VR columnist Mark Brinker was at it again in his 750-cc Deutsch Bonnet HBR-5 during Bonneville Speed Week 2009. This...
Following their highly successful “GT & Sports Car Cup” race series now in its third season, Flavien and Vanessa Marçais...
A new organization, Historic Motorsports Productions, is seeking to raise the game of vintage and historic racing in North America to match its demographic. The group’s three principals—three-time National Champion and 1986 Indy 500 winner Bobby Rahal, Just Marketing founder Zak Brown, and longtime vintage racer and entrepreneur Peter Stoneberg—made...
Richard Petty will serve as the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance Honorary Chairman for 2010. The seven-time NASCAR champion, winner of...
The world may be in an economic downturn, but there wasn’t much sign of that at the 2009 edition of...
The Automobile Club de Monaco has announced that the seventh Grand Prix Monaco Historique has been scheduled for May 8–9, 2010. The event will precede the 68th Grand Prix de Monaco by two weeks in order to allow both groups ample time to access the paddock area of the circuit...
Vintage Racecar was stunned to learn of the tragic death of Henry Surtees while he was competing in Round 4...
The helmet and goggles worn by Sir Stirling Moss when he won the 1957 British Grand Prix, Aintree, assisted by...
The famous Jaguar museum in Coventry, England, has been re-launched. This follows the renaming of the Trust that owns it and the reopening of the famous gates on Browns Lane to the public. The Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust (“JDHT”), founded in 1983 as an independent educational charity, has been restructured...
Aiming to build on the foundation of a successful inaugural, the second Legends of Riverside event has been scheduled for...
Luigi Chinetti’s iconic North American Racing Team—represented by Luigi Chinetti Jr.—and several of its legendary drivers, including Sam Posey and...
Charlie Kolb passed away June 15 at the age of age 85. The lanky Kolb, who played minor league baseball in the New York Giants organization before becoming an auto dealer in Miami, raced at the top levels of the sport for a dozen years. He dominated the SCCA’s 1960...
This fabulous-looking 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa was sold by RM-Sotheby’s “Ferrari Legend and Passion” auction at the famous Fiorano...
Well-known vintage racing enthusiast and patron Ford Heacock III was suitably honored with the VIR Gold Cup at the annual...
No fewer than 20 4-cylinder Morgans—a potentially record turnout—have been invited to compete for the Morgan Techniques Trophy at the two-day Bentley Drivers Club 60th Anniversary meeting scheduled for Silverstone on August 8-9. Morgans of all shapes and sizes will also be out in force for the Power Torque Morgan...
The oldest of only three Morgan SLRs returned to Silverstone after last racing there 34 years ago. Entered in the...
A rare piece of automotive history will go on the block with no reserve as the 1936 Bugatti Type 57C...
Vintage Racecar is saddened to report the death of Tony Maggs. His drive in a Tojeiro-Jaguar at the 1959 North Staffordshire Motor Club meeting at Silverstone epitomised his guile and determination on the track. Coming into Woodcote corner for the final time, he cut inside leader Peter Mould’s Lister-Jaguar. Carrying...
Three hundred kilometers south of Le Mans can be found another ancient French city with a lengthy motor sport history,...
A pair of historic Miller racing cars, an ex–Phil Hill Jaguar C-Type, and a rare Ferrari 225S headline the 24th...
The 2009 edition of Italy’s Mille Miglia Storica attracted its usual mixed bag of royalty, politicians, motor racing icons, and showbiz folk, all presided over by Italian TV actress Manuela Arcuri, whose love life is of constant speculation in the country’s media. The regularity race’s impressive collection of 378 spectacular...
A hardy group owning 32 cars made the sojourn to Albert Park in Melbourne, Australia, for the running of the...
It may be hard to imagine, but some vintage events are now becoming vintage themselves, and SVRA’s vintage Collier Cup...
Tony Marsh left nothing to chance during his long motor racing career. Indeed, he tried the whole gamut the sport had to offer from trials to sprints, rallies to racing. In fact, all forms of 4-wheeled competition came under his radar at some time during his career. He excelled, however,...
The Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum in Philadelphia has been holding a series of “Demonstration Days,” at noon on the fourth...
With the 12th annual Goodwood Revival set for September 18–20, the organizers are planning to celebrate a pair of prominent...
The familiar trademark Marlboro Stetson was bobbing about in the pit lane at the Mores circuit in Sardinia, Italy, in mid-April, warning anyone who wanted to take notice that Arturo Merzario has not finished yet. And he proved it. At 66 years old, the former Ferrari and Williams Formula One...
The 14th annual Concours d’Elegance at Amelia Island drew an estimated 20,000 onlookers to the fairways of the Ritz Carlton...
It’s been 21 years since the last race was run at Riverside International Raceway in California, the historic venue succumbing...
Arthur Francis Riley, endurance-race driver, and owner of Art Riley Motors in Port Washington, N.Y., for a quarter of a century, has passed away at the age of 93. Garage owner and master mechanic Riley was granted one of America’s early Volvo franchises in 1957. “As soon as I drove...
