The 40th anniversary of the world-beating Ford DFV F1 engine—the most successful F1 engine of all time—will be celebrated at...
This year’s 10th anniversary edition of the Techno-Classica show, held in Essen Germany, saw a total attendance of 154,300 enthusiasts...
West Coast road racer Dick Smith (73 years old) and his stepson Kyle Runciman (16 years old) were killed in mid-April, when the small plane they were flying crashed in the mountains outside of Tehachapi, California. Smith raced a variety of cars in the 1960s including Ferraris, Porsches, McLarens and...
The first ever Lotus 72 Grand Prix car, as campaigned by both John Miles (Team Lotus) and double World Champion...
The Vintage Sports Car Club of America is proud to announce that “Formula Juniors” will be featured at their “Fall...
For the last 76 years, Grand Prix cars have been trying to beat aeroplanes in acceleration tests. The first was an Alfa Romeo 8C-2300 Monza driven by Tazio Nuvolari, who was narrowly beaten by a Caproni 100 Biplane at Rome’s Littorio Airport on December 8, 1931. But the plane was...
On April 24, American sports car racing lost one of its leading lights when Bob Snodgrass passed away in his...
An exhibition entitled “Modena Thunder” opened at the Museo della Figurina in the city’s Corso Canalgrande in mid-May. It spotlights...
The Silverstone Classic, to be held July 28–30, on the 3.1-mile Grand Prix circuit will feature an impressive roster of drivers and cars spanning from the ’30s to the ’80s. Aston Martin is the featured marque this year and there is an extensive racing schedule over the weekend. Over 600...
On April 27, Judy (Kondratieff) Ganley lost her valiant battle with cancer. Perhaps best known in recent years, as the...
Cars International, London-based supplier of high-performance road and racing cars, has entered an exclusive relationship with famed engine-producer Cosworth to...
In 1907, an event took place that would forever change the look of auto racing. This was the opening of the Lakeside Auto Speedway in Lakeside, California, a little resort town in the foothills of San Diego, California. The Lakeside Auto Speedway was claimed to be the first, purpose-built, auto...
Ferrari’s big, silver logistics building at Maranello was packed to the gunwales with enthusiasts, many of whom were set on...
Corinthian Vintage Auto Racing (CVAR) has announced that it will hold a special race weekend in honor of the first...
Historic racers Todd Morici and Peter Giddings have been so dominant in the Shell Ferrari/Maserati Historic Challenge, over the years, that they were awarded the “Masters” designation in 2001. In May’s round at the 3.27-mile VIRginia International Raceway, they both demonstrated that they’ve lost none of their mastery. Giddings took...
The Alfa Romeo 6C 1500 SS, in which Giuseppe Campari and Giulio Ramponi won the 1928 Mille Miglia, has done...
Over 1,000 friends and relatives attended the funeral of popular and talented British historic racer James Diffey in the country...
Historic Race Circuits of Elkhart Lake, in conjunction with the Sports Car Club of America and the Great Race, announces the first annual Elkhart Lake Historic Rally, to be held in and around the Village of Elkhart Lake, WI on October 5th and 6th, 2007. The SCCA and Great Race...
Australia’s home of motor sport, Mount Panorama (Bathurst), will once again come alive with the roar of engines at Easter—this...
The 2007 Fuji Jamboree historic race meeting held on April 15 and organized by the Japan Classic Car Association attracted...
Who else but Ferrari could turn on such a magnificent birthday party? Four days of celebrations at Maranello and the company’s own test track at nearby Fiorano to mark the Prancing Horse’s 60th anniversary. Said Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, president of Ferrari S.p.A. since 1991, “This is an important weekend,...
On May 26–27, the Bugatti Owners’ Club staged their all-French “La Vie en Bleu” speed hillclimb event at the UK’s...
Just over 50 years ago, in a support race for the 1957 New Zealand Grand Prix, British driver Ken Wharton...
It is official: The Mille Miglia Storica now has new organizers. For the next five years, until 2012, the great vintage racecar spectacle will be staged by ATI, a consortium made up of Meet Communications, Mac Events and San Remo Rally, headed by Alessandro Casali, with offices in Milan and...
On Sept 22–23, the countryside outside of Reims, France, will once again reverberate to the howls of a Mercedes W196,...
Skip Barber, President of Lime Rock Park, recently announced his plan for the future of the track. The objective is...
After 16 years and more than eight million competitor kilometers, the Targa Tasmania tarmac rally has become an eagerly anticipated and addictive annual pleasure to around 275 entrants in production cars of all ages, who collect on Australia’s southernmost island state after Easter for a five-day road ritual. For some,...
The Goodwood Festival of Speed celebrated its 15th anniversary, between June 22–24, with another spectacular event, attended by an estimated...
Three-time Formula One champion Nelson Piquet may be one of the greatest racing drivers to ever emerge from Brazil…however, the...
Sports car racing driver, team manager and safety engineer John Fitch has been inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame, along with seven others. Fitch was the first SCCA national champion, in 1951, and won the Argentine Grand Prix in the same year. In the 1952 Mexican Road Race, he...
