50th Anniversary Rolex 24 at Daytona.Photo: Chuck Andersen The Motorsports Hall of Fame of America has announced that it will...
Photo: Dennis Gray The Classic and Sports Racing Group (CSRG) has announced that its 11th annual Charity Challenge, scheduled for...
After being silent for more than half a century, the sound of Sir Malcolm Campbell’s record-breaking 350-hp Sunbeam once more echoed across the English countryside in late January as it was fired up for the first time since its complete mechanical rebuild by the National Motor Museum’s workshop team. Become...
Photo: Brian Cleary Hurley Haywood and Peter Sachs have been honored by the Road Racing Drivers Club at the annual...
• On the occasion of the 45th Anniversary of his 1969 Indianapolis 500 victory, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway will honor...
Photo: Hal Crocker C.L. “Charlie” Earwood who rose to prominence as a driver, promoter and official in the top levels of American sports car racing, has passed away at his home in Punta Gorda, Florida, at the age of 89. Following a successful career in the insurance industry, Earwood retired...
Photo: Radu Repanovici Canada’s famed Mosport Park, now being called Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, will host an all-new “Celebration of...
Photo: Dan Boyd The Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) have announced the Brickyard Vintage Racing...
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Maserati, Motor Racing Legends and the Maserati Club UK are staging a historic Maserati race at this year’s Donington Historic Festival, May 3-5. Running as a doubleheader over two of the Festival’s three days, the Maserati Centenary Trophy is for all types of Maseratis...
The Louwman Museum in Den Haag, Netherlands, is presenting a major exhibition of cars from the legendary Martini Racing team....
Triple World Champion Sir Jack Brabham’s youngest son, David, having won back the rights to the Brabham name in 2012,...
Art of the Le Mans Racecar By Stuart Codling This is a book of history about the 24 Hours of Le Mans, with the 90-year story of the race told in vignettes surrounding the cars that raced there. Broken down into four groups more or less by decades, it takes...
Daytona International Speedway, Daytona Beach, FL January 25–26, 2014 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (&...
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Chuckwalla Valley Raceway, Desert Center, CA November 23–24, 2013 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (&...
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports; the World...
William F. Milliken Jackie StewartPhoto: Thierry Lesparre 3 Carroll Shelby drives a Birdcage Maserati to victory in the Los Angeles Examiner Herald-Express International Grand Prix at Riverside, California (1960). 4 Clemente Biondetti drives a 2-liter Ferrari to victory in the revived Giro di Sicilia, in Italy (1948). Become a Member...
Roll-Over Protection or Abstract Art Dear Editor, As a dedicated classic / historic racecar, roadcar enthusiast I am horrified how...
Then. In 1991, Harold Pace stormed out of his home-based shop and proclaimed to his adoring wife, Shelley, at the...
Young Brazilian Nelson Piquet drove his Gordon Murray-designed Brabham BT49-Cosworth to his first Formula One victory in Long Beach on March 30, 1980. Note the sliding skirts along the edges of the undercar tunnels. Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to...
This 1970 Targa Florio-winning Porsche 908/03 was piloted by Brian Redman and Jo Siffert, used by the John Wyer-led Porsche...
Mike Lawrence In a recent editorial, Casey Annis bemoaned wind tunnels and the negative effect they have had on racing...
Photo: Maureen Magee In motor racing, Formula One is the paradise that all drivers wish to get to. Some drivers are lucky enough to get to a top team and others, like me, were not so lucky and had to be satisfied with a team that was used to being...
Nate JonesPhoto: John Zimmermann I first got involved with the Long Beach Grand Prix after a phone call from my...
For the 1924 French Grand Prix at Lyon, Count Zborowski raced an American MIller 122 (#6), but completed only 16...
Whether you are a lifelong fan or a recent convert, undoubtedly you have a racing touchstone, that is to say a specific track or particular race, that is especially near and dear to you. Perhaps this touchstone represents the first event you ever witnessed or maybe a special track that...
Photo: John Zimmermann Before 1975, sanctioned automobile races through city streets in North America were rare, the only real example...
Scheckter’s Laguna Seca win was his first of four in a row that established a points lead he never relinquished.Photo:...
Photo: Pete Austin Cars don’t come much better than this. Born in a golden era of sportscar racing, this French beauty has the most amazing pedigree. Raced at Le Mans by Juan Manuel Fangio and Louis Rosier, driven in the Monaco Grand Prix by Maurice Trintignant and currently in ownership...
