Friends and owners of the Allard are being invited to take part in a special weekend of activities to be...
One of the most widely recognized vintage racers in the sport, Peter Giddings, passed away earlier this week at his...
Sold in 1987 for $8 million, the Bugatti Royale long held the world record for the most expensive car ever sold at auction. Now, the same example, previously owned by such notables as Miles Collier, Briggs Cunningham and even Ettore Bugatti himself, will be offered for private sale by Bonhams...
Who else but Ferrari could turn on such a magnificent birthday party? Four days of celebrations at Maranello and the...
Hundreds of enthusiasts attended the Donington Grand Prix Collection on May 1st to witness circuit owner Tom Wheatcroft and his...
British racing star Stirling Moss rocked the Grand Prix establishment in 1958 with his victory in the season-opening Argentinian Grand Prix in a tiny 2.0L mid-engined Cooper. It was the first World Championship victory for a mid-engined Grand Prix car and for builder John Cooper. Another win by Maurice Trintignant...
Three generations of Acura Motorsports prototype race cars and two generations of Acura drivers will be on hand Aug. 15-18...
While generally held in September (season finale), this year’s INDYCAR Firestone Grand Prix of Monterey was moved to June. With...
From July 27–31, the city of Seattle was invaded by one of the largest gatherings of Alfa Romeo enthusiasts ever assembled in the U.S., when more than 600 members of the American Alfa Romeo Owners Club (AROC) attended the club’s national convention in Bellevue, Washington. Dubbed “Alfa Potlatch” for the...
The special “Greatest Hits” racecard at this summer’s 30th Silverstone Classic ( July 31-August 2) will feature a pair of super-evocative...
Bobby Unser will be the honored guest at the Road Racing Drivers Club annual Long Beach banquet on April 16....
The 22nd annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance, set for March 12, 2017, will feature a special class to showcase and honor the Cars of Brumos Racing. From its founding on September 1, 1959, Brumos Porsche Car Corp. (later Brumos Porsche) represented the legendary Stuttgart marque in North America, winning 15...
As part of Renault’s 50th anniversary celebrations in 2022 for the Renault 5, the French manufacturer debuted its R5 TURBO...
The Formula One community lost one of its finest on August 25th, when former team owner Ken Tyrrell lost his...
With the financial world still reeling from the ramifications of the subprime housing implosion, the four major auctions held in conjunction with this year’s Monterey Historics week were eagerly anticipated by insiders as a bellwether for the state of the classic car market. Yet, when the final gavel fell on...
The Historic Motor Sports Association (HMSA) has announced that the National Automobile Museum (The Harrah Collection) has been chosen to...
The name Guy Griffiths may not be familiar to many motorsports enthusiasts in the United States but in the United...
Racecar designer Ron Tauranac was awarded Australia’s highest non-military honor when he was bestowed the Order of Australia this year for his many contributions to motorsport. Tauranac is perhaps best known for designing the Repco-Brabham Formula One cars that took Sir Jack Brabham and Denny Hulme to World Championships in...
Hans Mezger, famed engineer and father to the legendary Porsche 917 and boxer 6-cylinder engine, passed away on June 10,...
For 2023, the Put-in-Bay Sports Car Races, to be held Tuesday through Thursday September 19-21, will honor Japanese marques with...
The Mille Miglia is spreading its wings. The usual Brescia-Rome-Brescia regularity race will take place between May 12–15 in Italy, but for the first time a Mille Miglia Tribute to North America is to be held August 14–17, ahead of the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance and Monterey Motorsports Reunion vintage...
Officials of the Put-in-Bay Vintage Sports Car Races have officially announced that their 2022 event is planned, once again, for...
During the early years of the SCCA’s Trans-American Sedan Championship, fans could cheer for factory-backed entries from all the major...
Steve Earle and General Racing Ltd., organizers of the Rolex Monterey Historic Automobile Races, have announced that the featured marque for the 2004 running of the event will be Ferrari. Last featured at Monterey in 1994, the prancing stallion from Maranello has always been an obvious crowd favorite, drawing exceptionally...
The Centennial Anniversary of the Great Savannah Races will be celebrated at this fall’s Seventh Annual Hilton Head Island Concours...
News emerged late last week that prominent racing entrepreneur Carl Haas had died on June 29, at age 86, from...
Respected Indianapolis Crew Chief, Howard Gilbert, passed away on February 4, 2008, at his home in Payson, Arizona. He was 91. Gilbert first attended the Indianapolis 500 in 1947, as a gopher, which led to his involvement in every Indy 500 thereafter until 1989. Gilbert worked as a mechanic for...
Ferrari President Luca di Montezemolo officially inaugurated the new Museo Ferrari in Maranello on June 11. The building, extended by...
HSR-West recently announced the creation of a four-race Challenge Series for 2-Liter Sports Racers. According to HSR-West President Ed Swart,...
Allan Tomlinson, winner of the 1939 Australian Grand Prix and perhaps Western Australia’s best racing driver, has passed away in Perth. While brief, his motor racing career was very successful. Just 12 months after joining his local car club in Perth during 1935, he was racing a Ford V8 at...
