Gaston Chevrolet Alan JonesPhoto: Pete Austin 1 Mika Hakkinen wins the Japanese GP to clinch his first Formula One World...
• Peg Bishop, wife of John Bishop, passed away on August 20. The Bishops played a central role a golden era of American road racing, and Peg was actively involved alongside her husband. As executive director of the SCCA in the 1950s and ‘60s, John brought professional road racing to...
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Photo: Pete Austin Making its debut in 1963, the Rover P6 was introduced as the new jewel in the crown...
Ask any F1 enthusiast to name Ayrton Senna’s greatest achievements and the 1993 European Grand Prix at Donington Park is sure to feature. In an underpowered McLaren MP4/8-Cosworth, he surged from 5th to 1st on the opening lap of the wet race and after no less than five pit stops...
A new historic racing event, the Dijon Motors Cup, was held for the first time July 12-13 at the French...
The Jaguar D-Type made its public debut at the 1954 24 Hours of Le Mans, where four cars were entered...
Northern California’s Classic Sports Racing Group will host its 10th Annual Charity Challenge at Sonoma Raceway on the weekend of October 4-6. The event will include all the usual CSRG race groups, with vintage and historic racecars dating from pre-WWII into the 1970s, running in eight race groups. Through its...
Here’s a site dedicated to chronicling the first 50 years of Formula Three racing. It covers the formula from its...
• The 2013 Donington Historic Festival has been extended from two to three days, following the outstanding success of the...
Pete Brock, stylist for the Corvette Sting Ray, designer of the Cobra Daytona Coupe, founder of BRE and a multi-disciplined Renaissance Man in his spare time, was honored by the Road Racing Drivers Club with its Phil Hill Award at the organization’s annual banquet in Daytona Beach prior to the...
Alpine and Renault – the Sports Prototypes Vols. 1 & 2 By Roy Smith Originally published in 2010, the story...
Here’s a site dedicated to the technical side of Formula One, where the home page offers daily news and, not...
Billing itself as the “British Car Web Directory and Online Classifieds,” this site offers a variety of ways to get...
Robin DonovanPhoto: Mike Jiggle Unlike many other Le Mans drivers, I didn’t ever sleep during the whole 24 hours. Adrenalin...
The author rides the iconically liveried Mirage up onto the curb while negotiating a left-hander at Silverstone. Photo: Pete Austin The Mirage story is, in some ways, a rather complex one, in that the Mirage was a rare example of a well-known racing car that had not been developed consistently year...
Hugh DibleyPhoto: Glynn Jones It all began as an end-of-season sojourn in the sun. The Bahamas Speed Week had been...
Former F3 racer, Bev Bond, who drove for Gold Leaf Team Lotus during the late 1960s, has waged a war...
The under 2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports; the World Sports Car Championship from 1953-1961, the Speedworld Challenge of 1962-1963, the International Championship of Makes from 1964-1971 and the World Championship of Makes from 1972-1981. This included...
Photo: Sean Smith In touring trim, the OM has its fenders attached, tall windscreen mounted and twin spare tires bolted...
Tim ParnellPhoto: Pete Austin It was my father, Reg Parnell, who first went to Donington Park in 1934. Living near...
Laury, Lucy O’Reilly and Harry Schell were father, mother and son. They were all larger than life characters who made their very distinct contribution to the colorful playboy image that some aspects of motor racing projected before the Second World War and immediately after it. For the 1958 British Grand...
Photo: Casey Annis The story of the Corvette and how it came to race at Le Mans is one in...
Pete Lyons One day during an autowriters’ junket in Europe, we checked into our small country hotel with a good...
Mike Lawrence Vintage Racecar recently published a letter from John Wright who is a nine of racing anecdotes. John told how one of Jim Hall’s Chaparrals was suffering an aerodynamic problem that was resolved by drilling holes in the bodywork. Naturally Jim was not going to give away any secrets,...
The Vintage Automobile Racing Association of Canada (VARAC) has announced that the 2014 running of the Canadian Historic Grand Prix...
Artist Bark has chosen to feature the 1965 Ford Mustang here because it is an iconic American classic, especially the Shelby 350 GT variant, which he feels defines the genre of the American Muscle car. This piece has been developed from his preparation work for a 50th anniversary sculpture to...
