For as long as he can remember, Mel Jacobs of Houston, Texas has been love-struck by the coach-built Deco cars...
What a question! It’s all so difficult because I’ve driven many varied cars across several eras of racing. Technology and...
In the youth of our racing enthusiasm, we tend to think obituaries are for drivers. We don’t foresee, or at...
1972 Lotus 72D and 1986 Lotus 98T Emerson Fittipaldi drove Lotus 72 chassis 72/5 in no less than 39 races...
As one of our two Profile cars come to us courtesy of Clive Chapman’s Classic Team Lotus, we thought it might be appropriate to make readers aware of the organization’s web site. Dedicated to the preservation and promotion of the history of Team Lotus, the site offers aficionados of the...
The Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal rejoined the FIA’s World Championship for Formula One calendar this year after a one-year...
It is always amazing when I get a chance to drive some of the cars I raced many years ago....
October 2010 At the sports car races in Palm Springs on the first weekend of December, 1955, Tony Parravano (third from left) looks at Carroll Shelby who’s seated in Parravano’s Ferrari 375 Plus before a practice session. Parravano was known as “Saturday Night Tony” because he often wouldn’t bother to...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
Goodwood, Chichetser, UK July 2–4, 2010 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More)...
Viva Veloce! was an apt slogan for the 18th Goodwood Festival of Speed on the first weekend of July as Italian cars were featured in virtually all classes of pre and post-war machinery, and the 100th anniversary of Alfa Romeo was the centerpiece of this year’s spectacle. An Alfa Romeo...
Wisconsin State Fairgrounds, Milwaukee, WI July 9–10, 2010 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
Portland International Raceway, Portland, OR July 9–11, 2010 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
The Historic Sports Car Club is targeting the 1600-cc Formula 3 cars of the early 1970s for a revival in 2011. Although the 1600-cc Formula 3 era was relatively short-lived, running for just three seasons, it was a time when many future Grand Prix stars were making their name in...
Brands Hatch, Kent, UK July 3–4, 2010 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
Five years after HSR-West staged its first Palm Springs Revival at the Indio, California, airport, the second such event will...
Looking Back on a Brilliant Career… One Photographer’s Personal Recollections of the Most Successful American Endurance Racer of All Time This photo montage shows (clockwise from bottom) Haywood in Bruce Leven’s Porsche 956, at Porsche-palooza in 1981, all smiles after his third victory at Le Mans in 1994, and celebrating...
The Alfa Romeo museum at Arese, on the outskirts of Milan, Italy, has been placed under official supervision, the first...
Le Circuit Mont Tremblant, Ste, Jovite Quebec July 9–10, 2010 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article...
A unique event took place at England’s Snetterton race circuit when many thousands of fans turned out to see a gathering of every model of Lotus Formula 1 car from the Lotus 12 to the current Lotus 127, a total of 35 different models. Clive Chapman, son of Lotus founder...
For a 16th time, vintage Indycars raced around the Milwaukee Mile in honor of Harry Miller and the incredible machines...
This month’s test drive of the new Lotus Evora (see Product Review, pg 78) got me thinking about my own experience as a Lotus owner. Or rather, the strange path I took to become a Lotus owner. It was the early days of the Internet as a tool to find...
Tazio Nuvolari James Hunt Photo: Dennis Gray 1 Dick Johnson and John Bowe drive a Ford Sierra to victory in...
The Quail Porsche Racecar Classic has been scheduled for Sunday, October 16, 2011 at the Quail Lodge in Carmel Valley,...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These early innovators are in an elite club, with their place in automotive history guaranteed as the creators of true classic sports cars, genuine thoroughbreds. The development of the racing sports...
October 2010 2010 Lotus Evora Let’s face it, historically to be a Lotus road car owner you needed to suffer...
The second annual Put-In-Bay Road Races Reunion took place June 28-30 on Ohio’s South Bass Island. The island, home to...
In the 1920s and 1930s, British schoolboys devoured every word they could find about their favorite comic book heroes, like Biggles and Dick Barton, Special Agent. In Sir Henry Birkin Bt, however, they had a real live, walking, talking hero and they idolized him all the more. He was passably...