South African racing legend Dave Charlton, who started 11 World Championship Grands Prix from 1967-1975, has died at the age...
The historic Brooklands motor racing circuit echoed to the sounds of the past on February 16, when a group of...
One of the legendary 1954 Mercedes-Benz W196 Grand Prix cars raced by five-time World Champion Juan Manuel Fangio will be offered for sale at the Bonhams Goodwood Festival of Speed auction on Friday July 12 at Goodwood House in Chichester, Sussex, and is expected to establish new records for cars...
The Royal Automobile Club has awarded the historic Segrave Trophy to John Surtees OBE. Speaking at the award ceremony, RAC...
• Three fixtures of American racing have been inducted into the SCCA Hall of Fame. Carroll Shelby, Bobby Rahal and...
RM Auctions has announced the consignment of one of history’s most important racing Ferraris, the 1953 340/375 MM Pinin Farina Berlinetta Competizione, chassis 0320AM, which will be offered for sale at RM’s exclusive evening auction during the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este weekend on the shores of Lake Como in Cernobbio,...
Mantua, Italy, has a new Tazio Nuvolari Museum. After being evicted from its previous location by the town council in...
Phil Remington, universally recognized as one of racing’s finest craftsmen, has passed away at the age of 92. Remington left...
Pete Brock, stylist for the Corvette Sting Ray, designer of the Cobra Daytona Coupe, founder of BRE and a multi-disciplined...
A special added feature of Silverstone’s April 21-21 VSCC Spring Start meeting will be a recreation of the historic Commander...
This September the McLaren Group will observe the 50th anniversary of the company’s founding by Bruce McLaren, but the entire 2013 season will be part of the festivities as McLaren celebrates its serial successes in a wide variety of motor sport forms. Since contesting their first Grand Prix at Monaco...
It’s all change for the Mille Miglia Commemoration and the Coppa d’Oro delle Dolomiti. The Mille Miglia has been brought...
Hans-Joachim Stuck leads a pack of FVs and FSVs at the Daytona Golden Anniversary celebration.Photo: Bruce Lancaster Formula Vee celebrated...
• Plans are proceeding for the re-paving and re-opening of the historic road course at Thompson International Speedway in Thompson, Connecticut. The venue, when used as a road course, will be primarily for club events with groups such as the SCCA, PCA and BMWCCA, as well as high-performance driving schools,...
This year’s 24th annual Phillip Island Classic Festival of Motor Sport will be staged from March 8-10, with “Big Banger”...
While boasting more than 40 entrants, the 1953 Australian Grand Prix looked to be a three-man race: Whiteford, Jones and Davison. The smart money, however, was on Stan Jones, in the 4.3-liter Maybach, as he had convincingly defeated the Talbot-Lago of Doug Whiteford just six weeks before. Lex Davison certainly...
• The Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) has announced its purchase of the International Motorsports Industry Show (IMIS), the racing...
For perhaps the first time in motorsport history, a podium found its three steps occupied by father-son driving pairings. Last...
Ed McDonough, VR Editor at Large, has been awarded the Peugeot Motorsports Cup by the Guild of Motoring Writers. McDonough was recently presented the Cup by Andrew Didlick, the French automaker’s public relations director. Peugeot is now the title supporter of the award, which for many years was known as...
The Crosslé Car Company Limited, the UK’s oldest constructor of racing cars, has undergone a change in ownership and management...
The 26th running of the British Columbia Historic Motor Races will be held May 25-26 at the Mission Raceway Park...
Vintage Racecar’s European team will be out in full force at the 10th Race Retro, at Stoneleigh Park, near Coventry, Warwickshire, from the 22nd to the 24th of February. In deference of the show’s chosen marque, Lotus, the Vintage Racecar stand (E40 Hall 2) will be exhibiting the JPS Lotus...
Situated on the edge of the Lincolnshire Fens, the sleepy market town streets of Bourne came alive to the sound...
• The 2013 Donington Historic Festival has been extended from two to three days, following the outstanding success of the...
Two major exhibitions opened recently in “Motorland,” as the locals often call Modena, the unofficial home of Italy’s high-performance racers and road cars. One quietly commemorates the heated competition between Ferrari and Maserati cars on the race tracks of the world in days gone by, while the other honors one...
Two-time Canadian Formula B champion Craig Hill has died at the age of 78. Hill was an outgoing character who...
The annual support race at the 24 Hours of Le Mans is one of the most important events in all...
Driving Kathy and Phil Reilly’s ex-Carlos Pace 1974 Brabham BT44, Dan Marvin claimed victory in the Historic Grand Prix support race prior to November’s U.S. Grand Prix at the brand-new Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas. Californian Marvin won the 10-lap contest by 3.5 seconds from polesitter David Martinez,...
