As a tribute to Alan Mann Racing’s 1966 Ford GT lightweight experimental prototypes, Ford is introducing the Ford GT Alan...
1957 Ferrari 625 TRC Scaglietti Spider The Ferrari 625 was specially ordered by Jon Von Neumann – the Ferrari distributor...
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Subscriber exclusive Photo Gallery from HSR’s Dec. 3-6, 2021, Classic Sebring 12-Hr 133 Peter Rogal 76 Porsche 935 81 Byron...
American Amy Lerner and her co-driver Sara Bossaert, of Barcelona, Spain crossed the finish line of the 2022 Dakar Rally...
In the 1950s, home-made, one-off sports cars were being created everywhere across the country, the majority of them emerging from suburban garages built by weekend racers, mechanics, engineers and dreamers. The results of these efforts were mixed; some cars were crude creations cobbled together by shade-tree mechanics that were downright...
The 1965 Shelby GT350R Prototype driven by Ken Miles sold for $3.75 million at Mecum Auctions’ recent Kissimmee sale. Recognized...
The Morgan Motor Company has announced the launch of the Plus Four LM62, a model which celebrates the company’s legendary...
The British Grand Prix; Aintree; July 21, 1962 The race has started and Innes Ireland holds up his arm to indicate that his Parnell-entered B.R.P. Lotus 24 has failed to engage a gear in its front row position. Ireland finally got going after much attention in the pits, but was...
Brausch Niemann had a brief but successful career in motor sport and took part in two world championship Grands Prix,...
1 Test driver Norman Dewis O.B.E. begins a 33-year career at Jaguar (1952). 2 Tobacco advertising on radio and TV...
There have seldom been races which have been held under such atrocious conditions that they remained in the imagination of many. Such one was the 1968 Grand Prix of Germany on the 14.2-mile long Nürburgring. With its 1000 feet of elevation change and 160 bends, Jackie Stewart, who would have...
Each year the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion celebrates the greatest achievements in motorsport by accepting only the best of the...
Lotus founder Colin Chapman was undoubtedly gifted at what he did, admittedly some of his cars were better than others...
The global Lotus community is saddened to learn that Hazel Chapman, the wife of Colin Chapman and co-founder of Lotus, has died aged 94. Her contribution to motorsport and the motor industry in the latter half of the 20th century should not be under-estimated. She was a successful racing driver,...
America’s premier sports car endurance race started at an abandoned WWII Army Air Corps base in Florida. “The 12-Hours of...
“Who do you think you are? Stirling Moss?” This, so the story goes, is what a policeman asked the legendary...
Bob Tullius Aldo Andretti Romolo Tavoni Oscar Koveleski 1 Scuderia Ferrari is formed (1929). 2 British sports car racer and entrant David Piper is born (1930). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to paid subscribers...
1968 Porsche 908 LH (long-tail) The number 64 Porsche 908, driven by Hans Herrmann and Gérard Larrousse, won the prototype...
1 Ricardo Rodriguez dies in an accident during the non-championship Mexican Grand Prix on the Magdalena Mixhuca Circuit in Mexico...
Author, photographer, racer and co-founder of the Fabulous Fifties organization, Art Evans has passed away at the age of 87. Arthur Grant Evans, Jr. was born on January 8,1934, in Santa Barbara, California. In 1950 Art joined the California Army National Guard, and was educated first at the United States Military...
On February 6th 1967, Ferrari pulled off one of the most spectacular feats in its entire history when it took...
The only Dragonsnake Cobra equipped at the factory with the Stage III quadruple-Weber carburetion system, this 1965 Shelby 289 Cobra,...
Tom Tjaarda Master of Proportions by Gautam Sen While there are a number of post-war automotive designers that have penned significant, lasting designs, few have had the sheer number of ionic and influential designs as American-born designer Tom Tjaarda. Tjaarda’s name and style has become synonymous with the De Tomaso...
The International “Senior Service” Sports Car Race; Silverstone, July 10, 1965 Bob Bondurant doing what he could with John Willment’s...
Out of the shadows of World War II and its aftermath has come an unique Alfa Romeo sports car flaunting...
On Friday, November 12, 2021, the automotive world lost one of the last, great American racing heroes of the ’50s and ’60s, when Bob Bondurant passed away at the age of 88. Robert Lewis Bondurant was born on April 27, 1933, to John Roper Bondurant and Ruth Williams Bondurant of...
Sam’s Scrapbook: My motorsports memories By Sam Posey with John Posey Even the most casual racing enthusiast will recognize the...
When the green flag waved on Nov. 9, 1957, for the Eighth Annual Pebble Beach Road Race, those in attendance...
Mecum Auctions has announced that the famed Corvette Z06 known as “Gulf One”, will be offered for sale at its Kissimmee auction, January 6–16, 2022. With a singular history chronicled by voluminous and highly detailed documentation, this 1963 Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray Z06, known as “Gulf One,” holds a special...
