The statistics alone grab your attention. Those who travel the furthest—from Oslo—have 3,500 kilometers to drive; the rest, from Barcelona,...
The Targa Florio: Sicily, May 6, 1962. A Ferrari mechanic at the service stop near Polizzi gives a salute to...
Rick Mears Alain Prost 1 John Surtees drives a Ferrari 312 to victory in the nonchampionship Syracuse Grand Prix in Italy (1966). 2 The Junior Car Club holds its first high-speed trials at Brooklands in England. Of the 48 entries, 22 win gold medals and 5 win silver medals (1925)....
The Formula Junior Category was introduced in Italy in 1958 by Count Giovanni Lurani, and in 1959, it became an...
As of March 1, Vintage Racecar (and its parent Parabolica Publishing, LLC) have moved into new, larger office space in...
Moroso Motosports Park, Florida February 23–25, 2007 An unidentified Maserati Birdcage.Photo: Chuck Andersen 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 ads, lets you enjoy unlimited access to all our premium content, and...
In a surprise move, Christie’s announced, one week prior to their planned sale of a rare 1939 Auto Union Grand...
At the final press day for GPLive at Donington Park in the UK, the threat of snow failed to stop a lunch time demonstration of one of the great cars that will be featured at the event on May 18–20. VR’s European Editor, Ed McDonough, was in the driver’s seat...
Phoenix International Raceway, AZ February 10–11, 2007 Bob Wass and his 1967 Alfa Romeo GTV.Photo: Brian Green Become a Member...
Brooklands, the world’s first purpose-built motor racing facility, will turn 100 this year. Mercedes-Benz UK, which has done extensive development...
The Reno Historic Races, organized by the Historic Motor Sports Association (HMSA), will honor the H-Modified racing class, one of the longest-lived internationally sanctioned racing classes in existence, at this year’s event. The fourth annual Reno Historic Races will take place May 4–6 at the Reno-Fernley Raceway, in Reno, Nevada. Out...
Monte Carlo, Monaco January 25–31, 2007 Choc’s BMW 2002 Tii.Photo: Peter Collins Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To...
The 2007 Mille Miglia, which starts from Brescia on May 17 and concludes in the Italian financial and industrial center...
Rally novices, Angela Ohren-Bird (Driver) and Pamela Reid (Navigator), are to undertake one of the most grueling of rallying challenges, the 100th Anniversary run of the Peking-to-Paris Rally. The event starts in Peking on May 27, 2007. Not only is the pair driving in the event, but they are preparing...
There isn’t much Karl Kainhofer hasn’t done in over 50 years of involvement in motorsports, from motorcycle racing in Austria...
The 1957 season was Juan Manuel Fangio’s swan song. With four World Championship victories under his belt, Fangio rejoined the...
Performance perv that I am, I’m turned on by naked racecars. Even partially undressed ones. Lift an engine cover, unveil a shapely suspension arm, merely de-Dzus an access panel and I’m there, slavering. I simply groove on racing’s luscious secret places. Pete Lyons That’s probably one more reason I so...
Forget about Tom Cruise and Angelina Jolie, Ferrari is the star of this show. It is called “Ferrari and the...
Paris, France February 16–25, 2007 Bizarre Dommartin dominates the front of the Galerie des Damiers stand. Become a Member &...
I have certain fond memories of the first single-seater racing car I drove, which was a Vanwall. Tony Vandervell gave me a wonderful opportunity of driving it at Goodwood. There are a number of single-seater racing cars that I would have liked to have driven, throughout my career. It could...
Lime Rock Park’s Big Bend really is a big bend and represents a significant chunk of the total lap time...
1963 Scirocco By the time you read this, a superb collection of famous, bizarre, futile and fantastic Grand Prix cars...
Italian-born, Swiss-national Hans Ruesch died on August 27 in Lugano, Switzerland, at the age of 94. He was one of only two surviving significant drivers from the great prewar period of European racing, leaving only German Paul Pietsch from that illustrious group. Ruesch drove in the late ’20s and through...
Art Evans Fifty years ago, the world-famous Laguna Seca race course was created by a tree. It’s interesting as well...
The Donington Park circuit in the UK has been bought from the current owners, Tom Wheatcroft & Sons, by Donington...
For many years now, I have been synonymous with sports cars and sports car racing. Of course, when I started my career, I was like any other driver. I started in single-seater racing cars and wanted to become a Formula One racer, not only that but World Champion! My ladder...
The H-Modified class in American road racing was derived from the FIA small-displacement sports racing machines popularized in Italy and...
This month’s featured Web site comprises a large collection of photography from East Coast road racing events in the 1960s....
David Purley was a hero you have probably never even heard of, but a hero he most certainly was. If you remember him at all, it will be for his one-man attempt to rescue his friend and fellow F1 driver, Roger Williamson, from a burning car during the 1973 Grand...