American historic racer John Delane wrapped up his third FIA TGP championship in the past four years and as such,...
The Formula One rumor mill has been abuzz with the story that Roger Penske might make another attempt at Formula...
The racing world lost one of its true pioneers on December 19, 2005, when Keith Duckworth passed away. He was 72 years old. Along with his lifelong colleague and friend, Mike Costin, Duckworth established Cosworth Engineering in 1958, and guided it to worldwide fame in the field of high-performance engines...
Bonhams recently announced the purchase by private treaty of the Williams F1 Reserve Collection, ahead of its scheduled auction on...
The Historic Motor Sports Association (HMSA) has announced that the National Automobile Museum (The Harrah Collection) has been chosen to...
Exhibitors have responded in force to the announcement of the 3rd International Historic Motorsport Show, to be held Feb. 24–26, 2006, at Stoneleigh Park, Coventry, England. By the beginning of November, almost 60% of the available space had gone—with over 90% of the main racing car hall already booked. In...
On November 4–6, 2005, 30,000 people went through the doors of the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, England to see...
Gerard “Jabby” Crombac, renowned French journalist and automotive authority, has died of cancer at his Paris home on November 18....
While historic racing in Australia is moving from strength to strength, it’s usually confined to the well-known circuits located in and about the major cities. “Round the Houses” events may have been popular in days of yore, but now hurdles appear everywhere from the likes of government authorities, public acceptance,...
On paper, the concept of former Grand Prix drivers racing each other is quite mouth-watering. Cars would have to be...
The 2001 World Rally Champion Richard Burns died on Friday November 25 after a long battle with a brain tumor....
The Vintage Sportscar Club of America, (VSCCA) has announced that it has expanded its list of eligible vehicles to include five additional vintage models. These include the Austin Healey 100-6, Triumph TR-3, “Bugeye” Sprite, Sunbeam Alpine, and all 356 Porsches equipped with drum brakes. The VSCCA is one of the...
The Masters Series, which encompasses the Grand Prix Masters Series, the Sportscar Masters Series, and the Gentleman Drivers Series, recently...
Some evidence that special stage rallying breeds a special type of extra-robust competitor—and spectator—surfaced in Italy in October when the...
Brooklands and Donington are two names that conjure up the halcyon days of British motor racing. Brooklands, near Weybridge in Surrey, was the world’s first purpose-built enclosed motor circuit, constructed in 1907. Donington Park, at Castle Donington in Derbyshire, was the first purpose-built road-racing circuit in the UK, opened in...
The Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) recently announced the five individuals that will be enshrined into its Hall of...
A new European series for under-2-liter Touring Cars will be inaugurated in 2006. Dubbed the Historic Motor Racing News U2TC,...
The Japan Classic Car Association’s annual “Summer Festival” meeting was held in July at Tsukuba motorsport complex about an hour and a half north of Tokyo. Like most classic race meetings in Japan, this was a one-day affair with practice beginning at 8:00 a.m., with a schedule that ran like...
September 11–15 marked the inaugural running of the Going to the Sun rally in Montana. On this, the 200th anniversary...
Tonino Ascari, the 63-year-old son of 1952–1953 Formula One World Champion Alberto, stunned the Italian motor racing community on September...
The Masters Series, organizers of the Grand Prix Masters Historic Formula One races, and of the World Sportscar Masters events for 1960s and 1970s Le Mans-type cars, has recently announced that it has acquired the two major historic race series presently managed by Carol Spagg’s Gentleman Drivers’ organization, with immediate...
On September 24, the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, California, opened a new retrospective exhibit honoring the automotive and...
WilliamsF1 has recently announced that a hand-picked selection of more than 20 of the WilliamsF1’s Reserve Collection of Formula One...
The Goodwood Revival is thought by many to be the largest historic race meeting in the world and the only sporting event held entirely to a period theme, recalling, with great attention to detail, the glory days of the circuit that saw action between 1948–1966. Taking place over the weekend...
On January 26, 1906, Fred Marriott shocked the burgeoning automotive world when he drove the steam-powered Stanley Rocket Racer to...
The MG Vintage Racers (MGVR) have recently announced that in celebration of MGVR’s 25th anniversary next year, they will be...
History was both made and remembered over the Labor Day holiday when a Porsche Carrera GT production car driven by racecar driver David Donohue and NBC television The Tonight Show host Jay Leno set a series of closed-course speed records at Talladega Superspeedway, where David’s father, Mark Donohue, set a...
Founded by David Murray in the ’50s, the famed Ecurie Ecosse race team scored two famous wins at Le Mans...
The 32nd running of the Monterey Historics on Aug. 19–21, paid tribute to the engineering and ingenuity of American road...
With six auctions over a long four-day weekend, the Monterey weekend has in recent years become the benchmark and focal point for classic car sales. Last year’s combined auctions shocked many pundits when over $48 million worth of cars traded hands. However, if you had predicted that this year’s sales...
