The weather gods smiled on the 21st running of the Goodwood Festival of Speed as the whole weekend bathed in...
Previously the sole bastion of CART and NASCAR, the famed California Speedway recently inaugurated its new infield road course with...
The Motorsports Hall of Fame of America held its 22nd annual induction ceremonies at the Fillmore Theater in Detroit during the last week of August. This most recent class of inductees includes: drag racing legend Dale Armstrong; daredevil stuntman Joie Chitwood; underdog stock car champion Alan Kulwicki; motocross hero Jeremy...
The Vintage Sports Car Club has announced that “Formula Vintage” will be the new name for its racing program as...
The Sportscar Vintage Racing Association staged its 3rd annual Vintage Racing National Championships last weekend at Circuit of the Americas...
Jim Travers, who first rose to prominence along with his partner Frank Coon as the “Whiz Kids” behind Bill Vukovich’s success at Indianapolis, and later founded famed engine house Traco Engineering, has died at the age of 95. Collaborating with constructor Frank Kurtis, Travers (at right, above) and Coon built...
Porsche lands on American soil The story of Porsche’s phenomenal success in America is one of many chapters and couldn’t...
On May 26–27, the Bugatti Owners’ Club staged their all-French “La Vie en Bleu” speed hillclimb event at the UK’s...
Formula One designer and March Engineering co-founder Robin Herd has passed away at the age of 80. After graduating from Oxford university with degrees in engineering and physics, Herd went to work in the British aerospace industry, where he initially worked on the supersonic Concorde project. However, by 1965, the...
No story of Vel’s Parnelli Jones Racing would be complete without a significant mention of the team’s ambitious foray into...
The Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance has announced that motorsports icon Parnelli Jones will be the honoree for the 13th Annual...
Stock car icon Dale Earnhardt, two-time Indy 500 champion Gordon Johncock, sports car and F5000 legend Brian Redman and pioneering open-wheel racer Gaston Chevrolet will lead a class of eight racing legends inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame when the organization stages its annual enshrinement ceremony, June 12, 2002...
The Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion has named the Shelby GT350 Mustang as its featured marque for the event’s 2015 edition,...
Skip Barber, founder of the Skip Barber Racing School and owner of Connecticut’s Lime Rock Park, will serve as Grand...
More than 112 vintage racers and 760 collector cars filled Oregon’s Portland International Raceway over the Labor Day weekend with weather more befitting the English countryside. The 39th Annual SOVREN Columbia Classic and All British Field Meeting saluting Austin-Healey offered scattered sunshine Saturday, but the rest of the weekend was...
A recent resurgence of interest in vintage HMODs (and similar small-bore racers) has led to the formation of the H-Modified...
One of only three Lola Mk 6 sports cars, used as the development prototype for the Ford GT40 program, will go up for sale at H&H Classic Auction’s upcoming Dec. 6, 2000 auction in England. The car to be offered is Chassis #1, though it is considered to be the...
The future of one of Britain’s greatest race circuits, Donington Park, has been spectacularly confirmed by the launch of its...
The King of the Mountains is dead. Mauro Nesti, 78, winner of eight European Hill Climb Championships—six of them in...
This year’s Donington Historic Festival (May 4 & 5) will celebrate the 100th anniversary of Bentley’s first win at the 24 Hours of Le Mans with track and static displays of significant historic racing machines from the iconic marque – including 2003 Speed 8 chassis 0004/1 and 2000 EXP Speed...
The organizers very wisely had the foresight to provide off-track entertainment, the most popular of which were 16 sessions of...
• Northern California’s Classic Sports Racing Group will host its 10th Annual Charity Challenge at Sonoma Raceway on the weekend...
Augie Pabst, described as “one of the fastest, most charismatic and popular drivers in his day” by the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America, into which he’ll be inducted later this year, was named the recipient of the 2010 Bob Akin Award by the Road Racing Drivers Club (RRDC). The...
Northern California’s Classic Sports Racing Group will host its 10th Annual Charity Challenge at Sonoma Raceway on the weekend of...
Bring together Ford-powered special interest cars, Carroll Shelby’s Original Venice Crew and happy enthusiasts, and you would say the Third...
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Chaparral’s stunning win in the 1965 12 Hours of Sebring, Jim Hall II, son of Chaparral creator Jim Hall, will climb behind the wheel of his father’s Chaparral 2 for a series of exhibition laps prior to this year’s running of the Florida endurance...
Four celebrated legends from the 24 Hours of Le Mans top a star-studded lineup of speakers appearing at the inaugural...
Road America recently announced that the Kastner Cup would be the featured marque of the 2023 WeatherTech International Challenge with...
Porsche has announced that motorsport legend Vic Elford passed away at his home in Plantation, Florida on March 13. The 86-year-old battled against cancer in recent years with the same tenacity and determination that made him one of only four drivers to record six major victories at the Nürburgring during...
