The Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) has announced the most extensive race schedule in the organization’s 35-year history. The slate...
Sam Posey was presented with the Spirit of Competition award at a gala dinner at the Simeone Automotive Museum in...
The 2013 Goodwood Festival of Speed, scheduled for July 5-7, will celebrate the “best” of the landmark event’s first 20 years. “The biggest, best, fastest, loudest and most outrageous vehicles of all time will be invited…” reads the event’s promotional release, and if history is any indicator that is exactly...
Former F3 racer, Bev Bond, who drove for Gold Leaf Team Lotus during the late 1960s, has waged a war...
John Fitch lived a life filled with adventure and invention that is difficult to capture in a brief such as...
• Tim Wardrop, who was Arie Luyendyk’s race engineer when the Dutchman set the all-time one- and four-lap speed records at Indianapolis of 237.492mph and 236.986mph, respectively, in 1996, has died at the age of 62 following a long illness. British-born Wardrop worked as a mechanic with the Williams, McLaren...
As we have previously reported, Lola Cars International entered bankruptcy administration last May with debts of more than $23 million,...
Al Moss, known to almost everyone who reads this journal, died peacefully on September 25 at his home in Sedona,...
Known simply as “Prof” to many in the motor racing community and Sid to his near friends, Professor Watkins may have made more of a mark on motor racing safety over the past 30 years than anyone else. Indeed, his dogged determination and stubbornness to get things right nearly cancelled...
The 18th Annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance will honor racing driver Sam Posey as its special guest and celebrate the...
After some 15 years as founding European Editor of Vintage Racecar, Ed McDonough has elected to ease graciously into semi-retirement...
The U.S. motorsports community as a whole, and the profession of motorsports journalism in particular, suffered a great loss on September 28, when Chris Economaki passed away just two weeks shy of his 92nd birthday. Economaki may be best known as editor and publisher of the weekly racing newspaper National...
U.S. Presidential election fever hit Goodwood, and the Revival candidate was none other than Dan Gurney. Posters, pin badges and...
• Simpson Performance Products has expanded its line of racing safety products with the acquisition of HANS Performance Products, makers...
The California Mille, America’s salute to Italy’s most famous open road race, The Mille Miglia, returns for its 23rd year, continuing the celebrated tradition of spirited driving in vintage sports cars on scenic back roads. Some 70 teams are expected to participate, driving a wide variety of classic machines over...
It’s been a very long time since Bill Pollack raced his Cadillac-powered Allard to victory through the forested road course...
The third annual Donington Historic Festival, scheduled for May 4-5, 2013, will celebrate the career of three-time Formula One World...
French racing driver Henri Greder, who focused his career around the 24 Hours of Le Mans, has died at the age of 83. Greder first attended the 24 Hours in 1952 and rejoined the festivities each year as a spectator until racing there for the first time in 1967, when...
Photo: RM Auctions During this year’s Classic Car Week in Monterey, 53 cars were sold at auction for prices above $1...
As the 39th annual vintage racecar festival on California’s Monterey Peninsula, the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, unfolded this past August,...
As accustomed as we may become to losing our racing compatriots, there remain times when a death still comes as a shock, and one of those was the news that David Loring had died in mid-September at the age of 62. Although he had endured and survived previous internal ailments,...
Bahamas Deputy Prime Minister Phillip Davis has confirmed his government’s continuing support for the Bahamas Speed Week Revival by pledging...
Now firmly re-established as one of the biggest and best historic racing festivals, the Silverstone Classic provided plenty of interest...
• It’s always nice when the CEO of a major automaker shows an interest in motor sport, and an excellent example of this phenomenon took place at the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion when BMW North America chief Ludwig Willisch drove a 1975 BMW 3.0 CSL—one of the five team cars...
The 9th Annual Charity Challenge will be hosted by the Classic Sports Racing Group at Sears Point Raceway in Sonoma,...
In honor of the 60th anniversary of Chevrolet’s Corvette, the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion has selected “America’s sports car” as...
When event patron Peter Ricketts was asked what he had done in a previous life to bring so much precipitation down upon the Cholmondeley Pageant of Power yet again, he replied that he was certain “it couldn’t have been that bad!” As squishy underfoot as it got on Friday and...
More than 100 friends of John Fitch gathered at his home in Lime Rock, Connecticut, to honor him on the...
Jerry Grant was one of the many American racing drivers who could, and did, drive virtually anything he could get...
Renowned engineer and author Bill Milliken passed away in his sleep July 28 at the age of 101. Born in Old Town, Maine, on April 18, 1911, Milliken credited his interest in things mechanical to a cousin who exposed him to wheeled competition in his youth. Upon graduation from MIT...
