The inaugural Porsche Rennsport Australia Motor Racing Festival shared little more than its name and enthusiasm for the marque with...
• The Jaguar XK120 that Norman Dewis drove to set the production car land speed record of 172.412 mph on Belgium’s Jabbeke Motorway in 1953 will be in competition in the “Post War Racing” class at this year’s Quail Motorsports Gathering in Carmel Valley, California, on August 16. Mr. Dewis...
Like other vintage festivals across America this year, the fourth Sonoma Historic Motorsports Festival celebrated the 60th anniversary of the...
One of the finest collections of ’50s and ’60s sports racing cars ever assembled by a single owner will cross...
Ferrari President Luca di Montezemolo officially inaugurated the new Museo Ferrari in Maranello on June 11. The building, extended by over a thousand square meters and completely renovated in terms of its fittings and layout, hosts the permanent exhibition of the most significant single-seaters in the Scuderia’s history, as well...
Oliver White took victory in the opening round of the 2013 Champion of Brands Formula Ford 1600 series at England’s...
Photo: Alejandro Ibanez The man who scored Ferrari’s very first Formula One World Championship victory, Argentinian Jose Froilan Gonzalez, has...
Former F1 and endurance racer Howden Ganley has received his homeland’s highest motor racing honor, joining former inductees Bruce McLaren, Denny Hulme, Chris Amon and others on MotorSport New Zealand’s Wall of Fame. Ganley arrived in England in 1961 and was employee number three hired at the fledgling Team McLaren...
MG Vintage Racers celebrated its 18th Focus Event at VRG’s “Jefferson 500” at West Virginia’s Summit Point Raceway the weekend...
Monterey’s Classic Car Week will add another dimension this year as the inaugural World Class Automotive Film and Arts Festival...
• Northern California’s Classic Sports Racing Group will host its 10th Annual Charity Challenge at Sonoma Raceway on the weekend of October 4-6. The event will include all the usual eight CSRG race groups, with Vintage and Historic racecars dating from pre-WWII into the 1970s. The event will feature the...
One of the pioneers of the California Sports Car Club, Cyril Bernard Yedor (pictured, left), has passed away after a...
To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the first of his two World Championships, this year’s Goodwood Revival, scheduled for September...
Headling Russo and Steele’s 13th Annual Sports and Muscle in Monterey auction during this August’s Classic Car Week will be a one-off Jaguar XJR-4 designed and constructed by Group 44 to carry Jaguar’s colors into both the SCCA’s Trans-Am Series and IMSA’s GTO championship in the early 1980s. A fully...
First the Mille Miglia re-run, then the Targa Florio with an environmental twist, now the Coppa d’Oro delle Dolomiti—once known...
Ask any F1 enthusiast to name Ayrton Senna’s greatest achievements and the 1993 European Grand Prix at Donington Park is...
• One of the keys to the success of Jim Hall’s Chaparral Cars, Troy Rogers, has passed away at the age of 84 following a long illness. Rogers was integral to the Chaparral operation that enjoyed success in sports car racing, Indycars and Formula 5000. He’ll be the subject of...
One of the most interesting Maseratis ever constructed, the sole surviving Tipo 151 (chassis 006), will compete in this year’s...
Motor Racing Legends has renamed its JD Classics Challenge race series, for 1966-’85 Touring Cars, as the Historic Touring Car...
Legendary chief mechanic and engineer Louis “Sonny” Meyer Jr. and 1968 Indianapolis 500 pole winner Joe Leonard are the latest inductees to the Auto Racing Hall of Fame at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, celebrated during race week ceremonies for the 2013 500-mile race. Meyer, son of Louis Meyer, Indy’s first...
The Goodwood Festival of Speed is celebrating 20 years since the first event in 1993. Unbelievably, the target audience for...
As 2013 is the 50th anniversary of the Porsche 911, Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) will celebrate the occasion at its Daytona...
The Fifth Annual Legends of Riverside Racing Film Festival in late March at the Riverside International Automotive Museum honored Bob Bondurant as its latest inductee. He joins Dan Gurney, Carroll Shelby, Parnelli Jones and Bobby Unser as a Legend of Riverside. As the leader of Shelby’s FIA Manufacturers Championship-winning Cobra...
Dan Gurney’s All American Racers has been entrusted by The Henry Ford Museum with the conservation of the 1967 Le...
• The field for this year’s Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion—where Corvette is the featured marque on the occasion of its...
The Motorsports Hall of Fame of America will celebrate its 25th Annual Induction Ceremony on Wednesday, August 21, 2013 at the Fillmore Theater in Detroit. Inducted into the Hall that night will be racing industry legends Jack Chrisman, Harvey Firestone, Masten Gregory, Brad Lackey, Bud Moore, Robert E. Petersen and...
Grand Prix Masters and the World Sportscar Masters series have both been given new names and become fully sanctioned FIA...
The largest collection of Aston Martin racing cars ever to gather on a single track will meet at Brands Hatch...
Vintage Racecar and Historica Racewear, in association with the British Women Racing Drivers’ Club (BWRDC), have introduced the “Champion of Champions Trophy” for the 2013 season, In addition to the Trophy, the overall winner will receive a generous prize fund of £500 cash and £500 credit voucher from Historica. The...
