With the recent passing of automotive icon Carroll Shelby, it is easy to look at his amazing life through the...
The 1962 24 Hours of Le Mans did not look as though it would be a walkover for Phil Hill,...
Carroll ShelbyPhoto: Jim Williams In observance of Carroll Shelby’s recent passing, VR is presenting an edited combination of the interviews he granted the magazine—one conducted by Editor/Publisher Casey Annis, the other by Associate Editor John Zimmermann—during which he discussed various aspects of his life in the sport. Behind the wheel...
As you will have read in last month’s Vintage Racecar news, the automotive world lost one of its last remaining...
When Jack Brabham was demobbed from the Royal Australian Air Force in 1947, even he did not realize he was...
Di Spires Photo: Mike Jiggle For me, motor racing became like a drug—the more I attended Grand Prix events in the UK and Europe the more I wanted to get onto the “inside.” At first, I’d go motor racing with my brother, later I met Stuart, my husband. We’d travel...
Like many designers I like to push the envelope, so, when answering the question about my consideration of my greatest...
Philip Island Grand Prix Circuit, Victoria, Australia March 9–10, 2012 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article...
Road America, Elkhart Lake, WI May 19–20, 2012 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...
Monte Carlo Circuit, Monaco May 11–13, 2012 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
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Mallala Motorsports Park, South Australia April 8, 2012 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...
Carroll Shelby has just driven Alan Guiberson’s Ferrari 375MM to victory in the Sports Car Races at Torrey Pines, California, in July of 1955, his first appearance in California. That’s Alan with the checkered flag. With this same car, Alberto Ascari and Nino Farina had won the 1953 Nürburgring 1000km,...
There I was, on Los Angeles’ Imperial Highway, helplessly hanging on in the passenger seat. No grab bar, no seatbelt,...
Tall Texan Tales Dear Editor, Your excellent June issue included Pete Lyons’ review of the happenings while Jim Hall was honored during...
Parnelli Jones “Lofty” England 2 Thirteen year-old Alessandro Zanardi, who will later become a two-time CART Champ Car champion, drives a kart for the first time (1980). 3 Giuseppi Campari gives Alfa Romeo its first GP win when he drives a P2 to victory in the Grand Prix of France...
The under 2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international...
Pete Lyons You’d need a piece of paper the size of Texas to write down all that should be said...
Carrera Panamericana 1950–1954 As covered several months ago in our “Lost McAfee Tapes” feature, the running of the Carrera Panamericana in the early ’50s was a wild and eclectic amalgamation of circus and international motor race. World-class drivers like Phil Hill, John Fitch, Louis Chiron and Karl Kling raced exotic...
This is the official site of the Shelby American Collection in Boulder, Colorado, which houses many examples of significant Shelby...
Sebring International Raceway has announced that Vintage Speed LLC will serve as the event manager for the Sebring Historics scheduled...
Under warm and sunny skies at the 3rd annual Sonoma Historic Motorsports Festival at Sears Point Raceway in Sonoma, California, more than 340 historic cars took the checkered flag in 15 groups of racing. Cars ranging from a 1911 National to a collection of Can-Am cars from the 1960s and...
Nelson Piquet once memorably described driving a Grand Prix car around Monaco as akin to trying to ride a bicycle...
Longtime SCCA stalwart Andy Porterfield died in mid-April at the age of 80 from complications following heart valve surgery. Beyond...
Brian Redman has accepted the position of Grand Marshal for the 2nd Annual Bahamas Speed Week Revival, scheduled for this Nov. 24–Dec. 2. Redman, a multi-time racing champion in the U.S. and overseas, will join Patron Sir Stirling Moss and Event Ambassador Derek Bell, MBE, for the second running of...
German racer Paul Pietsch, the last surviving driver of the prewar Silver Arrows era and the oldest living Grand Prix...
Les Leston was born in 1920 named Alfred Lazarus Fingleston. He worked in the motor accessory business and was an...
It has been 50 years since Graham Hill won the Formula One World Championship for BRM, and this achievement was celebrated at the Shelsley Walsh Hillclimb meeting on the first weekend of June. This venue’s connection with the marque goes back even further, as one of BRM’s founders, Raymond Mays,...
