The inspiration behind the concepts and designs of Lister cars came from the pre-war Mercedes racing cars that would today...
Monte Carlo, Monaco January 29–February 3, 2010 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) and the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) have agreed to end their decade-long alliance. A consequent restructuring of ownership and management of both groups has been implemented, and both will now proceed independently to promote their individual identities and unique histories. Both organizations have been in...
A one-of-a-kind BMW 328 will headline RM’s inaugural Sporting Classics of Monaco auction at the Grimaldi Forum in the Principality...
Bob Holden For anyone involved in motor sport within Australia, the name of Bob Holden has been a prominent one...
The Registry devoted to the American-made sports racing cars from Bobsy has been rejuvenated with a new comprehensive website, www.BobsyRegistry.com. The site provides up-to-date information on the many Bobsy cars still in existence, with current and past ownership data supplemented by both photography and narrative documenting these unique racecars, their...
My early days of racing gave very few opportunities, starting with a Sprite I slowly progressed to Formula Ford and...
John Rice produced a series of a dozen watercolor paintings for a show celebrating memorable moments at Watkins Glen, with...
Pete Lyons The year was 1970. The year the ground turned over under America’s greatest sports racing car series. It began in tragedy, and improved little. Bruce McLaren, the sunny New Zealander who had stamped the Canadian-American Challenge Cup Series as his own, and who would have reigned as series...
David Uihlein, founder of the Harry A. Miller Club and a dedicated historian of the Miller marque, passed away January...
May 2010 Near the Lancia Factory; Turin, March 1954. Piero Taruffi seems pleased after a test of the Lancia D24...
Failure is not a friend of many racing drivers, but there is a school of thought that asks: if you can’t laugh at yourself, what good are you? To paraphrase another old saw, it is better to have tried and failed than never to have tried at all. So, it...
After 36 seasons, time seems finally to have caught up with Formula Atlantic. We are saddened to report that the...
The Formula Junior category was introduced in Italy in 1958 by Count Giovanni Lurani, and in 1959 became an International...
Mazda Laguna Seca Raceway, host of the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, has announced that this year’s event, scheduled for August 12–15, will honor one of the true legends of motorsports, Dan Gurney. “We are proud that Dan has accepted our invitation to be our first featured guest at the Rolex...
Octane Racing Group, promoter of the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal, has announced that Historic Grand Prix will provide one...
Moving ahead with its ambitious agenda for advancing vintage racing, Historic Motorsports Productions has named the featured marques for the...
Daytona International, Daytona Beach, FL January 30, 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...
Sebring International Raceway, Sebring, FL December 3–6, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
Eastern Creek International Raceway, Sydney, Australia November 28–29, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (&...
Soon after motor vehicles were invented they were raced. Initially the contests were held on open roads, often from city to city. The very first I have been able to find documented involved two steam-driven tractors chugging between Madison and Green Bay, Wisconsin, on July 16, 1878. The problems of...
Just about everything there is to write has been written about American racing legend Mario Andretti, but we would be...
Gilles Villeneuve Al Unser Jr. 1 Jacky Ickx and Dr. Dick Thompson win the 1000 Km of Spa, Belgium, in a Gulf Mirage-Ford M1 (1967). 2 George Follmer drives a Porsche-powered Lotus 23 to win the under-two-liter class of the USRRC race at Riverside, California. Jim Hall’s Chaparral wins overall...
1934 Riley Nine MPH Le Mans Special If not the dream of everyone with any interest in motor racing, it...
May 2010 The Strasbourg Sunbeams By Neville S. Webb It is amazing that the four Grand Prix Sunbeams built by the factory for the 1922 French Grand Prix at Strasbourg all still exist, and mostly in original form. Equally amazing is this publication by Australian historian Neville Webb into the...
The second annual Put-In-Bay Road Races Reunion has been scheduled for June 28-30 on Ohio’s South Bass Island. The island,...
Porte de Versailles, Paris, France January 22–31, 2010 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
British racing legend Sir Stirling Moss is recuperating after a three-story fall down the elevator shaft in his London home during the first weekend of March. Somehow the doors to the shaft opened on the third floor while the car was still one floor above and Moss, in conversation as...