Australia is blessed with a wide range of historic motorsport from circuit racing to “around the houses” speed events. Speed...
Janet Guthrie, the first woman to compete in the Indianapolis 500 and the Daytona 500, was inducted into the International...
Regularity race specialist Giuliano Cané won the Mille Miglia for a record ninth time on May 13th, driving a BMW 323 MM. Navigated by his wife Lucia, the Bologna industrialist won the 24th re-run of the glorious old race with 14,849 points after dropping down as far as 35th place...
Hallet Raceway, OK March 30–April 2, 2006 Tim Suddard and Joe Hovey dice around Hallett in a TR-3 and a...
Following the sudden and tragic death of my father Reg, my move into team management was both swift and unexpected....
1955 Crowfoot Holden Special The author opens up the wailing Crowfoot Special onto Wakefield Park’s front straight. Photo: Casey Annis Now I understand why Australia was put where it is. When world geography was organized, it was recognized that motor racing would get everywhere, but in places where it would...
John Michael Hawthorn, the “Farnham Flyer” to his countrymen and “Le Papillon” to the French (because of his habit of...
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...
The Historic Sports Car Club of Great Britain held its season-opening championship races at a revamped Donington Park circuit at...
Castle Combe, England April 17, 2006 Hackett and Sutherland’s Jaguar XK120 en route to 2nd in the Jack Sears Trophy race.Photo: Peter Collins 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...
Mario Andretti at speed in his Ferrari 312B with flat-12 engine. Andretti was the race favorite having won the opening...
Due to the peccadilloes and vagaries of the publishing world, I sit here writing this column in the beginning of May (don’t ask!). In fact, just a few days ago the Indianapolis Motor Speedway officially opened its gates for the month-long high-holiday that is the Indianapolis 500. This year, the...
Daytona Beach, FL April 14–15, 2006 The 1988 Camaro of Richard Bryan enters Turn 3.Photo: Chuck Andersen Become a Member...
Ronnie Peterson Biography Ronnie Peterson was born on 1944 in Örebro, Sweden, the son of an avid racer of moderate accomplishments. His father’s love for all things mechanical was inherited by his son. When Peterson was only eight years old his father built him a car, or at least the young Ronnie...
Is there anything Phil Remington hasn’t done over the course of his 60 years in motor sport? In children’s literature...
This month’s featured Web site is the official site of the U.S. Alfa Romeo Owners Club. With over 4,000 members...
Well-known historic Super Vee driver and Monoposto Racing director Domenick J. Billera died on Friday, April 21, 2006 at his...
Antonio Ascari Pedro Rodriguez 2 Camille Jenatzy, driving a Mercedes 60 HP, wins the Gordon Bennett race. He covers the...
July 2006 Speed, Frozen in Time : Vintage Racecar Images By Jamie Hankin Readers of Vintage Raecar will be familiar with the fine art photography of Jamie Hankin, which has been featured in numerous “Art History” columns over the years. Now, after much demand for his haunting images of current...
I am unsettled. I know it. But I don’t know why. Is it this grass, groomed to unnatural golf course...
Automobile racing started soon after the appearance of autos themselves. Those first events, on public highways and byways, went from...
The British Grand Prix; Silverstone, July 10, 1965. Tire smoke fills the air as the field moves off with Jackie Stewart’s B.R.M. nearest the camera, then Richie Ginther’s Honda, Graham Hill’s B.R.M. and Jim Clark’s Lotus, with the Ferrari of John Surtees in the second row. Photo courtesy of: THE...
Mid-Ohio is a very rhythmic, undulating and momentum rewarding circuit that requires countless laps to understand the subtleties of the...
In 1936, the first MG “T type” was produced in England. It started with the MG-TA, and then progressed through the TB, TC, TD,...
The over two-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever changing regulations of International Motorsports; the World Sports Car Championship from 1953–1961, the Speedworld Challenge from 1962–1963, the International Championship of Makes from 1972–1981. This included racing in the great endurance races such as...