January 2011 In the L&M F5000 Championship round at Michigan International Speedway on May 20, 1973, Peter Gethin raced this Chevron...
Pat Flaherty’s time on racing’s grandest stage may have been all too brief, but he managed to make it count....
Carlo Pintacuda was one of the Florentine greats, a motor racing elite from the Tuscan city that also included Gastone Brilli-Peri, Emilio Materassi, Clemente Biondetti and Giulio Masetti. Pintacuda not only won the fabled Mille Miglia twice in Scuderia Ferrari Alfa Romeos, he was also the man who convinced Enzo...
The Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance will honor 1986 Indianapolis 500 winner and three-time Indycar champion Bobby Rahal at its 16th...
1924 Bugatti Type 13 While many racing cars of the Edwardian period and the early 1920s and 1930s were huge—behemoths...
On behalf of Australia’s Victorian Historic Racing Register (VHRR), well-known vintage racer Peter Giddings is seeking four cars and drivers to participate in an event featuring cars that would have, or could have, taken part in the 1956 Australian Grand Prix and the 1956 Australian Tourist Trophy races. This event...
A week after the Goodwood Revival, Buckinghamshire held its own Revival on the weekend of September 25-26 to commemorate the...
Watkins Glen International, Watkins Glen, NY September 9–12, 2010 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (&...
January 2011 Alesi’s Tyrrell Dear Editor, Loved the article about Jean Alesi’s favorite car, the Tyrrell 018. It’s a strikingly beautiful F1 car and was better in every way than the predecessor car, the 017. I’ve attached a comparison of lap times; it’s anywhere from a second (Monaco) to nearly...
In my era as a race and rally driver, we were expected to assist in both the general and technical...
Goodwood was at its best yet again for the 13th Revival celebration. Four days of superb weather made it one...
It hardly seems credible, but the 13th Goodwood Revival Meeting has just taken place and it was as good as ever. It is all credit to Lord March, who was a professional photographer, mainly in advertising, before duty called and he had to learn to take over the Goodwood Estate....
Lime Rock Park, Lakeville, CT September 3–6, 2010 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
Murwillumbah Sprint Circuit, NSW, Australia September 10–12, 2010 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
In 1953, the very first Corvettes hit Chevrolet Dealers’ show rooms. Hailed by some as the long-awaited American sports car, for the most part they were derided by “purists.” I can see why. During that time, my father was working as a salesman for a Chevy dealer and he was...
2010 marked the 50th anniversary of the successful move John Surtees made from motorcycles to cars, and he remains the...
Italo Piana is a living legend among Italian MotoGP fans. He won the Italian Motorcycle Championship three times, and was...
My story of winning the 1981 Macau Grand Prix actually began two weeks before, when I first raced the Hayashi 220P-Toyota at Suzuka, Japan. I had never seen the car before and really never heard of Hayashi, a wholesale wheel manufacturer. My involvement came through Vern Fotheringham who was their...
Louis Stanley Rudolf Caracciola 2 First South Africa Grand Prix to be held on the Kyalami track near Johannesburg is...
Goodwood, Chichester, UK September 17–19, 2010 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More)...
January 2011 Mark Donohue: His Life in Photographs By Michael Argetsinger In our review of Argetsinger’s previous book, Mark Donohue: Technical Excellence Was Expected (VR Sept. ’09), we noted that it was more a book of text than anything, an obvious nod to the depth of the subject matter embodied...
The FIA sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations...
Few automobile marques evoke images of style, speed and sports better than the Prancing Horse of Ferrari. Fortunately for motorsports...
Road America, Elkhart Lake, WI September 10–12, 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...
Recently, I was judging at a racecar concours in Southern California, when I ran into an old friend named Dave...
Jim Clark, driving the John Ogier Aston Martin DB4 GT Zagato (0183/R), finished 4th in the Goodwood Tourist Trophy race...
A couple of years and a bit ago I suggested in this spot that, during these times of economic stress, Indycar racing might be rejuvenated by reviving the old stock-block engine idea of Formula 5000. A variety of production-based engines work well in Grand-Am, giving the technical diversity that genuine...
The fourth renewal of the Desert Classic Concours d’Elegance will be held February 27, 2011 at the La Quinta Resort...
We concluded last month’s opening segment of John Zimmermann’s interview with David Hobbs as he was preparing to turn his...
Motor Racing Legends has announced the return of the Le Mans Legend historic support race to next year’s Le Mans 24 Hours weekend. For 2011, the race will be for cars that were eligible for Le Mans from 1949 to 1965 This group includes everything from Aston Martin DB2s, Austin-Healeys,...