Photo: Walter Pietrowicz Lime Rock Fatality Dear Editor, Your November 2014 issue just arrived, and I have to disagree with...
With this month’s feature story about the early sports car races at Goleta Airport near Santa Barbara, California, we thought...
Motor Racing Heroes, The Stories of 100 Greats By Robert Newman Robert Newman will be no stranger to regular Vintage Racecar readers. Over many years he has scribbled away month after month producing excellent pieces of work for the magazine. His regular “Heroes” column is now the subject of his...
The FIA Sports Prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations...
Max Balchowsky Reg ParnellPhoto: Tim Parnell Collection 2 The first South African Grand Prix to be held on the Kyalami...
Then I have a friend living in the Sunshine State with a spectacular collection of historic racing cars from the 1950s. For years I’ve been needling him about letting me write an article about one of his wonderful machines, but he has been steadfast in his resistance. Last week he...
Modena Aerautodromo, December 15, 1964. John Surtees is about to head out to test the new Ferrari 330P2 that will...
The Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion has named the Shelby GT350 Mustang as its featured marque for the event’s 2015 edition,...
Carroll Shelby may be best known for his FIA-winning Cobras, SCCA championship GT350s and the GT40s that triumphed at Le Mans, but his proudest moment came as a driver. In 1959, Shelby won the 24 Hours of Le Mans as a driver for Aston Martin, becoming only the second American...
The man who, as marketing manager for the fledgling French petroleum company Elf, effectively engineered the Pilote Elf program that...
Historic Sportscar Racing has released a 2015 calendar of events that includes seven vintage racecar weekends at tracks in the...
Goodwood has announced provisional dates for its two iconic historic weekends, the Festival of Speed and the Revival Meeting, as well as the theme for the Festival, which will be “Flat-out and Fearless: Racing on the Edge.” The 23rd annual Festival of Speed is scheduled to take place June 25-28,...
The factory Jaguar XJR-9 (chassis 388) that won the 1990 Rolex 24 at Daytona will cross the auction block at...
Mike Lawrence One of the anniversaries celebrated at the 2014 Goodwood Revival Meeting was 50 years since Jackie Stewart won...
Gary Pearson stretches his and the D-type Jaguar’s legs during a Goodwood Revival.Photo: Roger Dixon My first open-wheeled car was a Lotus 22, in fact it was one of the cars used in the filming of Grand Prix. When I first got the car it still had the Jordan BRM...
Southgate’s sleek Jagusr XJR-6 draws a crowd in the paddock at Brands Hatch for the World Endurance Championship round in...
Luigi Musso acclimates himself to the cockpit of his Maserati 300S prior to the start of the 1955 Grand Prix...
Casey Annis Editor/Publisher Elsewhere in this issue you’ll read of the passing of an individual that you’ve likely never heard of. Yet, this gentleman is probably responsible for preserving more significant racing history than nearly anyone else in the past 50 years. His name was Bill Spoerle and from 1963...
Rick HallPhoto: Mike Jiggle In the first part of this interview, Rick Hall told of his initial foray into the...
Track map from the event program (inset) and an aerial view (main image) taken after several years of racing. The...
Photo: Peter Collins In 1922 the Maserati brothers, Alfieri and Ernesto, began to work closely with the Diatto Company after the presentation of the latter’s Tipo 20 car at the Milan Exhibition. By 1925, after some competition success, Diatto decided they wanted to go Grand Prix racing and, as that...
Chuck Rathgeb with Shelby with cooper cobra.Photo: Friedman Wrath of the Cobra Dear Editor, In regards to your excellent story...
The Historic Vehicle Association is developing a National Historic Vehicle Register that will carefully and accurately document America’s most historically...
The American Legacy in Formula 1 By Phillip van Osten This may be a promotional book for the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas, but it is also a definitive history of the relationship between the United States of America and the FIA’s World Championship for Formula One, nothing...