One of the cars involved in motor racing history’s worst accident, the Le Mans disaster of 1955, in which more...
Return to Power, a new series for 3-liter Formula One cars that raced between 1966 and 1971, is set to...
For any keen classic or sports car fan, JD Classics is a dream come true with many a historical automotive treasure hidden within the elusive green walls of this famous car complex. Buried away within the heart of Essex, UK, JD Classics has five showrooms that hold some of the...
The 30th Annual Dana Point Concours d’Elegance®, scheduled for Saturday, June 23 and Sunday, June 24 at the prestigious St....
A three-day “fun fest” known as the Ford-Cobra-Shelby Reunion will take place at the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum in...
Sir Stirling Moss has been confirmed as the Honored Guest at this year’s 30th renewal of the Lime Rock Historic Festival, scheduled for the Connecticut circuit on Labor Day weekend, August 31–September 3. The legendary British driver will speak and answer questions at Friday evening’s Participants Gala, and will also...
The Grand Prix Mechanics Charitable Trust has launched a revamped website aimed at keeping current and former F1 mechanics in...
Bob Schroeder, the only Arkansas-born driver to ever participate in a World Championship Formula One event—the 1962 U.S. Grand Prix...
Margie Petersen, philanthropist, wife of the late publishing magnate Robert E. Petersen and co-founding benefactor of Southern California’s Petersen Automotive Museum, passed away peacefully at her home in Beverly Hills on November 25, 2011, following a long and valiant battle with breast cancer. She was 76. Born Margie McNally in...
The seaside circuit of Zandvoort, once home to the Dutch Grand Prix, will play host to a new historic racing...
Three-time Indy 500 winner and King of the Hill at Pikes Peak Bobby Unser will be the guest of honor...
Sergio Scaglietti, who died at the age of 91 on November 20, was the son of a carpenter who became Ferrari’s body stylist par excellence. Today, the cars he fashioned by hand in the ’50s and ’60s are worth tens of millions of dollars each. Scaglietti was a painfully modest...
The Hill Family and L.A.’s Petersen Automotive Museum marked the 50th Anniversary of Phil Hill’s 1961 World Championship for Ferrari...
After an aborted late summer start, the inaugural Mille Miglia North America Tribute finally put rubber to the road from...
Jim Rathmann, winner of the 1960 Indianapolis 500, passed away just before Thanksgiving in Palm Bay, Florida, a week after suffering a stroke. He was 83. Rathmann was one of racing’s true Speed Demons. The faster the competition the better he seemed to like it. At Indianapolis, where he won...
Lord March has announced that the dates for the 20th Goodwood Festival of Speed will be June 28–July 1, with...
Former F1, sports car and F5000 driver Peter Gethin died on December 5 after a lengthy illness. Gethin is remembered...
Half a century ago, Speed Week in the Bahamas was one of the most popular race meets on motor racing’s international calendar. Many of the sport’s top names looked forward to each December’s “working vacation” in the Caribbean as the runways of Nassau’s Oakes Field were transformed into a venue...
Widely experienced chief mechanic and author Sal Incandela has passed away at his home in the Las Vegas suburb of...
Frank Dominianni, who won the SCCA’s B Production National Championship in 1964, has passed away at the age of 86....
A few hours before next June’s start of the 80th running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the morning air at le Circuit de la Sarthe will once again be filled with the sounds of Group C cars as Motor Racing Legends organizes its annual support race for the...
The MG Vintage Racers’ Newsletter celebrates its 30th anniversary this month, having been around longer than a number of vintage...
Californian John Delane has become the first American to win the overall Historic Formula One championship, claiming the 2011 crown...
Classes have been announced and entries have opened for the 2012 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, scheduled for August 17–19 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. The featured marque is the Shelby Cobra, in honor of the 50th anniversary of its creation. Approximately 550 cars will be accepted, with each entry scrutinized...
The first phase of construction for Central New York Raceway Park in Central Square, N.Y., is set to begin this...
After three celebrations on the East Coast at Daytona and Lime Rock, Porsche’s triennial Rennsport Reunion came to California in...
Forty-two years after winning the 1969 SCCA Formula Continental crown in Marvin Davidson’s Milestone Eagle, Tony Adamowicz is once again king of Formula 5000, having claimed victory in three of the five F5000 Drivers Association revival races to secure the 2011 title. Driving the same 1969 Eagle Mark 5-Chevy he...
As the ninth annual The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering had chosen to honor Ferrari’s limited edition, top-end America and Superamerica...
If you arrived at Goodwood just after the gates opened on any of the three days (September 16-18) there’s every...
Englishman Dan Wheldon was killed in a 15-car crash on the 11th lap of the scheduled 200-lap IndyCar season finale at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in mid-October. The two-time and reigning Indy 500 winner and former IRL champion became the victim of massive blunt force head trauma when his car...
