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...
It was 35 years ago today (April 21), in monsoon conditions, that a determined young Brazilian raced to his first...
Influential Indianapolis Motor Speedway fixture, historian and historic driver Patrick Kennedy passed away on April 12th, at the age of...
1981 Indianapolis 500 Rookie of the Year Bob Lazier has passed away at the age of 81, due to complications from COVID-19. Lazier started racing with the SCCA, in the 1970s, and after success in Formula B, Formula Super Vee and the “Mini-Indy” series, Lazier made his Indy 500 debut,...
Built in series from 1919 to 1927, the 30-98 was, in its day, the fastest cataloged production car in Great...
The L&M Formula 5000 Championship; Mid-Ohio, June 3, 1973. Mark Donohue in Roger Penske’s Lola T330 with AMC Javelin power,...
In late December 1959, Bill Jennings packed his tools, spares and suitcase into the passenger seat of his self-assembled GSM Dart sports car and drove from his home in Cape Town to East London – a trip of over 600 miles in the days before highways. Jennings then took part...
Hermann Lang Paul Tracy Don “The Snake” Prudhomme Peter Brock 1 The Lancia 037 rally car makes its competition debut...
Sir Stirling Moss was not only a special friend of Vintage Road & Racecar, but for several years he was one...
The final lap has been run and the chequered flag has fallen on the life and time of a man who was unambiguously born to be a racing driver, indeed he was known the world over as ‘Mr Motor Racing’. To give him his proper title, Sir Stirling Craufurd Moss,...
Nearly 70 years ago to the day, on April 10, 1950, the great champion Tazio Nuvolari ended his racing career...
Due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, Peter Auto and the Automobile Club de l’Ouest have decided to postpone the tenth...
This race was the brainchild of the wealthy race driver and automobile enthusiast, Vincenzo Florio, who in 1906 created the first race run over 3 laps equaling 277 miles, over the most treacherous mountain roads on Sicily, Italy. Alessandro Cagno won the inaugural race in 9 hours and with an average...
Photo Gallery from the March 1, 2020, Good Vibrations March Meet Nostalgia Drags at Famoso Raceway, Bakersfield, California. [button...
Originally built to compete in the 1910 Prince Henry Trophy, a German trial designed to discover the world’s best all-round...
He crashed numerous cars and aeroplanes, did his best to drown an admiral, and his dog delayed a critical wartime convoy for four days by eating top secret naval documents. Yes, Duncan Hamilton was certainly a larger than life character, but was also one of Europe’s premier racing drivers of...
In light of the rapidly developing COVID-19 (Coronavirus) and its effect on public gatherings, organizers of the second annual Sonoma...
Classic and vintage car restoration specialist Thornley Kelham is undertaking its most challenging project yet; a complete nut-and-bolt concours-standard restoration...
A radiator in the shape of a horseshoe and a bright blue finish – everytime one of the striking Bugatti vehicles took its place at the starting line of a race in the 1920s, the spectators could be sure of one thing : This car was going to take the...
Kirk F. White, consummate enthusiast and partner with Roger Penske when the pair entered a Ferrari 512S for Mark Donohue...
Photo Gallery from SVRA’s Feb. 27–29, 2020, Sebring Vintage Classic, at Sebring, Florida. [button link=”https://sportscardigest.com//sebring-vintage-classic-subscriber-photo-gallery/” color=”blue”]Subscribers click here for 7...
Subscriber exclusive Photo Gallery from SVRA’s Feb. 27–29, 2020, Sebring Vintage Classic, at Sebring, Florida. 99 Michael Moss 69 Lola T70 MkIII 98 James Farley 78 Lola 298 82 Hobart Buppert 78 Lola T70 MKIII 79 Nathan Scigliano 2004 Carbir S2 54 Dominick Incantalupo 2013 Oreca FLM 9 99 Michael...
Bristol, once a significant marque, has relocated to the “Great Paddock In The Sky.” For some time it had been...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was created by the FIA (Federation...
When Rod Millen hit the starter on his custom-designed and built four-wheel drive, four-rotor 1985 Mazda RX7 the explosion made photographer Dennis Fregger and I jump. It shattered the morning quiet, and flushed the birds out of the bushes a hundred yards away. The sound of an unfettered rotary engine...
