It was recently announced in the Queen’s Birthday Honor List that Jackie Stewart will receive a knighthood this coming January....
The U.S. racing community was deeply saddened recently to learn of the passing away of racer, team owner and USAC...
When The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering sets up shop on the lush greens of Quail Lodge & Golf Club in Carmel, California, on Friday, August 18, it will mark its 15th anniversary as part of Monterey Car Week. This year’s event will feature Originals and Mid-Engine Marvels, along with traditional...
Famed Hollywood cinematographer and one-time racing enthusiast Haskell Wexler has died at the age of 93. Wexler is best known...
Skip Barber, owner of Connecticut’s Lime Rock Park racecourse, has recently announced a partnership with Steve Earle and General Racing,...
Marking its 70th anniversary, Lotus held a spectacular event to commemorate the significant milestone of founder Colin Chapman’s first Lotus, built in 1948. The home of Lotus in Hethel hosted 8,000 Lotus owners and enthusiasts from all over the world, as well as 1,600 Lotus cars of all eras. From the...
Famed Italian carrozzeria Bertone has announced the opening of a new workshop, Bertone Classic, which will now offer restoration work...
Jaguar Classic is celebrating the 70th anniversary of the legendary C-type sports racer by creating a strictly limited production run...
The newly formed Vintage Drivers Club of America has held its inaugural race and organizational meet at Savannah’s Roebling road December 10-12. The new nonprofit club is based in Charleston, SC, and will hold 5 events in 2000 with races at Roebling, Moroso, the newly refurbished Virginia International Raceway, and...
Photo: Dan Boyd The Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) have announced the Brickyard Vintage Racing...
Northern California’s Classic Sports and Racing Group will be hosting a Formula Vee Gathering during its 2017 Thunderhill Spring race...
In one of those aberrations of good taste not uncommon in Italy, a local authority has installed a permanent speed trap on the spot where the fatal accident that stopped the Mille Miglia took place on May 12, 1957. A tall, slim monument stands at the side of the road...
The documentary film Senna, which won the World Cinema Documentary Audience Award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, is set...
Nearly two dozen cars from one of racing’s more golden ages took to the streets of Long Beach last weekend...
Each year the Goodwood Festival of Speed features a massive Gerry Judah “sculpture” on center stage (above, Roger Dixon photo), and this year the work honored former Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone with cars tracing the “Five Ages” of his distinguished career. Highlighting the Festival schedule were the timed runs...
The designer of the iconic 911 and the scion of the family that left an indelible mark on the history...
The Formula 5000 Drivers Association has announced a 2017 schedule of events that features four race weekends in association with notable vintage racecar weekends around the country. The season kicks off on the weekend of June 8-11 as part of the SVRA’s Open Wheel World Challenge at the Indianapolis Motor...
The roar of Can-Am thunder will once again reverberate through the hills of Laguna Seca Raceway in Monterey, California, when...
Silverstone Auctions has opened its catalogue for entries to the Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show with a very rare and...
The Bentley Drivers Club’s 72nd annual race meeting at Silverstone – an institution on the British club motor-racing calendar – saw another day of fantastic racing at its very best, albeit behind closed doors, on Saturday August 22. Bentleys of all ages – many raced by club members – shared...
Damon Hill, former Formula 1 World Champion in 1996, has been nominated by Mike Knight and Jackie Oliver, two present...
At last weekend’s 14th running of Race Retro, the international historic motorsport show drew a global audience that included VR’s...
Philadelphia’s Simeone Automotive Museum has expanded its collection with the addition of a new, rare, treasure, a 1907 Renault Racing Roadster (above, Bob Goldstein photo courtesy of the Simeone Automotive Museum) that was one of 10 originally imported by William K. Vanderbilt to assist his early-century plan to jump-start auto...
SVRA has announced the creation of a new endurance race series to run in conjunction with its prestigious Paine Webber...
McLaren Honda has announced today that Tyler Alexander, one of McLaren’s founding fathers, passed away on January 7, 2016, at...
Jim Proffit, arguably the king of the pre-war BMW chasers, passed away on April 2, 2018, from an apparent heart attack. For many decades, Jim successfully ran his Long Beach, California-based business, Racing Restorations. Jim pursued and located many of the pre-war BMWs that had been lost. He chased, found...
The Silver Flag Hillclimb won the award for Best European Historic Event in 2005, and that accounted for the entry...
Allan McCall, who enjoyed a career filled with “career moments,” from working with Jim Clark in saloon cars, F1 and...
Brian Redman’s annual Jefferson 500 race weekend celebrated its 9th anniversary at Summit Point Raceway, West Virginia, on May 19-21. Nearly 200 cars took part in the weekend’s races which included an enduro for ’68-’80 racecars and one for race and production cars through ’65. Highlights of the weekend included...
