The Henry Ford Museum’s newly restored Lotus 38, the first rear-engined car to win the Indianapolis 500, made its North...
One of three cars built by Yorkshire’s Billy Needham in the early 1970s to contest international sports car races, this...
The Motorsports Hall of Fame of America held its 22nd annual induction ceremonies at the Fillmore Theater in Detroit during the last week of August. This most recent class of inductees includes: drag racing legend Dale Armstrong; daredevil stuntman Joie Chitwood; underdog stock car champion Alan Kulwicki; motocross hero Jeremy...
For only the second time in the 37-year history of summer’s annual vintage racecar festival at Laguna Seca on California’s...
The Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal rejoined the FIA’s World Championship for Formula One calendar this year after a one-year...
The Alfa Romeo museum at Arese, on the outskirts of Milan, Italy, has been placed under official supervision, the first step in a process that would make it part of Italy’s cultural heritage. The move has been requested by the Arese municipality, which feared the Fiat Group, to which Alfa...
For a 16th time, vintage Indycars raced around the Milwaukee Mile in honor of Harry Miller and the incredible machines...
Five years after HSR-West staged its first Palm Springs Revival at the Indio, California, airport, the second such event will...
A unique event took place at England’s Snetterton race circuit when many thousands of fans turned out to see a gathering of every model of Lotus Formula 1 car from the Lotus 12 to the current Lotus 127, a total of 35 different models. Clive Chapman, son of Lotus founder...
The Historic Sports Car Club is targeting the 1600-cc Formula 3 cars of the early 1970s for a revival in...
The Quail Porsche Racecar Classic has been scheduled for Sunday, October 16, 2011 at the Quail Lodge in Carmel Valley,...
The second annual Put-In-Bay Road Races Reunion took place June 28-30 on Ohio’s South Bass Island. The island, home to road racing on its public roads between 1952 and 1959 (as well as in 1963), is offshore in Lake Erie, a 30-minute ferry ride north of Catawba Island, less than...
Viva Veloce! was an apt slogan for the 18th Goodwood Festival of Speed on the first weekend of July as...
John Gunn, an independent entrant who contested some of North America’s most prestigious auto racing championships during a career that...
The Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) first appeared on the motorsports landscape as a support race for the Can-Am at Road Atlanta in September of 1980. Seventeen cars attended that inaugural event, but within a year the car count had swelled to 110 and the event had become a standalone...
The International Motor Racing Research Center (IMRRC) at Watkins Glen International has announced it will once again offer a Cobra...
Australia is preparing to present its finest public display of classic cars ever when it stages Motorclassica, the Australian International...
Canada’s Mosport Park and VARAC’s Vintage Racing Festival served as the hosts for this year’s 15th annual “Focus Event” for MG Vintage Racers, and honors bestowed during the June event included MGVR’s Spirit Award, the Bill Parish Memorial and the MG V-8 Challenge Trophy. The first of these, chosen by...
One of the men who figured prominently in our tribute to Dan Gurney in last month’s issue, veteran Indycar mechanic...
Aficionados of fine automotive engineering will once again gather in the French town of Angouleme on the third weekend of...
A huge cortege of 3,000 Alfa Romeos from 54 different countries came home to Milan at the end of June. We say home because they were all made in either the city’s Portello or Arese factories—except for the Alfasuds built at Pomigliano d’Arco, Naples—and were there to help the manufacturer...
Aficionados of the Elva marque will celebrate its 55th Anniversary with a reunion at Elkhart Lake’s Road America on the...
Warm and sunny weather greeted the 375 entries that took part in General Racing’s Sonoma Historic Motorsports Festival at Infineon...
Leslie Alan Richter was born on October 26, 1930 in Fresno, California. He graduated from Fresno High School where he was student body president and captain of the football team. The six-foot-three, 230-pound linebacker went on to the University of California at Berkeley where he graduated with a degree in...
A rare, “pontoon-fendered” Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa will headline RM Auctions’s 25th Anniversary Sports and Classics of Monterey event during...
In addition to the event’s tribute to Dan Gurney, attendees at August’s Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion will be able to...
Gooding & Company, the official auction house of the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, will feature consignments of three exceptional collector cars at its annual Pebble Beach auction this August. The trio was displayed publicly at the recent Sonoma Historic Motorsports Festival, with one car each from Ferrari, Maserati and Mercedes-Benz,...
Among the offerings at its annual auction at Quail Lodge during Monterey Auto Week, Bonhams will present the Michael Amalfitano...
With June’s running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Corvette marked the 50th anniversary of its first participation in...
Jackie Stewart once said: “If, for some reason, I could only take part in one race each season, it would have to be Monaco; and if, as a spectator, you could only watch one race each season, it should be Monaco.” His fellow three-time World Champion Nelson Piquet once described...
