Chandlers Hill, Adelaide, Australia August 22–26, 2012 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
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Silverstone Circuit, Northants, UK August 25, 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 partner...
Howden Ganley stopped by our vendor booth at the recent Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, where one of the old photos...
Damon Graham Devereux Hill is the only son of a Formula 1 World Champion to have also won the title....
• Simpson Performance Products has expanded its line of racing safety products with the acquisition of HANS Performance Products, makers of the HANS Device Head And Neck Restraint System. HANS Performance Products, formed in 1991 by five-time IMSA driving champion Jim Downing and HANS inventor Dr. Robert Hubbard, will be operated...
Road America, Elkhart Lake, WI September 1–2, 2012 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
As we have previously reported, Lola Cars International entered bankruptcy administration last May with debts of more than $23 million,...
Lime Rock Park, Lakeville, CT September 1–2, 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...
1962 Tojeiro-Buick Photo: Pete Austin “Just turn the key and it will start,” I was told, as the door of the...
From 1950 until his premature retirement from road racing and hillclimbing just three years later, Tommy Hoan set his competitors on their collective ear with the sheer speed of his 1949 MG TC. In the Queen Catharine Cup race of 1952, he also shot out the window of the Grill...
Captive Readership Dear Editor, I must share a couple things with you. Due to firefighting injuries/wear and tear I had...
Goodwood, Chichester, UK September 14–16, 2012 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More)...
The U.S. motorsports community as a whole, and the profession of motorsports journalism in particular, suffered a great loss on September 28, when Chris Economaki passed away just two weeks shy of his 92nd birthday. Economaki may be best known as editor and publisher of the weekly racing newspaper National...
It’s the end of October as I write this, which is fitting, because I’m being haunted…by one of my former...
Known simply as “Prof” to many in the motor racing community and Sid to his near friends, Professor Watkins may...
Bicester is a small market town 12 miles north of Oxford. For centuries nothing much remarkable happened, then an estate of small factory units was built to encourage light industry. First March, then Reynard, turned the town into the world capital of customer racing cars. More than 3,000 single-seaters were...
Al Moss, known to almost everyone who reads this journal, died peacefully on September 25 at his home in Sedona,...
Away from the start of Race 3 at Eagle Mountain in April of 1957, Dave Tallaksen’s 3.4-liter XK-SS (#147) shares...
The Canadian American Challenge Cup, co-sanctioned by the SCCA and the CASC, was essentially an “unlimited” series. Although there was a basic set of rules, the cars merely had to be two-seaters with bodywork covering the wheels, doors, a windscreen, brake lights and various safety requirements. There was no regulation...
After some 15 years as founding European Editor of Vintage Racecar, Ed McDonough has elected to ease graciously into semi-retirement...
Near the Lancia factory in Turin during March of 1954, Piero Taruffi seems pleased after a test of the Lancia...
U.S. Presidential election fever hit Goodwood, and the Revival candidate was none other than Dan Gurney. Posters, pin badges and car stickers bore the legend: “Dan Gurney For President.” The designs mirrored the period campaign emblems of the 1960s, but this time were a signature and homage to the motor...
Ecurie Ecosse is a private racing organization based in Scotland that’s probably best known for having twice won Le Mans...
The 18th Annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance will honor racing driver Sam Posey as its special guest and celebrate the...
At last count there are more than 1,200 billionaires walking the Earth. This means that regardless of wealth, there aren’t nearly enough of Harry Miller’s fabulous racing machines to go around. How then does a semi-retired dump truck driver come to own two Millers? Mike Guffey loves stuff. He loves...
As far as I’m concerned the greatest racecar I ever drove is the car that gave me the greatest happiness...
Privateer Bruce Halford took part in the epic 1957 German Grand Prix, finishing 11th in his Maserati 250F. It was...
Alleggerita By Tony Adriaensens, Patrick Dasse & Martin Übelher First published in 1993, Adriaensens’ Alleggerita became the definitive text for the history of the much loved and highly collectible Alfa Romeo GTA/ GTAm/GTAJr. Perhaps more significantly, it set the standard for an entirely new segment of highly specialized, in-depth single...