Former F1, sports car and F5000 driver Peter Gethin died on December 5 after a lengthy illness. Gethin is remembered...
Half a century ago, Speed Week in the Bahamas was one of the most popular race meets on motor racing’s...
Widely experienced chief mechanic and author Sal Incandela has passed away at his home in the Las Vegas suburb of Henderson, Nevada. He was 61. During an extensive career in racing as a mechanic, engineer, crew chief and team principal, the Italian-born, French-educated Incandela worked for several championship-winning teams, including...
Frank Dominianni, who won the SCCA’s B Production National Championship in 1964, has passed away at the age of 86....
A few hours before next June’s start of the 80th running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the morning...
The MG Vintage Racers’ Newsletter celebrates its 30th anniversary this month, having been around longer than a number of vintage racing organizations. Founded in December of 1981 by MGTD racer Greg Prehodka with 40 of his MG racing buddies, it has helped MG racers stay in touch with each other...
Californian John Delane has become the first American to win the overall Historic Formula One championship, claiming the 2011 crown...
Classes have been announced and entries have opened for the 2012 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, scheduled for August 17–19 at...
The first phase of construction for Central New York Raceway Park in Central Square, N.Y., is set to begin this spring. The 140-acre site, located 20 minutes from downtown Syracuse, is presently being cleared in anticipation of the groundbreaking for a facility that will include a two-mile road course, a...
After three celebrations on the East Coast at Daytona and Lime Rock, Porsche’s triennial Rennsport Reunion came to California in...
Forty-two years after winning the 1969 SCCA Formula Continental crown in Marvin Davidson’s Milestone Eagle, Tony Adamowicz is once again...
As the ninth annual The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering had chosen to honor Ferrari’s limited edition, top-end America and Superamerica models, it was only fitting that the event’s Best of Show award would go to Jack Thomas’ 1955 Ferrari 375 America. Crowds roaming the grounds of the Quail Lodge Golf...
If you arrived at Goodwood just after the gates opened on any of the three days (September 16-18) there’s every...
Englishman Dan Wheldon was killed in a 15-car crash on the 11th lap of the scheduled 200-lap IndyCar season finale...
Set against the backdrop of the Chiltern Hills, Kop Hill in the Parish of Princes Risborough, England, held the now annual hillclimb in commemoration of a sporting challenge from a bygone era that included names such as Malcolm Campbell, Raymond Mays, Henry Segrave, Count Zborowski and Archie Frazer Nash. Following...
Top seller at RM’s Monterey Auction was this exquisite 1937 Mercedes-Benz 540 K Spezial Roadster that drew a winning bid of...
The 38th renewal of the annual vintage racecar celebration at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, enjoyed...
With stopwatch in hand, as he gazed upon the action on the track, former Standard-Triumph competition boss R.W. (Kas) Kastner watched as almost 30 Triumphs vied for his namesake award June 7–9, at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. The Ninth Annual International Triumph Challenge was the feature race at the Historic...
Betty Skelton, a pioneer in both aviation and auto racing who was once known as the fastest woman on Earth,...
Chris Lawrence, synonymous with names such as Lawrence Tune, Deep Sanderson, Monica and Morgan passed away in late August. While...
Please excuse this shameless self-promotional moment, but I’ve recently joined the ranks of Bonneville racing legends Al Teague, Art Arfons, Craig Breedlove and Mickey Thompson. We have each set multiple records flying across the salt, we have each tempted the gods of speed with death defying passes (well, maybe not...
The 50th anniversary of Ferrari’s landmark 250 GTO will be celebrated with a special GTO class at the 17th annual...
Allan Tomlinson, winner of the 1939 Australian Grand Prix and perhaps Western Australia’s best racing driver, has passed away in...
At its recent AGM, the British Racing Drivers Club unanimously elected Derek Warwick as its new president, replacing former F1 World Champion Damon Hill, OBE, who has held the post since 2006. Warwick won the Le Mans 24 Hours with Peugeot in 1992, and is a former F1 driver with...
Phil Hill, who became America’s first F1 World Champion 50 years ago, is the subject of a special exhibit at...
The Celebration of Automobiles that proved so popular with fans and participants in 2011 will return to the Indianapolis Motor...
As the 38th annual vintage racecar weekend at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca rolled to a close, the circuit’s general manager, Gillian Campbell, announced that Cobra will be the featured marque for the 2012 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, scheduled for next August 17–19. Created by Carroll Shelby in 1962 when he...
Chic Vandagriff’s influence can be seen in many chapters of the history of motor racing in the United States. One...
The third annual New Zealand Festival of Motor Racing will take place next January 20-22 and 27-29 at the superb...
Chris Bender scored back-to-back Historic Grand Prix victories with his March 821-Cosworth on consecutive July weekends, winning the feature races at both the Legends of Motorsports Bobby Rahal Signature Event at Quebec’s Le Circuit Mont Tremblant and the Kohler International Challenge with Brian Redman at Road America in Wisconsin. After...
