In late October, the FIA’s Formula One commission removed Belgium’s historic Spa-Francorchamps circuit from the 2003 Formula One schedule due...
There have been classic races at Le Mans, and races for classics, but the 2002 Le Mans Classic was about...
The famed Concorso Italiano has announced that the 17-year old concourse, devoted to all things Italian, will move in 2003 from Carmel Valley’s Quail Lodge to Monterey Bay’s Black Horse Golf Course. Event organizers cited the need to move the event to a larger facility, as a result of the...
Virginia International Raceway has announced that the featured marque for this year’s Gold Cup Historic Races will be a tribute...
Bobby Rahal is a man who has worn a lot of hats: 3-time CART champion, Indy 500 winner, 24-Hour of...
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway has recently announced that it will again offer a series of special “behind the scenes” tours of the famous Brickyard. Reservations are now being accepted for a series of 1.5-hour long tours that will be held on various weekends from June to September of 2003 and...
The NHRA Motorsports Museum in Pomona, California will be keeping up with the Joneses this Spring… a very special one:...
On Jan. 29, the automotive and Hollywood worlds collided when over 500 guests arrived at the Petersen Automotive Museum in...
The new Pit Row suites and garages at Mazda Laguna Seca Raceway were debuted to the public this January. The new complex is located inside Turn 11 at the entrance to Pit Row and contains 12 hospitality suites on top of 10 double-car garages. This new project broke ground on...
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the creation of the Formula Vee in 1963. In order to honor this...
Uwe Meissner’s Modena Motorsport will celebrate its 20th anniversary this year, and to honor the occasion, he will be opening...
The Thoroughbred Grand Prix organization (TGP) recently announced that Cosworth Racing has been named a primary sponsor of the 2003 FIA TGP Championship. The TGP championship is an FIA-sanctioned series of races for Formula One cars built between 1965 and 1985. As such, the dominant engine used in the series...
One of motor racing’s last living links to the pre-war era, Mercedes driver Manfred von Brauchitsch passed away in February...
On Feb. 15-16, a special reunion of engineers, designers, racers and enthusiasts of the Toyota 2000 GT was held in...
The MG Vintage Racers organization (MGVR) has announced the creation of three “All MG” races for the 2003 racing season. The first scheduled event is the Moss Motors-sponsored all MG race at Virginia International Raceway (VIR) June 6-8. This race will also serve as the MGVR designated “Focus Event” for...
Steve Earle, founder of the Monterey Historic Automobile Races and the Historic Motor Sports Association (HMSA), has been chosen to...
The 28th Annual Retromobile classic car exposition took place in Paris again this year from February 7-16. This was a...
Christie’s European specialist Philip Kantor was delighted with the results of the company’s auction at the Retromobile Show in Paris on Feb.8. A capacity audience witnessed a world record price of $1.8m for the pristine 1932 Bugatti T55 Super Sport, a car with an impressive race history at Le Mans...
The Vintage Racing Club of British Columbia (VRCBC) will celebrate “The Centenary of Ford” with a full weekend of vintage...
Britain’s FORCE race group has launched one of its most ambitious seasons to date with over 12 race weekends featuring...
The 53rd Annual Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance will showcase the magnificent cars of Ettore Bugatti on August 17, 2003, at the Monterey Peninsula’s Lodge at Pebble Beach. With nearly 50 Bugattis on display, organizers predict that this will be the largest gathering of historically significant Bugattis ever assembled. Cars will...
Mercedes Benz racing great Karl Kling passed away on March 19 at the age of 92. According to DaimlerChrysler board...
The 10th Goodwood Festival of Speed will take place July 11-13 and will feature a vast selection of the best...
Two-time 500-cc motorcycle champion Barry Sheene recently lost his battle with throat cancer; he was 52-years old. Born in London, the son of a Grand Prix motorcycle mechanic in 1950, Sheene started racing in 1968 and by 1973 had won the British and European 750-cc titles. Sheene suffered a devastating...
Virginia International Raceway has announced that Canadian racing pioneer Bill Sadler will be a guest of honor at this year’s...
On June 12, the Motorsports Hall of Fame in Novi, Michigan, will induct racer and high performance driving school founder...
Tazio Nuvolari, undoubtedly one of the five top race car drivers of all time, died of tuberculosis in his own bed in the early hours of August 11, 1953, almost half a century ago. Later this year, the driver’s hometown of Mantua in the humid Italian north will hold a...
Matra Automobile, a name synonymous with French racing heritage, will cease to exist according to a German news source. Founded...
American racing pioneer John Fitch’s contributions to Lime Rock Park, (and sports car racing in general) will be recognized when...
Former IMSA World Sports Car champion and FIA WSC C2 champion Fermin Velez lost his battle with cancer on March 31, just four days shy of his 44th birthday. Velez started his racing career in British F3 in the late ’70s, but rose to prominence when he won Spain’s National...
