Recently, I was judging at a racecar concours in Southern California, when I ran into an old friend named Dave...
We concluded last month’s opening segment of John Zimmermann’s interview with David Hobbs as he was preparing to turn his...
Pat Flaherty’s time on racing’s grandest stage may have been all too brief, but he managed to make it count. When a slim, red-headed Irish-American named Pat Flaherty donned his white helmet with the big green shamrock on the front and climbed into A.J. Watson’s brand-new pink and white roadster...
1924 Bugatti Type 13 While many racing cars of the Edwardian period and the early 1920s and 1930s were huge—behemoths...
A new and exciting chapter was written in the competition history of Triumph with the Ninth Annual International Triumph Challenge...
For a baker’s dozen of years in the late 1950s and early ’60s, Nassau in the Bahamas Islands hosted a week-long, end-of-year party disguised as a race meeting. It was an event that virtually everyone looked forward to and the cast of characters that wrote its history was truly world...
Race Retro 2011 will celebrate one of Britain’s best-loved, if not the best-loved, sports cars next year when it returns...
The Williams Formula One Conference Centre, Grove, UK was the venue for the 5th bi-annual reunion of the Grand Prix...
Tazio Nuvolari has found a new home, or at least his museum has. The museum devoted to him and his motor racing career, originally housed in the Palazzo del Podestà, in his hometown of Mantua, was closed over a year ago so that the building could be restored. However, last...
The motor racing world was saddened to learn of the passing of Tom Walkinshaw in December of last year. Tom...
Leading historic race organizer, Motor Racing Legends, has launched an all-new race series for Groups 1 and 2, and Group...
For the seventh and final time, the Centennial of the historic Vanderbilt Cup races was celebrated on New York’s Long Island last October. Just as 1910 marked the final running of W.K. Vanderbilt’s original seven races on Long Island, so was 2010 the last Centennial observance, commemorated along Museum Row...
With Sir Frank Williams as our interview subject this month, we thought it might be a good idea to send...
February 2011 Inside the Archives By Jesse Alexander Looking through stacks of old photographs I’m often struck by generally unseen...
Wakefield Park, Goulburn, NSW, Australia September 18–19, 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...
Infineon Raceway, Sonoma, CA October 1–3, 2010 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
Donington Park, Castle Donington/UK October 2–3, 2010 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
Republic of San Marino October 7–9, 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 partner...
Silverstone Circuit, Northants/UK October 22, 2010 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More)...
Road Atlanta, Braselton, GA October 14–17, 2010 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
Sebring International Raceway, Sebring, FL October 21–24, 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...
Phoenix Int’l Raceway, Phoenix, AZ October 23–24, 2010 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
Wandering through that great Goodwood paddock of my mind, I delight in thousands of historic racing machines at every hand....
From 1964 to 1978, a series of flat-bottomed formula cars were manufactured to serve as a steppingstone to Formula One and the upper echelons of open-wheeled racing. In the late ’50s, F2 and F3 were consolidated into Formula Junior. However, with that category’s demise at the end of 1963, F2...
Roger Penske Fred Offenhauser 3 Paul Goldsmith drives Smokey Yunick’s Pontiac to victory in the last stock car race on...
Several months ago I received an irate email from a VR reader with one simple, albeit piercing, question; “Mark, why in the hell don’t you ever write about British drag racing cars?” British drag racing? What did I know about that? And how would I ever find a “hidden” one...
February 2011 During the J.C.C. International Trophy race at Brooklands, U.K., on May 6, 1939, Kenneth Evans is shown at...
Three apparently unconnected things seemed to me to have a synergy. One is the supposed 75th anniversary of Jaguar, a date that both the company and most of the media have got wrong. Jaguar Cars Ltd. was registered in March, 1945, Jaguar had been the name of some models made by...