Sergio Scaglietti celebrated his 90th birthday on January 9, and at his party received a special gift from Piero Ferrari,...
Japan Tobacco International (JTI) has donated the freehold of the 30-acre Brooklands Museum site in Weybridge to the Museum’s governing...
Despite a still-recessionary economic climate, the annual International Racing Car Show in Birmingham, UK, celebrated it’s 20th Anniversary in a positive mood. The heady days of lavish opulence have hit hard times everywhere, and while it has to be said that the show is but a shadow of its former...
April 2010 The 14th Grand Prix of 24 Hours of Belgium; Spa-Francorchamps, July 10–11, 1949. Just two weeks after Le...
The man who is perhaps the best American endurance racer of all time has hung up his helmet—professionally, anyway. Hurley...
In the February 2010 edition of Vintage Racecar, editor Casey Annis reported that a concours d’provenance had been held in Palos Verdes, a suburb of Los Angeles. When I read it, I thought many of you might wonder what in the world is a concours d’provenance. We all know what...
It’s been a long time coming, but Crystal Palace will once again play host to a national motorsport event with...
As enthusiasts and students of racing history, we have a natural tendency to idolize, if not deify, the great men...
The Road Racing Drivers Club has chosen Monterey Historics founder Steve Earle as the recipient of its Bob Akin Award, and named former SCCA President and current FIA Senate President Nick Craw to receive the Phil Hill Award. These awards are presented at the club’s annual dinner prior to the...
In what is believed to be one of the few one-make series in historic racing, Masters Historic Racing has launched...
This is the story of four Reuters, blood relatives… but not necessarily to each other. It’s also the story of...
My love of motorsport is more a love of speed rather than racing, although it could be considered as a race against time. When I was a boy, John Cobb made a significant impression on me, it was the clever things about the man himself that so attracted me. Not...
Dario Resta competed in the first race ever held on Britain’s hallowed Brooklands circuit on July 6, 1907, and died...
You never know where interesting collections of rare photos will turn up. While cruising through the Desert Centre Triumph Register of America’s web site, we stumbled across this fascinating treasure trove of over 1,500 photographs taken in the early 1960s. Subject matter spans everything from local SCCA road races to...
Motor sport anniversaries and centenaries seem to have filled the calendar in the last few years, and as our sport...
Cars of the Donald Healey Motor Company have developed an enthusiastic following the world over. The first Healey cars were bespoke vehicles available with standard body styles or available to be clad with the bodywork of your choice, until a 1952 joining with the British Motor Corporation led to the...
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motor sports: the...
April 2010 Racing for Mercedes-Benz By Hartmut Lehbrink With the re-entry of Mercedes-Benz into Grand Prix racing as a factory...
I think it was in 1957 that I saw Fangio race at Silverstone, it was a catalyst for me to get interested in motor racing and think of how I could design a racing car. I was always, and still am, fascinated by the technicalities of racing car design and...
Jochen Rindt Henri Pescarolo 2 Guy Moll wins the Monaco Grand Prix in an Alfa Romeo (1934). 3 Ronnie Peterson drives a March 722 to victory in the European F2 Championship race at Thruxton, England (1972). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More)...
Mike Earle started his career with Derek Bell and Church Farm Racing. Over the years he has had a hand...
Sixty years ago, an American sportsman built his own cars to tackle the world’s greatest endurance race Many in America...
Robert Donner Jr., whose interest in cars began as a toddler while his father was an Auburn, Cord, and Duesenberg dealer in northern New York, passed away on January 13. It was after his family moved to Colorado that Donner got his first taste of road racing, driving his father’s...