Although there were a number of pre-WWII cars that can be described as sports cars, the craze in the U.S....
One week after graduating college, I loaded my tool box, helmet and sleeping bag into what was effectively my entire...
January 2018 • Two new venues and a return to popular historic festivals highlight Masters Historic Racing’s eight-race European calendar for 2018—including having all five Masters categories represented at the prestigious Silverstone Classic for the first time. The season commences on March 22 with a Test Day at Brands Hatch,...
January 2018 Ferrari: Gli anni d’oro – The Golden Years By Leonardo Acerbi In his introduction, author Acerbi notes that...
Road America, Elkhart Lake, WI September 15-17, 2017 Tedd Zamjahn raced his 1926 Bugatti Type 37GP.Photo: JR Schabowski Become a...
Virginia Int’l. Raceway, Alton VA September 21-24, 2017 Colby Hillman brakes hard for Turn 4 in his 1969 Chevrolet Corvette 427.Photo: Fred Lewis 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...
Sonoma Raceway, Sonoma, CA September 29-October 1, 2017 Here’s Dennis Racine’s 1966 Mini Cooper S (#177).Photo: Brad Fox Become a...
Silverstone Circuit, Northants, UK October 21-22, 2017 The start of Historic Roadsports with GT350 of Larry Tucker and Morgan Plus...
January 2018 Of Nomads and IBECS Photo: Ferret Fotographics Despite having been a Director of Ian Bracey’s IBEC Racing Developments company back in the 1970s and 1980s, I had never seen the photo of the IBEC Group 6 car that accompanied the recent interview you conducted with Bob Curl. Mr....
The FIA sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations...
A.J. Foyt Donald Mitchell Healey 1 • Colin Chapman and Michael Allen form Lotus Engineering Company (1952). 3 • Sprint...
Recently the collector car world has shifted. Although interest remains for established sectors, a new generation of enthusiasts has arrived with a passion for more modern machinery. This shift is now impacting the vintage racing scene where the definition of “vintage racecar” will continue to evolve. One sector involved in...
January 2018 The Sebring 12 Hours: Sebring, March 20, 1971. Rolf Stommelen with his Alfa Romeo 33/3 which he drove...
The year 2015 marked the 60th anniversary of Stirling Moss and Denis Jenkinson’s victory in the 1955 Mille Miglia, racing...
Everybody has one…or rather lots of people have one. Lots of people think they should have one. Every business needs one and every government agency has one whether they need it or not. There are others—writers, photographers, bloggers, self-employed ladies, chefs, doctors and, of course, those with whom we identify,...
The 1988 season was one of those years when I was truly up against it, my wife was pregnant with...
When the sports car scene started to heat up again in ’65-’66, I went to work for Motorsport Design in...
Ask anyone who was the first American to win a Grand Prix and chances are they will say Phil Hill or Dan Gurney, heroes of the ’60s. But it was, in fact, much earlier than that. The first was David Bruce-Brown, a strikingly handsome young New Yorker and son of...
As you’ll read in this issue’s news, the much-revered Lyndley Bothwell collection was recently sold by Bonhams. Of particular interest...
Over the course of nearly seven decades of Formula One history, only three men have ever won a World Championship Grand Prix race in a car of their own construction. Of course, none of them actually designed or built their cars all by themselves, they simply conceived, established, directed, managed...
1961 Alfa Romeo SVZ Coda Tronca When you sit down and tot up the number of publicly available variations on...
Racing swiftly in the swirling dust from the clay pans of the Dry Lakes of Southern California in the SCTA...
February 2018 Mario Andretti: A Life in Pictures By Mario Donnini The latest in author Donnini’s series of “Life in Pictures” reflections on prominent racers and events is devoted to the 1978 F1 World Champion and four-time U.S. National Indycar Champion Mario Andretti. Mario’s story should be familiar to most...
Rockingham. UK October 21, 2017 Alistair Pugh (Frazer Nash-BMW 328).Photo: Pete Austin Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To...
Grand Prize Circuit, Savannah, GA October 26-29, 2017 Turner Woodward (1975 Chevron B31).Photo: John Avery Become a Member & Get...
Daytona Int’l. Speedway, FL November 8-12, 2017 James and Steven Lawrence and Ray Meister raced this 1977 Porsche 934S.Photo: Rex McAfee 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...
Italian Countryside November 9-11, 2017 Conrero Opel Manta 400 of Pinzini and Bortoletto.Photo: Peter Collins Become a Member & Get...
From 1964 to 1978, a series of flat-bottomed formula cars were manufactured to serve as steppingstones to Formula One and...
Warwick Brown drives a Lola T430 to victory in the Australian GP at Oran Park in Sydney (1977). 1 • Guy Frequelin becomes competition chief of Citroën (1989). 2 • Seven drivers (Rob Dyson, Elliott Forbes-Robinson, Butch Leitzinger, John Paul Jr., John Schneider, Andy Wallace and James Weaver) share the...