Built during World War II, it was known as “RAAF Fleet Air Arm, Middle Swan” but, to locals, just Caversham....
A film festival that celebrates the life of the two-time World Champion racing driver, Jim Clark, will take place at...
The Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance has announced that motorsports icon Parnelli Jones will be the honoree for the 13th Annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance scheduled for March 7–9, 2008, at The Golf Club of Amelia Island at Summer Beach. Jones’s career spanned many types of racing, including sports cars, sprint...
Italian-born, Swiss-national Hans Ruesch died on August 27 in Lugano, Switzerland, at the age of 94. He was one of...
Denver Cornett, an icon of American MG racing passed away last year. And many of those who were privileged to...
Former Shelby American mechanic and crew chief John Collins passed away in August, at the age of 77. Collins left England in 1958 and first immigrated to Canada where he opened an automobile repair shop in Sudbury, Ontario. There he built his first racecar, but after suffering five years...
Silverstone staged its annual festival for historic racers with some 600 cars taking part in 20 races over the last...
Jean Redélé, founder of the French motorsport tuning and engineering company, Automobiles Alpine, died on August 10, at the age...
This year’s Eighth Annual Lake Mirror Classic, to be held October 19–20 in downtown Lakeland, Florida, will honor the racecars and career of Sir Stirling Moss. Primary-sponsor Mercedes-Benz and event organizers expect to welcome more than 500 cars—including Concours d’Elegance beauties, classic American musclecars, and vintage sports and racecars, plus...
The seventh running of the very popular Walter Hayes Trophy for Kent-engined Formula Ford cars takes place at Silverstone from...
Having previously established records for the Lotus 25 and 49, on July 25, H&H set a new sales record for...
St. Michael’s Church, at Silverstone, was full and overflowing with family, friends, and members of the motor racing fraternity wishing to pay tribute to Fred Goddard, who was tragically killed in a road accident, while in the United States for a historic race meeting. Goddard was born and raised in...
Sadly those two iconic road races, the Targa Florio and Giro Di Sicilia, both instigated by Vincenzo Florio at the...
In early August, Indy 500 and Le Mans champion A. J. Foyt narrowly escaped a grim death, when the bulldozer...
Sports car racing driver, team manager and safety engineer John Fitch has been inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame, along with seven others. Fitch was the first SCCA national champion, in 1951, and won the Argentine Grand Prix in the same year. In the 1952 Mexican Road Race, he...
Three-time Formula One champion Nelson Piquet may be one of the greatest racing drivers to ever emerge from Brazil…however, the...
The Goodwood Festival of Speed celebrated its 15th anniversary, between June 22–24, with another spectacular event, attended by an estimated...
After 16 years and more than eight million competitor kilometers, the Targa Tasmania tarmac rally has become an eagerly anticipated and addictive annual pleasure to around 275 entrants in production cars of all ages, who collect on Australia’s southernmost island state after Easter for a five-day road ritual. For some,...
Skip Barber, President of Lime Rock Park, recently announced his plan for the future of the track. The objective is...
On Sept 22–23, the countryside outside of Reims, France, will once again reverberate to the howls of a Mercedes W196,...
It is official: The Mille Miglia Storica now has new organizers. For the next five years, until 2012, the great vintage racecar spectacle will be staged by ATI, a consortium made up of Meet Communications, Mac Events and San Remo Rally, headed by Alessandro Casali, with offices in Milan and...
Just over 50 years ago, in a support race for the 1957 New Zealand Grand Prix, British driver Ken Wharton...
On May 26–27, the Bugatti Owners’ Club staged their all-French “La Vie en Bleu” speed hillclimb event at the UK’s...
Who else but Ferrari could turn on such a magnificent birthday party? Four days of celebrations at Maranello and the company’s own test track at nearby Fiorano to mark the Prancing Horse’s 60th anniversary. Said Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, president of Ferrari S.p.A. since 1991, “This is an important weekend,...
The 2007 Fuji Jamboree historic race meeting held on April 15 and organized by the Japan Classic Car Association attracted...
Australia’s home of motor sport, Mount Panorama (Bathurst), will once again come alive with the roar of engines at Easter—this...
Historic Race Circuits of Elkhart Lake, in conjunction with the Sports Car Club of America and the Great Race, announces the first annual Elkhart Lake Historic Rally, to be held in and around the Village of Elkhart Lake, WI on October 5th and 6th, 2007. The SCCA and Great Race...
Over 1,000 friends and relatives attended the funeral of popular and talented British historic racer James Diffey in the country...
The Alfa Romeo 6C 1500 SS, in which Giuseppe Campari and Giulio Ramponi won the 1928 Mille Miglia, has done...
Historic racers Todd Morici and Peter Giddings have been so dominant in the Shell Ferrari/Maserati Historic Challenge, over the years, that they were awarded the “Masters” designation in 2001. In May’s round at the 3.27-mile VIRginia International Raceway, they both demonstrated that they’ve lost none of their mastery. Giddings took...
