There was a great deal of speculation circulating at this year’s Monterey Historics (full coverage next issue) when Jim Hall...
Nigel Mansell and Ricardo Patrese have recently announced that they too will join the growing list of former Formula One...
From July 27–31, the city of Seattle was invaded by one of the largest gatherings of Alfa Romeo enthusiasts ever assembled in the U.S., when more than 600 members of the American Alfa Romeo Owners Club (AROC) attended the club’s national convention in Bellevue, Washington. Dubbed “Alfa Potlatch” for the...
HSR-West has announced the resurrection of historic racing in sunny Palm Springs with the creation of the Palm Springs Revival,...
On August 18th, the Petersen Automotive Museum’s Director, Dick Messer, announced that the famed Troutman & Barnes Special had been...
The racecars of John and Charles Cooper will be the featured marque at the 33rd Rolex Monterey Historic Automobile Races, to be held August 18–20, 2006. Honoring the Cooper Car Company will be part of a larger celebration of the 50th anniversary of Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, featuring the racecars...
Australia’s Historic Sports & Racing Car Association (HSRCA) has announced the creation of a 1960s-era Tasman Revival race meeting to...
The Silverstone International Trophy was awarded to American Duncan Dayton as the winner of Round 6 of the FIA Thoroughbred...
On July 15–17, the VSCDA hosted their annual Brian Redman International Challenge at Wisconsin’s Road America. As in previous years, the BRIC proved to be one of the largest events in the country with over 400 racecars competing in 10 separate race groups. This year’s event turned the spotlight on...
The featured marques for the 2006 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance will not only include French manufacturers Voisin and Delahaye, but...
Sam Posey and his 1967 Caldwell D-7 were reunited for demonstration laps at the Rolex Vintage Festival Presented by BMW...
The rolling celebration of the 40th anniversary since Derek Bennett created the Chevron marque pitched up at its spiritual home at Oulton Park’s Gold Cup event in Northeast England on August 28–29. Two races for closed- and one for open-wheeled Chevrons headed a traditionally varied Historic Sports Car Club program....
The Donington Grand Prix Collection put their first works Renault Formula 1 car on show during the “World Series by...
Now in its third year, “The Quail” has quickly risen to become one of the highlights of the Monterey Historics...
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...
The 32nd running of the Monterey Historics on Aug. 19–21, paid tribute to the engineering and ingenuity of American road...
Founded by David Murray in the ’50s, the famed Ecurie Ecosse race team scored two famous wins at Le Mans...
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...
The MG Vintage Racers (MGVR) have recently announced that in celebration of MGVR’s 25th anniversary next year, they will be...
On January 26, 1906, Fred Marriott shocked the burgeoning automotive world when he drove the steam-powered Stanley Rocket Racer to...
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...
WilliamsF1 has recently announced that a hand-picked selection of more than 20 of the WilliamsF1’s Reserve Collection of Formula One...
On September 24, the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, California, opened a new retrospective exhibit honoring the automotive and...
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...
Tonino Ascari, the 63-year-old son of 1952–1953 Formula One World Champion Alberto, stunned the Italian motor racing community on September...
September 11–15 marked the inaugural running of the Going to the Sun rally in Montana. On this, the 200th anniversary...
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...
A new European series for under-2-liter Touring Cars will be inaugurated in 2006. Dubbed the Historic Motor Racing News U2TC,...
The Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) recently announced the five individuals that will be enshrined into its Hall of...
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...
