Photo: John Zimmermann The City of Corona, California, celebrated the 100th anniversary of the first AAA National Championship auto race...
John Grant was elected to succeed Stuart Rolt as Chairman of the British Racing Drivers’ Club (BRDC) at the Club’s...
• Betty Brabham, the first wife of triple F1 World Champion Sir Jack Brabham, has died following a brief illness at the Wesley Hospital in Brisbane. She was 87. Betty married Jack in 1951, and they divorced in 1994. Together they produced three sons, Geoff, Gary and David, all of...
Giuliano Cané, Italy’s vintage motor racing hero, has done it again. In September he won the 2013 Coppa d’Oro delle...
CSRG’s 10th Annual Charity Challenge at California’s Sonoma Raceway attracted a near-record entry, ticket sales hit an all-time record and...
One of the greatest chief mechanics in American National Championship racing history, George Bignotti, has died at the age of 97. Cars prepared by Bignotti won 85 Indycar races—second-most all-time—including a record seven Indy 500s, two each for A.J. Foyt and Al Unser, and single wins for Graham Hill, Gordon...
The three-hour enduro for sports cars that was part of the Los Angeles Times Grand Prix weekend at Riverside in...
Terry Sanger, the doyenne of 1960s saloon racing specials has died aged 79. Born in Wales, Terry moved to Bristol...
The fifth annual Put-in-Bay Road Races Reunion (PIBRRR) was held August 27-29 at historic Put-in-Bay, Ohio. Launched in 2009 by vintage racing veterans Jack Woehrle and Bob Williams, the annual event celebrates sports car races that were held on the streets of the town of Put-in-Bay on Lake Erie’s South...
Photo: RM Auctions Photo: RM Auctions The annual automotive auction frenzy unfolded as expected this August during Classic Car Week...
Photo: Paul Bonner On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Corvette’s introduction to the world in 1953, the...
• Peg Bishop, wife of John Bishop, passed away on August 20. The Bishops played a central role a golden era of American road racing, and Peg was actively involved alongside her husband. As executive director of the SCCA in the 1950s and ‘60s, John brought professional road racing to...
The 1964 Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe owned by the Larry H. Miller family in Utah topped a field of more...
The restored Jaguar XK120 that set a production car world land speed record for the Flying Mile with a clocking of 172.412 mph in 1953 won “Best in Class, Post War Racing” at the Quail Motorsports Gathering. Factory test driver Norman Dewis, who set the record on Belgium’s Jabbeke Motorway,...
• Masters Historic Racing will be expanding into North America with its acquisition of Historic Grand Prix Inc., America’s historic...
Bill Warner’s 2014 Amelia Island Concours, set for next March 7-9, will honor Jochen Mass on the occasion of the...
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...
In tandem with Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR), Brumos Porsche will present the Daytona Historic Races at Daytona International Speedway November...
A new historic racing event, the Dijon Motors Cup, was held for the first time July 12-13 at the French...
I had the privilege of interviewing Harold John Coombs a couple of years ago for Vintage Racecar’s Jaguar XKE issue (August 2011). In period, he was affectionately known by some as “Noddy,” others more formally, but again with a certain fondness and a deep respect as “Mr. John.” I simply...
With their event still billed as “the world’s biggest classic motor racing festival,” the organizers of the annual Silverstone Classic...
Stephen J. Behr, widely known as “Yogi” from the Hanna-Barbera cartoon character, has died at the age of 74 from...
The weather gods smiled on the 21st running of the Goodwood Festival of Speed as the whole weekend bathed in glorious sunshine with temperatures akin to the Mediterranean, rather than England’s south coast. From relative humble beginnings this event has become the “Circus Maximus” of the motoring and motor racing...
The name Guy Griffiths may not be familiar to many motorsports enthusiasts in the United States but in the United...
Northern California’s Classic Sports Racing Group will host its 10th Annual Charity Challenge at Sonoma Raceway on the weekend of...
When the lights went out to start the 2013 Le Mans Legends race under rainy skies, Alex Buncombe’s pole-winning ’59 Lister Jaguar Costin slipped almost immediately into the lead and began edging away from the field. At the end of the 45-minute contest that ran as a preliminary for this...
The Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) has announced that the inaugural United States Vintage Racing National Championship will be held ...
The Sevenoaks and District Car Club’s efforts to uphold the heritage of London’s Crystal Palace as a venue for motorsport...
The man who held honorary SCCA Competition License No. 1, Ohioan Chuck Dietrich, has died at the age of 88. A two-time SCCA National Champion—G Modified in 1963 with a Bobsy SR2-Ford, and Formula B in 1967 with a McLaren M4B—Dietrich began racing in 1948 with an MG TC. In...
