With Porsche as the featured marque for the 36th Monterey Historic Automobile Races, attendees were treated to a broad variety...
Glorious weather blessed the 60th Anniversary Bentley Drivers Club weekend at Silverstone on August 8-9, a meeting first held in...
The latest incarnation of the Silverstone Classic took place around the full Grand Prix circuit on the weekend of July 24–26, 2009. This event was once the leading historic motor sport gathering in Europe, and in recent years a succession of promoters have made brave attempts to revive former glories....
Several record-breaking sales of racing cars were made during the auction activities surrounding Monterey Auto Week 2009. Topping the list...
Perhaps best known from his time as Competitions Manager of the British Motor Corporation, Marcus Chambers died in early August...
Among the special awards presented at August’s 59th Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance was the Gran Turismo Award taken by the William H. Lyon’s 1965 Alfa Romeo TZ2 Zagato Competition Berlinetta. As a result, this TZ2 will race again, and often, on virtual racetracks worldwide. It will be scanned in high...
Australian racing legend Frank Gardner died on August 29 after a long illness. He was 78. Gardner was not only...
A pair of Bruce McLaren Festival weekends will highlight the seventh season of the MSC New Zealand F5000 Tasman Cup...
In 2003, 50 years after Tazio Nuvolari’s death, Arrigo Granola, an employee of the Banca Agricola of Mantua, Italy, tore himself away from the rigors of banking to sort out a stack of battered old cardboard boxes the racing driver had left in his will to the town’s automobile club,...
With 2009 marking the 87th running of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, it is the second oldest motor race...
While we don’t necessarily want to become a facilitator for YouTube, even if the company does appear to be investing...
November 2009 Quixx Plexiglas & Acrylic Scratch Remover As any racer knows, scratches are an inevitable part of racing. In particular, Plexiglas windscreens, windows, and headlight covers take a real beating, and unlike glass, they can’t be cleaned with chemicals like Windex. Likewise, gel-coated fiberglass surfaces take an equal beating,...
Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, Monterey, CA August 14-16, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (&...
Brands Hatch, Kent, U.K. July 4–5, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
The Milwaukee Mile, West Allis, Wisconsin July 10–11, 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...
Le Circuit Mont Tremblant, Ste. Jovite, Quebec, Canada July 10–12, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This...
Portland Int’l Raceway, Portland, Oregon July 10–12, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
Schenley Park, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania July 18–19, 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...
I’ve had a dream, one of the rare ones I remember clearly and can’t stop thinking about. That must mean...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete born of his passion for speed and technology....
Peter Collins Jacques Lafitte Photo: Mike Jiggle 5 Grand Prix and Le Mans winner Louis Rosier is born in Chapdes-Beaufort, France (1905). 6 English Formula One racer Peter Collins is born (1931). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full...
The lunacy of automotive collecting has no bounds. My personal journey has taken me from Italian coach-builts to vintage racecars...
It was 25 years ago that I started my racing career at what is now known as New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Back then it was Bryar Motorsports Park, a 1.6-mile, 10-turn, hilly, banked, curvy, busy, physically demanding, extremely fun little racetrack. It was a horribly run-down facility, but the racetrack...
November 2009 During the German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring on August 4, 1957, Ferrari driver Luigi Musso brakes for...
This exquisitely done painting depicts Juan Manuel Fangio, the five-time Formula One World Champion, finishing 5th in the 1956 Mille...
Over the years, I have assembled a fairly large library. In the event of a fire, the cost of replacing the books would be more than the cost of rebuilding my house, as an insurance agent pointed out when refusing me cover. They would not insure my house; they would...
My column in the October 2006 edition of Vintage Racecar was titled, “Shelby, the Early Years.” For the most part,...
During my motor racing career, which started in 1974 at the tender age of 10, I’ve driven most forms of...
Following my initial foray into motor racing, I soon found I needed money, money, and more money. There were many false dawns with many teams, including Lotus. I did the Temparada series with Emerson Fittipaldi; the promise was, if Emerson did well, he would end up with a lot of...