Dad was a part-time taxi driver and Mom a secretary, and five-year-old Mika plagued the life out of them to...
Watch as James Taylor from CAR magazine seizes the extraordinary opportunity to pilot the magnificent 1987 Shell-Dunlop Porsche 962 on...
London to Edinburgh, UK March 27-28, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to paid subscribers only. Our membership removes most ads, lets you enjoy unlimited access to all our premium content, and offers you awesome discounts on partner...
E.D. Martin’s all-conquering Ferrari 315S awaits the start of the Feature Race in April of 1958.Photo: Benita Lane The revised...
Bruno Giacomelli was born in Brescia, Italy, in 1952. He was always enthusiastic about racing and especially about single-seaters, working...
March 2008 Market Madness Dear Editor, The reason Sotheby’s share prices dropped so suddenly is that the art they were selling was at “guaranteed reserve,” i.e., when they couldn’t sell it, they were obliged to buy it themselves. I wonder if this sort of arrangement ever happens at a car...
Pete Lyons Our reigning World Champion has forced us to think, once again, about sportsmanship in motorsport. Whether or not...
An evening of reunion and tribute to the United States Road Racing Championship, which ran from 1963 to 1968 and...
The transfer of technology from F1 to production cars will be embodied by a selection of models exhibited by Renault Classic at the 2019 Rétromobile show, Feb. 6–10. Renault is celebrating the 40th anniversary of its first, revolutionary Formula 1 victory at the event by exhibiting a 1979 RS 10...
Grand Prix Masters, the international race series for historic Formula One cars from 1966–1978, is expanding its role in historic...
Seattle, WA July 1-3 Ted Boskovitch in his 1960 Lotus 18 F.Jr. does his part to keep the infield neat...
June 2017 • Master automotive craftsman Joe Cavaglieri was named the 2017 recipient of the Racing History Project’s Peter Bryant Challenger Award at the project’s “Tribute to IMSA Dinner presented by Mazda,” held in early April at the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum in Pomona, California. The award recognizes outstanding...
Accomplished American historic racer John Delane recently notched up another remarkable racing achievement by winning both the Class A FIA...
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Another man I’d like to know more about – born in Paris of wealthy American racing parents – “Arree” was a character in an era of characters. He funded (or under-funded) his own entries in the early ’50s, drove at Indianapolis, later drove for Ferrari, Vanwall and BRM – running...
Bruce BurnessPhoto: John Zimmermann When last we left Bruce Burness (April VR) he had just initiated his lasting association with...
This past weekend saw the 100th anniversary of the 24 Hours of Le Mans and an exciting showdown between the...
Trevor Taylor’s life as a racing driver began on a windswept airfield at Gamston, Nottinghamshire, England. His father held a time trial between him and his older brother, Mike. The track was a straight, a hairpin bend and back to the start. Trevor, driving the X100 they had just built,...
Though historic racers themselves tend not to become “famous,” there certainly are a handful of very talented drivers, across the...
If you are even just slightly interested in Australian motor racing there are two Sundays of the year that are...
Experience the incredible and wild sound of Jean Ragnotti’s Renault 5 Maxi Turbo “Group B” rally car as it tears through the 1985 Tour de Corse Rally and won the race!...
July 2001 Alberto Ascari By Karl Ludvigsen This book is yet another in the critically acclaimed series of books from...
The inaugural edition of Historic Motorsport International (HMI), a brand-new show dedicated to all forms of historic motorsport, will be...
Peter Warr, who will be best remembered as the man who served as team manager for Colin Chapman’s Team Lotus Formula One team and kept the operation running in the wake of Chapman’s death, has himself passed away at his home in France following a heart attack on October 4....
For some time now, a consortium of major manufacturers has been threatening its own series, the Grand Prix World Championship....
On November 4–6, 2005, 30,000 people went through the doors of the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, England to see...
Last Month, Mike Jiggle spoke with mechanic-turned-designer Tony Robinson about his early days in motorsport with Stirling Moss and the British Racing Partnership. This month, Mike talks with Tony Robinson about the direction his career took, after Moss’s grisly crash at Goodwood in 1962, including his transition to designer with...
Ever since my VRJ colleague, Pete Lyons, reminisced about his early trips to and ‘round the Nurburgring in the March...
As you’ll read on the Vintage Roadcar side of the magazine this month, I recently had a very interesting and...
The Friends of Steve McQueen Rally, sponsored by Russo and Steele and benefiting Boys Republic, will take place May 20-21, beginning in Dana Point, California, and visiting Lake Elsinore via the Ortega Highway, Palomar Mountain, Warner Springs, Borrego Springs, Anza Borrego and Palm Desert. Space is limited to 48 cars...