Cars from the SCCA’s legendary Can-Am series will be in the spotlight at this year’s inaugural Monterey Spring Classic, scheduled...
There was something for everyone at the Silverstone Classic festival over the July 28–30 weekend. Two Masters Grand Prix races...
Forty-eight years ago, Dan Gurney qualified his All American Racers Eagle-Ford in the middle of the front row for the 1967 Indianapolis 500, then managed to lead that race briefly before being sidelined by an engine problem. Later that year the car (chassis 212) was sold to A.J. Foyt who...
The 100th Running of the Indianapolis 500 took home the honors as 2016’s Event of the Year from the 2017...
For perhaps the first time in motorsport history, a podium found its three steps occupied by father-son driving pairings. Last...
Viva Veloce! was an apt slogan for the 18th Goodwood Festival of Speed on the first weekend of July as Italian cars were featured in virtually all classes of pre and post-war machinery, and the 100th anniversary of Alfa Romeo was the centerpiece of this year’s spectacle. An Alfa Romeo...
Patrick Peter’s Classic Endurance Racing series came to a fine season-ending round at the Paul Ricard circuit in France, with...
Edited by Rex McAfee Behind the Scenes: Winning is the goal of every team, driver, and manufacturer for every IMSA...
Maserati was the honored marque at the August Monterey Historic Automobile Races for the second time since 1988, and the company’s impending return to the North American market ensured its place on center stage at the 27th annual celebration of America’s premier historic racing event. An example of almost every...
The Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum, in Pomona, California, welcomes five-time world land speed record holder Craig Breedlove for a...
The famous Monza banking is not to be bulldozed or even just preserved. Under a new, 19-year agreement between the...
The Porsche 550A Spyder ranks among the all-time royalty of Porsche history. One of these rare models—one of only 39 built and a three-time race winner during the 1958 season—will head to the auction block at Mecum’s Daytime Auction in Monterey, California, on Aug. 23-25. The 1958 Porsche 550A-0141 Spyder...
September 30, 2007, will mark the 50th anniversary of opening day at the Bridgehampton Race Circuit. To help commemorate this...
Renowned motor sports photographer Jesse Alexander has won the Motor Press Guild’s Best Book 2008 award for Portraits, his third...
Whatever F5000 was, it was certainly fast, furious and boisterous. With the end of Australia’s 2.5-liter formula in 1969 came the introduction of F5000 as its national formula with an annual series of races including the Tasman Cup in both Australia and New Zealand. They were halcyon days and, over...
The Historic Motor Sports Association (HMSA), in association with ZOOM Motorsports and the Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum, has announced that...
With the Classic Mini serving as the featured marque of this year’s 14th annual CSRG Charity Challenge, scheduled for the...
Everyone in the automotive and publication worlds was sad to note the recent passing of Robert E. (Pete) Petersen at age 80 on March 23. He succumbed after a short battle with cancer. A veteran of WWII, he launched Hot Rod magazine in 1948. He became a familiar figure at...
The 5th annual Fabulous Fifties Concours d’Provenance at the South Coast Botanical Gardens in the Los Angeles suburb of Palos...
Unusual tropical weather with temperatures into the 90s Fahrenheit matched the heat on the track at the Silverstone Classic. Called...
St. Michael’s Church, at Silverstone, was full and overflowing with family, friends, and members of the motor racing fraternity wishing to pay tribute to Fred Goddard, who was tragically killed in a road accident, while in the United States for a historic race meeting. Goddard was born and raised in...
You could call it a long time between drinks. It’s been some 35 years since the last race meeting was...
Mantua, Italy, has a new Tazio Nuvolari Museum. After being evicted from its previous location by the town council in...
Northern California’s Classic Sports and Racing Group held its season-closing race meeting at Thunderhill Park in Willows, California, last weekend, with the featured event a Reunion of Titan and Winkelmann racing cars that brought out 34 cars bearing badges from one of the two marques. The Reunion feature race was...
Jackie Cooper, who was the first child actor, to be nominated for a major Academy Award, and who enjoyed a...
Historic Sportscar Racing’s Speedfest at the Classic Motorsports Mitty presented by Hagerty returns to Road Atlanta on April 20-23, for...
SCRAMP, the non-profit organization which manages the Laguna Seca racing facility and organizes the annual Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, has announced that the Monterey County Board of Supervisors intends to replace it with a new management organization. While SCRAMP and the County Supervisors, who ultimately control the fate of the...
Lola 50 Years celebrations continued in the somewhat unlikely location of Italy’s Castell’Arquato, the start and headquarters of the Vernasca...
The Sports Car Racing Association of the Monterey Peninsula (SCRAMP) has been awarded the prestigious FIA Members Heritage Cup in recognition of its work organizing the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion. The award was presented at the international organization’s annual gala and prize giving ceremony December 8 at the Palace of...
