In December, several members of VR’s editorial staff were honored by the motor press community for the quality of their...
The first woman to race in Formula One turned 80 on November 6, 2006. She is Countess Maria Teresa De...
It was scheduled to be a Celebration of Bathurst but, with the death of Peter Brock the “King of Bathurst” just days beforehand, it was also a tribute to a legend of Australian motor sport. Brocky had entered a reconstruction of his Holden-powered Austin A30 and he was scheduled to...
Motor Racing Legends has announced the eligible years for Le Mans Legend 2007, the historic support race to the modern...
The 2007 Gold Cup Historic Races, scheduled for June 8-10, will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the opening of Virginia...
Christie’s Auctions has announced that they will be offering a rare 1939 Auto Union D-Type for sale during their Feb. 17 Retromobile sale in Paris. Considered by many to be one of the most seminal cars in motor racing history, the D-Type won the 1939 Belgrade Grand Prix at the...
The annual Spa Six Hours regularly attracts a huge entry and this year’s September 30th event was no exception with...
The Monaco Kart Cup celebrated its 10th anniversary on the street circuit in the tiny principality, Oct. 13–15, and added...
One of the best kept secrets in historic car racing is the wonderful selection of hill-climbs, both competitive and non, that are available in France, particularly in the Alsace/Vosges and Jura regions. One excellent example is Trois Epis “course-de-cote,” in Turckheim, in central Alsace. The road itself is a wonderful...
Joaquin Folch took victory in the sixth round of the FIA Thoroughbred Grand Prix World Championship at Donington Park on...
Jack Cassingham of Sherrills, North Carolina, has been awarded the highest honor of “Driver of the Year” by the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association...
SpaItalia, the famed Belgian circuit’s celebration of Italian style will, this year, honor Maserati and pay homage to its founder Alfieri Maserati. Alfieri Maserati was born in 1887. On December 14, 1914, he created, in Bologna, his own firm with his brothers Ettore, Enesto and later Bindo, called the “Societa...
On Oct. 23, a beaming Mario Andretti received the Commendatore dell’Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana for his public service...
General Racing, Ltd., organizers of the Monterey Historic Automobile Races, have announced that the featured marque for the 2007 Historics...
A new department has been opened in the foundry of the old Maranello factory called Ferrari Classiche (Ferrari Classics). Its purpose is to maintain and restore road cars built by the company before 1986 and Ferrari racing machinery from any year. On paper, that covers about 250 different models and...
Europe’s premier winter show for historic motorsport is back, at the same venue—Stoneleigh Park, near Coventry—but with a new date...
As many as seven rare and important racing Porsches from the company’s museum in Stuttgart, Germany, are expected to be...
Cyril Terrence “Tom” Delaney, the World’s oldest licensed racing driver, passed away on September 1, he was 95. Earlier this year his long-time companion, Lulu, died and Tom’s health quickly declined from then on. Tom was synonymous with the Lea Francis Hyper his father first purchased for him in the...
Vicenzo Lancia’s eponymous company is 100 years old this year and, after much planning, a week of celebrations took place...
Phil Hill was the honored guest at the Goodwood Circuit Revival Meeting held September 1–3. The 1961 World Drivers Champion...
This year’s Rolex Monterey Historic Automobile Races, held August 18–20, was the 33rd running of what has arguably become the world’s largest gathering of the classic car faithful. With a diverse 400-car field and a star-studded collection of famous drivers and automotive personalities, this year’s Historics paid tribute to the...
The two Grand Prix Masters races for Formula One cars were a reminder of just what contemporary Formula One appears...
There was something for everyone at the Silverstone Classic festival over the July 28–30 weekend. Two Masters Grand Prix races...
This year’s Monterey Historics weekend saw five separate auctions, spread over four days, sell an utterly astounding $100,370,000 worth of collector cars. Just to give the gravity of this sale some scale, if the five Monterey auctions were a country, they would rank 169th in the world for Gross National...
Over 5,000 people came to the County of Fife, Scotland, to witness a gathering of various motor sport clans celebrating...
Victory Lane LLC, the creator of a new lifestyle development for motor sports enthusiasts, announces that it has engaged American...
With wild excitement the crowd rose as one, cheering and clapping their new motor racing hero. He had traveled north from Melbourne to compete in the then- popular night racing at Sydney’s Oran Park Raceway. It was February 1970 and I remember it with some affection as if it were...
A bronze statue was unveiled in July at the Mallory Park circuit in Leicestershire, England as a tribute to the...
Rallying legend Ari Vatanen headed a star-studded cast at Rallyday 2006 on July 22. The “Flying Finn,” who won the...
Former racing driver and race-school owner Jim Russell was reunited with his 1958 F2 Cooper at the Silverstone Classic weekend in July. Aussie racer Scotty Taylor bought the chassis of the car last October. Taylor commented, “The history of the car, since Jim had it, is that it went from...
