Mazda Laguna Seca Raceway, host of the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, has announced that this year’s event, scheduled for August...
Sixty years ago, an American sportsman built his own cars to tackle the world’s greatest endurance race Many in America today see road racing as more a sub-genre of motor sport, with the nation thoroughly consumed by oval racing on tracks that seem to dot the continental 48-state landscape with...
Motor sport anniversaries and centenaries seem to have filled the calendar in the last few years, and as our sport...
Mike Earle started his career with Derek Bell and Church Farm Racing. Over the years he has had a hand...
As enthusiasts and students of racing history, we have a natural tendency to idolize, if not deify, the great men who have helped build and shape our sport. We revere the drivers like Graham Hill, who scored victories at Le Mans, Indy and Monaco. We virtually worship constructors like Colin...
Dario Resta competed in the first race ever held on Britain’s hallowed Brooklands circuit on July 6, 1907, and died...
I think it was in 1957 that I saw Fangio race at Silverstone, it was a catalyst for me to...
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...
In the February 2010 edition of Vintage Racecar, editor Casey Annis reported that a concours d’provenance had been held in...
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...
April 2010 The 14th Grand Prix of 24 Hours of Belgium; Spa-Francorchamps, July 10–11, 1949. Just two weeks after Le...
This is the story of four Reuters, blood relatives… but not necessarily to each other. It’s also the story of...
Jochen Rindt Henri Pescarolo 2 Guy Moll wins the Monaco Grand Prix in an Alfa Romeo (1934). 3 Ronnie Peterson...
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...
You never know where interesting collections of rare photos will turn up. While cruising through the Desert Centre Triumph Register...
In what is believed to be one of the few one-make series in historic racing, Masters Historic Racing has launched a championship intended solely for FIA specification pre-1966 Minis. Rounds of the series will be held at Masters Festivals and Top Hat meetings in 2010, highlighted by two races at...
Despite a still-recessionary economic climate, the annual International Racing Car Show in Birmingham, UK, celebrated it’s 20th Anniversary in a...
Japan Tobacco International (JTI) has donated the freehold of the 30-acre Brooklands Museum site in Weybridge to the Museum’s governing...
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...
Sergio Scaglietti celebrated his 90th birthday on January 9, and at his party received a special gift from Piero Ferrari,...
Robert Donner Jr., whose interest in cars began as a toddler while his father was an Auburn, Cord, and Duesenberg...
The man who is perhaps the best American endurance racer of all time has hung up his helmet—professionally, anyway. Hurley Haywood, whose career spans nearly four decades, unbuckled for the last time late in January’s Rolex 24 at Daytona, handed his Brumos Riley-Porsche over to a teammate, thus closing a...
It’s been a long time coming, but Crystal Palace will once again play host to a national motorsport event with...
1968 Alfa Romeo T33/2 “What goes around comes around.” That, I believe, is a largely English way of referring to...
Porsche’s Spyders stole the limelight, but in the 1950s they had serious rivals in both BMW and EMW, who produced serious 1½-liter machinery. Their battles on both sides of the Iron Curtain were the stuff of legend. A liter and a half—more or less a quart and a half—isn’t much...
