Roads and circuits of South Wales and the West Country, UK June 17–19, 2011 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The...
Lyn St. James has been named Grand Marshal for the 8th Annual Charity Challenge of the Classic Sports Racing Group scheduled for Northern California’s Infineon Raceway on the first weekend of October. Although Lotus is the featured marque for the event, featured driver St. James will pilot a Formula B...
Winton Motor Raceway, Benall, Victoria, Australia May 28–29, 2011 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (&...
The 3rd annual Motorsports and Memories event, set for September 17 at historic Meadowdale Raceways in Carpentersville, Illinois, will feature...
During the November 1952 running of Mexico’s fabled Carrera Pan-Americana, the Karl Kling/Hans Klenk Mercedes 300SL makes a pit stop for new tires in the Sierra Madre after Tehuantepec. Note that the windshield has been smashed by hitting an errant buzzard at high speed, and that Klenk is wearing goggles...
As you’ll read in this month’s Racecar Profile, I recently had the great honor of being invited to the Indianapolis...
I’m celebrating 25 years of motor racing, and I say this without counting the years I spent karting. It’s difficult...
A new partnership took its place on the vintage racing landscape in July as Cris Vandagriff’s Historic Motor Sports Association and Bobby Rahal’s Legends of Motorsports announced the creation of Legends of Motorsports powered by HMSA. The intent of this new partnership is to “expand the platform of historic racing...
Nigel Mansell Stirling MossPhoto: Pete Austin 1 Pietro Laureati wins Italy’s Tolentino Colle Paterno hillclimb driving an Alfa Romeo T33 Stradale...
In the days when racing’s regulations were somewhat less restrictive than perhaps they are now, designers occasionally looked beyond current...
Donington Park, Castle Donington, UK Month 21-22, 2011 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...
“Wow, I could have had an 8V!” Can you imagine if Fiat had hired actor Ronald Reagan in 1952 to...
In 1951 Froilan Gonzalez raced to victory at Silverstone to win the British Grand Prix. It was the first Grand...
Despite hailing from a family essentially unconnected to motorized vehicles, Basil van Rooyen soon discovered motorcycles and after a brief fling in two-wheeled competition, switched to the relative safety of cars. Almost immediately he became involved in the manufacture of performance parts, and then began racing a Ford Anglia sedan....
Brands Hatch, Kent, UK May 28–30, 2011 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
Showing more dedication than common sense, vintage racer and contributing writer John Nikas will try to avoid catastrophic fire while...
Barber Motorsports Park, Leeds, AL May 20–22, 2011 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...
One of the most versatile drivers motor sport has ever known is to be honored at next year’s Amelia Island...
1909 Benz Type RE 200 PS “Blitzen Benz” It may seem somewhat incongruous that the story of one of Mercedes-Benz’s most significant and iconic racecars, the “Blitzen Benz” should revolve around an incendiary Belgian and two grandstanding American showmen. However, racing truth is oftentimes, stranger than fiction. The author comes...
Autodromo Nazionale di Monza, Milan, Italy June 3–5, 2011 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (&...
The typically Teutonic efficiency of this site suits the image of Mercedes-Benz, and any apparent austerity quickly gives way to...
You wouldn’t need all the fingers of one hand to count the number of men who could beat Juan Manuel Fangio around the daunting Nordschleife of the Nürburgring, but one of them was certainly a suave German named Rudolf Uhlenhaut. Strangely, he wasn’t a racing driver at all but a...
This large, domineering man invented the job of motor racing team manager and in doing so changed the way the...
Contingency Plans Dear Editor, I would not dare to take my Avanti replica of the 1958 Lister-Chevy to the track,...
It’s 1911 and the first Indianapolis 500 is being won by a Marmon Wasp driven by Ray Harroun. It is the first car able to be raced without a riding mechanic because it was equipped with a rear-view mirror. Held on May 30, 1911, the first 500-Mile Race at the...
Roy Winkelmann, probably best known for running the team with which Jochen Rindt rose to prominence by recording nearly two...
Well. Me sir? Gosh sir. Writing an obituary of Bill Boddy is rather like an everyday cinemagoer writing the obituary...
Silverstone Circuit, Northants, UK May 14–15, 2011 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...