The 10th edition of the Goodwood Festival of Speed continued its tradition of bringing huge crowds onto the grounds of...
This year, SAAC (Shelby American Automobile Club) celebrated its 25th year with an enormous five-day gathering of street and racing...
September 2017 • John Knepp, who with Don Devendorf founded the Datsun/Nissan performance specialty company Electramotive Engineering, has died at the age of 75. Knepp made his first splash on the American motorsports scene working with Pete Brock’s Brock Racing Enterprises as it built 2.5-Liter Trans-Am-winning Datsun 510s for John...
Racing driver Lyn St. James, the 1992 Indianapolis 500 Rookie of the Year, a member of the ACCUS board on...
On March 6, the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Boston will unveil 16 classic European sports cars drawn from the...
Two-time 500-cc motorcycle champion Barry Sheene recently lost his battle with throat cancer; he was 52-years old. Born in London, the son of a Grand Prix motorcycle mechanic in 1950, Sheene started racing in 1968 and by 1973 had won the British and European 750-cc titles. Sheene suffered a devastating...
Watkins Glen International has announced that Hurley Haywood has been named Grand Marshal of the 2019 Hilliard U.S. Vintage Grand...
Reports from Argentina indicate that former Formula One driver Carlos Reutemann may be considering a bid to become president of...
The International Motor Racing Research Center at Watkins Glen is welcoming two highly distinctive and historic racecars to the Center this year. A rare Cunningham C4R has begun a four-month stay at the Center, with its arrival on March 14. The C4R was the most successful of the American racecars...
Last week, the Revs® Institute for Automobile Research in Naples, Florida, opened its first multi-media exhibition, The Rivals: A Golden...
Four-time Indianapolis 500 winner Al Unser and his two-time Indy-winning son, Al Jr., will headline the 7th annual Motorsports and...
The Fifth Annual Legends of Riverside Racing Film Festival in late March at the Riverside International Automotive Museum honored Bob Bondurant as its latest inductee. He joins Dan Gurney, Carroll Shelby, Parnelli Jones and Bobby Unser as a Legend of Riverside. As the leader of Shelby’s FIA Manufacturers Championship-winning Cobra...
New Zealand is to have a new motorsport complex comprising three sealed circuits, purpose-built garages, industrial units and trackside apartments to service...
The International Jaguar XK Club has announced that this summer’s XK 60 celebrations will feature one of the finest displays...
West Coast road racer Dick Smith (73 years old) and his stepson Kyle Runciman (16 years old) were killed in mid-April, when the small plane they were flying crashed in the mountains outside of Tehachapi, California. Smith raced a variety of cars in the 1960s including Ferraris, Porsches, McLarens and...
On the second weekend in July the Golden Anniversary of Hagley and District Light Car Club’s first sprint was celebrated...
For the past 26 years, the Duke of Richmond has attracted the cream of motoring and motorsport to his Sussex...
Marco Diez unveiled his reimagined 1963 Jaguar E-Type Low Drag Coupe at The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering during Monterey Car Week. Inspired by the legendary 1963 Jaguar E-Type Low Drag Coupe “49FXN,” this Low Drag, known as project “OWL226” because of its California registration, was designed by Diez who painstakingly recreated the...
The Ontario-based Burlwood Motorsports Club has released its 2017 Calendar of Events, listing four confirmed outings and a fifth yet...
Triumph—and later Nissan GTP—racing legend Robert “Kas” Kastner has passed away at the age of 92. Born in Batavia, New...
Millions of roadside spectators had cheered the 2004 Mille Miglia Storica and its 375 cars and crews from 30 different countries from Brescia to Rome on May 6 and 7 and for much of the following day during his last leg back to Brescia. But the race was abruptly halted...
The buzz in Hollywood is that American film company Infinity Media—makers of this year’s Oscar award-winning Capote—has bought the rights...
The Automobile Club De L’Ouest (ACO) held it’s 2nd bi-annual Le Mans Legends race on June 14, this year featuring...
The oldest of only three Morgan SLRs returned to Silverstone after last racing there 34 years ago. Entered in the GTSCC race at the HSCC’s International Trophy meeting, new owner Simon Orebi-Gann and his teammate Richard Bourne qualified 2nd in class and 13th overall on the 44-car grid. In the...
At the final press day for GPLive at Donington Park in the UK, the threat of snow failed to stop...
Four celebrated legends from the 24 Hours of Le Mans top a star-studded lineup of speakers appearing at the inaugural...
The entry list for the 2021 Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) Classic Daytona presented by IMSA has been posted, and the seventh running of the Classic 24 Hour race at Daytona International Speedway (DIS), October 27 – 31, has attracted a stout lineup of former race winners, debuting contenders and a...
On November 4-7 twelve Ford GT40s were reunited at the HSR Brumos Continental Historics held at the Daytona International Speedway....
The Road Racing Drivers Club has announced that it will be hosting an “Evening with Rick Mears” Dinner with proceeds...
The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering announced that the 2020 edition of the world-class motoring event will be suspended in response to the ongoing COVID-19 situation. The Peninsula Hotels Signature Events and Quail Lodge & Golf Club have been closely monitoring the global spread of the virus and strictly adhering to...
