You may have looked at this month’s cover car and said, “That’s not vintage!” You might also have looked at...
Enzo Ferrari was always a sucker for fighters who would never give up, like Tazio Nuvolari, Guy Moll and Gilles Villeneuve. In fact, he thought Moll could become the anti-Nuvolari, so talented was the little Algerian. But Guy’s brief yet spectacular career came to a sudden end on August 15,...
I was fifteen years karting, and ten years karting and car racing. I started with Mercedes Benz as a mechanic;...
Today, a great racecar has to be very powerful, have a great deal of downforce to give grip, and be...
The original Trans-Am was part and parcel of one of the things that made the Golden Age golden. Many of the best U.S. drivers and teams participated, as well as most of the carmakers. One aspect of its huge success was that fans and aficionados drove and identified with the...
One driver rarely mentioned in the endless pub debate about great drivers is Sir Jack Brabham, yet in many ways...
This acrylic on canvas painting depicts one of the most famous and iconic racing cars of all time. The JPS Lotus...
April 2011 During the 1975 Monaco Grand Prix, Tom Pryce rounds Rascasse in his Shadow DN5, not long after the “wet race” start. Having started on the outside of the front row, he ran in 3rd place during the opening laps of the race, but stopped too early to change...
This month’s Hidden Treasure begins with the sound of J. Why do I bring this up? Because for years I’ve...
Tim Mayer Photo: autopics.com.au A.J. Foyt Photo: Jim Hatfield 2 Hermann Lang drives a Mercedes-Benz to victory in the Grand Prix race run in Pau, France (1939). 3 Battista “Pinin” Farina, auto racer and coach builder, dies (1966). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motor sports: the...
That sound! A wild shriek spearing out of the new Japanese F1 sliced like a samurai sword through the dronings...
CONGRATULATIONS! At this past year’s Lime Rock Historic Festival, Vintage Racecar teamed up with Nikon and Lime Rock Park to create a photo competition for photographer’s taking part in the weekend’s motorsport photography workshop, led by instructors Rick Dole, George Tiedemann and Robert Laberge. At the end of the weekend,...
April 2011 Jochen Rindt – Uncrowned Champion By David Tremayne Books about 1970’s posthumous World Champion Jochen Rindt are few...
The first thing to say about www.autoracinghistory.com is that this is a text-heavy site where the word works more powerfully...
Friend of the magazine Toly Arutunoff is in serious but stable condition in the aftermath of a gruesome highway accident during the blizzard that struck much of the USA during early February. Arutunoff was headed for the annual SCCA National Convention in Las Vegas on February 8 when he stopped...
The public address announcer at a racetrack may be the single most important aspect for enticing new fans into the...
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway has added another element to its ongoing centennial festivities by announcing it will host the 100th...
To celebrate the 100th year of Chevrolet, Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wis., will host a special tribute to the marque on the weekend of August 18–21, as the Sunday finale of the circuit’s American Le Mans Series weekend. One part of the Corvette World Tribute will be a rededication...
At Monza on the weekend of June 3–5, the HGPCA will hold three 20-minute heat races, with the third race...
The California Sports Car Club is organizing a “dream” weekend this October at Buttonwillow Raceway Park north of Los Angeles,...
The man known to many as “Mr. MG,” Tony Roth, has passed away after a long fight with cancer. Roth began vintage racing his MG TD in 1979, and shortly thereafter became one of the founding members of the Southeast Vintage Racing Association, and asked by Ford Heacock to coordinate...
The outrageous Group B cars from the World Rally Championship of the 1980s have been added to the Donington Historic...
The Vintage Racing Club of B.C. (VRCBC) has announced that its annual marquee race weekend, the British Columbia Historic Motor...
1965 JWF Valano GT It was the classic case of three schoolmates with like interests that eventually evolved into a profitable business. It was the early 1950s and the area was the Northern Beaches of Sydney, Australia. Ian “Sam” Johnson, Geoff Williams and Grant Furzer were at school together and shared...
A Personal Recollection of Der Nürburgring by a young English Lad Who Grew Up to Become a Motorsports Photojournalist Later...
Roberto Moreno enjoyed a productive career in the upper levels of professional motor sport even though his accomplishments may not...
Every job has its drawbacks and its drudgeries. While writing for VR is a passion that all of our staff share, we all carry a heavy heart and a certain sense of dread when it comes to obituaries. Very sadly, for the 13 years that we have been in publication,...
