In early August, Indy 500 and Le Mans champion A. J. Foyt narrowly escaped a grim death, when the bulldozer...
Sadly those two iconic road races, the Targa Florio and Giro Di Sicilia, both instigated by Vincenzo Florio at the...
St. Michael’s Church, at Silverstone, was full and overflowing with family, friends, and members of the motor racing fraternity wishing to pay tribute to Fred Goddard, who was tragically killed in a road accident, while in the United States for a historic race meeting. Goddard was born and raised in...
Having previously established records for the Lotus 25 and 49, on July 25, H&H set a new sales record for...
The seventh running of the very popular Walter Hayes Trophy for Kent-engined Formula Ford cars takes place at Silverstone from...
This year’s Eighth Annual Lake Mirror Classic, to be held October 19–20 in downtown Lakeland, Florida, will honor the racecars and career of Sir Stirling Moss. Primary-sponsor Mercedes-Benz and event organizers expect to welcome more than 500 cars—including Concours d’Elegance beauties, classic American musclecars, and vintage sports and racecars, plus...
Jean Redélé, founder of the French motorsport tuning and engineering company, Automobiles Alpine, died on August 10, at the age...
Silverstone staged its annual festival for historic racers with some 600 cars taking part in 20 races over the last...
Former Shelby American mechanic and crew chief John Collins passed away in August, at the age of 77. Collins left England in 1958 and first immigrated to Canada where he opened an automobile repair shop in Sudbury, Ontario. There he built his first racecar, but after suffering five years...
Denver Cornett, an icon of American MG racing passed away last year. And many of those who were privileged to...
Italian-born, Swiss-national Hans Ruesch died on August 27 in Lugano, Switzerland, at the age of 94. He was one of...
The Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance has announced that motorsports icon Parnelli Jones will be the honoree for the 13th Annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance scheduled for March 7–9, 2008, at The Golf Club of Amelia Island at Summer Beach. Jones’s career spanned many types of racing, including sports cars, sprint...
A film festival that celebrates the life of the two-time World Champion racing driver, Jim Clark, will take place at...
Built during World War II, it was known as “RAAF Fleet Air Arm, Middle Swan” but, to locals, just Caversham....
A 1935 Alfa Romeo 6C 2300 Pescara Spyder that competed in the Mille Miglia and was once owned by Benito Mussolini will be auctioned by H&H at The Centaur, Cheltenham Racecourse on February 27, 2008. Of historical importance, the stunning dark red two-seater carries an estimate of £600,000–800,000. Chassis 700635,...
Robert McCormick Holbert, one of the first Porsche dealers in the U.S. and a prominent Porsche racecar driver in the...
Former Works rally driver, successful team manager, and lately managing director of Safety Devices, Tony Fall has passed away of...
On October 25, 2007, state officials joined the developers of Oregon International Speedway to break ground for Pacific Northwest Motorsports Park, just off I-84, in Boardman. The first motor-sports country club in the Pacific Northwest is expected to open to members and enthusiasts in the fall 2008. The construction of...
Down in the Republic of San Marino, close to Italy’s Adriatic resort towns of Rimini and Cattolica, Sandra and Alessio...
Motor Racing Legends has been invited by the organizers of the Coppa Intereuropa, the highly prestigious historic race meeting at...
There is a brand-new look to the 80-year-old Mille Miglia. The 2008 retrospective was announced in Brescia at the end of October by its equally new president, Alessandro Casali, head of a consortium comprising Mac events, Meet Communications and the San Remo Rally, together with the city’s mayor, Paolo Corsini....
Accomplished American historic racer John Delane recently notched up another remarkable racing achievement by winning both the Class A FIA...
The Earl of March has recently confirmed the theme of the 2008 Goodwood Festival of Speed, which is “Hawthorn to...
Maverick, land-speed record-holder Art Arfons passed away on December 3, 2007. He was 81 years old. An accomplished drag racer with his “Green Monster” dragsters, Arfons turned his attention to land-speed records in the early ’60s when he created a jet-powered version of the Green Monster. After building his jet...
The Formula Junior Historic Racing Association has unveiled a special, international series of 10 events to commemorate this year’s golden...
Jimmy Stewart, elder brother of three-time F1 World Champion Sir Jackie Stewart, has passed away. He was 77 years old....
If ever a race meeting at Kyalami captured the essence of the circuit’s most memorable races, the Classic Car Africa Kyalami 9-hour Revival managed that and then some. Everyone who was at Kyalami on Saturday November 17, left thrilled by a stunning day’s classic racing to commemorate those legendary races...
The famous Monza banking is not to be bulldozed or even just preserved. Under a new, 19-year agreement between the...
And now for something completely different—an endurance rally for microcars! In July 1958, the Royal Motor Union of Liège organized...
Christmas may come but once a year, but for Porsche-philes it comes but once every three years. As such, Christmas came a little early this year when 350 Porsche racing cars and thousands of owners, fans, and famous drivers gathered at the Daytona Motor Speedway on November 2–4, 2007, for...
