For the second year, the Historic Grand Prix (HGP) organization took to the track as a support event for the...
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Chaparral’s stunning win in the 1965 12 Hours of Sebring, Jim Hall II, son...
Not only was the Australian motor sport community deeply saddened by the death of F.A.O. “Tony” Gaze on July 29 at the age of 93, but also those around the world who remembered him fondly. The Earl of March said: “All of us at Goodwood are deeply saddened to learn...
With over 400 entrants, the September 2001 historic race meeting held at Sydney’s Eastern Creek Raceway went down in the...
Historic Sportscar Racing has announced that the featured marque for its 2017 Classic Motorsports Mitty presented by Hagerty at Road...
Betty Skelton, a pioneer in both aviation and auto racing who was once known as the fastest woman on Earth, has died at the age of 85. Half a century ago she was setting speed records on the sands of Daytona Beach and Utah’s Bonneville salt flats. She was a...
The Automobile Club de l’Ouest and Motoring Cavalcades have announced that they will be hosting a special historic race in...
Porsche Cars North America and Brian Redman’s Intercontinental Events recently announced the creation of a race meeting featuring vintage Porsche...
Vintage Bentleys dominated the Endurance Rally Association’s inaugural Baltic Classic Rally, taking the three top spots in the Vintageants category. Peking to Paris European Cup winners Bill Cleyndert and Jacqui Norman added another trophy to their cabinet — which also includes victory in the 2015 Road to Mandalay — after...
The first decade of the 24-Hours of Le Mans was virtually dominated by Bentley. The famed cars from Crewe won...
In 1907, an event took place that would forever change the look of auto racing. This was the opening of...
Patrick Peter’s Classic Endurance Racing series came to a fine season-ending round at the Paul Ricard circuit in France, with two separate races for a packed and exciting field of no less than 80 1966–1979 sports cars. The series, backed by EFG Bank and Motul, has brought a stunning array...
Ninety-six years after it was first run, the great Targa Florio road race is to have its own museum. After...
Over 30,000 spectators streamed into Visalia, California’s Mooney Grove Park for the Second Visalia Motorsports Festival held May 27-28. Over...
The second annual Spring Classic will take place at Laguna Seca on the weekend of May 18-20, featuring not only the usual vintage race cars (above, T.M. Hill photo courtesy of Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca) but also expanding this year to include on-track exhibitions for the Historic Motorcycles that were...
The best investment you will ever make just could be the $10 you spend on a ticket for the New...
There have been classic races at Le Mans, and races for classics, but the 2002 Le Mans Classic was about...
Scramblers, the official membership club of Bicester Heritage, marked the start of the race season with a sold-out competition-themed gathering on Sunday March 26 featuring hundreds of cars despite the inclement weather. The Motorsport Assembly brought together genuine World Rally Championship cars, brilliant homages, plus homologation specials and race-inspired road...
Goodwood Circuit has announced provisional dates for its 2016 Festival of Speed and Revival meetings, planning to stage the former...
One of the oldest vintage and historic racing events in the U.S., the 44th running of the Historic Sportscar Racing...
A group representing U.S. owners of Formula Juniors have announced a series of Formula Junior-only races to be held in 2006. Three dedicated Formula Junior grids will be fielded in conjunction with CSRG races at Thunderhill (May 12–14), Laguna Seca Raceway (September, TBD) and Infineon Raceway (13–15). Other Formula Junior...
WilliamsF1 has recently announced that a hand-picked selection of more than 20 of the WilliamsF1’s Reserve Collection of Formula One...
Parabolica Publishing and Vintage Racecar are pleased to announce that noted racing historian and author John Zimmermann has assumed the...
After several years away from Silverstone, the FIA Historic Formula One Championship (HFO) is returning to the Northamptonshire circuit in the most spectacular way possible, supporting the British Grand Prix, July 6-8. HFO Chairman Dan Collins said, “We received an invitation and, of course, jumped at the chance. We have...
by Royce Rumsey Keep pushing! After leading 196 of the 200 laps of the 1912 Indianapolis 500, Ralph DePalma’s Mercedes...
This year’s running of the California Mille (April 26-May 1) challenged its participants both with new features such as a...
In early August, Indy 500 and Le Mans champion A. J. Foyt narrowly escaped a grim death, when the bulldozer he was using tipped over into a lake. Foyt was quoted in various media after the near miss as saying, “I came awful close this time. It scared me. The...
RM Sotheby’s celebrated 70 years of Porsche on Saturday with the company’s single-marque Porsche 70th Anniversary Auction at the Porsche...
As the 2016 Rolex Motorsports Reunion rolls into history this weekend, celebrating the centennial of the Bavarian Motor Works, those...
Four competition cars from Mercedes-Benz will be the feature attractions at this year’s Lime Rock Historic Festival 33, scheduled for this coming Labor Day weekend, September 3-7. Keeping with the Mercedes-Benz theme, Festival 33’s Honored Guests will be Sir Stirling Moss himself and the M-B Classic Center’s house driver, former...
