June 24-26, 2005 Mick Darcy worked his Austin Healey 3000 hard on the Forest Rally Stage. Photo: Peter...
One of my favorite motor racing personalities was Piers Courage, a talented young gentleman racer, as well as a member...
Formula Ford was a specification racing series created on the idea that the best drivers would win if they were racing identical cars. The idea for this low-budget Formula was created by an Englishman named Geoffrey Clarke, who had a driver’s school called Motor Racing Stables, based at the Brands...
You know how it is when a friend dies; you wish you had done more, visited him more, telephoned him...
Eric Broadley introduced his Lola T–70 roadster at the Racing Car Show in London, England in 1965. The car stunned the public and immediately joined that select pantheon of sports racing vehicles, like the Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa, Jaguar D-Type and Maserati 300S, to which one ascribes the epithet: exquisite....
The Silverstone International Trophy was awarded to American Duncan Dayton as the winner of Round 6 of the FIA Thoroughbred...
Wilbur Shaw Nanni Galli 2 Sportscar and F1 racer Nanni Galli is born in Bologna, Italy (1940). 4 Emerson Fittipaldi...
Alfa Romeo Tipo 33/3 It’s a bit of a euphemism to say that cars have personalities… of course they don’t. Inanimate objects—and some politicians—have no human qualities at all. But some cars have a way of affecting the individual that opens a door to seeing a “personality” in there. All...