Another great American sports car driver of the fifties has left us. Dick Irish passed away March 19, 2015, of...
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Chaparral’s stunning win in the 1965 12 Hours of Sebring, Jim Hall II, son...
Porsche Rennsport Reunion V, scheduled for Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey, California, on the weekend of September 25-27, has released the event logo (above) and announced that on the official Porsche Rennsport Reunion V website, www.porscherennsportreunion.com, Porsche fans will have access to up-to-date information on the drivers and cars...
The winner of the Classics division of the inaugural Road to Mandalay Rally was decided on the final day...
Monday March 2, 2015 was indeed a sad day for Australian historic motor sport enthusiasts when Leo Geoghegan (78), one of...
Vic Elford is this year’s recipient of the Phil Hill Award from the Road Racing Drivers Club. RRDC President Bobby Rahal made the presentation at the club’s recent dinner prior to this year’s Rolex 24 at Daytona. The Phil Hill Award has been presented annually since 1993 to the person...
The 2015 Donington Historic Festival, set for the Bank Holiday weekend of May 2-4, will feature three full days of...
When we hear of certain motor sport people passing it reminds us we are slowly losing contact with a golden...
Williams is the third most successful marque in Formula One history, trailing only Ferrari and McLaren on the all-time victory list, and as such has a lengthy history stretching back more than five decades. The team has now created a new division, Williams Heritage, and appointed Cars International as its...
Among those newly named on Queen Elizabeth II’s New Years Honours List to the Order of the British Empire is...
Jean-Pierre Beltoise has passed away at the age of 77 following a series of strokes at his vacation home in...
The Historic Sports and Racing Car Association, Australia’s foremost Historic Motorsport club, recently celebrated the 90th birthday of not only its patron, but also the world’s most prolific and successful racing car designer. Ron Tauranac, along with his friend Jack Brabham, formed Motor Racing Developments in 1960 with the aim...
The last surviving driver from the very first Formula One World Championship season in 1950, Robert Manzon, has died at...
The Formula 5000 Drivers Association has announced a four-race schedule for 2015, highlighted by the group’s invitation to be a...
Harold Pace was a once-in-a-lifetime Texas car guy and a dedicated student of the automobile. He studied his craft with pure passion and was blessed with a photographic memory. These attributes resulted in an encyclopedic understanding of the history of the motorcar, and brought Harold to the pinnacle of his...
One of America’s earliest female racing drivers has passed away at the age of 86 from heart failure. Mary Davis...
To mark its two decades of promoting automotive excellence, the 20th Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance, set for March 13-15, 2015,...
Two-time Indy 500 winner Al Unser Jr. will be the guest of honor at the 6th annual Motorsports & Memories Winter Banquet of the Meadowdale International Raceways Press Association on Saturday, February 7, 2015. The dinner, which also serves as the winter meeting of the Vintage Sports Car Drivers Association...
A gala celebrating Art Chrisman’s six-plus decades of land speed racing, drag racing, and hot rodding was held at the...
Masters Historic Racing, which organizes the FIA Masters Historic Formula One and FIA Masters Historic Sports Car championships, has announced...
The factory Jaguar XJR-9 (chassis 388) that won the 1990 Rolex 24 at Daytona will cross the auction block at RM Auctions’ Amelia Island sale next March. Built by Tom Walkinshaw Racing for the 1988 IMSA Camel GT Championship, it enjoyed modest success during its first two seasons, but for...
Goodwood has announced provisional dates for its two iconic historic weekends, the Festival of Speed and the Revival Meeting, as...
Historic Sportscar Racing has released a 2015 calendar of events that includes seven vintage racecar weekends at tracks in the...
The man who, as marketing manager for the fledgling French petroleum company Elf, effectively engineered the Pilote Elf program that generated the influx of French drivers into Formula One that began in the late ’60s, François Guiter, has died at the age of 86. Although as a youth he served...
The Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion has named the Shelby GT350 Mustang as its featured marque for the event’s 2015 edition,...
Next summer’s Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion has been scheduled for August 13-16, 2015 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, and the...
Porsche Cars North America and Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca have announced that the fifth Porsche Rennsport Reunion will take place at the Central California racetrack October 9-11, 2015. The event, last held at the circuit in 2011, will provide a glittering showcase for significant Porsche racecars from the past six...
For the 11th year, the Classic and Sports Racing Group organized its Charity Challenge at Sears Point in Sonoma, California,...
Briton Steve Hartley wrapped up both the Post-1978 class and the overall Masters Historic F1 Championship by winning the season’s...
Andrea de Cesaris’ career was characterized by an erratic and wild driving style that earned him the unfortunate nickname “de Crasheris.” It has to be said that his rise and continued appearance in motor racing was directly linked to the connections he had in the business world, which financed his...
