With the holiday season hard upon us once again, we thought it would be a good idea to take a...
The 2010 Tour Britannia had a small but very competitive entry in both the regularity and competition sections, the former...
My motor racing career started with the most basic form of car, a 1952 Ford Anglia E93A, which I towed to stock car meetings at a track near my home in Dublin City, Ireland. I crashed it, bashed it, took it home after the race and fixed it, so I...
April 2011 Out of the Shadows By Roger Lane In the late 1960s, by a chance meeting, Roger Lane was...
Like most racing drivers, I’ve driven many cars in my career, choosing just one as a greatest racecar is an...
HSCC unveils 2-liter sports-racing car series The golden era of 2-liter sports racing cars in the 1970s will be brought back to life next season by a new series of races run by the Historic Sports Car Club. The initiative, which will take in four or five events in the...
“My name is Casey; and I’m a recovering Triumph owner.” Or at least that’s how I’ve felt for a number...
Donington Park in the English Midlands, the historic site of 1930s Grands Prix, has once again echoed to the sound...
Cholmondeley Castle, Cheshire/UK July 17–18, 2010 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 partner products....
David Wishart Hobbs was born into an Australian immigrant family in the British West Midlands city of Leamington Spa, five...
The Canadian American Challenge Cup was co-sanctioned by the SCCA and CASC—it was a series nicknamed the “unlimited” series. Although...
Harry A. Miller Bobby Allison 1 Dan Gurney drives a Weslake Ford-powered Eagle to victory in the USAC Championship race at Riverside, California (1968). 3 NASCAR legend Bobby Allison is born (1937). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full...
The man who facilitated Danny Sullivan’s rise to motor racing stardom has died of cancer at his home in Milan,...
USAC Road Racing Fades as the SCCA Overcomes Its Aversion to Racing for Money When we left the USAC road...
Schenley Park, Pittsburgh, PA July 24–25, 2010 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 partner...
MG tradition continued at Watkins Glen this past September with SVRA’s 26th running of the historic “Vintage Collier Cup” all-MG...
By almost anyone’s measure, one of the things that made the Golden Era golden was the Canadian-American Challenge Cup or...
December 2010 Driving his unique Zerex Special, a converted Cooper Formula One car, Roger Penske was a force in sports car racing in the USA and England during the early 1960s. He’s seen here, with the by then John Mecom-owned car in its later two-seater configuration, winning at Brands Hatch in...
In 1958, former Huntington Park High School friends Larry Kent and Ray Weaver decided to take a shot at the...
One year ago, our Hidden Treasures column by Mark Brinker featured a well-preserved Bonneville Streamliner, the Beast III, that had...
It exploded at me around a blind embankment, big truck, top-heavy, heeling as it hurtled downhill. What its driver saw, way down under his bluff bow, was my little white Volvo 122S hustling uphill just as hard. Obviously, both of us were enthusiasts caught up in the joyous rhythm of...
Steve Davis has emerged as the overall champion of the 2010 F5000 Revival Race Series on the strength of taking...
Twenty-five years ago, a company called Amstrad launched an inexpensive word processor. The package was crude, each three-inch disk held...
Autobahn Country Club, Joliet, IL July 24–25, 2010 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...
Racemaker Press, The Winners Book • US$65 plus shipping and handling Noted racing historian James O’Keefe has compiled an incredible...
Unlike those of Jim Clark, Mario Andretti and Michael Schumacher, not a name at the forefront of all our minds....
1971 Alfa Romeo GTV Trans-Am If you ask any pre-teenage boy what a transformer is, he’ll tell you it is either a hugely successful toy, or more specifically, an ordinary car that “transforms” into a larger-than-life fighting machine. In the case of this month’s featured profile car, both definitions would...
Shelsley Walsh, Worcestershire/UK August 21–22, 2010 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More)...
Donington Park, Castle Donington/UK September 3–5, 2010 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 partner...