Well-known vintage racing enthusiast and patron Ford Heacock III was suitably honored with the VIR Gold Cup at the annual...
This fabulous-looking 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa was sold by RM-Sotheby’s “Ferrari Legend and Passion” auction at the famous Fiorano...
Charlie Kolb passed away June 15 at the age of age 85. The lanky Kolb, who played minor league baseball in the New York Giants organization before becoming an auto dealer in Miami, raced at the top levels of the sport for a dozen years. He dominated the SCCA’s 1960...
Luigi Chinetti’s iconic North American Racing Team—represented by Luigi Chinetti Jr.—and several of its legendary drivers, including Sam Posey and...
Aiming to build on the foundation of a successful inaugural, the second Legends of Riverside event has been scheduled for...
The famous Jaguar museum in Coventry, England, has been re-launched. This follows the renaming of the Trust that owns it and the reopening of the famous gates on Browns Lane to the public. The Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust (“JDHT”), founded in 1983 as an independent educational charity, has been restructured...
The helmet and goggles worn by Sir Stirling Moss when he won the 1957 British Grand Prix, Aintree, assisted by...
Vintage Racecar was stunned to learn of the tragic death of Henry Surtees while he was competing in Round 4...
The Automobile Club de Monaco has announced that the seventh Grand Prix Monaco Historique has been scheduled for May 8–9, 2010. The event will precede the 68th Grand Prix de Monaco by two weeks in order to allow both groups ample time to access the paddock area of the circuit...
The world may be in an economic downturn, but there wasn’t much sign of that at the 2009 edition of...
Richard Petty will serve as the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance Honorary Chairman for 2010. The seven-time NASCAR champion, winner of...
A new organization, Historic Motorsports Productions, is seeking to raise the game of vintage and historic racing in North America to match its demographic. The group’s three principals—three-time National Champion and 1986 Indy 500 winner Bobby Rahal, Just Marketing founder Zak Brown, and longtime vintage racer and entrepreneur Peter Stoneberg—made...
Following their highly successful “GT & Sports Car Cup” race series now in its third season, Flavien and Vanessa Marçais...
VR columnist Mark Brinker was at it again in his 750-cc Deutsch Bonnet HBR-5 during Bonneville Speed Week 2009. This...
The MG Vintage Racers celebrated their annual “Focus Event” during SVRA’s Heacock Classic Gold Cup race at Virginia International Raceway, June 5–7. Despite the depressed economy, an impressive 66 MG racers—ranging from Prewar MGs to MGB-GT-V8s—showed up to have a go. The weekend featured two special races, Saturday’s MG–Morgan Challenge,...
Al Unser Jr., David Hobbs, and Les Richter (l to r above) headline the 2009 class of inductees to the...
The Petersen Automotive Museum and Checkered Flag 200, the museum’s premier membership group, will present another gala tribute this November...
Goodwood, Chichester, UK July 3–5, 2009...
With Porsche as the featured marque for the 36th Monterey Historic Automobile Races, attendees were treated to a broad variety...
Glorious weather blessed the 60th Anniversary Bentley Drivers Club weekend at Silverstone on August 8-9, a meeting first held in...
The latest incarnation of the Silverstone Classic took place around the full Grand Prix circuit on the weekend of July 24–26, 2009. This event was once the leading historic motor sport gathering in Europe, and in recent years a succession of promoters have made brave attempts to revive former glories....
Several record-breaking sales of racing cars were made during the auction activities surrounding Monterey Auto Week 2009. Topping the list...
Perhaps best known from his time as Competitions Manager of the British Motor Corporation, Marcus Chambers died in early August...
Among the special awards presented at August’s 59th Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance was the Gran Turismo Award taken by the William H. Lyon’s 1965 Alfa Romeo TZ2 Zagato Competition Berlinetta. As a result, this TZ2 will race again, and often, on virtual racetracks worldwide. It will be scanned in high...
Australian racing legend Frank Gardner died on August 29 after a long illness. He was 78. Gardner was not only...
A pair of Bruce McLaren Festival weekends will highlight the seventh season of the MSC New Zealand F5000 Tasman Cup...
In 2003, 50 years after Tazio Nuvolari’s death, Arrigo Granola, an employee of the Banca Agricola of Mantua, Italy, tore himself away from the rigors of banking to sort out a stack of battered old cardboard boxes the racing driver had left in his will to the town’s automobile club,...
With 2009 marking the 87th running of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, it is the second oldest motor race...
October 17–18 brought a trip back in time for some of Britain’s F3 stars of the late 1960s and early...
George Follmer, the subject of this month’s VR Interview (page 30), was inducted into the Watkins Glen Drivers Walk of Fame during ceremonies at the International Motor Racing Research Center in early October. The Walk of Fame is a project of the Watkins Glen Historic Committee, sponsored by the Research...
