Japan Tobacco International (JTI) has donated the freehold of the 30-acre Brooklands Museum site in Weybridge to the Museum’s governing...
The Road Racing Drivers Club has chosen Monterey Historics founder Steve Earle as the recipient of its Bob Akin Award,...
Sergio Scaglietti celebrated his 90th birthday on January 9, and at his party received a special gift from Piero Ferrari, vice president of the company founded by his father and for which the great Sergio sculpted the lines of some of the most beautiful Ferraris ever created. His present? The...
Robert Donner Jr., whose interest in cars began as a toddler while his father was an Auburn, Cord, and Duesenberg...
The man who is perhaps the best American endurance racer of all time has hung up his helmet—professionally, anyway. Hurley...
It’s been a long time coming, but Crystal Palace will once again play host to a national motorsport event with a two-day sprint event over the May 30–31 Bank Holiday weekend, reigniting the spirit of racing at the Park. Organized by Sevenoaks and District Motor Club, with the support of...
Edmund Rahal, who though mainly unknown was the first of the racing Rahals, passed away last December 16 at the...
A brand-new series of historic races, for the Sir Stirling Moss Trophy, has been launched by Motor Racing Legends (MRL)....
Rumblings of discontent have turned into a pandemonium of protest in the offices of the Province of Monza. Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone is reported to have signed a seven-year deal, beginning in 2011 with an option for another five years, to stage a Formula One Grand Prix around the...
All the living Formula One World Champions are expected to participate in F1’s 60th Anniversary celebrations over the weekend of...
This August 7-8, the British Automobile Racing Club (BARC) will host the Lola Heritage International Sports Car Challenge race on...
The Motorsports Hall of Fame of America has reached an agreement with the Detroit Science Center to relocate a significant portion of the Hall’s collection of vehicles and displays to the Science Center. The Hall was previously located in the Novi Expo Center in suburban Novi, but a number of...
The International Motor Racing Research Center in Watkins Glen, N.Y., annually raffles off a desirable car as a way to...
Alfa Romeo will be the featured marque for a weekend of vintage racing on April 9-11, 2010 at Infineon Raceway,...
Alfa Romeo enthusiasts around the world will mark the marque’s 100th anniversary on June 24, 2010, with celebrations from Italy to America to Australia. The official “factory” party will be held in Milan, with “satellite” celebrations scheduled for both the Alfa Romeo Owners Club’s annual convention in Frederick, Maryland, and...
Under cloudy skies, fortuitously slotted between rain showers, the second Lobethal Grand Carnival opened the historic 8.7-mile Adelaide Hills road...
RM Auctions concluded its 2009 season on a high note in London, posting £10.9 million in total sales with a...
Another of racing’s good guys left us on December 7, when Bill Scott lost his battle with cancer. The man who one observer called “a damn good driver and a better human being,” essentially ignored his doctorate in geophysics from Yale to let his passion for racing cars dominate his...
Duncan Rabagliati, chairman of the Formula Junior Historic Racing Association, has announced the inclusion of Formula Junior in the three...
Italian privateer racing driver Gino Munaron has passed away at the age of 81. Munaron was always considered to be...
A few hours before the start of this June’s 24 Hours of Le Mans, everyone in attendance will be treated to a 45-minute contest for cars from the Group C era at the legendary event. Race fans will be able to witness machinery from Jaguar, Sauber-Mercedes, Porsche, Mazda, and Nissan,...
The 5th annual Fabulous Fifties Concours d’Provenance at the South Coast Botanical Gardens in the Los Angeles suburb of Palos...
Quadruple Monte Carlo Rallye winner Walter Röhrl dominated December’s FIA European Rally Championship for Historical Cars event in the Spanish...
The 2009 Classic Motor Show, NEC, England, broke box office records when it welcomed around 48,000 visitors into its classic motoring extravaganza, an increase of around 8,000 visitors on last year’s event. Held over three days, organizers and exhibitors alike were besieged from the outset with classic fanatics flooding into every...
The Royal Automobile Club’s Woodcote Trophy race at the Spa Six Hours meeting organized by Motor Racing Legends drew a...
Rally legend Paddy Hopkirk reopened the Kop Hillclimb after 84 years, speeding up the hill in a 2009 Mini after...
Officials of Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca have announced that the Historic Motor Sports Association (HMSA) will be the sanctioning body for the 2010 Monterey Historic Automobile Races as well as the Monterey Pre-Historics. HMSA will provide rules, regulations, and oversee technical inspection. Although the Featured Marque was not announced, the...
The new Historic Motorsports Productions organization has scheduled three events for its inaugural 2010 season. Watkins Glen International was the...
It wasn’t the fact that Roy Lane won four British Hillclimb Championships, it was the timing of the wins. His...
Jim Hall, creator of the legendary Chaparrals and the man who gave Gil de Ferran his first Indycar drive, was the honoree during festivities surrounding de Ferran’s final race as a driver at Laguna Seca’s American Le Mans Series finale. After beginning his Indycar career with Hall’s team in 1995,...
