The supercharged 1936 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900A “Botticella,” which Carlo Pintacuda raced in the 1936 Mille Miglia and won the...
The strange story of Enzo Ferrari and his date with a firing squad has recently surfaced in Italy. Clearing out...
American racing legend (and all-around nice guy) Dan Gurney was recently honored during the Wine Country Classic vintage race weekend May 20-21 at Sears Point Raceway. Festivities at the Northern California event included two days of vintage racing, a collection of former Gurney racecars and a display chronicling his incredible...
Brian Redman’s annual Jefferson 500 race weekend celebrated its 9th anniversary at Summit Point Raceway, West Virginia, on May 19-21....
Over 30,000 spectators streamed into Visalia, California’s Mooney Grove Park for the Second Visalia Motorsports Festival held May 27-28. Over...
Maserati will be the honored marque at the 2000 Concorso Italiano to be held August 18th at the Quail Valley Lodge in Carmel Valley, California. One of the highlights of the annual Monterey Historics weekend, the Concorso Italiano has grown from small informal gathering to one of the largest and...
Organizers of the French Tour Auto and the Shell Historic Challenge have announced the resurrection of the fabled Targa Florio...
European historic F5000 has come into its own with the announcement of the newly formed Transatlantic Challenge Series. Promoter David...
On May 1st, 68 exotic racing and touring cars took part in the California Mille – a 4-day, 1119-mile rally across some of the most scenic roads in Northern California. Mille organizers were blessed with not only great weather, but also with surprisingly few mechanical problems. Some of the many...
Many phrases have come to be synonymous with the Indy 500: “Gentlemen Start Your Engines”, “Back Home in Indiana”, and...
In a move which has lit the auction world abuzz, David Gooding has left his position as Managing Driector of...
On May 27-28, the streets of Monaco filled with the sounds of racecars… historic racecars. Six previous Grand Prix winners were there to entertain a small crowd of about 5000 who turned out for the second Monaco Historic Races which preceded the annual Grand Prix by one week. In the...
Nearly 10 million people lined the streets of Italy to watch the first Mille Miglia Storica of the new millennium...
On May 25, Giulio Alfieri, one of the giants of 20th century motorsport, strode through the scrutineering paddock of the...
While the 2000 edition of Lord March’s Festival of Speed will be remembered by many as the year of disaster, there is still no denying that Goodwood pulls together one of the best collections of racing, road and experimental cars and the associated personalities of any event in the world....
In a tragic accident during the Saturday afternoon Good-wood Festival practice runs, the 4-wheel drive Lotus 63 driven by the...
This year, SAAC (Shelby American Automobile Club) celebrated its 25th year with an enormous five-day gathering of street and racing...
Brazilian Formula One World Champion Emerson Fittipaldi will be a special guest of honor at SVRA’s Zippo Grand Prix to be held at Watkins Glen International September 6-10. Part of the weekend’s festivities will be a large gathering of Lotus cars in a special “corral” area. Fittipaldi will set aside...
One of the last surviving men who helped forge the so-called Golden Age of motor racing has passed away. 1950s...
Cisitalia’s back, and we’re not kidding. The prestigious marque, whose cars so nearly won the Mille Miglia at its first...
While the entry for the July 21-23 running of the Coys Historic Festival at Silverstone was not up to previous year’s standards, the focus on celebrating 50 years of the Formula One World Championship brought out a fine array of former Grand Prix drivers and record crowds to watch them....
Maserati was the honored marque at the August Monterey Historic Automobile Races for the second time since 1988, and the...
If the recent Monterey auctions are any indication, ’80s-like record prices are back, and racecars are leading the way. Over...
The newly formed Vintage Sedan Racers Group (VSRG) and HSR-West have announced the creation of the Magnaflow 2.5 Challenge for 2001. The series is intended for those cars which qualified for the 1970-1972 Trans-Am 2.5-liter Championship. Some of the cars eligible for competition include: Alfa Romeo 1600-2000 GTV; BMW 2002,...
The recent British “fuel crisis” failed to stop the third edition of Lord Charles March’s Goodwood Revival Meeting, though the...
One of only three Lola Mk 6 sports cars, used as the development prototype for the Ford GT40 program, will...
Britain’s Rover Motor Group recently announced that it has contracted with Lola Cars International to develop an MG sportsracer to compete in the 2001 24-Hours of Le Mans. MG chose Lola to run the project following the British racecar manufacturer’s impressive performance at the French classic earlier this year. One...
General Racing, Ltd. recently announced that Bentley will be the featured marque for the 2001 Monterey Historic Automobile Races to...
The American Le Mans Series has announced that it will create a series of races for historic IMSA GTP cars to...
European Editor Ed McDonough recently had the exclusive opportunity to sit down and talk with Antony Sheriff, Vice President of Product Development for FIAT S.p.A. In question, was continued speculation regarding FIAT’s intentions to bring Alfa Romeo back to North America. According to Sheriff, “There was an easy way and...
