Aiming to build on the foundation of a successful inaugural, the second Legends of Riverside event has been scheduled for...
Once upon a time it was not unusual to find American constructors on Grand Prix entry lists… With February’s announcement...
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...
New Jersey Motorsports Park, Millville, NJ May 29–30, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (&...
Ever wonder what it must’ve been like way back when during those early shade-tree mechanic days when racers would vanish...
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...
The Automobile Club de Monaco has announced that the seventh Grand Prix Monaco Historique has been scheduled for May 8–9,...
Luigi Chinetti’s iconic North American Racing Team—represented by Luigi Chinetti Jr.—and several of its legendary drivers, including Sam Posey and...
It is well known that some great stock car road racing took place at the Riverside International Raceway. Dan Gurney enhanced his record as an all-around champion there. Some assume that post-WWII stock car road racing started at Riverside, but that’s not true. There were five stock car events on...
Prescott Speed Hillclimb, Cheltenham, UK May 23–24, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
George Follmer Willy Mairesse 2 Belgian Formula One and sports car racer Willy Mairesse commits suicide (1969). 4 Arturo Merzario...
Vintage Racecar was stunned to learn of the tragic death of Henry Surtees while he was competing in Round 4 of the FIA Formula Two Championship at Brands Hatch, England. The accident happened, on Sunday, July 19th, midway through race 2 when he was struck by an errant wheel from...
Pete Lyons How do you stop a racing runaway? Well, you might try throwing more races in its way. Ending...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seat racing cars built to a specific set of rules and powered by American production-line V-8 engines of 5-liter displacement. It started as a bright idea in 1967 and ran successfully until politics among the governing body, race organizers, and team owners...
The famous Jaguar museum in Coventry, England, has been re-launched. This follows the renaming of the Trust that owns it...
Having raced at “Mid-O” in karts and cars since 1964, the track’s site picture is indelibly scribed on the inside...
People have often expressed surprise that the Indianapolis 500 was included in the World Championship, between 1950 and 1960. For the first two years of the series it made sense, because both formulae allowed engines of 4,500-cc. After 1951, it made no sense at all, but the 500 was included...
September 2009 Mark Donohue: Technical Excellence at Speed By Michael Argetsinger The difficulty in chronicling a career as diverse as...
The best cars I ever drove were the John Player Special, which gave me the 1972 Formula One World Championship,...
John Watson was one of those rare beasts: an Irish Grand Prix winner. It was a feat pulled off by the number of his countrymen you could count on the fingers of one hand, and when you add to the equation the fact that he was also a successful world...
Peter Arundell showed promise right from the start of his career, finishing 2nd with his MG TC at a BARC...
My career, like many people, started in Formula Ford, in 1971, before progressing to Formula Italy, and on to Formula 3—a championship I stayed in for about four or five years. Formula Three was a good experience for me and my team, Euroracing. In 1977 we won the European F3...
As I follow the recent political soap opera, which has become Formula One, I can’t help but think of the...
The grounds around Cholmondeley Castle, Cheshire, England, were alive to the sound of horsepower! On land, water, and in the...
Sir Stirling Moss scored the first of his three Monaco Grand Prix wins in 1956 with this Maserati 250F, nipping ahead of rival Juan Manuel Fangio’s Ferrari on the opening lap and staying out front the rest of the way. During his pursuit of the leader, Fangio later bent his...
The helmet and goggles worn by Sir Stirling Moss when he won the 1957 British Grand Prix, Aintree, assisted by...
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