The pioneer eras of showroom stock and street stock endurance road racing and IMSA Racing Stocks and International Sedan (RS/IS)...
Monterey, CA August 14-17 The start of Saturday’s Trans-Am race saw 32 “ground-pounders” pour into Laguna Seca’s Turn 1.Photo: Jim...
Hugh DibleyPhoto: Glynn Jones It all began as an end-of-season sojourn in the sun. The Bahamas Speed Week had been initiated in 1954 when U.S. midget racing supremo Sherman F. Crise persuaded the Nassau Development Board to host ten days of racing events. In the early years, differing classes of...
Sebring International Raceway, Sebring FL December 3-6, 2015 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
Bruce McLaren John Fitch Photo: Mercedes 1 Richard Petty wins the NASCAR Winston Cup Talledega 500 in a Dodge Charger...
Foretelling the future is impossible, yet that is what executives in car companies have to do. When I was a kid, by the year 2000, cities would be traversed by monorails, and we’d all have our private helicopters and wear one-piece jumpsuits. The nearest to disharmony would be at meal...
Jean-Pierre Wimille Paul Newman A.J. Foyt Ronnie Peterson 1 The Lancia Rally (037) Evo 2 is homologated for Group B...
Walter Hayes Paddy Hopkirk 1 Count Eliot Zborowski is killed in an accident during La Turbie Hillclimb at Nice, France...
Phil Hill Created by the same organization which brought you last month’s Stirling Moss-featured web site, the site devoted to America’s Champion Phil Hill is organized in much the same way. Features of this site include an extensive biography of Hill’s life from his early days racing sports cars on...
Nelson Piquet Biography Nelson Piquet was born on August 17, 1952 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The son of a...
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For many racing enthusiasts around the globe, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that racing in Canada is limited just to a few well-known tracks like Mosport or the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. However, this is a gross under-representation of the size and scope of Canadian motorsport. In...
In 1938, Ettore Bugatti set about designing a revolutionary air racer to compete in the 1939 Deutsch de la Meurthe...
April 2008 The French Grand Prix; Reims, July 3, 1960. Phil Hill’s Ferrari 246/F1 rounds the Thillois hairpin at the...
Just after 4:00 pm on the rainy Sunday of June 19, 1966, a trio of squat, massive, 427-engined American coupes splashed by a Frenchman waving a giant, sodden checkered flag, and thereby rumbled into international immortality. Pete Lyons We mark several towering milestones this year, but one of the tallest...
The 1949 MG TC raced by Carroll Shelby in the early stages of his career drew the top bid during...
The Silver Anniversary Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance celebrates the splendid shapes of Sergio Scaglietti’s legendary cars on the 100th anniversary...
“A great hammer struck my spine, slamming my head back. I forced it down, and stared at the long black roadway between the orange wheel bulges. It was rushing like some demonic torrent frantic to enter the gates of hell… Pete Lyons “There was no longer any sensation of speed....
April 26-27, 2003 Hershey, PA The 1959 Porsche 356A of Tobey Ross. Photo: Jay Texter Become a Member & Get...
Sixty-one years after race cars first roared into the small Kansas town of Garnett, a dedicated group of passionate individuals...
“It was the best of times…it was the worst of times.” – Charles Dickens PROLOGUE I’ve forgotten more about my life in motorsports than most people have experienced. That said, recently my declining memory was stimulated big time by a news story focusing on NASCAR team owner Gene Haas’ plans...
Before the outbreak of WWII, motor racing in South Africa had been developing strongly and, in fact, the last pre-war...
Two-time Rolex 24 at Daytona winner Preston Henn (above, right, Hal Crocker photo) has passed away at the age of...
The Ferrari 195 Inter was introduced in 1950 as a roadgoing machine to replace the 166. According to Stanley Nowak in Ferrari on the Road, a total of 27 cars left the factory over the short production run. It seems that 26 of the buyers understood Enzo’s intention for this...
There is a section in The Sunday Times called In Gear and it is basically boys’ toys, with cars as...
Denis Hulme Jean Alesi 2 F1 racer and Can-Am champion Bruce McLaren dies in a crash while testing his M8D...
Rodger Ward Jim Hurtubise Photo: IMS 1 Jim Clark wins the South African Grand Prix driving a Ford Cosworth-powered Lotus 49 for his 25th GP victory (1968). 2 Walter Sobraske, machinist for Miller, Schofield, Offenhauser, and Meyer & Drake, is born in West Virginia (1901). Become a Member & Get...
You’ve certainly heard many of us here at Vintage Racecar lament the fact that today’s racecar drivers seem to be...
The Formula 5000 Drivers Association has announced its racing schedule for 2021. The Association has announced three official races for...
Jim Proffit, arguably the king of the pre-war BMW chasers, passed away on April 2, 2018, from an apparent heart attack. For many decades, Jim successfully ran his Long Beach, California-based business, Racing Restorations. Jim pursued and located many of the pre-war BMWs that had been lost. He chased, found...