The first few years of the 1950s saw sports car events evolve from chummy club gatherings for “gentlemen racers” into...
The past, present and future of Aston Martin is to be honored through a year-long celebration of the iconic British...
The 935/78 was the ultimate expression of the 911 factory race car before Porsche officially withdrew from motor sport. Raced under the Group 5 silhouette series, great liberties were taken with the design and the result was nicknamed ‘Moby Dick’ for its large size and huge overhangs. Only one 935/78...
1 The Toyota Celica Turbo 4WD is homologated for Group A rallying (1992). 2 First South Africa Grand Prix to...
Radical Motorsport has unveiled the full specification of its all-new SR3 XXR. Enhancing the proven formula of the SR3, the...
The video below from our friends at Petrolicious tells the story of Tony Parkinson and his acquisition of a very special racecar: one of three 1963 Austin-Healey 3000 MkIIs built to race the 12 Hours of Sebring in 1963. These unique racecars were pulled directly from the assembly line and received extensive...
Nineteen thirty-five was an excellent Grand Prix season, the best against strong and varied opposition that Mercedes-Benz enjoyed in Year...
1 Dan Gurney drives an AAR Eagle to victory in the USAC Rex Mays 300 at Riverside International Raceway in...
1970 Alfa Romeo GTAm Autodelta built around 40 examples of the GTAm (Alleggerita Maggiorata – “lightened enlarged”), with 1750 and 2000cc engines. The GTAm won numerous races before competition grew stronger in 1971. _______________________ Arthur Schening is a freelance graphic designer and illustrator living in Arlington, VA. Prints are 19″...
This past weekend (Nov. 25–27), the Gulf Historic Dubai GP Revival roared into action. Celebrating the very best of motorsport...
For years, a collection of the most extraordinary, unrestored Bugatti cars has sat, meticulously cared for and researched, in a...
Travelling just shy of 11,000 kilometers in purpose-built, air-cooled Porsche 911s and first- and second-generation Cayennes through some of South America’s harshest terrains over 39 thrilling days, KALMAR Beyond Adventure’s (KBA) privateer teams triumphantly crossed the finish line of its Trans-Andes rally in Mid-November. With specially equipped 964- and 993-series...
At Watkins Glen they said, “It looks like the box it came in.” Even that harsh judgement of the appearance...
RM Sotheby’s has sold Michael Schumacher’s Championship-winning Ferrari F2003-GA, chassis no. 229, at Sotheby’s Luxury Week sale in Geneva, for...
Can it be? Well, yes it is! 50 years since Emerson Fittipaldi took his first F1 World Championship. At 25, Emerson was, at the time, the youngest champion in F1 history. Completing the double that year, Team Lotus also won the F1 Constructors Championship using the Lotus 72, or John...
The United States Grand Prix; Watkins Glen; October 10, 1973 Emerson Fittipaldi, in his Lotus 72, qualified well, but was...
1 John Henry Bradley and Rodolfo Ponce drive a stripped-down Nash Ambassador to victory in the 500-kilometer Miguel Grau Road...
Monsters come alive. In 1966 things were spicing up with a totally new motor racing series – Can-Am. It started out as a race series for group 7 sports racers with two races in Canada (Can) and four races in the United States of America (Am). The series was initially...
New Zealand motor sport enjoyed a golden age during the 1960s and early 1970s when no less than three drivers...
The Anglo-European Trophy; Brands Hatch; September 14, 1963 The start of the Anglo-European Trophy for Formula Juniors. Closest to the...
Organizers of the 2023 1000 Miglia 2023 have announced that the venerable event has been expanded to now cover 5 days of rallying from June 13 to 17 and this year will see 405 cars admitted to the famous start starting platform in Brescia. The race will run between Brescia,...
1 F1 & sports car racer Willy Mairesse is born in Momignies, Belgium (1928). 2 The Lancia-Bertone Stratos HF rally...
The Porsche 917K number 20, featured in the 1971 movie “Le Mans” with Steve McQueen at the wheel. The 917...
Ticket sales for Porsche Rennsport Reunion 7 have gone live as the countdown begins for the world’s biggest Porsche gathering. The seventh celebration of Porsche motorsport past, present and future will be held September 28 through October 1, 2023, for the fourth time at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey,...
As usual Goodwood played host to thousands of historic car racing fans dressed in a fantastic assortment of period gear...
On New Year’s Eve in 1950, the first endurance race run at Sebring was won by a very unlikely car,...
Carrera Panamericana; November 22, 1952 This is the factory-entered Ferrari 250 Sport driven by Giovanni Bracco and Gino Bronzoni to an eventual mechanical DNF. Earlier in the year Bracco and Alfonso Rolfo had won the Mille Miglia in this same car. Ascari and Villoresi had a DNF at Le Mans...
The Ford Mustang, fresh off its seventh generation unveiling, will soon return to Le Mans in the form of the...
Unleashing the rampant horsepower of its global ‘Total Performance’ campaign, Ford funded many racing stables but could never quite commit...
1 NASCAR driver Richard “Richie” Panch dies in an airplane crash near Winnsboro, South Carolina (1985). 2 Wolfgang Kaufman and Hubert Haupt drive a Porsche GT2 to victory in the FIA GT Championship race on the Lausitzring in Germany (2000). 3 Leighton Reese wins the SCCA Trans-Am race at Texas...
