George Follmer has been named Grand Marshal of the inaugural Barber Historics at Alabama’s Barber Motorsports Park in honor of...
George Follmer, the subject of this month’s VR Interview (page 30), was inducted into the Watkins Glen Drivers Walk of...
A unique gesture of love and devotion almost risked overshadowing the 21st Mille Miglia Storica and its 372 stunning cars in May. The ashes of the late Harry Newton, ex-editor of the magazine European Car, were scattered at the top of the race’s Raticosa Pass by his journalist son, Brian....
Britain’s FORCE race group has launched one of its most ambitious seasons to date with over 12 race weekends featuring...
The world’s most successful Capri racer will lead the celebrations honoring the Ford fastback’s golden anniversary at this summer’s Silverstone...
The 2003 “Monterey” weekend was, again, a jam-packed period of several days of diverse automotive events, with the celebration of 100 Years of Ford the prominent theme at auctions, concours and racing activities. At the Mazda Laguna Seca circuit, the usual Friday qualifying and Saturday practice and racing featured no...
Mecum’s recent Kansas City auction, held Dec. 5-7 at the Kansas City Convention Center in Missouri, saw sales reach an...
A 2005 Ford GT (above, photo courtesy of Mecum Auctions) with all four options and but 3,600 miles on its...
Leake Auction Company completed its fall auction in Dallas Market Hall, November 17-19, recording sales that totaled $6.6 million with a 70 percent sell-through on a total of 491 lots. A 2005 Ford GT (above, photo courtesy of Leake Auction Company) was the top seller of the weekend, bringing in $280,500...
Bidders at the recent Mecum Dallas 2017 classic- and collector-car auction held at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center honed...
Mecum’s Los Angeles 2018 collector-car auction, held this past weekend at the L.A. County Fairplex in Pomona, California, achieved $9...
Fifty years ago last June, Henry Ford II’s dream of winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans came true as Bruce McLaren and Chris Amon drove a Carroll Shelby-entered Ford GT40 MkII (above, Roger Dixon photo) to victory in France. The accomplishment still resonates with many fans, to the point...
The Ford Mustang® recently celebrated its 58th birthday and in perfect timing, it was recently revealed that for the seventh...
Ford’s new online Heritage Vault now offers a more comprehensive digital archive collection following the addition of more than 1,600...
LeMay—America’s Car Museum (ACM) has announced that at least three new exhibits will be introduced in 2015: “Ford F-Series: The Truck That Grew Up with America,” “American Muscle: Rivals to the End” and a revamped “Route 66” display. “Ford F-Series: The Truck That Grew Up with America,” opens January 10,...
The Ford Motor Company has announced a two-day festival to celebrate its 100th anniversary in motorsport. The Oct. 13-14 event,...
As a tribute to the Ford GT supercar, the prototype vehicle that gave life to the program more than a...
The Ford Mustang, fresh off its seventh generation unveiling, will soon return to Le Mans in the form of the Mustang GT3. “Mustang is raced at all the great tracks around the world, but there is no race or track that means more to our history than Le Mans,” said...
Mecum Auctions’ inaugural Los Angeles classic and collector-car auction realized more than $9.3 million in total sales last weekend. Despite...
At last weekend’s 15th Annual Palm Beach Auction in Florida, Barrett-Jackson totaled $20.5 million in sales and set 14 world...
An array of classic Fords and Porsches will be among the featured offerings at Barrett-Jackson’s 45th Anniversary Scottsdale Auction, set for January 23-31 in the Arizona city. The Ford selection features a matching-numbers original 1970 Boss 302 Mustang (above), a trio of meticulously restored Mustang Boss 429s and a pair...
Registration is now open for the 45th Forest Grove Concours d’Elegance, set for Sunday, July 16, 2017, on the campus...
Jean-Marie Balestre, the controversial president of FISA and the FIA throughout the 1980s, passed away on March 27 at the...
October 17–18 brought a trip back in time for some of Britain’s F3 stars of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Bev Bond was a guest at the Silverstone meeting run by the HSCC, hosting a round of historic F3 for the “one-liter screamers.” The following day, Bond, Barrie Williams,...
The Formula 5000 Drivers Association has announced a 2017 schedule of events that features four race weekends in association with...
In less than two months, a select group of Formula 5000 race cars will be visiting the iconic Road America...
After 36 seasons, time seems finally to have caught up with Formula Atlantic. We are saddened to report that the most prolific training category in American open-wheel racing history appears to have run its course. Current series owner Ben Johnston recently announced that “due to the downturn in the global...
Next April 18-19, Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach fans will get a double dose of nostalgia when the Historic...
For the motorsports fan, there are a lot of great series to watch out there. You have the top tier...
The entry-level class that opened the door to racing stardom for countless drivers around the world, Formula Ford, turns 50 in 2017, and the anniversary will be celebrated in grand style at next summer’s Silverstone Classic, set for July 21-23. The anniversary will be a highlight of a busy schedule...
