Pete Lyons One day during an autowriters’ junket in Europe, we checked into our small country hotel with a good...
The three-hour enduro for sports cars that was part of the Los Angeles Times Grand Prix weekend at Riverside in...
One of the greatest chief mechanics in American National Championship racing history, George Bignotti, has died at the age of 97. Cars prepared by Bignotti won 85 Indycar races—second-most all-time—including a record seven Indy 500s, two each for A.J. Foyt and Al Unser, and single wins for Graham Hill, Gordon...
CSRG’s 10th Annual Charity Challenge at California’s Sonoma Raceway attracted a near-record entry, ticket sales hit an all-time record and...
Giuliano Cané, Italy’s vintage motor racing hero, has done it again. In September he won the 2013 Coppa d’Oro delle...
Haynes Owners’ Workshop Manual: McLaren M23 By Ian Wagstaff The first ever publication to bear the name Haynes Owners’ Workshop Manual was for the Austin-Healey Sprite, and published in the mid 1960s. The original objective of the books was to show owners how to strip, rebuild, repair and maintain their...
• Betty Brabham, the first wife of triple F1 World Champion Sir Jack Brabham, has died following a brief illness...
John Grant was elected to succeed Stuart Rolt as Chairman of the British Racing Drivers’ Club (BRDC) at the Club’s...
Photo: John Zimmermann The City of Corona, California, celebrated the 100th anniversary of the first AAA National Championship auto race around the city’s not-quite-three-mile Grand Boulevard circuit with a re-enactment of the event this September 14. Half a dozen vintage racecars from the period assembled for several exhibition laps around...
RM Auctions, in association with Sotheby’s, has announced that one of the most prized of all Ferrari road racing cars,...
Jean Alesi leads away from the start of the RAC TT Celebration race in Sir Anthony Bamford’s Ferrari 250 GTO/64.Photo:...
Photo: Dennis Gray David Love, one of the founders of the Classic Sports Racing Group (CSRG) and an early driving force behind the growth of vintage racing in the USA, who also had a hand in the establishment of the Monterey Historic Automobile Races, died October 4 at the age...
Here’s a site dedicated to the technical side of Formula One, where the home page offers daily news and, not...
Keke RosbergPhoto: Maureen Magee Emerson FittipaldiPhoto: Keith Booker 1 Paul Hawkins drives a 4.4-liter Ferrari to victory in the 25-lap...
Skyline Drive, Mt. Equinox, Arlington, VT August 10–11, 2013 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...
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The European Office of Vintage Racecar is supporting “Women in Motorsport” this year. In association with Historica Racewear and the...
The Canadian-American Challenge Cup was co-sanctioned by the SCCA and CASC; it was a series nicknamed the “unlimited” series. Although there was a basic set of rules, the cars had to be two-seaters with bodywork covering the wheels, have doors, a windscreen, brake lights and various safety requirements, there was...
Greenwood Corvettes Dear Editor, I commend you and John Zimmermann on your Greenwood article “Twisting in the Wind,” your research...
Then. Nardi of Torino, Italy, did not manufacture only steering wheels. They also built wonderful automobiles for use on both...
Here is Maria Teresa de Filippis at the Gasometer turn, at the end of the main straight along the harbor, during practice for the 1959 Monaco GP. She was trying to qualify the Behra-Porsche, an F2 car built from 550RS components with a chassis constructed in Modena. It was one...
As a follower of hyperrealism—a genre of art similar to photorealism—Henry has produced a high-definition body of work, as evidenced...
Photo: Pete Austin I have many memories of competing in rallies across Europe, but one that really sticks in my mind is the Liege-Rome-Liege event of 1960. Sharing the “big” Healey with Pat Moss, we started the event not really knowing what to expect, as the rally was well known...
Carol Spears In the late ’60s, a boyfriend introduced me to motor racing. Until then it had been all horseback...
March 8 is International Women’s Day, and to mark the occasion, Maserati is honoring the achievements of Maria Teresa de Filippis,...
For the better part of the past 10 years, I’ve wanted to devote an issue of VR to the history of women in motorsport. Not because there was some commercial angle to be taken, but because while it is almost never acknowledged, women have had a place in racing history,...
