Two of the longest established and most successful vintage racing organizations in the United States have announced a new series...
In celebration of its 50th birthday, more than 20 examples of the Ferrari 250 GTO, considered by many to be...
In 2003 our own Mark Brinker acquired Bob Sorrell’s 1954 SR-100-bodied Sorrell-Manning Special. This was Mr. Sorrell’s personal car, built on a tubeframe chassis constructed by famed aircraft engineer/racer Chuck Manning and clothed in Sorrell’s dynamic and futuristic body design. The car was discovered in a storage container in Southern...
Though the historic racing experts felt it was a bit of a risk to stage a historic festival at the...
The organizers very wisely had the foresight to provide off-track entertainment, the most popular of which were 16 sessions of...
I remember my first encounter with John Winter. I called him John, “My name’s Spike! Call me Spike,” he said. Spike was a no frills man, down to earth, and called things exactly as he saw them. He was a great character full of dry humor. His initial ambition was...
The Jaguar marque celebrates two anniversaries in 2011. The E-Type is 50 years old, while 60 years have passed since...
Some 45 years after making headlines at the Monte Carlo Rallye, the iconic Mini name is back on the World...
The Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles is going through a metamorphosis. The Museum Foundation, headed by chairman Steven E. Young, has recently received a gift from the foundation of founder Robert E. Petersen that has been valued at a stratospheric $100 million. Included are the 300,000 sq. ft. building...
As one of only 16 ever produced, the 1960 Maserati Tipo 61 “Birdcage” that headlines Mecum Auctions’ offerings during this...
Sir Stirling Moss, 81, came in from practice for the Le Mans Legends race on June 8, and said, “That...
The documentary film Senna, which won the World Cinema Documentary Audience Award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, is set for release in the United States this August, with debuts in New York and Los Angeles scheduled for August 12, and a more general release to follow. First shown in...
A pair of Americans with roots in the historic community have joined forces with an English engineer to try to...
The centenary of the first running of the Indianapolis 500 was celebrated at the Goodwood Festival of Speed (July 1-3)...
One of the most versatile drivers motor sport has ever known is to be honored at next year’s Amelia Island Concours, when Vic Elford will serve as Honorary Chairman for the annual affair. The Englishman known as “Quick Vic” by his contemporaries won major events and championships in both racing...
A new partnership took its place on the vintage racing landscape in July as Cris Vandagriff’s Historic Motor Sports Association...
The headline story from this year’s Le Mans Legends race, prelude to the main 24-hour event, was the announcement of...
The 3rd annual Motorsports and Memories event, set for September 17 at historic Meadowdale Raceways in Carpentersville, Illinois, will feature the 1959 B Production National Championship-winning Purple People Eater MkIII Corvette team from Nickey Chevrolet. Nickey followed up a 1958 BP National Championship with an equally dominating performance in 1959...
Roy Winkelmann, probably best known for running the team with which Jochen Rindt rose to prominence by recording nearly two...
In 1951 Froilan Gonzalez raced to victory at Silverstone to win the British Grand Prix. It was the first Grand...
Showing more dedication than common sense, vintage racer and contributing writer John Nikas will try to avoid catastrophic fire while leaking oil and shedding parts as he drives a borrowed Austin-Healey 100 from Newport Beach, California, to Charleston, South Carolina, and then back to Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in time...
Lyn St. James has been named Grand Marshal for the 8th Annual Charity Challenge of the Classic Sports Racing Group...
Well. Me sir? Gosh sir. Writing an obituary of Bill Boddy is rather like an everyday cinemagoer writing the obituary...
The organizers of July’s Silverstone Classic are claiming to have brought together the biggest gathering of Grand Prix cars ever seen in action at one meeting, with more than 120 examples competing in six races spanning an equal number of decades. In total, there were more than 1000 entries for...
Silverstone was also the venue for a massive Jaguar E-Type birthday party. Highlight of the weekend for many was the...
After 7,241 miles accumulated across nineteen states, John Nikas and his battered 1953 Austin Healey 100 rolled across the stage...
Following two years of planning and assistance from the Bahamas Ministry of Tourism, The Bahamas Speed Week Revival will take place from November 30 to December 4. Event organizers have already received more than 40 firm entries for the week-long Festival. Opening ceremonies will be on Wednesday, November 30, at...
A.J. Foyt has been named Grand Marshall for next January’s 50th Anniversary running of the Rolex 24 at Daytona. The...
Chris Bender scored back-to-back Historic Grand Prix victories with his March 821-Cosworth on consecutive July weekends, winning the feature races...
The third annual New Zealand Festival of Motor Racing will take place next January 20-22 and 27-29 at the superb Hampton Downs circuit, and the event will celebrate a carmaker for the first time. Festival organizers have decided to focus the spotlight on German manufacturer BMW, so that the NZFMR...
