The 9th Annual Charity Challenge will be hosted by the Classic Sports Racing Group at Sears Point Raceway in Sonoma,...
• It’s always nice when the CEO of a major automaker shows an interest in motor sport, and an excellent...
Now firmly re-established as one of the biggest and best historic racing festivals, the Silverstone Classic provided plenty of interest over the weekend of July 20-22. The event boasted a 1000-car entry list, made possible by using both sets of pits and paddocks on the full British Grand Prix circuit....
Bahamas Deputy Prime Minister Phillip Davis has confirmed his government’s continuing support for the Bahamas Speed Week Revival by pledging...
As accustomed as we may become to losing our racing compatriots, there remain times when a death still comes as...
As the 39th annual vintage racecar festival on California’s Monterey Peninsula, the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, unfolded this past August, more than 500 historic racing cars crowded into the paddock at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca on a warm and sunny weekend to take part in the show. Included among them...
Photo: RM Auctions During this year’s Classic Car Week in Monterey, 53 cars were sold at auction for prices above $1...
French racing driver Henri Greder, who focused his career around the 24 Hours of Le Mans, has died at the...
The third annual Donington Historic Festival, scheduled for May 4-5, 2013, will celebrate the career of three-time Formula One World Champion Ayrton Senna. Two historic events from the Brazilian’s career that took place at Donington Park will be featured, the 30th anniversary of the first time Senna ever drove a...
It’s been a very long time since Bill Pollack raced his Cadillac-powered Allard to victory through the forested road course...
• McCormick’s Palms Springs Collector Car Auction will be held November 16-18, 2012. Among the early entries are a 1953...
A 1928 Mercedes-Benz 680S Saoutchik Torpedo owned by Paul and Judy Andrews of White Settlement, Texas, was named Best of Show at the 62nd Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. “I’m not sure I can put into words how I feel,” said Paul Andrews, founder and CEO of TTI. “It’s probably the...
The California Mille, America’s salute to Italy’s most famous open road race, The Mille Miglia, returns for its 23rd year,...
A special panel of “Junior Judges” organized by Hagerty Insurance made their way to the UK’s Cholmondley Castle on Sept...
The 10th annual The Quail—A Motorsports Gathering, proved another resounding success with a sellout crowd of 3,000 guests in attendance to view 180 specially selected automobiles and motorcycles. This year, The Quail paid tribute to the 50th anniversary of Iso Automobili, with Piero Rivolta, author, former managing director and designer...
Any questions about the virility of the collector car market were quickly vanquished during this August’s Monterey classic car week,...
• Simpson Performance Products has expanded its line of racing safety products with the acquisition of HANS Performance Products, makers...
U.S. Presidential election fever hit Goodwood, and the Revival candidate was none other than Dan Gurney. Posters, pin badges and car stickers bore the legend: “Dan Gurney For President.” The designs mirrored the period campaign emblems of the 1960s, but this time were a signature and homage to the motor...
The U.S. motorsports community as a whole, and the profession of motorsports journalism in particular, suffered a great loss on...
After some 15 years as founding European Editor of Vintage Racecar, Ed McDonough has elected to ease graciously into semi-retirement...
The 18th Annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance will honor racing driver Sam Posey as its special guest and celebrate the 50th anniversaries of Porsche’s 911 and the Ford GT40, as well as the cars of Harry Miller. Posey enjoyed a diverse career as a driver in Can-Am, Trans-Am, Formula 5000,...
Known simply as “Prof” to many in the motor racing community and Sid to his near friends, Professor Watkins may...
Al Moss, known to almost everyone who reads this journal, died peacefully on September 25 at his home in Sedona,...
As we have previously reported, Lola Cars International entered bankruptcy administration last May with debts of more than $23 million, but continued to operate during the intervening months as the administrators tried to find a buyer. The news became bleaker in early October with word that trading had ceased and...
• Paris’ famed Retromobile automobile exhibition has announced that its next event, February 6–10, 2013, will pay tribute to the...
Ferrari’s record-breaking parade of 964 cars at Ferrari Racing Days at Silverstone on Saturday, September 15, has now been confirmed...
A Marmon V16 Convertible Coupe, owned by Aaron Weiss, captured three awards, including “Best of Show” at the 2012 U.S. Bank Kirkland Concours d’Elegance at LeMay—America’s Car Museum on September 9. Described by Concours emcee Edward Herrmann as “an elegant and beautiful example of American coachwork and engineering,” the Marmon...
Trans World Historic Rallying has announced the return of the epic London to Sydney Marathon Rally, last run in 2004,...
Photo: Darin Schnabel | Courtesy of RM Auctions American classics were the star of RM’s October 11-12, 2012, Hershey auction, with a pair of majestic Duesenbergs, each offered fresh to the market from the distinguished Ray Bowersox Collection, claiming top sales honors. Held in conjunction with the AACA Eastern Regional...
