BMW has revealed that it will be bringing a trio of historic BMW racecars to this weekend’s Rolex Monterey Motorsports...
Masters Historic Racing will take part in the festivities at this year’s United States Grand Prix for Formula One, scheduled...
• The Motorsports Hall of Fame of America (MSHFA) presented John Mecom Jr. with its Bob Russo Heritage Award at the 28th Annual MSHFA Induction Ceremony Presented By Bridgestone at The Shores Resort & Spa in Daytona Beach. The award, named in honor of the long-time motorsports journalist and historian,...
Arthur Francis Riley, endurance-race driver, and owner of Art Riley Motors in Port Washington, N.Y., for a quarter of a...
The 25th annual Shelby American Automobile Club (SAAC) national convention will be held at Lime Rock Park from June 30-July...
Sergio Scaglietti, who died at the age of 91 on November 20, was the son of a carpenter who became Ferrari’s body stylist par excellence. Today, the cars he fashioned by hand in the ’50s and ’60s are worth tens of millions of dollars each. Scaglietti was a painfully modest...
With the Heacock Classic Gold Cup meeting on the first weekend of autumn at Virginia International Raceway, the Sportscar Vintage...
The iconic British-made Mini, one of the world’s most successful automobiles, is this year’s featured show car marque and race...
In celebration of the 40th anniversary of his record-setting fourth Indianapolis 500 win (and the 50th anniversary of his third), the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum will present A.J. Foyt: A Legendary Exhibition, a once-in-a-lifetime exhibit honoring the famed Texan. The exhibit opens next Friday, April 14. Presented by ABC Supply,...
Coppa Intereuropa organizer Jason Wright will shake up this year’s Monza meeting, scheduled for June 1–3, with a four-hour race...
More than 20,000 people braved wintry conditions to attend the second International Historic Motorsport Show at Stoneleigh, near Coventry in...
The Fabulous Fifties “unclub” held its annual Lindley Bothwell Award dinner on Sunday evening at the Proud Bird restaurant near Los Angeles International Airport, where it honored George Follmer with its Lifetime Achievement Award. George is, of course, the only driver ever to win two major U.S. professional racing championships...
The Motorsport Safety Fund’s Watkins Lecture at Autosport International is to be given by Jean Todt, President of the Federation...
Eighty years after his father contested the Shelsley Walsh Hill Climb, Hans-Joachim Stuck will do the same, driving a replica...
On March 28th, at 2pm, the North East Motor Sports Museum will host a special speaker presentation on the Rockingham Boards, which will be presented by Joe Freeman. From 1925 to 1928 the top drivers from across the country came to Salem, New Hampshire’s Rockingham Motor Speedway. The track which...
Next July’s Silverstone Classic has announced plans to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the legendary Can-Am Series with a pair...
After one of its most successful annual meetings at Lime Rock Park last year, the Shelby American Automobile Club (SAAC)...
Background By the late 1950s, sports racing cars were becoming increasingly sophisticated, transitioning from traditional front-engine production-based cars to a new generation of highly specialized purpose-built mid-engine machines. Faced with the challenging task of designing an all-new sports car on a shoestring budget, Alfieri courageously created the last of the...
The Can-Am Reunion Dinner scheduled for the Saturday of Monterey Classic Car Week, August 20 at the Monterey Plaza Hotel,...
The 24th running of the Elkhart Lake Vintage Festival will be held at Road America on the weekend of September 11–13, with Stock Cars as this year’s featured category. Road America’s long straights and fast sweeping turns make it an ideal place for the ground-pounding stockers to stretch their legs....
On Saturday, August 4th, a global audience of collectors and enthusiasts gathered in Indiana for Worldwide Auctioneers’ much anticipated Hostetler’s...
I remember talking to John Surtees a couple of years ago, and our conversation revolved around his many successes. With...
The 9th Annual Put-In-Bay Road Race Reunion took place during the last week of August on South Bass Island, off the coast of Ohio in Lake Erie. Participants in four race groups, running in 19 different classes, were treated to a pair of races in each group as well as...
On May 25, Giulio Alfieri, one of the giants of 20th century motorsport, strode through the scrutineering paddock of the...
A legend is born It’s quite possibly the world’s most coveted sports car from the golden era of endurance racing:...
Porsche racecars from seven decades will be featured at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, set for July 12-15, as the 70th anniversary of Porsche’s first car, the 356, is celebrated. Among the cars tackling Goodwood’s hillclimb course (above, Pete Austin photo) will be everything from 356s to 917s, as...
Wally Willmott, the first man hired by Bruce McLaren when he started his racing team, has died at the age...
One key element of the burgeoning vintage racing scene that has emerged over the last 40 years has been the...
