Ritz Carlton, Amelia Island, Florida March 13-15, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
In my book Vintage American Road Racing Cars, I wrote, “Of all the Kurtis road racing cars, the 500X is...
No one reveres their heroes like the Brits (well, maybe the Italians). Whether it’s a perpetual race winner like Stirling Moss, an intrepid explorer like Ernest Shackleton, or a political icon like Winston Churchill, true British, full-frontal, hero-dom is a level of reverence bordering on the fanatical—or perhaps the divine....
The 14th annual Concours d’Elegance at Amelia Island drew an estimated 20,000 onlookers to the fairways of the Ritz Carlton...
Arthur Francis Riley, endurance-race driver, and owner of Art Riley Motors in Port Washington, N.Y., for a quarter of a...
Albert Park, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia March 28-29, 2009 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...
I’ve always liked Blackhawk Farms Raceway, a track not everybody knows about. It’s in Illinois, right on the border with...
Phoenix, Arizona April 4-8, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access...
Infineon Raceway, Sonoma, California April 3-5, 2009 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...
London to Edinburgh, UK March 27-28, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
The Eagle Formula Ford that I won the SCCA Runoffs with in 1978 was a car I was involved with...
Formula Ford was a specification racing series created around the idea that the best drivers would win if all were racing identical cars. The idea for this low-budget Formula was created by an Englishman named Geoffrey Clarke, who had a drivers school called Motor Racing Stables based at the Brands...
With the 12th annual Goodwood Revival set for September 18–20, the organizers are planning to celebrate a pair of prominent...
1958 Jaguar 3.4 Saloon An unused flying boat base from WWII provided the “test track” where our man Quinn tried...
Two months before the end of WWII, an American P-51 Mustang was shot down over Germany. The pilot was Captain John Fitch and he spent the rest of the war as a POW. Ten years later, that same John Fitch teamed up with a German co-driver to drive a German...
Donington Park, Castle Donington, UK April 5, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
Fernando Alonso Jim Hall Photo: Keith Booker 1 Nineteen-year-old Vincenzo Lancia, in his first race, drives a Fiat to victory...
In looking for some Formula 5000 video, we recently stumbled across this fantastic piece of a documentary on YouTube that was mistakenly labeled. This 3-minute video segment features racing legend Frank Gardner taking the viewer on a lap of Oulton Park, in 1973. The quality of the video is excellent...
The familiar trademark Marlboro Stetson was bobbing about in the pit lane at the Mores circuit in Sardinia, Italy, in...
Two events, one forever unforgettable, the other somewhat less memorable, shared the same Sunday, 40 years ago. Heading up the main straight hill to start Heat 2, Cannon and Eaton occupy the front row, with Gethin alongside Adamowicz on the second. Photo: Pete Lyons / www.petelyons.com The Sixties was a decade...
Pete Lyons Take something for granted, and we risk having it ripped away. For me, foolish me, Peter Bryant was...
July 2009 The Rodriguez Brothers By Carlos Eduardo Jalife-Villalón In the early 1950s, two young Mexican brothers, Pedro and Ricardo...
Like many other sports during WWII, automobile racing experienced a hiatus. Soon thereafter, however, competition resumed. The Formula One World Championship series was initiated in 1950 and became the ultimate goal for both drivers and constructors. At the same time, Southern California became a hotbed of the car craze. Road...
It may be hard to imagine, but some vintage events are now becoming vintage themselves, and SVRA’s vintage Collier Cup...
The Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum in Philadelphia has been holding a series of “Demonstration Days,” at noon on the fourth Saturday of each month, with the program running through October. Each individual event features two or more racing sports cars from the Museum’s collection, making it one of the few...
Autosport Three Hours; Snetterton, 1963 At the Autosport Three Hours race held at Snetterton on September 28, 1963, South African driver...
A hardy group owning 32 cars made the sojourn to Albert Park in Melbourne, Australia, for the running of the...
It’s been 21 years since the last race was run at Riverside International Raceway in California, the historic venue succumbing soon thereafter to the urban sprawl that has blighted most of Southern California. In recent years, however, local resident Doug Magnon has opened the Riverside International Automotive Museum to celebrate...