I’ve driven many types of cars, Indycars, NASCAR, Sprint Cars, the whole bit; I started at the old Devil’s Bowl...
Watkins Glen International Speedway, Watkins Glen, NY June 11–14, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article...
Richard Petty will serve as the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance Honorary Chairman for 2010. The seven-time NASCAR champion, winner of 200 races, including a record 7 Daytona 500s, will be helping “The Amelia” celebrate its 15th anniversary. In a world of standout competitors, Petty is widely considered the greatest NASCAR...
Bruce Kessler had a meteoric motorsports career, which started with drag racing his mother’s Jaguar XK120, progressed to practicing for...
Call me a jinx if you like. No sooner did I put the finishing touches on last month’s column about...
Following their highly successful “GT & Sports Car Cup” race series now in its third season, Flavien and Vanessa Marçais...
George Valerio of Lincoln, California, has been hunting cars for as long as he can remember. Yes, it’s the way...
The MG Vintage Racers celebrated their annual “Focus Event” during SVRA’s Heacock Classic Gold Cup race at Virginia International Raceway, June 5–7. Despite the depressed economy, an impressive 66 MG racers—ranging from Prewar MGs to MGB-GT-V8s—showed up to have a go. The weekend featured two special races, Saturday’s MG–Morgan Challenge,...
October 2009 Fast Ladies By Jean-Françoise Bouzanquet Women play the most crucial role in human life as mothers of us...
Goodwood, Chichester, UK July 3–5, 2009...
Virginia International Raceway, Danville, VA June 4–7, 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...
Billing itself as “America’s Largest and most historically important archive of automotive history,” this is the official site of the...
Autodromo di Monza, Monza, Italy June 5–7, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
The Petersen Automotive Museum and Checkered Flag 200, the museum’s premier membership group, will present another gala tribute this November in honor of the SCCA’s Trans-American Sedan Championship. “Tribute to Trans-Am” will take place November 12, beginning with a 6:00 p.m. cocktail reception, followed by dinner. Also scheduled is a...
My father, Tom Bamford, first got involved in motor sport in his late teens when he bought an Ariel motorcycle...
1933 Alfa-Cadillac “Keenan Wynn Special” Looks like an Alfa…but looks can be deceiving. The “Keenan Wynn Special” stretches its legs...
The 7th running of the fall races at Watkins Glen, N.Y., was held at the Interim Course, a 4.6-mile, 9-turn circuit on public roads, up the hill from the village, in Dix Township—the second year for that course. People would later call it “the course on the hill.” It was...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man pursued his passion for speed and technology by building cars for competition....
Losing a child is one of the harshest agonies of life, and even people who don’t personally know John and...
The world may be in an economic downturn, but there wasn’t much sign of that at the 2009 edition of the Festival of Speed “garden party” held in the grounds of Goodwood House in West Sussex. Sponsors may have tightened their belts, but the paying public had prebooked in record...
Fon de Portago Michael Andretti 1 Sarah Fisher, the first woman to compete in the Indy Racing League, is born...
A new organization, Historic Motorsports Productions, is seeking to raise the game of vintage and historic racing in North America...
VR columnist Mark Brinker was at it again in his 750-cc Deutsch Bonnet HBR-5 during Bonneville Speed Week 2009. This year Team BoneEvil started the meet with several unexpected mechanical problems including a damaged gas tank, a broken carburetor jet, a dead engine timing gun and major gearbox problems. Chief...
Ciircuit de la Sarthe, Le Mans, France June 13, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article...
Having graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2003, the first classic car Ms Felstead ever painted was at...
Al Unser Jr., David Hobbs, and Les Richter (l to r above) headline the 2009 class of inductees to the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America during the Hall’s annual August induction ceremonies at the Fillmore Theater in Detroit. Unser, a two-time winner of both the Indy 500 and the...
As everyone knows, after the 1960 racing season, Carroll Shelby retired as a driver and became even better known for...
Castell’Arquato, Italy June 22–28, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access...
Enzo Ferrari telephoned his driver Peter Collins before the 1956 Grand Prix of Italy for one of “those” conversations. The Great Man said he would not ask Peter to give up his chance of winning the year’s Formula One World Championship in favor of Fangio, but he wanted to know...