Octane Racing Group, promoter of the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal, has announced that Historic Grand Prix will provide one...
75 Years and still going strong In the wake of World War Two, as the dust had settled and an...
Historic Sportscar Racing has announced an eight-race 2017 event schedule, kicking off with an exhibition outing alongside the 65th running of the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring in March, and closing out eight months later at the same circuit for the Classic 12 Hour at Sebring. The latter event...
Terry Sanger, the doyenne of 1960s saloon racing specials has died aged 79. Born in Wales, Terry moved to Bristol...
1964 Formula One World Champion John Surtees was honored at a charity dinner held near Northampton, England on June 29....
The Masters Historic Festival will take over England’s undulating Brands Hatch circuit on the weekend of May 23-25, offering a full schedule of events, but with a focus on Touring cars from the 1960s through to the 1990s. Five races for Touring Car competitors will be featured for the Pre-’66...
For a 16th time, vintage Indycars raced around the Milwaukee Mile in honor of Harry Miller and the incredible machines...
The Put-in-Bay Vintage Sports Car Races are pleased to announce that ‘50s-era competitor Ed Eichenlaub will be an honored guest...
John Grant was elected to succeed Stuart Rolt as Chairman of the British Racing Drivers’ Club (BRDC) at the Club’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) in October. Rolt had served the maximum nine-year term for a director, including two three-year stints as Chairman. Grant is known within motor sport for his...
American road racing pioneer John von Neumann died on Christmas night, 2003. Born December 16, 1921, he had just turned...
Les Leston was born in 1920 named Alfred Lazarus Fingleston. He worked in the motor accessory business and was an...
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...
Australia’s home of motor sport, Mount Panorama (Bathurst), will once again come alive with the roar of engines at Easter—this...
To mark the 120th anniversary of ŠKODA Motorsport, employees from the ŠKODA Museum and ŠKODA AUTO’s Prototype Centre collaborated on...
Ascari and Formula II 1952 and 1953 were watershed years for Scuderia Ferrari, notable not only for what the team...
The Vintage Sports Car Club’s new Formula Vintage series enjoyed a second triumphant outing on the weekend of June 10-11,...
The Lime Rock Park Historic Festival will celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Chevrolet Corvette as the featured marque this Labor Day weekend (Sept. 1-5). First shown to the public at General Motors’ Motorama as a “dream car” in January, 1953, the Corvette has captured hearts and dreams ever since. The...
Well respected historian and author Michael T. Lynch passed away on January 11th. Perhaps best known for his award-winning book,...
At last weekend’s 14th running of Race Retro, the international historic motorsport show drew a global audience that included VR’s...
The second annual London to Lisbon rally was flagged off from London’s Hampton Court on October 5, kicking off nine days of arduous driving through the twisting back roads and mountain passes of Northern Spain and Portugal. Organized by the Historic Endurance Rallying Organization – better known as HERO –...
As Historic Sportscar Racing’s Classic 24 Hour at Daytona presented by IMSA, gets ready to roll at Daytona International Speedway...
This weekend’s Indianapolis 8-Hour resulted in Sky Tempesta Racing earning the best result for Ferrari in the final event of...
The British Sports Car Hal of Fame (BSCHoF) has just released its newest list of inductees for 2023. BSCHoF President Gary Kincel said, “Once again, this years’ selections for induction into the British Sports Car Hall of Fame have all made significant contributions to the history and legacy of the...
The 1965 Le Mans-winning NART Ferrari 250LM driven by Jochen Rindt and Masten Gregory and currently owned by the Indianapolis...
April 28, 1957 may not be remembered as a day that changed history, but to a group of scrappy, stubborn...
There have been classic races at Le Mans, and races for classics, but the 2002 Le Mans Classic was about as close as you could come to seeing the “old days” recreated at the Le Sarthe circuit. The Peter Auto organization took on a tremendous task of trimming the entry...
On June 8-9, more than 170 historic racing machines descended on Vernasca, Italy, for this year’s Silver Flag Hillclimb. Known...
Please excuse this shameless self-promotional moment, but I’ve recently joined the ranks of Bonneville racing legends Al Teague, Art Arfons,...
Louis Klemantaski, arguably one of the most influential motorsport photographers of all time, has passed away at the age of 89. From the early ’30s to the early ’80s, Klemantaski’s photography captured both the seminal events of motorsport history, as well as the very heart and soul of the sport....
