John Gunn, an independent entrant who contested some of North America’s most prestigious auto racing championships during a career that...
Viva Veloce! was an apt slogan for the 18th Goodwood Festival of Speed on the first weekend of July as...
The second annual Put-In-Bay Road Races Reunion took place June 28-30 on Ohio’s South Bass Island. The island, home to road racing on its public roads between 1952 and 1959 (as well as in 1963), is offshore in Lake Erie, a 30-minute ferry ride north of Catawba Island, less than...
The Quail Porsche Racecar Classic has been scheduled for Sunday, October 16, 2011 at the Quail Lodge in Carmel Valley,...
The Historic Sports Car Club is targeting the 1600-cc Formula 3 cars of the early 1970s for a revival in...
A unique event took place at England’s Snetterton race circuit when many thousands of fans turned out to see a gathering of every model of Lotus Formula 1 car from the Lotus 12 to the current Lotus 127, a total of 35 different models. Clive Chapman, son of Lotus founder...
Five years after HSR-West staged its first Palm Springs Revival at the Indio, California, airport, the second such event will...
For a 16th time, vintage Indycars raced around the Milwaukee Mile in honor of Harry Miller and the incredible machines...
The Alfa Romeo museum at Arese, on the outskirts of Milan, Italy, has been placed under official supervision, the first step in a process that would make it part of Italy’s cultural heritage. The move has been requested by the Arese municipality, which feared the Fiat Group, to which Alfa...
The Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal rejoined the FIA’s World Championship for Formula One calendar this year after a one-year...
For only the second time in the 37-year history of summer’s annual vintage racecar festival at Laguna Seca on California’s...
The Motorsports Hall of Fame of America held its 22nd annual induction ceremonies at the Fillmore Theater in Detroit during the last week of August. This most recent class of inductees includes: drag racing legend Dale Armstrong; daredevil stuntman Joie Chitwood; underdog stock car champion Alan Kulwicki; motocross hero Jeremy...
One of three cars built by Yorkshire’s Billy Needham in the early 1970s to contest international sports car races, this...
The Henry Ford Museum’s newly restored Lotus 38, the first rear-engined car to win the Indianapolis 500, made its North...
The indomitable Sir Stirling Moss made a popular comeback after his frightening accident at his home in March to join one thousand drivers racing in the Silverstone Classic Festival between July 23–25. At the wheel of his own 1956 OSCA FS372, co-driven by Ian Nuthall, Sir Stirling competed in the...
Danny Margulies was but a boy when he visited his home Grand Prix of Bucharest in 1937 and first opened...
A total of 26 cars sold for more than $1 million during Classic Car Week in Monterey, California this August,...
By honoring 45 years of Carroll Shelby’s Mustangs and a full century of Alfa Romeos, The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering, celebrated its eighth renewal during this year’s Monterey Classic Car Week. Crowds once again flocked onto the grounds of the Quail Lodge golf course in Carmel Valley to soak in...
The Silverstone Classic Endurance race, in support of the 1000 Kilometer event, proved to be a race of surprises, with...
Patrick Peter’s Classic Endurance Racing series came to a fine season-ending round at the Paul Ricard circuit in France, with...
The 2010 Tour Britannia had a small but very competitive entry in both the regularity and competition sections, the former having 17 finishers and the latter 21. Overall winners on the Index of Performance were Michael Bell and James Patterson in a very effective Gilbern GT 1800. The competition section...
One year ago, our Hidden Treasures column by Mark Brinker featured a well-preserved Bonneville Streamliner, the Beast III, that had...
Steve Davis has emerged as the overall champion of the 2010 F5000 Revival Race Series on the strength of taking...
The man who facilitated Danny Sullivan’s rise to motor racing stardom has died of cancer at his home in Milan, Italy. Garvin Brown, whose great grandfather founded the Brown-Forman Corp. that produces Jack Daniel’s Tennessee whiskey, and who’s best known in automotive circles as the patron who enabled a struggling...
The Riverside International Automotive Museum has announced that Parnelli Jones will be the Honored Guest at the third annual Legends...
Peter Warr, who will be best remembered as the man who served as team manager for Colin Chapman’s Team Lotus...
HSCC unveils 2-liter sports-racing car series The golden era of 2-liter sports racing cars in the 1970s will be brought back to life next season by a new series of races run by the Historic Sports Car Club. The initiative, which will take in four or five events in the...
Donington Park in the English Midlands, the historic site of 1930s Grands Prix, has once again echoed to the sound...
MG tradition continued at Watkins Glen this past September with SVRA’s 26th running of the historic “Vintage Collier Cup” all-MG...
Goodwood was at its best yet again for the 13th Revival celebration. Four days of superb weather made it one of the best in the circuit’s retro history, as large crowds and great racing filled the long weekend. It was a weekend of special events and tributes, starting with a...
