One of the most successful relationships in motor sports during the sixties was between Carroll Shelby and Ken Miles. It...
New Jersey Motorsports Park, Millville, NJ September 19-20, 2008 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (&...
Autodromo di Monza, Monza, Italy June 5–7, 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...
Fernando Alonso Jim Hall Photo: Keith Booker 1 Nineteen-year-old Vincenzo Lancia, in his first race, drives a Fiat to victory...
Vintage Racecar is saddened to report the death of Tony Maggs. His drive in a Tojeiro-Jaguar at the 1959 North...
October 2009 Headed for his first Grand Prix victory, Nelson Piquet takes his Brabham BT49-Ford over the old “Linden Leap” at the 1980 United States Grand Prix West in Long Beach, California. Piquet qualified on pole and led all the way, taking a big step toward the first of his...
Our South Pacific Editor, Patrick Quinn, recently caught up with ex-British Motor Corporation works driver John Sprinzel in Sydney, while...
Having raced at “Mid-O” in karts and cars since 1964, the track’s site picture is indelibly scribed on the inside...
New race courses keep blinking onto our radar screens, which seems like a good thing until they turn up on...
I have driven numerous racing cars over my 30 years and many eras of motor sport. I drove in several...
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...
Bruce Kessler had a meteoric motorsports career, which started with drag racing his mother’s Jaguar XK120, progressed to practicing for...
Mark Donohue Jean-Pierre Beltoise 2 Juan Pablo Montoya wins the CART Bosch Spark Plug Grand Prix at Nazareth Speedway in...
In early July, HMSA the sanctioning body for the annual Monterey Historic Automobile Races sent an email to all its members informing them that Steve Earle and his company General Racing, Ltd., would no longer be organizing the famed Monterey peninsula event that Earle founded in 1976. HMSA president Cris...
Vince di Pierro knows what he likes. So much so that four years ago he sank more than $100,000 into...
Tony Marsh left nothing to chance during his long motor racing career. Indeed, he tried the whole gamut the sport...
As I follow the recent political soap opera, which has become Formula One, I can’t help but think of the famous quote by George Bernard Shaw, “We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.” In case you’ve missed it (or more likely, lost interest in caring), Formula One...
In 2003, 50 years after Tazio Nuvolari’s death, Arrigo Granola, an employee of the Banca Agricola of Mantua, Italy, tore...
George Valerio of Lincoln, California, has been hunting cars for as long as he can remember. Yes, it’s the way he earns his living, but it is more of an obsession than a vocation. After a few minutes on the telephone, it’s obvious that Valerio finds great joy in unearthing...
Auto Club Speedway, Fontana, CA June 27–28, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
A pair of Bruce McLaren Festival weekends will highlight the seventh season of the MSC New Zealand F5000 Tasman Cup...
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...
Le Circuit Mont Tremblant, Ste. Jovite, Quebec, Canada July 10–12, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This...
VR columnist Mark Brinker was at it again in his 750-cc Deutsch Bonnet HBR-5 during Bonneville Speed Week 2009. This...
When you first meet Walt MacKay, you are struck by what a quiet, modest man he is. Currently, he runs a shop repairing, restoring, and preparing vintage racecars, usually Porsches. Once you dig a little deeper into his background, however, you find a more than merely competent racecar driver, one...
Adelaide, South Australia November 19–23, 2008 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More)...
I have been asked, a number of times, which branch of motor sport I enjoyed the most: driving, management, or...
The story of Chet Herbert is pure inspiration. Afflicted with polio at age 20, Herbert spent his life building a string of record-smashers from his wheelchair…and apparently he thought nothing special of it. Following WWII, Herbert opened the doors to his speed shop, grinding some of the finest camshafts that...