Keeping a promise to America’s Porsche owners and racing fans made in 2001, Porsche Cars North America, in conjunction with...
Kiwi racing star Graham McRae, who competed in F1, F5000 and the Indianapolis 500, was hospitalized on September 2, after...
Audi Tradition—the division responsible for preserving the brand’s colorful automotive heritage—has just undertaken its most complex restoration project since the replica of the Auto Union Type C “Silver Arrow” racing car. It has breathed new life into three Wanderer “Streamline Specials” entered by Auto Union for the 4,700-kilometer Liège-Rome-Liège race...
Bobby Rahal has won more Champ Car races at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca as a driver and team owner than...
Bonhams On Friday evening, Quail Lodge hosted the Bonham’s sale, but it wasn’t a racecar market. The closest thing to...
The 2003 “Monterey” weekend was, again, a jam-packed period of several days of diverse automotive events, with the celebration of 100 Years of Ford the prominent theme at auctions, concours and racing activities. At the Mazda Laguna Seca circuit, the usual Friday qualifying and Saturday practice and racing featured no...
Famed British racing engineer Tony Rudd died on August 22 at the age of 81 following a heart attack and...
Another new event appeared on the Monterey calendar this year, with the arrival of the “Quail” featuring a selection of...
The “Matiche” is a hidden treasure, one of the best classic car events we have come across. It is open only to barchettas— two-seater, open sports and sports racing cars built through the early 1960s. This three day event, with scrutineering on Friday at Bassano del Grappa in northeastern Italy,...
An unusual bridge in American racing history was crossed this past August when British racer Lorina McLaughlin became the first...
Motorsport comes in many forms, but perhaps the oldest variation is the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run, which this...
A life-size statue of John Surtees, the only man to have won the World Championship on two and four wheels, was unveiled at Mallory Park in the U.K. on July 14, as a tribute to the great motorcycle and Formula One star. Surtees was in humble mode as Sir Jack...
Readers may recall that last month we brought you the story of John Fitch’s planned attempt to break an existing...
The 10th edition of the Goodwood Festival of Speed continued its tradition of bringing huge crowds onto the grounds of...
Eighty-six-year-old sports car racing legend John Fitch will attempt to enter the record books one more time when he takes to the Bonneville Salt Flats in a Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Gullwing. Fitch will attempt to break the World Land Speed Record in the F/GT production class on August 18, when...
Sir Stirling Moss had a fall from his motor scooter on Thursday, July 17 while crossing Lambeth Bridge in London....
Recently FIA president Max Mosley suggested that the FIA might revive the F2 category as a way of stimulating competition...
The 18th annual OLD/NOW Car Festival was held on the Childrens Day public holiday at Tsukuba circuit, an hour and a half northwest of Tokyo. The meeting was heavily promoted and a big crowd turned out on a warm spring day. There was a mixture of races and “circuit runs.”...
Uwe Meissner, of Germany’s Modena Motorsport, held his annual Ferrari Driving Days at the Nürburgring on June 23–24 and more...
Despite dreary weather for much of the weekend, Virginia International’s Gold Cup Historic Races was judged an unqualified success by...
A historically unlikely motorsport marriage was consummated at the end of July. Former Ligier and Williams Formula One driver Jacques Laffite joined forces with the Morgan car company to race a Morgan Aero 8 GT at this year’s 24 Hours of Spa. The French racing star, who scored six wins...
The world of motorsport lost one of its most charming and colorful characters on July 16, when team owner Theodore...
The roar of Can-Am thunder will once again reverberate through the hills of Laguna Seca Raceway in Monterey, California, when...
One of the most significant of all Lotus Grand Prix cars, the ex-Innes Ireland Lotus 21 chassis 933, will go up for sale at Bonham’s Goodwood Auction in September. While chassis 933 is perhaps best known as the car Innes Ireland drove to Team Lotus’ first Grand Prix victory at...
The Automobile Club De L’Ouest (ACO) held it’s 2nd bi-annual Le Mans Legends race on June 14, this year featuring...
Just before we went to press, we received the very sad news that American racing pioneer Briggs Cunningham Jr. had...
Tyrrell 001, the very first complete racecar built by Ken Tyrrell’s Tyrrel Racing Organisation, was unveiled at the end of June after undergoing an extensive restoration by noted restorers Hall & Hall. Driven by Jackie Stewart during the last part of the 1970 Formula One season and the first part...
On May 18, an impressive demonstration of historic racecars helped kick off the 2003 Mercedes-Benz Classic Days and the Mercedes-Benz...
A unique gesture of love and devotion almost risked overshadowing the 21st Mille Miglia Storica and its 372 stunning cars...
The Donington Grand Prix Collection was the venue for a glittering “Tribute to Ayrton Senna” Dinner Party, at which FIA Medical Delegate, professor Sid Watkins OBE, received the Tom Wheatcroft Trophy from current holder Murray Walker OBE. The trophy, inspired and commissioned by Tom’s son, Kevin as a tribute to...
