The centenary of the first running of the Indianapolis 500 was celebrated at the Goodwood Festival of Speed (July 1-3)...
A pair of Americans with roots in the historic community have joined forces with an English engineer to try to...
The documentary film Senna, which won the World Cinema Documentary Audience Award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, is set for release in the United States this August, with debuts in New York and Los Angeles scheduled for August 12, and a more general release to follow. First shown in...
Sir Stirling Moss, 81, came in from practice for the Le Mans Legends race on June 8, and said, “That...
As one of only 16 ever produced, the 1960 Maserati Tipo 61 “Birdcage” that headlines Mecum Auctions’ offerings during this...
The Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles is going through a metamorphosis. The Museum Foundation, headed by chairman Steven E. Young, has recently received a gift from the foundation of founder Robert E. Petersen that has been valued at a stratospheric $100 million. Included are the 300,000 sq. ft. building...
Some 45 years after making headlines at the Monte Carlo Rallye, the iconic Mini name is back on the World...
The Jaguar marque celebrates two anniversaries in 2011. The E-Type is 50 years old, while 60 years have passed since...
I remember my first encounter with John Winter. I called him John, “My name’s Spike! Call me Spike,” he said. Spike was a no frills man, down to earth, and called things exactly as he saw them. He was a great character full of dry humor. His initial ambition was...
The organizers very wisely had the foresight to provide off-track entertainment, the most popular of which were 16 sessions of...
Though the historic racing experts felt it was a bit of a risk to stage a historic festival at the...
In 2003 our own Mark Brinker acquired Bob Sorrell’s 1954 SR-100-bodied Sorrell-Manning Special. This was Mr. Sorrell’s personal car, built on a tubeframe chassis constructed by famed aircraft engineer/racer Chuck Manning and clothed in Sorrell’s dynamic and futuristic body design. The car was discovered in a storage container in Southern...
In celebration of its 50th birthday, more than 20 examples of the Ferrari 250 GTO, considered by many to be...
Two of the longest established and most successful vintage racing organizations in the United States have announced a new series...
At England’s Snetterton Circuit in early May, three JPS Team Lotus Type 79s took to the track together for the first time ever. Thirty-three years after winning the 1978 Formula One World Championship, Classic Team Lotus ran three JPS Type 79s, chassis 1, 2 and 3. This never happened in...
The Silverstone Classic, firmly established as “the world’s biggest classic racing festival,” celebrates 21 years since its inception this July...
Well-known America racing driver Pete Lovely has died at the age of 85 from complications of Alzheimer’s Disease. Lovely’s career...
For Western Australians, the home of postwar motor racing was Caversham in the Swan Valley on the outskirts of Perth. Similar to Goodwood in concept, but lacking the stately home and manicured grounds, Caversham started life as an emergency airfield built during WW2. The circuit consisted of a long runway...
Jackie Cooper, who was the first child actor, to be nominated for a major Academy Award, and who enjoyed a...
The one and only factory-built low-drag E-Type Jaguar, chassis no: S850662, known as the “Lindner Nocker,” which crashed at the...
Four-time Indy 500 winner and three-time National Champion Rick Mears was honored at the Road Racing Driver’s Club annual West Coast dinner with the Phil Hill Award by Hill’s widow Alma and son Derek. The award, an Al Brinkworth model of Hill’s 1961 World Championship-winning Ferrari 156, recognizes not only...
The Mille Miglia is spreading its wings. The usual Brescia-Rome-Brescia regularity race will take place between May 12–15 in Italy,...
Well-known vintage racer Peter Giddings has been honored by Northern California’s Motor Sports Press Association as its Motorsportsman of the...
Parnelli Jones was honored at the third annual Legends of Riverside, held at the Riverside International Automotive Museum on the last weekend of March, joining Dan Gurney and Carroll Shelby as the third such honoree. The event also spotlighted the effort to raise awareness of traumatic brain injuries with an...
The Second Annual Sonoma Historic Motorsports Festival, which will take place June 4–5, at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, California, has...
David E. Davis Jr., journalist, author, magazine founder, advertising executive, raconteur and friend passed away Sunday, March 27 at age...
This Labor Day weekend, the MG Vintage Racers will celebrate the 30th anniversary of their organization with their East Coast Focus Event at Lime Rock Park. Scheduled as part of Lime Rock’s 29th Historic Festival, September 2-5, the event will include an MG racers’ paddock area, special all-MG races, MG...
After closure for four years and speculation as to when, or even if, it was to reopen, the Museo Nazionale...
McLaren Cars celebrated 30 years of carbon fiber technology at Silverstone in March when a small group of journalists were...
The weekend of October 14–16 will bring perhaps the world’s largest gathering of Porsche racecars, racers and personalities to California’s Monterey Peninsula. At Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, Porsche Cars North America will hold Rennsport IV, the fourth iteration of its quasi-triannual homage to its racing past. This October’s Rennsport will...
