New Jersey Motorsports Park, Millville, NJ September 18–20, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
Hand carved from mahogany, the Ford GT-40 shown above measures 13 inches long, 5 inches wide, and 3 inches tall, and has nearly 760 hours of time invested in it, from preliminary research to final sanding of the finished project. Similar statistics apply to the Porsche 917 as well. All...
When drivers are asked about their greatest racecar, many look at cars that have won races or given them great...
1934 MG K3 Magnette It was one of those little stories that stays with you. The first all-historic motor racing meeting...
Racing’s fabled “Pink Lady,” Donna Mae Mims, the first woman to win an SCCA National Championship, has passed away at the age of 82 from complications of a stroke. True to her flamboyant form, and according to her wishes, her body was presented for visitation at the funeral home seated...
Michele Alboreto Photo: Maureen Magee Emerson Fittipaldi Photo: Keith Booker 1 Scuderia Ferrari is formed (1929). 3 Wendell Scott, the...
October 17–18 brought a trip back in time for some of Britain’s F3 stars of the late 1960s and early...
The Circuit at Grand Bayou near Donaldsville, Louisiana, has opened as the Gulf South’s only Motorsport Resort and Country Club. Located about an hour from New Orleans International Airport, the current 14-turn, 1.8-mile track hosts the Gulf Coast Racing Series, and is positioned to draw racers, racing schools, and corporate...
Citing the still-fragile state of the U.S. economy, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway has announced that its Centennial Era Concours d’Elegance...
New Jersey Motorsports Park, Millville, NJ September 18–20, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (&...
The Jaguar D-Type that won the Reims 12-hour race in 1956 with Duncan Hamilton and Ivor Bueb driving, made a historic return to the famed French circuit for this year’s L’Excellence Automobile de Reims, receiving a warm welcome from the nearly 40,000 on hand at the event. It was joined...
Holiday Gift Guide 2009 Oyster Perpetual Datejust II $7,525 41mm, stainless steel case, 18kt white gold fluted bezel, 31 jewel...
Dr. Elio Zagato passed away in Milan, Italy, on September 15. The son of Ugo Zagato, founder of the famed...
December 2009 Italian Monster Dear Editor, Beautiful job with the Cad-Alfa (also loved the Watkins Glen story and Kessler interview). The three Torrey Pines photos were all taken at the July meet, not the December ’52 one, which I know not only because I took one of them, but because...
Watkins Glen International, Watkins Glen, NY September 10–13, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (&...
“Once upon a time”— is the way most children’s fairytales start, but this is no French fairytale. Although it is...
December 2009 Prince Bira of Siam was an excellent prewar amateur driver who could often give the professionals a run for their money. Here he enthusiastically corners his E.R.A. during the Crystal Palace Cup race on July 1, 1939. He won the first heat but had to settle for 3rd...
Murwillumbah Sprint Circuit, NSW, Australia September 5–6, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
Breaking with the tradition that awards the Vintage Collier Cup to an MG racer selected by a vote of his...
In the days before data logging transformed our sport into a science, the judge of all things was the simple stopwatch. This meant that the men in the cockpits could still make a difference in the performance of their cars, and George Follmer was one of those men. The Phoenix-born...
Road America, Elkhart Lake, WI September 11–13, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
New race courses keep blinking onto our radar screens, which seems like a good thing until they turn up on...
Even before the start, the pole-setting car was out of the race. In qualifying for the September 5th Woodcote Trophy race at Donington, Spencer Marsh’s Jaguar D-type would have taken pole position by one-hundredth of a second from Tony Dron in Ben Eastick’s D-type, were it not for an expensive...
Nelson Ledges is a fun, fast and reasonably flat racetrack in northeast Ohio, originally raced as a dirt road course...
December 2009 Ferrari 312P & 312PB By Ed McDonough and Peter Collins Billed as “the story of a great car...
Pentti Airikkala, one of the famed “Flying Finns” of Scandinavian and then worldwide rally fame, died in Berkshire, England, at age 64 after a long battle with cancer from which he had bounced back in his exuberant fashion. The Helsinki native competed in 36 World Rally Championship events over four...
There has been much rejoicing over the return to F1 next year of Team Lotus and I cannot understand what...
The second annual Legends of Riverside racing reunion and film festival has named Carroll Shelby as its special guest of...
George Follmer, the subject of this month’s VR Interview (page 30), was inducted into the Watkins Glen Drivers Walk of Fame during ceremonies at the International Motor Racing Research Center in early October. The Walk of Fame is a project of the Watkins Glen Historic Committee, sponsored by the Research...