For as long as he can remember, James Peacock of Long Beach, California, has been afflicted with a palate for...
I don’t have one favorite racecar; I have several: the Daytona Coupe I raced at Le Mans with Dan Gurney,...
French Grand Prix; Dijon-Prenois, July 1,1979. Mario Andretti with the unhappy Lotus 80. It was not a success, and the team subsequently reverted to the Lotus 79. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION PMB 219 – 65 High Ridge Road, Stamford, CT 06905-3814 USA., Tel: (203) 461-9804 • Fax: (203)...
This year’s Monterey Historic Automobile Races marks the 35th running of this classic event. As shown schematically in the Laguna...
This year seems to be littered with 50-year celebrations of various marques, teams, and occasions in motor racing. The 50th...
The story of the Alfa Romeo 158 is packed with heroes, starting with its designer, Gioacchino Colombo. He submitted his drawings for a straight-8 1,500-cc voiturette to the Alfa headquarters near Milan back in January 1936. And as the design began to take shape, Alfa placed on standby drivers like...
Ronnie Peterson Giuseppe Campari 1 James Hunt, driving a McLaren-Ford, wins the German Grand Prix on the Nürburgring. Niki Lauda...
This year, Crosslé, Lola, and Mallock will all celebrate their fiftieth anniversaries. The exact date of each birthday is unknown,...
Fifty-one years after winning his fifth and final world championship, Juan Manuel Fangio is still my favorite F1 driver. Never mind that I never actually saw him race an F1 car, not for real. But I believe I know what I would have seen. That’s because I grew up feasting...
I stood back watching, as Monterey feted the Fangio marque. Fangio marque? Yes, Juan Manuel Fangio is the only person,...
Infineon Raceway, CA May 2–4, 2008 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More)...
1959 OSCA | 1960 Lotus 18 | 1963 Brabham BT6 Regular readers of VR will know that we have a fondness for Formula Junior. We have covered some important ground with this significant racing formula, and gotten to grips with Elva, Lotus, Stanguellini, Volpini, Autosud and more. As 2008 marks 50 years...
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In 1953, Duncan Hamilton and Tony Rolt won Le Mans in this Jaguar C Type, the last remaining one of three lightweight works cars. It raced with Ecurie Ecosse for three years from 1954, then spent much of its time in the Briggs Cunningham Museum until it was bought by...
Parabolica Publishing and Vintage Racecar are pleased to announce that noted racing historian and author John Zimmermann has assumed the...
Photo: Dennis Gray If you’ve ever attended the Monterey Historics, the Wine Country Classic, a Classic Sports Racing Group (CSRG),...
Justly famous for corners such as the Corkscrew and Andretti (a.k.a. Turn 2), plain-named Turn Six is actually one of...
Rome-Brescia-Rome, Italy May 15–18,2008 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to...
Take a James Bond girl, a double Formula One World Champion, the mayor of Moscow, a fashion mogul, and the boss of Europe’s biggest car manufacturer, season with a handful of international businessmen and sprinkle with a few politicians, stir in 375 of the most sensational vintage racecars in the...
Monaco, Monte Carlo May 10–11, 2008 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More)...
The sun shone on the principality of Monaco for the Monaco Historic Grand Prix on May 10–11, but at times...
In Zen Buddhism it is called a Koan, a question that can only be answered through intuition, not rationale understanding…what is the sound of one hand clapping? In the historic racing world, the Buddhist acolyte might ask, “When does the recreation of history become, itself, history?” This notion seems to...
Ove Andersson, the man responsible for shaping the global motor sport presence of Toyota in both rallying and Formula One,...
August 2008 Inside IMSA’s Legendary GTP Race Cars The Prototype Experience By J. A. Martin and Michael J. Fuller Among...
For over 50 years, the Chevrolet Corvette has been considered by many to be “America’s sports car.” And as early as 1953, the Corvette was also one of the United States’ leading production-based racecars competing in not only domestic SCCA and later IMSA races, but also international FIA endurance events...
Pacific Raceways, WA April 18–20,2008 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access...
John Surtees, the only man yet to win World Championships on both two and four wheels, has been named an...
Mario Andretti I had three different seasons in Alfa Romeo sports cars. People remember that I drove for them in Grand Prix races but they often don’t recall that I did my time in the Tipo 33 sports cars. The start was at Daytona with the 2-liter car in 1968....