A 30-year reunion of the participants and fans of what is believed to be the only “Dead Heat” in Road...
Much like the animal it was named for, the precise origin of the Unicorn H-Modified sports racer remains a mystery....
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motor sports: the World Sports Car Championship from 1953–1961; the Speedworld Challenge from 1962–1963; the International Championship of Makes from 1964–1971; and the World Championship of Makes from 1972–1981. There was even a...
When Formula Junior came to the UK shores, to replace the now out-dated 500-cc Formula Three racing, I felt that...
Carlos Sainz Al Unser Jr. 2 Three-time Formula One World Champion Jack Brabham is born (1926). 3 Pierro Taruffi drives...
Bill Milliken has had an interesting life. As an engineer in both the aviation industry and later consultant to the automotive industry, pilot, racecar driver, road course designer, etc., he’s done much in the world of technology. Born in Old Town, Maine, in 1911, Bill was at the forefront of...
What started as an April Fool’s joke on a long defunct track, ended up becoming an interesting insight into fear...
April 2009 The Dutch Grand Prix; Zandvoort, July 18, 1965. John Surtees during practice with the Ferrari 158/63 at Tarzan...
Created by a quartet of members from the Binghamton Automobile Racing Club, this site bills itself as a repository for “photos and stories from East Coast sports car racing in the ’50s and ’60s,” and true to those words, that’s exactly what you’ll find there. Inside, it offers four distinct...
To mark the 100th anniversary of its construction in 1909 and its first 500-mile race in 1911, the Indianapolis Motor...
The son of eminent sculptor Jacob Epstein, Jackie was born in 1934 into an unorthodox family. The offspring of an...
Lime Rock Park’s preparations for the 28th Annual Vintage Festival on the traditional Labor Day weekend are well underway. Buzz...
Unquestionably, one of the most dominating racing cars was the Mercedes W196, particularly with drivers such as Fangio and Moss at the wheel. I remember seeing the 1955 British Grand Prix at Aintree, the track just outside Liverpool, England, the first time the Grand Prix had been held at a...
This painting depicts Mike Hawthorn, winner of the 1954 Spanish Grand Prix at Pedralbes, Barcelona, in the Ferrari 553 “Squalo”...
Porsche’s new museum, recently opened at corporate headquarters in Stuttgart, promotes the “Porsche idea” with a trip back in time...
April 2009 OttoVú By Tony Adriaensens While I have said it before, thank God for obsessive enthusiasts—they always produce the best books! Sometime in the 1980s, Tony Adriaensens had his first exposure to the FIAT 8V and 8V-powered SIATAs, while helping his brother transport an 8V for a classic car...
Some time ago, Vintage Racecar published ”Absent Friends,” my story of astonishing heroism of another kind. It involved three motor...
Five-time IMSA champion Jim Downing, one of the creators of the HANS Device, is the latest recipient of the Road...
Vintage Racecar is saddened to learn of the passing of one of the founding fathers’ of South African motor sport and British Racing Drivers Club member, Sam Tingle, who died just before Christmas last year. Although synonymous with South Africa, Tingle was, in fact, born in Manchester, England. His racing...
1954 Fiat 8V Zagato If you lived through the ’60s and ’70s, then Sunset Boulevard, in Southern California, likely holds...
A grand American figure in motor racing history has quietly left the scene. After battling Parkinson’s Disease for a decade,...
The Lotus 19 took sports car racing to a whole new level upon its debut in 1960, rendering rivals such as the Cooper Monaco and Maserati Birdcage obsolete overnight and leading photojournalist Pete Biro to label it the “Birdcage Cleaner.” A real “wolf in sheep’s clothing,” it was essentially a...
This is a little-known story, but the real father of Riverside Raceway was Jim Peterson. I thought this would be...
A year or so ago, I wrote here about the number of inquiries I was receiving on my view of...
A primer on in-car video systems for the historic racer. Humans are such visual animals that even when our eyes are closed, some form of imagery usually plays across the big screen of our consciousness as we remember, imagine, or dream of things both real and not. This reality has...
Emerson Fittipaldi has an impish sense of humor and, one day at Brands Hatch, he unloaded it on my poor...