Infineon Raceway, Sonoma, CA May 29–30, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seat racing cars built to a specific set of rules and powered...
Peter Arundell showed promise right from the start of his career, finishing 2nd with his MG TC at a BARC event at Goodwood in 1957. His second year of racing was filled with success competing in many events in a Lotus 11, a marque that would play a pivotal part...
1952 Ferrari 225 S While the history of the Ferrari you see here will forever associate it with the great...
Luigi Chinetti’s iconic North American Racing Team—represented by Luigi Chinetti Jr.—and several of its legendary drivers, including Sam Posey and Denise McCluggage, will be honored at the Saratoga Wine & Food and Fall Ferrari Festival, presented by the Saratoga Automobile Museum and Saratoga Performing Arts Center in the scenic Saratoga...
People have often expressed surprise that the Indianapolis 500 was included in the World Championship, between 1950 and 1960. For...
If there is a single quality that best defines Marc Surer it must be determination. When you consider that he...
They linger in legend long after the last echoes of Offenhauser exhaust faded into the breeze blowing across the hallowed grounds of Italy’s Autodromo di Monza. They sprang from a desire to bring the European road racing establishment and the dreaded American oval-trackers together for 500 miles at Monza, in...
Vintage Racecar was stunned to learn of the tragic death of Henry Surtees while he was competing in Round 4...
John Watson was one of those rare beasts: an Irish Grand Prix winner. It was a feat pulled off by...
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...
It is well known that some great stock car road racing took place at the Riverside International Raceway. Dan Gurney...
Having raced at “Mid-O” in karts and cars since 1964, the track’s site picture is indelibly scribed on the inside...
September 2009 Mark Donohue: Technical Excellence at Speed By Michael Argetsinger The difficulty in chronicling a career as diverse as Mark Donohue’s is that there are so many tales to tell it becomes difficult to know, as Bob Seger says, “what to leave in, what to leave out.” Become a...
Prescott Speed Hillclimb, Cheltenham, UK May 23–24, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Indianapolis, IN May 29, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
Lime Rock Park, Lime Rock, CT May 22–23, 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...
George Follmer Willy Mairesse 2 Belgian Formula One and sports car racer Willy Mairesse commits suicide (1969). 4 Arturo Merzario...
The famous Jaguar museum in Coventry, England, has been re-launched. This follows the renaming of the Trust that owns it...
The helmet and goggles worn by Sir Stirling Moss when he won the 1957 British Grand Prix, Aintree, assisted by Tony Brooks, are to be the centerpiece of the memorabilia section of the Bonhams Auction at the Goodwood Revival, in September. Since that historic day, when Moss took the checkered...
Pete Lyons How do you stop a racing runaway? Well, you might try throwing more races in its way. Ending...
Aiming to build on the foundation of a successful inaugural, the second Legends of Riverside event has been scheduled for...
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...
The best cars I ever drove were the John Player Special, which gave me the 1972 Formula One World Championship,...
New Jersey Motorsports Park, Millville, NJ May 29–30, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (&...
The Automobile Club de Monaco has announced that the seventh Grand Prix Monaco Historique has been scheduled for May 8–9, 2010. The event will precede the 68th Grand Prix de Monaco by two weeks in order to allow both groups ample time to access the paddock area of the circuit...
The grounds around Cholmondeley Castle, Cheshire, England, were alive to the sound of horsepower! On land, water, and in the...
Ever wonder what it must’ve been like way back when during those early shade-tree mechanic days when racers would vanish...
September 2009 Led away from the start by Graham Hill’s Rondel Racing Brabham BT36, the field for the August 30, 1971, Rothmans International Trophy Race for Formula 2 at Brands Hatch charges into Paddock Bend. Hill would eventually finish 2nd to Ronnie Peterson’s victorious March 712M. Photo courtesy of: THE...