Parabolica Publishing and Vintage Racecar are pleased to announce that noted racing historian and author John Zimmermann has assumed the...
Pocono Raceway, PA April 12–13,2008 The 1959 MGA driven by Tom Finn holds off James Juhas’ 1957 MGA in the...
Willow Springs, Rosamond, CA November 10–11, 2007 Ken Rodenbush enters Turn 4 in his Marcos 1800 GT.Photo: Brian Green 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...
It may sound corny, but Dick Seaman’s short life really was the stuff of Hollywood movies. He was tall, handsome,...
John Watson Manfred von Brauchitsh 3 Manfred von Brauchitsh scores the Mercedes-Benz Type W25 debut victory by winning the Eifelrennen...
We all know that life isn’t a bed of roses and, sometimes, we are dealt the cruelest of blows. Don Simpson had spent three years of his life rebuilding a 20-year-old Australian special racing car, the Gladiator Holden. He finally got it performing and was looking forward to the historic...
The Aston Martin Owners Club has announced its competitions schedule for 2008 which includes five key race meetings and eight...
Maine’s stunning southern coast, quaint harbor villages and scenic rolling countryside, will play host to the 3rd Annual Barnstorming Maine...
Southern California has always been a hotbed of car aficionados. The hot rod craze started there and, after WWII, it became a focal point for sports car enthusiasm. During the late forties, sports car owners began forming clubs so they could organize events. The Sports Car Club of America grew...
The recently formed Formula 5000 Drivers Association has announced three main feature races for F5000 cars in celebration of the...
From June 28 to August 3, 2008, at the Hopkins Center for the Arts, near Minneapolis, Minnesota, a very special...
For the fifth consecutive year the Classic Sports Racing Group will organize the CSRG Charity Challenge presented by Maserati at Infineon Raceway, to benefit the Sonoma (Calif.) County chapter of the Speedway Children’s Charities, part of a nationwide program to provide assistance for children in need. On the weekend of...
My father ran in the first NASCAR Cup race in 1949, when I was 11 years old, but I went...
The Goodwood Festival of Speed, held July 11–13, has grown every year since its inception in 1993 and now stands alone as the premier event offering something for everyone interested in four- or two-wheeled motor sport. What began as a historic motor sport garden party held in the grounds of...
On October 25, 2007, state officials joined the developers of Oregon International Speedway to break ground for Pacific Northwest Motorsports...
Silverstone Circuit, UK October 20, 2007 Derek Bell Trophy race. Judy Lyons, in the Gurney Eagle, leads Frank Lyons’ Lola...
If ever a race meeting at Kyalami captured the essence of the circuit’s most memorable races, the Classic Car Africa Kyalami 9-hour Revival managed that and then some. Everyone who was at Kyalami on Saturday November 17, left thrilled by a stunning day’s classic racing to commemorate those legendary races...
Monza, Italy June 7–8, 2008 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access...
Despite mid-August being a predictably warm and sunny month, nothing was going to stop the climatic conditions, synonymous with the...
The fragility of life was so tragically displayed on Sunday, March 30, at Farnborough, England, when a Cessna Citation jet crashed killing all five occupants. The journey was to take them to the French circuit of Nogaro to continue the prelude of Apex Racings’ assault on the 2008 FIA GT...
Tazio Nuvolari always used to say that if your car burst into flame, jump out and save yourself before it...
Motor Racing Legends has been invited by the organizers of the Coppa Intereuropa, the highly prestigious historic race meeting at...
Open-wheel racing champion Michael Andretti, road racer Richie Ginther, and perennial drag-racing king John Force will lead a class of seven racing greats into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America, when the organization stages its annual induction ceremony on Wednesday, August 13, 2008, at the Fillmore Detroit. These three,...
March 2008 American Road Racing 1948-1950 By Joel Finn A heavy package arrived addressed to me the other day. I...
Lime Rock Park, CT May 2–3, 2008 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
Once, I set out to write the “Great Motor Racing Novel.” There was no firm plot in my mind, but I knew how I wanted it to feel and began with something I knew about. It opened with preparations for a British Grand Prix at Silverstone. There were the marshals...
A new chapter in the history of Lime Rock Park was written in April, as the track celebrated its groundbreaking...
2007 SAFETY GEAR DEVELOPMENTS Some significant new products for vintage racers seen at the 2007 Performance Racing Industry Show. LEATT-BRACE...
The planning for this issue was complete and work well under way, when, on August 28, we received the very sad news that Formula One and Le Mans champion Phil Hill had lost his long battle with Parkinson’s disease. Despite being nearly finished with this issue, it seemed only fitting...