Sir Stirling Moss, one of the greatest all-around racing drivers of his generation, was honored at the recent FIA Gala...
Grand Prix Masters and the World Sportscar Masters series have both been given new names and become fully sanctioned FIA...
Assuming that somehow what racing really needs is another international Formula car class, the FIA recently announced plans to resurrect a new version of the same Formula 2 category it consigned to history with the creation of Formula 3000 in 1985. This new F2 is intended to be a feeder...
One of the premier historic motorsport championships has a new title. Effective immediately, the Thoroughbred Grand Prix series, which features...
The Sicilian husband and wife duo of Giovanni Moceri and Valeria Dicembre, in their 1939 Fiat 508C, have won the 2020...
The first of three ‘new’ 16-cylinder P15 V16 BRM racing cars, built to commemorate the marque’s 70th anniversary, was shaken down at Blyton Park racetrack, Lincolnshire, last week in the presence of its new owner, John Owen, ahead of its on-track debut over the Goodwood Revival, September 17 to 19....
On January 15, 2000, the Vintage Racecar Journal in cooperation with the Vintage Auto Racing Association (VARA), were proud to...
A century ago, a Bentley 3 Litre would become the first British car and the first Bentley to compete at...
Cavallino Classic Cup, the brand-new racing series dedicated to all Ferraristi with a racing soul, just ended in Spielberg (Austria) in the engaging setting of the Red Bull Ring during the Challenge and GT Days. The new initiative, which took place on June 7-8, is designed for all the drivers...
A film festival that celebrates the life of the two-time World Champion racing driver, Jim Clark, will take place at...
An unusual bridge in American racing history was crossed this past August when British racer Lorina McLaughlin became the first...
The first ever Lotus 72 Grand Prix car, as campaigned by both John Miles (Team Lotus) and double World Champion Graham Hill (Rob Walker Racing) in the 1970 season, has been consigned by H&H for its July 25 sale at Kempton Park Racecourse. Chassis R1 made its debut at the...
Gooding and Company will be offering the first 275 GTS/4 Ferrari built during its August 21 auction following the Pebble...
RM Sotheby’s has announced the latest offering for its upcoming Porsche 70th Anniversary auction, set for October 27, at the...
A near-perfect recreation of the Pontiac Tempest that shocked the racing world in 1963 by beating Ferrari GTOs and factory Corvette ZO6s at Daytona, and in so doing served as the launchpad for the fabled Pontiac GTO later that year, will arrive later this summer at the Motorsports Hall of...
Tyrrell 001, the very first complete racecar built by Ken Tyrrell’s Tyrrel Racing Organisation, was unveiled at the end of...
Sixty cars, ranging from a 1925 Bugatti Type 35 to a 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning EV and 2022 Lucid Air...
After 40,000 hours of work, Bentley Mulliner has completed the first new Bentley Blower in 90 years, with the delivery of Car Zero – the prototype car for the Blower Continuation Series. This highly exclusive run of 12 customer cars – all pre-sold – will be crafted from the design...
Readers may recall that last month we brought you the story of John Fitch’s planned attempt to break an existing...
Sports car racing driver, team manager and safety engineer John Fitch has been inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame,...
American racing pioneer John Fitch’s contributions to Lime Rock Park, (and sports car racing in general) will be recognized when he serves as an honored guest at this year’s Lime Rock Park Vintage Festival on Labor Day weekend, Aug. 29-Sept. 1. After retiring from active competition for the likes of...
More than 100 friends of John Fitch gathered at his home in Lime Rock, Connecticut, to honor him on the...
Emerson Fittipaldi, two-time Formula One World Champion, two-time Indy 500 winner and the 1989 Indycar National Champion, was the guest...
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...
The 1928 Bugatti Type 35B (above, photo courtesy of FIVA) that won the very first Monaco Grand Prix has been...
Five Team Penske Indianapolis 500-winning cars will form the core of the Silver Anniversary Amelia’s “Penske Indy Winners” class. 1972...
The Stirling Moss Trophy is one of the longest standing Motor Racing Legends series and always a favorite at the historic racing festivals at which it appears. At the ‘sharp end’, many of the best-known names in historic motorsport can be found, wringing the best out of these fearsome machines...
No, plans are not in the works for an amphibious supercar from Modena. However, Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo has...
For the last 76 years, Grand Prix cars have been trying to beat aeroplanes in acceleration tests. The first was an Alfa Romeo 8C-2300 Monza driven by Tazio Nuvolari, who was narrowly beaten by a Caproni 100 Biplane at Rome’s Littorio Airport on December 8, 1931. But the plane was...
