After being silent for more than half a century, the sound of Sir Malcolm Campbell’s record-breaking 350-hp Sunbeam once more...
Photo: Dennis Gray The Classic and Sports Racing Group (CSRG) has announced that its 11th annual Charity Challenge, scheduled for...
50th Anniversary Rolex 24 at Daytona.Photo: Chuck Andersen The Motorsports Hall of Fame of America has announced that it will move its operations and collection of historic racing machines and memorabilia from the Detroit area to the grounds of Daytona International Speedway by January 2016. The move coincides with the...
The man who called himself “Mister 500” in honor of the quest that dominated his life, has passed away at...
Donington Park will reverberate to the unmistakable sound of Bentley engines spanning nine decades on Saturday, June 7, 2014, as...
A triple anniversary will be celebrated in France this May as the Grand Prix de Lyon observes the three occasions...
Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR), in association with the Historic Motor Sports Association (HMSA) and Vintage Racing Events (VRE), has announced...
Brooklands Museum and the Vintage Sports Car Club (VSCC) have confirmed preliminary details of the 2014 Brooklands Double Twelve Motorsport Festival. True to Brooklands tradition, the festival will take place on the weekend closest to the date the original track opened in 1907, which this year is June 14-15. The...
Photo: BRDC Archive Engine builder and designer Brian Hart, aged 77, passed away in the first few days of the New...
• Historic Sportscar racing (HSR) will sanction a vintage/ historic sportscar race as part of the 62nd Annual 12 Hours...
• Stu Hilborn, widely known as the Father of Fuel Injection, has passed away at the age of 96. While in the U.S. Air Force during WWII, Hilborn devised a new way of increasing fuel flow to internal combustion engines, and his mechanical fuel injection system revolutionized the auto racing...
The be-winged BMW 3.0 CSLs that American fans quickly dubbed “Batmobiles” and which took U.S. racing by storm in the...
1971 Datsun 510.Photo: Michael Casey-DiPleco The Sports Car Vintage Racing Association’s inaugural Vintage Racing National Championships, held at the Circuit...
The King of the Mountains is dead. Mauro Nesti, 78, winner of eight European Hill Climb Championships—six of them in succession from 1983-1988—and 17 Italian titles in the same branch of the sport, died at his home in Bardalone, Italy in November after a long illness. Nesti won the same...
Photo: Pete Austin The VR European team was out in force for the Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show at Birmingham’s...
Photo: Jim Williams In honor of its centennial year, luxury Italian sports car brand Maserati has been named Featured Marque...
Terry Cordy (left) of Eberhard watches and Kevin Wheatcroft hold the Nuvolari plaque with the Maserati 8CM in the background.Photo: Pete Austin To commemorate the 75th anniversary of Tazio Nuvolari’s famous victory at Donington Park in the 1938 Grand Prix, a new plaque has been struck and unveiled at the...
Photo: Matt Sills “Addicted to Winning—the Unbeatable Champions of Motor Sport” has been announced as the theme for the 2014...
• The 1977 McLaren M26-Ford that James Hunt drove to his final Grand Prix victory in that year’s Japanese Grand...
October’s Algarve Historic Festival featured a pair of 30-minute contests for the Historic Touring Car Challenge, with both being won...
A display of rare and significant McLaren racecars at the 19th annual Amelia Island Concours this March 7–9 will celebrate...
Syd Fox recently lost his battle against cancer at the age of 83. Best known for his antics in Ford-powered machinery during the 1970s, Fox may have never reached his goal of Formula One, but he was one of Britain’s most respected racers in national ranking championships such as Formula...
Henry Taylor was a farmer, born in Shefford, Bedforshire, UK, and was initially smitten with Speedway (motorcycle racing) at West...
Three-time Le Mans winner Hurley Haywood was honored with the sixth annual “Spirit of Competition” Award last November 20th, presented...
The 2014 edition of Salon Retromobile in Paris will honor passionate French enthusiast Jean Rédélé, whose Alpine cars are responsible for much racing history, with a showing of 15 cars from his collection. Among the Alpines on display will be: M63 from 1963 when it contested the Charade 1,000 Kilometers...
A number of significant racing cars will be offered for sale at RM’s annual Arizona sale, January 16–17, at the...
Photo: Dennis Gray David Love, one of the founders of the Classic Sports Racing Group (CSRG) and an early driving...
Jean Alesi leads away from the start of the RAC TT Celebration race in Sir Anthony Bamford’s Ferrari 250 GTO/64.Photo: Roger Dixon Walking around the Goodwood Revival this year brought to mind the Brooklands Automobile Racing Club (BARC), which anyone was allowed to join. However, few enthusiasts could afford to,...
