David and Lorina McLaughlin, founders of two historic racing series, which have evolved into the FIA Historic Formula One Championship and The Masters Series, have announced the creation of a new historic racing series for more recent era Formula One cars. For more information on planned events and car eligibility...
Somewhere, just west of nowhere, sits one of Max Balchowsky’s masterpieces. Although it has been over a decade since Reagan...
July 2008 Hugh C. Hunter in his lovely 8C2900B Alfa Romeo on the Campbell Road Circuit. In ths race he...
On June 7–8, 1958, the Texas Region of the SCCA hosted a weekend of sports car racing 10 miles north of Fort Worth. The organizers laid out a 3-mile course at the National Guard Air Base near Eagle Mountain Lake, where 112 entries showed up to contest 10 scheduled “Sunburn”...
Canadian-born racing car designer, engineer, and innovative wheel manufacturer, Max Boxstrom died on March 15th in Birmingham’s Heartland Hospital of...
My first trip to Roebling Road (nee, Savannah-Effingham Raceway) was in the early 1960s to watch my Dad, Charlie, run...
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...
After a year of progress, Group C Racing is delighted to announce a program of events for the 2008 season,...
John Zeitler Nigel Mansell Photo: Maureen Magee 2 Emerson Fittipaldi, driving a Penske PC-18, wins the CART Budweiser Cleveland Grand...
Greater Arizona April 5-9, 2008 One of three pre-war Bentleys in this year’s Rally, Michael and John Cummings enjoy their 1926 Speed Six Lemans.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...
July 2008 Gentleman Jack By Graham Gauld If you know who Jack Sears is, this book will fill in all...
I became involved in motor racing with some very good friends at the Midland Racing Partnership, located in my hometown...
When I was young, career advice was rudimentary. On hearing that I was interested in literature, an advisor told me that there was an opening for a printer’s apprentice in Stratford-upon-Avon. Nobody mentioned jobs that paid you millions for being incompetent. A classmate of mine got a job in a...
Donington Park, UK March 30,2008 A pair of Jaguar E-Types contest the Guards Trophy.Photo: Keith Booker Become a Member &...
Organizers of the Centennial Celebration of the Vanderbilt Races have announced that the fifth iteration of this unique event will...
It may sound corny, but Dick Seaman’s short life really was the stuff of Hollywood movies. He was tall, handsome, Britain’s top racing driver, married to a BMW heiress, needed Adolf Hitler’s personal approval to join the Mercedes-Benz motor racing team, and then poked the Nazis in the eye by...
A new chapter in the history of Lime Rock Park was written in April, as the track celebrated its groundbreaking...
The Ferrari 330 P4 was the Scuderia’s weapon of choice for the 1967 World Manufacturers Championship. The car’s 4-liter V-12...
Ferrari collectors from across the globe descended on Maranello, Italy, May 18, for RM Auctions’ second annual “Ferrari Leggenda e Passione” auction event to witness a new auction record established for a 1961 Ferrari California Spyder formerly owned by actor James Coburn. This desirable classic exceeded all expectations by setting...
Al Holbert—winner at Daytona, Sebring, and many times at Le Mans; Peter Gregg—4 times winner at Daytona; and Jim Busby—2...
Formula Ford was a specification racing series created on the idea that the best drivers would win if all were...
Though historic racers themselves tend not to become “famous,” there certainly are a handful of very talented drivers, across the globe, that have risen to such a high level, as to have garnered their historic “fame.” Certainly, British-racer Martin Stretton must rank near the top of these elite amateur racers....
Stoneleigh Park, Coventry, UK March 14-16, 2008 London-Mexico car heads up impressive Ford Escort display area.Photo: Peter Collins Become a...
Pocono Raceway, PA April 12–13,2008 The 1959 MGA driven by Tom Finn holds off James Juhas’ 1957 MGA in the...
The history of motor sport is, in many ways, a history of barriers being broken. In the automobile’s 19th-century infancy, 60 mph was thought an insurmountable barrier; doctors even hypothesized that the human body would be unable to breathe at that speed and, therefore, the driver would surely die. As...
Donington Park, UK April 19-20, 2008 Brandon Smith-Hilliard puts the power down in his Masertai 250F CM9.Photo: Peter Collins Become...
Carroll Shelby once remarked, “There are only two people I can think of who could sit down, take a welding torch, build their own chassis, go out to test it, and then win races with it. They are Jack Brabham and Chuck Daigh. I put Chuck in the same category...
