When the greats of historic motoring racing reappear at Silverstone in July for the Silverstone Classic, many fans will have...
The 24th running of the Elkhart Lake Vintage Festival will be held at Road America on the weekend of September...
One of South Africa’s most recognizable motor sports personalities, Jackie Pretorius, died March 30, succumbing to injuries received during a home-invasion robbery. That incident was a virtual repeat of a similar break-in five years ago that took the life of Jackie’s wife, Shirley, and is thought to have been committed...
The Fairfield County Concours d’Elegance will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of Alfa Romeo with a broad array...
Peter Bryant, best known in motor racing circles as the creator of the Titanium-chassied Ti22 Can-Am car, died of a...
This year’s 12th annual Quail Lodge Classic Auto Auction, to be organized by Bonhams & Butterfields in Carmel, California, on August 12, will feature a 1939 Auto Union Grand Prix car last driven by the legendary Austrian Hans Stuck. The machine in question is D-Type chassis 19, and is hailed...
The glorious sunshine and exceptional calibre of racing stars brought motorsport enthusiasts out in their thousands to visit Race Retro...
Lloyd Ruby was best known as an excellent Indy car driver who nearly won two Indianapolis 500s, but in truth,...
Some of the world’s finest classic and antique automobiles will take center stage at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway during the one-time-only Centennial Era Concours d’Elegance on June 18-20, 2010. The event was announced by Speedway president, Joie Chitwood, at the recent Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance in Florida. The event will...
The Vintage Sports Car Club of America has announced the creation of its first official VSCCA Triple Crown, formal recognition...
Frank Kurtis has been selected as the winner of the 9th Annual Shav Glick Award. This Justice Brothers–sponsored award recognizes...
To celebrate the rich heritage of BMW, the Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix Association and the Allegheny Chapter of the BMW CCA are organizing 10 days of activities in conjunction with July’s 2009 Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix. More than 250 BMW show cars are expected to line the fairways of primary...
The Tazio Nuvolari Museum in Mantua, Italy, has closed. It is supposed to open again at some time in the...
Each June, Motor Racing Legends—organizer of the historic support race at the Le Mans 24 Hours—also runs a Le Mans...
On July 4, 1965, Bob Bondurant drove the Shelby Daytona Cobra Coupe CSX2601 to victory at Reims, France, to clinch the first and only World Manufacturer’s Championship for the United States. “Winning that World Championship was the crowning achievement of my career,” offered Bondurant. “I think it’s wonderful that the...
Motor racing’s senior statesman, 92-year-old John Fitch, is being threatened with the loss of his home near Lime Rock where...
Vintage Racecar is saddened to learn of the passing of one of the founding fathers’ of South African motor sport...
A 30-year reunion of the participants and fans of what is believed to be the only “Dead Heat” in Road America history is planned for the 2009 June Sprints weekend at the historic Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, track. In 1979, at the end of what could be called a decade of...
To mark the 100th anniversary of its construction in 1909 and its first 500-mile race in 1911, the Indianapolis Motor...
A grand American figure in motor racing history has quietly left the scene. After battling Parkinson’s Disease for a decade,...
The son of eminent sculptor Jacob Epstein, Jackie was born in 1934 into an unorthodox family. The offspring of an extramarital affair, he was abandoned by his mother and cared for by Jacob’s wife. Following her death in an accident in 1949, Jackie was taken to the United States where...
Five-time IMSA champion Jim Downing, one of the creators of the HANS Device, is the latest recipient of the Road...
Porsche’s new museum, recently opened at corporate headquarters in Stuttgart, promotes the “Porsche idea” with a trip back in time...
Lime Rock Park’s preparations for the 28th Annual Vintage Festival on the traditional Labor Day weekend are well underway. Buzz is in the air in Lakeland as plans are being made, racing formats are being changed, and the hallmark car show is expanding. There is a new regime on board...
The 59th Annual Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, scheduled for Sunday Aug. 16, 2009, will feature the fabled marques of Bentley...
MG Vintage Racers has selected SVRA’s June 4-7 Heacock Classic Gold Cup race event at Virginia International Raceway, as its...
The Bentley Drivers Club will celebrate six decades of racing at Silverstone with an unprecedented two-day meeting on August 8-9. A broad collection of Bentleys of all vintages will take to the track to honor the continuous run of annual BDC events held at the Northamptonshire circuit since 1949. Anchoring...
For the past quarter century, Bob Carlson was the face of Porsche public relations in North America, a friend and...
A brand-new, purpose-built racing facility on the western edge of the Great Plains, an hour east of Denver, is scheduled...
Building on the success of the 40th anniversary races in 2008, the Formula 5000 Drivers Association has announced an expanded race program for 2009 consisting of four events at tracks across the United States. The first of these will run May 16-17 at Thunderhill Raceway in Northern California (with CSRG),...
