Sir Stirling Moss, winner of 16 Formula One Grands Prix and countless other races, has been awarded the Royal Automobile...
Virginia International Raceway and the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association have entered into a joint venture to promote the Heacock Classic...
Ford’s iconic GT40 will be the featured marque at this summer’s 10th annual Kohler International Challenge with Brian Redman on the weekend of July 16-19 at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. Also featured among the more than 1,000 entries in 10 race groups at the SVRA event will be...
It was indeed a sad day for Australian historic racing enthusiasts when word came of the untimely passing of John...
Mercedes-Benz once again provided the star feature for September’s second running of the Weekend de L’Excellence Automobile de Reims, only...
Mario Andretti was presented with the first annual Spirit of Competition Award at dedication ceremonies for the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum in Philadelphia on November 12. The dedication ceremony was presided over by Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter, and Andretti’s award was presented by former Philadelphia Eagles head coach Dick Vermeil,...
Historic Winton, Australia’s largest and most popular all-historic motor race meeting, will celebrate its 33rd renewal of honoring the past...
Dan Rubin, whose photographs of the calamitous 1955 Le Mans 24 Hours brought the tragedy into American homes on the...
Renowned motor sports photographer Jesse Alexander has won the Motor Press Guild’s Best Book 2008 award for Portraits, his third book with David Bull Publishing, which was reviewed in our November 2008 issue. The MPG Awards annually honor those producing work that represents the journalistic standards of the late Dean...
The 46th birthday of Formula Vee will be celebrated at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca this April 4–5, in a vintage...
The Historic Sports Car Club’s Derek Bell Trophy will have a new look for 2009, following confirmation that MSA championship...
The 1949 MG TC raced by Carroll Shelby in the early stages of his career drew the top bid during the Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction’s first outing in Las Vegas. The $313,500 paid for the car established a new world record for MG prices. “We’re thrilled with the outcome of...
The Earl of March has announced the theme of the 2009 Goodwood Festival of Speed, scheduled for July 3–5, as...
The revival of one of history’s most popular production car-based series, the fabled SCCA Trans-Am, is in the works for...
Building on the success of the 40th anniversary races in 2008, the Formula 5000 Drivers Association has announced an expanded race program for 2009 consisting of four events at tracks across the United States. The first of these will run May 16-17 at Thunderhill Raceway in Northern California (with CSRG),...
A brand-new, purpose-built racing facility on the western edge of the Great Plains, an hour east of Denver, is scheduled...
For the past quarter century, Bob Carlson was the face of Porsche public relations in North America, a friend and...
The Bentley Drivers Club will celebrate six decades of racing at Silverstone with an unprecedented two-day meeting on August 8-9. A broad collection of Bentleys of all vintages will take to the track to honor the continuous run of annual BDC events held at the Northamptonshire circuit since 1949. Anchoring...
MG Vintage Racers has selected SVRA’s June 4-7 Heacock Classic Gold Cup race event at Virginia International Raceway, as its...
The 59th Annual Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, scheduled for Sunday Aug. 16, 2009, will feature the fabled marques of Bentley...
Lime Rock Park’s preparations for the 28th Annual Vintage Festival on the traditional Labor Day weekend are well underway. Buzz is in the air in Lakeland as plans are being made, racing formats are being changed, and the hallmark car show is expanding. There is a new regime on board...
Porsche’s new museum, recently opened at corporate headquarters in Stuttgart, promotes the “Porsche idea” with a trip back in time...
Five-time IMSA champion Jim Downing, one of the creators of the HANS Device, is the latest recipient of the Road...
The son of eminent sculptor Jacob Epstein, Jackie was born in 1934 into an unorthodox family. The offspring of an extramarital affair, he was abandoned by his mother and cared for by Jacob’s wife. Following her death in an accident in 1949, Jackie was taken to the United States where...
A grand American figure in motor racing history has quietly left the scene. After battling Parkinson’s Disease for a decade,...
To mark the 100th anniversary of its construction in 1909 and its first 500-mile race in 1911, the Indianapolis Motor...
A 30-year reunion of the participants and fans of what is believed to be the only “Dead Heat” in Road America history is planned for the 2009 June Sprints weekend at the historic Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, track. In 1979, at the end of what could be called a decade of...
Vintage Racecar is saddened to learn of the passing of one of the founding fathers’ of South African motor sport...
Motor racing’s senior statesman, 92-year-old John Fitch, is being threatened with the loss of his home near Lime Rock where...
On July 4, 1965, Bob Bondurant drove the Shelby Daytona Cobra Coupe CSX2601 to victory at Reims, France, to clinch the first and only World Manufacturer’s Championship for the United States. “Winning that World Championship was the crowning achievement of my career,” offered Bondurant. “I think it’s wonderful that the...
