April 2009 OttoVú By Tony Adriaensens While I have said it before, thank God for obsessive enthusiasts—they always produce the...
This is a little-known story, but the real father of Riverside Raceway was Jim Peterson. I thought this would be...
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...
Emerson Fittipaldi has an impish sense of humor and, one day at Brands Hatch, he unloaded it on my poor...
Bill Milliken has had an interesting life. As an engineer in both the aviation industry and later consultant to the...
A 30-year reunion of the participants and fans of what is believed to be the only “Dead Heat” in Road America history is planned for the 2009 June Sprints weekend at the historic Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, track. In 1979, at the end of what could be called a decade of...
1954 Fiat 8V Zagato If you lived through the ’60s and ’70s, then Sunset Boulevard, in Southern California, likely holds...
The son of eminent sculptor Jacob Epstein, Jackie was born in 1934 into an unorthodox family. The offspring of an...
Porsche’s new museum, recently opened at corporate headquarters in Stuttgart, promotes the “Porsche idea” with a trip back in time through the company’s six-decade history to nurture the thought that Porsche cars do not grow old, but instead become classics. The actual Exhibition Area is contained within an architecturally daring...
Much like the animal it was named for, the precise origin of the Unicorn H-Modified sports racer remains a mystery....
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...
Some time ago, Vintage Racecar published ”Absent Friends,” my story of astonishing heroism of another kind. It involved three motor...
April 2009 The Dutch Grand Prix; Zandvoort, July 18, 1965. John Surtees during practice with the Ferrari 158/63 at Tarzan...
Carlos Sainz Al Unser Jr. 2 Three-time Formula One World Champion Jack Brabham is born (1926). 3 Pierro Taruffi drives a Ferrari Tipo 118 to victory in the 671-mile Tour of Sicily (1955). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the...
The Lotus 19 took sports car racing to a whole new level upon its debut in 1960, rendering rivals such...
A grand American figure in motor racing history has quietly left the scene. After battling Parkinson’s Disease for a decade, Teddy Mayer, cofounder of Team McLaren, passed away unexpectedly as he slept at his English home in late January at the age of 73. Born Edward Everett Mayer in Scranton,...
This painting depicts Mike Hawthorn, winner of the 1954 Spanish Grand Prix at Pedralbes, Barcelona, in the Ferrari 553 “Squalo”...
When Formula Junior came to the UK shores, to replace the now out-dated 500-cc Formula Three racing, I felt that it was time to build a single-seater chassis for myself. It was at the same time I had decided to leave my £18-a-week job at Rotax and set up my...
Five-time IMSA champion Jim Downing, one of the creators of the HANS Device, is the latest recipient of the Road...
Created by a quartet of members from the Binghamton Automobile Racing Club, this site bills itself as a repository for...
What started as an April Fool’s joke on a long defunct track, ended up becoming an interesting insight into fear and commitment. Below, Barber’s most wizened instructor, Bruce MacInnes, explains that it took more than talent to be fast at a place like Bridgehampton. While America’s most challenging racetrack is...
A year or so ago, I wrote here about the number of inquiries I was receiving on my view of...
Vintage Racecar is saddened to learn of the passing of one of the founding fathers’ of South African motor sport...
To mark the 100th anniversary of its construction in 1909 and its first 500-mile race in 1911, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway has planned a seemingly endless array of worthy commemoration events, beginning in March when the first of an ongoing series of “Grounds Tours” will be available to the general...
A primer on in-car video systems for the historic racer. Humans are such visual animals that even when our eyes...