The Targa Florio; Sicily, April 30, 1961. Olivier Gendebien goes airbone over a rise in the Ferrari Dino 246SP with...
Nestled in the Santa Monica Mountains above trendy Malibu, California, lies an artifact from the history of automobile racing in...
At the time of writing, the McLaren MP4-12C is an unknown quantity. Regardless of how well it does, it is a landmark. The main load-bearing structure, what McLaren calls a “Monocell” is carbon fiber, using a system similar to injection moulded plastic. This has been the automotive equivalent of the...
“Revisited” because this is my second column about Ken. My March 2006 column was the first, but in rereading it...
My early racing career started in single-seaters in New Zealand beginning first with Formula Atlantic, then Formula Three, and then...
Monza 1970 was where I realized that Grand Prix racing, certainly with Team Lotus, wasn’t for me. I believe too that, in the eyes of Colin Chapman, the writing may have been already on the wall. We were testing the Lotus 72 without wings, I had a major disagreement with...
“Sex – the breakfast of Champions” was the legend on the T-shirt the 1976 Formula 1 World Champion wore under...
Every job has its drawbacks and its drudgeries. While writing for VR is a passion that all of our staff...
Roberto Moreno enjoyed a productive career in the upper levels of professional motor sport even though his accomplishments may not have matched his talent or his promise. Like a number of young South Americans of his generation, Moreno realized that if he were to make a go of his racing...
A Personal Recollection of Der Nürburgring by a young English Lad Who Grew Up to Become a Motorsports Photojournalist Later...
1965 JWF Valano GT It was the classic case of three schoolmates with like interests that eventually evolved into a profitable...
The Vintage Racing Club of B.C. (VRCBC) has announced that its annual marquee race weekend, the British Columbia Historic Motor Races (BCHMR), will be held on June 11 and 12 at the River’s Edge Road Course at Mission Raceway Park in Mission, BC. Since their inaugural running in 1976 at...
The outrageous Group B cars from the World Rally Championship of the 1980s have been added to the Donington Historic...
The man known to many as “Mr. MG,” Tony Roth, has passed away after a long fight with cancer. Roth...
The California Sports Car Club is organizing a “dream” weekend this October at Buttonwillow Raceway Park north of Los Angeles, when entrants from a variety of clubs will be invited to participate in a come-one, come-all, cross-pollination “championship” during the club’s Pacific Coast Championship weekend. Entrants from the SCCA, NASA,...
At Monza on the weekend of June 3–5, the HGPCA will hold three 20-minute heat races, with the third race...
To celebrate the 100th year of Chevrolet, Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wis., will host a special tribute to the...
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway has added another element to its ongoing centennial festivities by announcing it will host the 100th Anniversary Indy 500 Celebration of Automobiles, a competition featuring two divisions of cars manufactured between 1911 and 1961, the first half century of the Indianapolis 500. The Celebration will take...
The public address announcer at a racetrack may be the single most important aspect for enticing new fans into the...
Friend of the magazine Toly Arutunoff is in serious but stable condition in the aftermath of a gruesome highway accident...
The first thing to say about www.autoracinghistory.com is that this is a text-heavy site where the word works more powerfully than the image, but whether that detracts from or embellishes the site will be entirely up to you, whose eye will do the beholding. That said, let us tell you...
April 2011 Jochen Rindt – Uncrowned Champion By David Tremayne Books about 1970’s posthumous World Champion Jochen Rindt are few...
CONGRATULATIONS! At this past year’s Lime Rock Historic Festival, Vintage Racecar teamed up with Nikon and Lime Rock Park to...
That sound! A wild shriek spearing out of the new Japanese F1 sliced like a samurai sword through the dronings and raspings of the commonplace European engines. Beware, that unearthly cry proclaimed. We are coming. Pete Lyons It was at Watkins Glen in 1964, the next to last year of...
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motor sports: the...
Tim Mayer Photo: autopics.com.au A.J. Foyt Photo: Jim Hatfield 2 Hermann Lang drives a Mercedes-Benz to victory in the Grand...
This month’s Hidden Treasure begins with the sound of J. Why do I bring this up? Because for years I’ve...
April 2011 During the 1975 Monaco Grand Prix, Tom Pryce rounds Rascasse in his Shadow DN5, not long after the...
This acrylic on canvas painting depicts one of the most famous and iconic racing cars of all time. The JPS Lotus 98T chassis 004 was Ayrton Senna’s racecar for the latter part of the classic 1986 Formula 1 season. The car’s debut was at the last Grand Prix to be held...