The Historic IMSA Registry is a new group of enthusiasts dedicated to preserving and racing the cars campaigned in International...
Goodwood has announced a further new race has been added to the 77th Members’ Meeting schedule: The Betty Richmond Trophy,...
Winner of the 1956 Indianapolis 500 and Milwaukee 250, Pat Flaherty, passed away on April 6 at the age of 76. Born George Francis Patrick Flaherty in 1926, Flaherty began racing in California shortly after World War II and ran his first Indy 500, in 1950, finishing 10th. Flaherty’s big...
Moving ahead with its ambitious agenda for advancing vintage racing, Historic Motorsports Productions has named the featured marques for the...
The supercharged 1936 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900A “Botticella,” which Carlo Pintacuda raced in the 1936 Mille Miglia and won the...
WilliamsF1 has recently announced that a hand-picked selection of more than 20 of the WilliamsF1’s Reserve Collection of Formula One cars and memorabilia, spanning the company’s entire 28-year history, will be sold at its factory headquarters in Grove, England, on December 14, 2005, by auction house Bonhams. WilliamsF1’s headquarters in...
The 1965 Shelby GT350R Prototype driven by Ken Miles sold for $3.75 million at Mecum Auctions’ recent Kissimmee sale. Recognized...
Notre Dame’s Snite Museum of Art will open a special exhibit called “Art of the National Sports Car” on June...
George Follmer, the subject of this month’s VR Interview (page 30), was inducted into the Watkins Glen Drivers Walk of Fame during ceremonies at the International Motor Racing Research Center in early October. The Walk of Fame is a project of the Watkins Glen Historic Committee, sponsored by the Research...
Grand opening festivities for Jim Hall’s Chaparral Gallery at the Petroleum Museum in Midland, Texas, have been set for the...
Circuit Mont-Tremblant was the stunning mountainous backdrop this last weekend for the crowd-pleasing Masters Historic Formula One USA cars, as...
From the British Racing Drivers Club- It is with great regret that we must inform Members of the death yesterday at his North Devon home of BRDC Life Member Roy Pierpoint at the age of 93. Roy was elected to Full Membership of the BRDC a few months after winning...
On May 23rd, during this year’s Monaco Grand Prix weekend, the legacy of Juan Manuel Fangio was honored when a...
Photo: Michael Casey-DiPleco Vintage racecar driver Howard Katz has been named the third recipient of The Gorsline Cup, honored during...
The 27th edition of the Silverstone Classic, now firmly established as the world’s biggest classic motor racing festival, once again drew crowds in excess of 100,000. With more than 1,000 race entries and more than 100 car clubs displaying more than 10,000 classic cars, it was a highly concentrated action-packed...
Sad news emerged early today that motorcycle and Formula One World Champion, John Surtees has passed away at the age...
Owners and admirers of Turner sports cars in the United States are marking the 50th anniversary of the diminutive two-seat...
Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) has been named the new sanctioning body of the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion and Monterey Pre-Reunion at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca (WRLS), officials from both WRLS and HSR announced today. In the new multi-year partnership, HSR will provide expertise in vetting entries for authenticity, competitor and...
Whatever F5000 was, it was certainly fast, furious and boisterous. With the end of Australia’s 2.5-liter formula in 1969 came...
Walter Röhrl, the two-time World Rally Champion driver who was voted Rally Driver of the Millennium and called “a genius...
“The best motoring all-rounder in the world,” So opened John Sprinzel’s Autosport reports of the 1963 and ‘64 Tour de France. The night stages are gone now but the spirit of the Tour lives on. It has lost none of its ability to grab one’s senses today. Long road sections,...
Jim Proffit, arguably the king of the pre-war BMW chasers, passed away on April 2, 2018, from an apparent heart...
The pioneer eras of showroom stock and street stock endurance road racing and IMSA Racing Stocks and International Sedan (RS/IS)...
The 30th National Convention (SAAC-30) of the Shelby American Automobile Club will be held at the California Speedway in Fontana, CA June 30–July 3, 2005. The convention starts Thursday with a bus tour of legendary Southern California speed shops and dream car garages, stopping at some of the places where...
The second annual Legends of Riverside Film Festival and Gala took place at the Riverside International Automotive Museum in that...
Popular Indianapolis 500 veteran Willy T. Ribbs will be the featured guest speaker at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum’s “Fuel...
Worldwide Auctions has announced that it will be offering for sale the historic Bob Estes Special at its Pacific Grove Auction, this coming Thursday, August 23. The family of the late Bob Estes has chosen Worldwide’s Pacific Grove sale to offer the first car campaigned at Indianapolis by Bob Estes,...
While many historic racers love Monaco for its glitz and history, equal numbers venture across the coast to the southwestern...
The Classic Sports Racing Group (CSRG) has announced that the feature aspect of its 12th annual Charity Challenge at Sonoma...
Kevin Wheatcroft, son of noted collector and Donington Park owner Tom Wheatcroft, has announced that his father’s famous racecar collection and museum, The Donington Collections, will permanently close on November 5. Speaking to the local Leicestershire News, Wheatcroft commented, “Closing the Museum after 45 years has been a really difficult...
