Visitors to the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion Aug. 17-20 will see a decidedly European staple rev to life. The historic...
Jack Roush, racer, former Ford engineer, college physics teacher, and current CEO of a number of engineering-related companies, was honored by the RRDC with the 2020 Phil Hill Award. The 2019 award recipient, RRDC President Bobby Rahal, made the presentation at the annual RRDC members’ dinner on January 22 prior...
Monday March 2, 2015 was indeed a sad day for Australian historic motor sport enthusiasts when Leo Geoghegan (78), one of...
Four-time Indy 500 winner and three-time National Champion Rick Mears was honored at the Road Racing Driver’s Club annual West...
Emerson Fittipaldi, two-time Formula One World Champion, two-time Indy 500 winner and the 1989 Indycar National Champion, was the guest of honor at the ninth annual Road Racing Drivers Club dinner held in conjunction with the 43rd Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach last Thursday evening. The gala event at...
The Historic Racing Drivers Club (HRDC) has announced plans for an important invitation race for Classic & Historic Alfa Romeos...
A half century has passed since the first Shadow made its competition debut at Mosport in the opening round of...
Lotus is asking for help help in tracking down the long-lost Lotus Mark I, the first car built by company founder Colin Chapman. As the British marque continues its 70thcelebrations, it wants fans from around the world to pick up the trail of the most elusive Lotus ever – the...
Great Britain’s National Motor Museum has opened a multi-media display of four legendary British Land Speed Record cars as part...
Professional racer, John Morton, was recently reunited with the original BRE-prepared Datsun 510 that carried him to 12 wins and the 1971-1972 Trans-Am Championships for 2.5-liter sedans. Morton shook down the recently restored car at California’s Buttonwillow racecourse in preparation for August’s Trans-Am race at the Monterey Historics. When asked...
The Vintage Automobile Racing Association of Canada (VARAC) and Lola Heritage announce that the 29th Annual Vintage Festival at Mosport...
Sixteen racers were inducted into the United States Road Racing Championship Hall of Fame during the annual USRRC Tribute dinner...
Velocity Invitational saw a return to its roots at Sonoma Raceway in Northern California the weekend of November 10-12, 2023. Dubbed the ‘West Coast Goodwood’ by some car enthusiasts, the third chapter of the event highlighted the 60th Anniversary of McLaren while also showcasing an impressive selection of high-performance automobiles,...
Photo Gallery from the 2023 Retromobile held in Paris, France....
Northern California’s Classic and Sports Racing Group hosted its 3rd Annual David Love Memorial race meeting at Sonoma Raceway last...
Back in 1962 a group of retired Grand Prix drivers led by the great Juan Manuel Fangio and Nino Farina formed the Club Internationale Des Anciens Pilotes de Grand Prix Formula One, to organize events where they and other former Grand Prix drivers could meet. In turn, organizers of race...
Augie Pabst, described as “one of the fastest, most charismatic and popular drivers in his day” by the Motorsports Hall...
Having previously established records for the Lotus 25 and 49, on July 25, H&H set a new sales record for...
Following its successful one-marque Maranello sale in honor of Ferrari’s 70th anniversary, RM Sotheby’s will continue the celebration by offering a 2001 Ferrari F2001 Formula One car, chassis no. 211, raced by seven-time F1 World Champion Michael Schumacher at its upcoming Contemporary Art Evening Auction on November 16 in New...
Peter Auto’s final event of the 2016 season took place on the weekend of October 22-23 on the Enzo &...
Maurice Trintignant died in the early hours of Feb.13 at his home in Vergeze Gard, France. He was born Oct....
Classic Grand Prix Ltd in association with French motorsport promoter, Ingrid Cholot, have announced the launch of The Yankee Series of races for pre-1966 American touring and GT cars running to Appendix K regulations. These distance races will be part of the L’Age d’Or event at Dijon on June 28-29th...
Savannah, Georgia, will come alive with the roar of engines on the weekend of October 26-29 as the Savannah Speed...
On September 3-4, the VSCC will host its second annual See Red event at Donington Park racecourse. Billed as the...
After some 15 years as founding European Editor of Vintage Racecar, Ed McDonough has elected to ease graciously into semi-retirement and hand over the baton to our own Mike Jiggle (left). McDonough will remain with Vintage Racecar/Vintage Roadcar as Editor-at-Large and will continue to contribute the occasional behind-the-wheel profile that...
Legendary chief mechanic and engineer Louis “Sonny” Meyer Jr. and 1968 Indianapolis 500 pole winner Joe Leonard are the latest...
Two long-time veterans of racing on the streets of Long Beach—Willy T. Ribbs and Oriol Servia—will be honored by induction...
On July 12, 1959, the Maserati Tipo 60 “Birdcage”, with 30-year old Stirling Moss at the wheel, made its race debut in the Sport category at Rouen. The Tipo 60 recorded its first win, defeating two Lotus 15 cars andgetting the fastest lap in 2.28.5, at an average speed of...
