The 2009 Classic Motor Show, NEC, England, broke box office records when it welcomed around 48,000 visitors into its classic...
Quadruple Monte Carlo Rallye winner Walter Röhrl dominated December’s FIA European Rally Championship for Historical Cars event in the Spanish...
The 5th annual Fabulous Fifties Concours d’Provenance at the South Coast Botanical Gardens in the Los Angeles suburb of Palos Verdes once again displayed a wide variety of classic automobiles under classic Southern California sunny skies. John Morton served as the event’s Honorary Chairman, and in that capacity selected Michael...
A few hours before the start of this June’s 24 Hours of Le Mans, everyone in attendance will be treated...
Italian privateer racing driver Gino Munaron has passed away at the age of 81. Munaron was always considered to be...
Duncan Rabagliati, chairman of the Formula Junior Historic Racing Association, has announced the inclusion of Formula Junior in the three events announced by Historic Motorsports Productions for 2010. He views this inclusion as “a real catalyst to keep Formula Junior in the United States as the major historic single-seater formula...
Another of racing’s good guys left us on December 7, when Bill Scott lost his battle with cancer. The man...
RM Auctions concluded its 2009 season on a high note in London, posting £10.9 million in total sales with a...
Under cloudy skies, fortuitously slotted between rain showers, the second Lobethal Grand Carnival opened the historic 8.7-mile Adelaide Hills road racing circuit to a dazzling parade of vintage racing cars and motorcycles. Marking the 70th anniversary of the last and fastest Australian Grand Prix before World War II, 1939 winner...
Billing itself as “the largest selection of vintage racing photos on the Internet,” Dale LaFollette’s Vintage Motorphoto is a resource...
February 2010 The Spirit of Competition By frederick a. Simeone, M.d. Dr. Simeone began collecting cars before he could drive,...
Northamptonshire Countryside, UK September 7–9, 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 partner products....
Autobahn Country Club, Joliet, IL October 9–11, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
Roads of Sicily, Italy October 9–10, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
Autodromo Internacionale do Algarve, Portimao, Portugal October 17–18, 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...
Phoenix Internatoinal Raceway, Phoenix, AZ October 24–25, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
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Still racers, after all these years. That’s what I was thinking as one veteran driver after another mounted the stage and regaled us with stories of his Trans-Am days. Pete Lyons The Trans-Am: It started way back in the mid-‘60s, which means these guys must be, gosh, mumble-mumble years old...
From 1964 to 1978, a series of flat-bottomed, formula cars were manufactured to serve as a stepping stone to Formula...
Bobby Unser François Cevert 1 Al Holbert, Chip Robinson, Derek Bell, and Al Unser Jr. drive the Löwenbrau Porsche 962...
February 2010 Second Coming Photo: Brian Green Dear Editor, In your First Turn column of December 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...
The Ferrari 195 Inter was introduced in 1950 as a roadgoing machine to replace the 166. According to Stanley Nowak...
When asked by my good friend Rick Roso to write a piece on how “to do” one of my favorite...
The Monaco Grand Prix; Monte Carlo, May 10, 1964. Peter Arundell in the second works Lotus leads Richie Ginther’s B.R.M. around Station Hairpin during practice. In the race Ginther finished 2nd and Arundell 3rd. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article...
The Aston Martin DB5 was made famous in the 1964 James Bond film Goldfinger, and from then on it has...
The death of Peter Arundell promptsmemory of a challenge. Formula Junior was once Formula Arundell; he won twice as many...
In 1953, the Rootes Group in England, which had acquired the Sunbeam Company in 1935, produced a handsome sports car, the Sunbeam Alpine. Its styling promised more than it could deliver. With a wheelbase of 97.5 inches and an overall length of 168 inches, it weighed in at almost 3,000 pounds....
I’ve driven many racing cars during my career and, for me, a great racecar has to have exceptional acceleration and...
Both my father and my grandfather had raced, so racing was in my genes. Like most modern drivers my early...
Ken Tyrrell once said that, contrary to what had been written about him, he had no special talent for spotting good racing drivers. “If they’re quick, they’re good,” he growled. So was that all there was to it? Lap times? Whatever it was, he ended up employing the likes of...