Masters Historic Racing has released its U.S. calendar for the 2020 season, visiting some of the best American road circuits...
From 1964–1978, a series of flat-bottomed, formula cars were manufactured to serve as a stepping stone to Formula One and...
Seventy years ago, on November 5, 1950, the first Pebble Beach Road Race took place — and the Pebble Beach Concours was born with it. To mark this historic event, Pebble Beach organizers invited Derek Hill to retrace the old road race course driving the very same Jaguar XK120 that...
November 2003 Alfa Romeo TZ—The Cars, the Race Results By Philippe Olczyk It came as something of a surprise to find...
June 2001 The Works MGs By Mike Allison & Peter Browning The racing history of the MG Car Company dates...
In this guide we are going to cover the popular single-seater series of Formula B, Formula Atlantic and Formula Two. From 1964 to 1978, these racing categories and the flat-bottomed formula cars manufactured to compete in them served as a stepping stone to the upper echelons of open-wheeled racing, be...
Lotus founder Colin Chapman was undoubtedly gifted at what he did, admittedly some of his cars were better than others...
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Unleashing the rampant horsepower of its global ‘Total Performance’ campaign, Ford funded many racing stables but could never quite commit wholeheartedly to the world’s most rewarding and highly publicised sports car racing series. The Ford Motor Company took “Total Performance” seriously. When it stepped into motor racing with fanfares around...
With five months left until the Dubai Autodrome is illuminated with the sound and color of motorsport icons, more than...
Colin Chapman Michele Alboreto 2 As a publicity stunt, Ford has professional racers drive Cortinas down the Cresta bobsled run...
Mike Hawthorn Tony Hulman Al Unser Sr. Walt Hansgen 1 Australian touring car driver Tony Longhurst is born in Sidney, New South Wales, Australia (1957). 4 Bobby Rahal wins the CART Bosch Spark Plug Grand Prix in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, driving a Team Rahal Lola T92/00-Chevrolet (1992). Become a Member &...
Two long-time veterans of racing on the streets of Long Beach—Willy T. Ribbs and Oriol Servia—will be honored by induction...
Although all paintings are unique, periodically an artist is given the opportunity to work on a special project. When the...
Janet Guthrie Carlos Pace 1 NASCAR racer Dave Marcis is born (1941). 2 Sports car racer Nino Vacarella is born (1933). 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...
Travelling to the capital of Lapland, right on the Arctic Circle, specially prepared classic Porsche 911s have taken part in...
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Peter Revson Alexander Wurz Niki Lauda Richard Seaman 1 Bobby Rahal, Bob Garretson, and Brian Redman, drive a Porsche 935 K3 to victory in the 24 Hours of Daytona. First IMSA GTP race (1981). 3 Paul Goldsmith drives Smokey Yunick’s Pontiac to victory in the last stock car race on...
Lotus 72—1970–75 By Pete Lyons Foreword by Emerson Fittipaldi Longtime readers of VR&R will be well acquainted with the...
Team Audi Sport has optimized the pioneering rally car prototype that has an electric drivetrain, a high-voltage battery and an...
Historic Photographs As a supplier of rare period photography to VRJ, Ferret Fotographics offers prints from its 1.5 million negative collection spanning all types of racing from 1930 to 1990. If you are in search of that impossible to find car or shot, chances are good Ferret Fotographics will likely...
Built in series from 1919 to 1927, the 30-98 was, in its day, the fastest cataloged production car in Great...
The world of motorsport lost one of its most charming and colorful characters on July 16, when team owner Theodore...
Mark Donohue Bruce McLaren 1 “Big Daddy” Don Garlits becomes the first dragracer to run the 1/4 mile at more than 200 mph. He drives his Swamprat dragster to 201.34 mph at Island Dragway in New Jersey, USA (1964). 1 Gerhard Mitter dies in a testing crash at the Nürburgring...
One of the greatest fears in racing is to have some type of catastrophic suspension or steering failure. The best...
Photo Gallery from SVRA’s May 1-2, 2021, Trans-Am Speedfest at Weathertech Laguna Seca Raceway....
If you’re an automotive enthusiast, and you spent any kind of time in Southern California from 2006 to 2014, then you likely have experienced one of the all-time great automotive gatherings—the famed Cars & Coffee at the Ford Design Center, in Irvine. Arguably, the progenitor of all Cars & Coffee...
The L&M Formula 5000 Championship; Mid-Ohio, June 3, 1973. Mark Donohue in Roger Penske’s Lola T330 with AMC Javelin power,...
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Due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, Peter Auto and the Automobile Club de l’Ouest have decided to postpone the tenth edition of Le Mans Classic to July 1-4, 2021. A statement by Peter Auto reads: After having carefully studied different scenarios and possible dates, it was finally decided that postponing...