Pete Lyons THIS IS OLD news to you, but as I write, we mountain folk are still buzzing about February’s...
• Plans are proceeding for the re-paving and re-opening of the historic road course at Thompson International Speedway in Thompson,...
Hans-Joachim Stuck leads a pack of FVs and FSVs at the Daytona Golden Anniversary celebration.Photo: Bruce Lancaster Formula Vee celebrated its 50th birthday at Daytona in late January, with a parade of classic Formula Vee and Formula Super Vee cars prior to the Rolex 24. Many of the cars were...
It’s all change for the Mille Miglia Commemoration and the Coppa d’Oro delle Dolomiti. The Mille Miglia has been brought...
This September the McLaren Group will observe the 50th anniversary of the company’s founding by Bruce McLaren, but the entire...
A special added feature of Silverstone’s April 21-21 VSCC Spring Start meeting will be a recreation of the historic Commander Yorke Trophy races. This will take the form of a 25-minute race on Saturday and a 20-minute contest on Sunday, for which a field of at least 30 500-cc F3...
Pete Brock, stylist for the Corvette Sting Ray, designer of the Cobra Daytona Coupe, founder of BRE and a multi-disciplined...
Phil Remington, universally recognized as one of racing’s finest craftsmen, has passed away at the age of 92. Remington left his fingerprints all over seven decades of racecar design innovation, with many of today’s standard practices being solutions he created on the run for problems that popped up in his...
Mantua, Italy, has a new Tazio Nuvolari Museum. After being evicted from its previous location by the town council in...
RM Auctions has announced the consignment of one of history’s most important racing Ferraris, the 1953 340/375 MM Pinin Farina...
The broadly experienced Bill McGuire, whose several careers in the automotive world include consultancy, troubleshooting, education, negotiations and, of course, journalism—with long stints on the mastheads of both Hot Rod and AutoWeek—launched this site last June to provide readers with a daily dose of behind-the-scenes industry news, information and photography...
Team Lotus: My View from the Pit Wall By Peter Warr Author Warr was nothing if not Colin Chapman’s right-hand...
St. Georges Barracks, Upper Arncott, Bicester, UK December 1, 2012 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article...
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Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motor sports: the...
Luigi Fagioli Dan GurneyPhoto: Roger Dixon 1 Mario Andretti and Bruce McLaren drive a Ford GT40 MkIV to victory in the 12 Hours of Sebring endurance race (1967). 2 Hermann Lang drives a Mercedes W154 to victory in the Grand Prix in Pau, France (1939). Become a Member & Get...
Photo: Art Evans Gildred & Friend Dear Casey, I very much enjoyed the article about Ted Gildred. I learned some...
This month’s Hidden Treasure comes to us courtesy of Gertrude Schmedley of Pascagoula, Mississippi. Schmedley found me via the internet...
The 14th Grand Prix of 24 Hours of Belgium took place at Spa-Francorchamps on July 10-11, 1949. During the race, the Aston Martin DB2 of Lance Macklin and Nick Haines stopped briefly on the back of the circuit so that Haines could have a refreshing glass of beer, here being...
Bugatti entered a team of four, 8-cylinder Type 30s for the 1922 French Grand Prix at Strasbourg. Clothed in an...
Mike Lawrence Vintage Racecar recently published a letter from John Wright who is a nine of racing anecdotes. John told...
Without doubt the greatest racing car is one I’ve not driven. I’ll explain later. It’s my hero’s, Jim Clark’s Lotus 49 with the DFV engine. The green and yellow one, with the number 5 (my lucky number) not the one with the cigarette sponsorship! It was the era before ground...
My driving roots were from my Dad and my brother who both raced. I was brought up with and around...
Dad was a part-time taxi driver and Mom a secretary, and five-year-old Mika plagued the life out of them to...
Due to the lead time it takes to print and distribute any given magazine, I sit here today, writing this column on February 23. Not an insignificant date in that it happens also to be the day, 85 years ago, that a man by the name of Hans Herrmann was...
Phil Remington From hot rods on California’s dry lakes, to the Scarabs (both sports cars and Formula One), to the...
For the first time in his career, Marvin Panch posed for a photo before an event. He would never do...
Quite simply, cars raced by Dick Seaman are few and far between. The British driver was active in our sport for only a handful of years, and for three of those he was employed as a factory driver for Mercedes-Benz. This alone makes it extremely difficult to “get your hands”...