Hans Mezger, famed engineer and father to the legendary Porsche 917 and boxer 6-cylinder engine, passed away on June 10,...
The French Grand Prix; Charade (Clermont-Ferrand), June 27, 1965 The great Jim Clark drifting the works Lotus 25 on this...
The holy grail of land speed records resides in the vast solitude of a formerly thriving prehistoric lake. 14,000 years ago, this epic lake flooded out, evacuating the equivalent of Lake Michigan into Idaho’s Red Rock Pass. This devastating flood would last for over a year, continuously moving trillions of...
David Hobbs Jacky Ickx Ayrton Senna “Wally” Willmott 1 Greg Moore wins the Miller 200 at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for his...
Texas professional and historic racer Charles Nearburg has a long and diversified motorsport resume. At the profession level, he’s competed...
June 2, 2020, marked half a century since the death of pioneering racing driver and engineer Bruce McLaren, who was killed in 1970 while testing one of his Can-Am racing cars at the Goodwood Circuit in West Sussex, UK. In commemoration of her father, Amanda McLaren – a McLaren Automotive...
The Maranello Concessionaires 250 LM driven by Graham Hill and Joachim Bonnier won the 1964 12 Hours of Reims. A...
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum is scheduled to reopen to the public at 9 a.m. (ET) Tuesday, July 7, following...
Pat Flaherty A.J. Foyt John Watson Zora Arkus-Duntov 1 Zora Arkus-Duntov, who will go on to become the “Father of the Corvette”, is hired as an engineer by General Motors (1953). 3 Jo Siffert and Brian Redman drive a Gulf Porsche 908/3 to victory in the Targa Florio on the...
On May 23, 1940, Maserati celebrated a fantastic four wins in a row at the Targa Florio. In fact, a...
On May 29, 1960, Sir Stirling Moss drove his Lotus 18 for almost three hours of punishing racing, battling through...
Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) has confirmed June dates at both Road America and the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. The agreement with Road America is a new date after a postponement from the original May 15 -17 Vintage Festival. Fathers’ Day June 18 – 21 weekend became available with the...
The Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix, presented by the Greater Pittsburgh Automobile Dealers Foundation, has announced major schedule changes to this...
One of my favorite automotive books is Doug Nye’s “Motor Racing Mavericks”. Published in 1975, it explores failures—high-end failures—in Grand...
The game-changing Audi quattro made its UK debut, in London, in 1980. Here, five former members of the Audi UK Rally Team recall how it changed the world, and we take a look back at the numerous iterations of the quattro rally car. Harald Demuth – Rally driver Two-time German...
Subscriber exclusive Photo Gallery from the HSRCA’s Mar. 21-22, 2020, Autumn Festival at Wakefield Park. The Turnham Clubman of Sean...
This year’s Historic Leyburn Sprints for historic and classic cars, which was scheduled to run on August 22–23, has been...
A prototype of the Maserati MC20, the new Maserati super sportscar, pays homage to Sir Stirling Moss, the British motor-racing ace who died on April 12, at the age of 90. The design used for this prototype is taken from the Maserati Eldorado, the iconic single-seater driven on its debut...
The Albi Grand Prix; Albi, France, July 16, 1939 Arthur Dobson in the very fast E.R.A. E-type which set pole...
The powers-that-be in 1920s auto racing, namely the American Automobile Association’s Contest Board, barred anyone who wasn’t a white male...
The flying man from Mantua On April 13, 1930, just after 5:00 am, the silent shadows beside Lake Garda are shaken by the rumble of an Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 Gran Sport spider Zagato driving at 93 mph with its headlights turned off. At its steering wheel is Tazio Nuvolari,...
Not long before his untimely death a few years ago, our Robert Newman wrote this tribute to his friend and...
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports; the World Sports Car Championship from 1953-1961, the Speedworld Challenge from 1962-1963, the International Championship of Makes from 1964-1971 and the World Championship of Makes from 1972-1981. There was even a European...
While 2020 marks Formula One’s milestone 70th anniversary, April has also featured an historic 70 years since Maserati not only...
Now available on Netflix is “A Life of Speed: The Juan Manuel Fangio Story.” The 92-minute movie originates in Argentina...
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The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering announced that the 2020 edition of the world-class motoring event will be suspended in response...
Organizers of the FIA Lurani Trophy for Formula Juniors have announced that they are canceling the 2020 championship due to...
In the 1950s, Britain struggled to find its place in Formula One racing. Fed up with BRM’s attempt, Tony Vandervell took the bit between his teeth and fielded cars of his own devising. The result was heartening success against the dominant Italians. The scion of an inventive master of electricity...
