It seems that we may have had the last Grand Prix at Silverstone. There was a time when I lived...
Having graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2003, the first classic car Ms Felstead ever painted was at...
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...
George Valerio of Lincoln, California, has been hunting cars for as long as he can remember. Yes, it’s the way...
Fon de Portago Michael Andretti 1 Sarah Fisher, the first woman to compete in the Indy Racing League, is born (1980). 2 The first road races are held through the streets of Watkins Glen, New York. They are also the first post-WWII races held in the United States and the...
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...
Auto Club Speedway, Fontana, CA June 27–28, 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...
Ciircuit de la Sarthe, Le Mans, France June 13, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article...
Virginia International Raceway, Danville, VA June 4–7, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
Oran Park Raceway, Sydney, Australia June 27–28, 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...
Watkins Glen International Speedway, Watkins Glen, NY June 11–14, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article...
Castell’Arquato, Italy June 22–28, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access...
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...
Goodwood, Chichester, UK July 3–5, 2009...
October 2009 Fast Ladies By Jean-Françoise Bouzanquet Women play the most crucial role in human life as mothers of us...
Billing itself as “America’s Largest and most historically important archive of automotive history,” this is the official site of the Kellogg Auto Archives, where Ron Kellogg has assembled a collection of more than a million negatives chronicling nearly a century of automotive activity. It also contains a vast array of...
The Petersen Automotive Museum and Checkered Flag 200, the museum’s premier membership group, will present another gala tribute this November...
Al Unser Jr., David Hobbs, and Les Richter (l to r above) headline the 2009 class of inductees to the...
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,...
VR columnist Mark Brinker was at it again in his 750-cc Deutsch Bonnet HBR-5 during Bonneville Speed Week 2009. This...
Following their highly successful “GT & Sports Car Cup” race series now in its third season, Flavien and Vanessa Marçais...
A new organization, Historic Motorsports Productions, is seeking to raise the game of vintage and historic racing in North America to match its demographic. The group’s three principals—three-time National Champion and 1986 Indy 500 winner Bobby Rahal, Just Marketing founder Zak Brown, and longtime vintage racer and entrepreneur Peter Stoneberg—made...
Richard Petty will serve as the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance Honorary Chairman for 2010. The seven-time NASCAR champion, winner of...
The world may be in an economic downturn, but there wasn’t much sign of that at the 2009 edition of...
1952 Ferrari 225 S While the history of the Ferrari you see here will forever associate it with the great American World Champion Phil Hill, this particular car is much more important for its symbolic significance. In the early 1950s, Enzo Ferrari had his eye on America, and very few...
Once upon a time it was not unusual to find American constructors on Grand Prix entry lists… With February’s announcement...
If there is a single quality that best defines Marc Surer it must be determination. When you consider that he...
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...
