The Petroleum Museum of Midland, Texas, has begun construction of a 19,000 sq.ft. Transportation Wing that, when completed in early...
Paris is always a great place to visit, and one of the best off-season events every February is Europe’s most...
Skip Barber, owner of Connecticut’s Lime Rock Park racecourse, has recently announced a partnership with Steve Earle and General Racing, Ltd., to sanction and organize the 20th Annual Lime Rock Vintage Festival to be held Labor Day weekend, Aug. 31-Sept. 2. Initial indications are that the event will be run...
This year’s 5th running of the Monte Carlo Rally Historique featured 300 competitors in rally cars built up until the...
Internaional Speedway Corporation’s California Speedway has announced that it has chosen HSR-West as the sanctioning body for its upcoming Historic...
The Magnaflow Vintage 2.5 Challenge has been invited as a featured race group to the Pacific Northwest Historics July 5-7, benefiting Children’s Hospital. The event will be held at Seattle International Raceway, which was a stop on the original series calendar. Expected to attend the event, are John Morton, Horst...
Racecar designer Ron Tauranac was awarded Australia’s highest non-military honor when he was bestowed the Order of Australia this year...
On March 14, 1957, promising Ferrari driver and 1956 Mille Miglia winner Eugenio Castellotti was killed while testing a Ferrari...
Tall, quiet-spoken and modest Giulio Alfieri, one of the greatest motor racing engineers of the 20th century, died on March 20th, at the age of 77. Arguably, he was the man who did more than almost anyone to help create the Maserati legend. The son of an accountant, Giulio Alfieri...
Historic Motorsport Holdings, Ltd. (HMH), the group which holds interests in HSR, SVRA and HSR-West, has announced the creation of...
The National Motor Museum at Beaulieu in Hampshire is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. On March 19 the museum...
Lord Charles March once again demonstrated his influence, and the power of motorsport in the U.K., when Central London came to a standstill on March 21st as 14 historically significant race and rally cars toured from Chelsea Hospital to Kensington, along the Thames Embankment, to provide the media a glimpse...
Sebring celebrated its 50th anniversary this past March by inducting 10 legendary names into its newly created Hall of Fame....
Late in March, Reynard Motorsport announced that the company has been placed into receivership, the British equivalent of American Chapter...
If this sounds painful, chances are good Dan Gurney would agree with you! After 20 years as a pet project, Gurney’s revoultionary Alligator motorcycle was recently introduced at Los Angeles’ Petersen Automotvie Museum. This radically different looking motorcycle, with its low center of gravity and feet forward riding position, features...
On April 7, an illustrious list of racing luminaries gathered together in Southern California to help 3-time Formula One World...
Tragedy marred this year’s Walter Mitty Challenge when historic racer, car preparer and 2-time Sebring champion Bob Akin was killed...
In early May, 12 Formula One cars belonging to the now defunct Prost Grand Prix team were auctioned off by Poulain Le Fur and Sotheby’s. Included in the collection were a 2000 Prost AP03 driven by Jean Alesi which sold for $217,476 and a 1999 AP02 which sold for $190,029....
After one of its most successful annual meetings at Lime Rock Park last year, the Shelby American Automobile Club (SAAC)...
American motorsports lost one of its most colorful early postwar road racers when Boris “Bob” Said passed away in March...
Unfortunately, we tend to get used to losing people who have been on the motor racing scene for many years. Sadly, another great motor racing legend was taken from us when Rob Walker passed away from pneumonia at the age of 84. Among Walker’s many accomplishments, he was a skilled...
Ninety-six years after it was first run, the great Targa Florio road race is to have its own museum. After...
Winner of the 1956 Indianapolis 500 and Milwaukee 250, Pat Flaherty, passed away on April 6 at the age of...
This year marked the 5th anniversary of Jaguar authority Terry Larson’s C & D-Type Tour, held each spring against the dramatic backdrop of Arizona’s scenic mountain and desert landscapes. This year’s tour saw a total of eight cars participate including four C-Types, two D-Types and a pair of rare XKSSs....
In early May, the American motorsport community lost another member of its postwar road racing pioneers when Bob Grossman succumbed...
No, plans are not in the works for an amphibious supercar from Modena. However, Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo has...
Driving a 1937 BMW 328 Touring from the BMW museum in Munich, Bologna industrialist Giuliano Canè won this May’s Mille...
The 3rd annual Grand Prix de Monaco Historique, held on May 18-19, preserved the character of the world’s most famous...
While not well known in the United States, this April’s Techno Classica Essen proved to be one of the largest, most diverse, classic car events to be found anywhere in the world. Techno Classica Essen covers an incredible 12 large halls – some with second floors that are also chock...
