The Goodwood Festival of Speed, held July 11–13, has grown every year since its inception in 1993 and now stands...
When his team’s pair of Porsche RS Spyders took the green flag for July’s American Le Mans Series round at...
Andrea Pininfarina, 51, has died as the result of a road traffic accident in Turin on August 7th. He was the first of three children for Sergio and Giorgia Pininfarina, and died after a car collided with the Vespa scooter he was riding to the company’s design and R&D center...
The 14th annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance, set for March 13–15, 2009, on the grounds of the Ritz Carlton Amelia...
The Hon. John Dawson-Damer’s collection of historic Lotus racing cars, considered by some to be one of the most significant...
The Le Mans Classic has now become the most prestigious of all historic racing events…if competition for entries is anything to go by. This year, the 4th running of the Classic, just under 400 cars took part in the six races for cars by age group, each race being run...
The traditional Silverstone Classic, held July 25–27, this year received a real “boost” under the direction of Motion Works Motorsport,...
Vintage Racecar was asked to play a part in continuing celebrations of 50 Years of the Lister “Knobbly” at the...
Lola 50 Years celebrations continued in the somewhat unlikely location of Italy’s Castell’Arquato, the start and headquarters of the Vernasca Silver Flag Historic Hillclimb, from June 27-29. Castell’Arquato is a small town to the southeast of Piacenza, itself an hour or so east of Milan. Thousands of visitors from the...
Long-time readers of VR, will be familiar with the period photography of Allen Kuhn. From 1956 until 1965, Kuhn worked...
October 2008 Carlos Lepro’s Giulia—The First Winning GTA By Bernardo D. Martínez, MD For ten days, in October 1965, a...
Goodwood, Chichester, UK July 11–13, 2008 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 offers you awesome discounts on partner products....
Alton, VA June 6–8, 2008 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access...
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California Speedway, Fontana, CA June 20–22, 2008 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
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This one picture is why I’m writing these thousand words. I’m doing so in the first week of August 2008—precisely...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These early innovators are in an elite club with their place in automotive history guaranteed as the creators of true classic sports cars, a genuine thoroughbred. The development of the racing...
Nigel Mansell Bernd Rosemeyer 2 PJ Jones drives a Toyota Eagle MkIII to victory in the final IMSA GTP race,...
The origins of the Packwood Special can be traced to California aerospace engineer Steve Mulholland, who gathered components over a two-year period with the plan of building his dream machine. When he bought a Mercedes 300SL Gullwing in 1958, the dream quickly faded and Mulholland soon ran an ad in...
Virginia International Raceway, also known as VIR, set to the east of Danville, Virginia, is one of the finest racetracks...
October 2008 The Japanese Grand Prix; Fuji, October 17, 1976. Jody Scheckter dances with the 6-wheel Tyrrell P34 in streaming...
CAMORADI—an acronym for Casner Motor Racing Division—was formed by Lloyd “Lucky” Casner in late 1959. The intention was to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans using the Maserati Tipo 61, also known as the “Birdcage” due to its intricate tubular space-frame chassis. While victory at Le Mans eluded the...
I have included a few remembrances about Lance in some previous Vintage Racecar columns, but because he was such a...
Without a doubt, the racecar that gave me the most pleasure, and therefore my greatest racecar, was the Silk Cut Jaguar XJR-6. I drove it at Silverstone, with Derek Warwick as my teammate, in the 1986 Kouros 1,000-kms race, which we won by a substantial two-lap margin over the Rothmans...
