At April’s HSR Walter Mitty race weekend, historic racer Duncan Dayton established a new Road Atlanta track record when he...
Former Formula One World Champion Nigel Mansell is no stranger to hard-fought battles but not usually on the grounds of...
The rewarding, testing and unforgiving roads of Mallorca provided a mighty challenge to the 150 cars and crews who enjoyed the Trofeo Baleares in March. Based near the capital Palma, four days provided competitors with 11 stages and a race-circuit finale. By far the most spectacular stage was Sa Calobra...
On April 11-13, the streets of Long Beach, California once again reverberated to the sound of a full field of...
On April 24, at HSR’s Road Atlanta “Mitty” event, Jaguar North America pulled the wraps off of a pair of...
The original 6.6-mile Watkins Glen Grand Prix circuit has been named to the National Register of Historic Places. The circuit is also on the New York State Register of Historic Places. The Watkins Glen circuit joins the Indianapolis Motor Speedway as one of the very few motorsports-related facilities honored with...
This year’s running of the California Mille (April 26-May 1) challenged its participants both with new features such as a...
Renowned author, VRJ contributor, race engineer and team manager for the Le Mans-winning Shelby GT40 program, Carroll Smith succumbed to...
Eighty-six year old Paul Frére drove his first 24-Hours of Le Mans in 1953, won the long distance classic in 1960 co-driving a Ferrari TR 60 with Olivier Gendebien, and since then, as journalist and commentator, has not missed a single year of the Le Sarthe classic. In short, Paul...
On May 23rd, during this year’s Monaco Grand Prix weekend, the legacy of Juan Manuel Fangio was honored when a...
On May 7th, H&H auctions held its first London-based sale at Olympia. Of particular interest was a trio of Brabhams...
The annual Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, to be held on August 17th will celebrate Ford’s centennial, showcasing some of the most significant and unusual custom-bodied and race vehicles produced throughout the Blue Oval’s long history. Four separate classes will feature a portion of Ford’s notable achievements as well as its...
Perhaps better known as a car and motorcycle constructor rather than a racer, Alejando De Tomaso, 74, died in Italy,...
As announced at this January’s Autosport show in the U.K., a new race organization devoted to Group C and GTP...
The Donington Grand Prix Collection was the venue for a glittering “Tribute to Ayrton Senna” Dinner Party, at which FIA Medical Delegate, professor Sid Watkins OBE, received the Tom Wheatcroft Trophy from current holder Murray Walker OBE. The trophy, inspired and commissioned by Tom’s son, Kevin as a tribute to...
A unique gesture of love and devotion almost risked overshadowing the 21st Mille Miglia Storica and its 372 stunning cars...
On May 18, an impressive demonstration of historic racecars helped kick off the 2003 Mercedes-Benz Classic Days and the Mercedes-Benz...
Tyrrell 001, the very first complete racecar built by Ken Tyrrell’s Tyrrel Racing Organisation, was unveiled at the end of June after undergoing an extensive restoration by noted restorers Hall & Hall. Driven by Jackie Stewart during the last part of the 1970 Formula One season and the first part...
Just before we went to press, we received the very sad news that American racing pioneer Briggs Cunningham Jr. had...
The Automobile Club De L’Ouest (ACO) held it’s 2nd bi-annual Le Mans Legends race on June 14, this year featuring...
One of the most significant of all Lotus Grand Prix cars, the ex-Innes Ireland Lotus 21 chassis 933, will go up for sale at Bonham’s Goodwood Auction in September. While chassis 933 is perhaps best known as the car Innes Ireland drove to Team Lotus’ first Grand Prix victory at...
The roar of Can-Am thunder will once again reverberate through the hills of Laguna Seca Raceway in Monterey, California, when...
The world of motorsport lost one of its most charming and colorful characters on July 16, when team owner Theodore...
A historically unlikely motorsport marriage was consummated at the end of July. Former Ligier and Williams Formula One driver Jacques Laffite joined forces with the Morgan car company to race a Morgan Aero 8 GT at this year’s 24 Hours of Spa. The French racing star, who scored six wins...
Despite dreary weather for much of the weekend, Virginia International’s Gold Cup Historic Races was judged an unqualified success by...
Uwe Meissner, of Germany’s Modena Motorsport, held his annual Ferrari Driving Days at the Nürburgring on June 23–24 and more...
The 18th annual OLD/NOW Car Festival was held on the Childrens Day public holiday at Tsukuba circuit, an hour and a half northwest of Tokyo. The meeting was heavily promoted and a big crowd turned out on a warm spring day. There was a mixture of races and “circuit runs.”...
Recently FIA president Max Mosley suggested that the FIA might revive the F2 category as a way of stimulating competition...
Sir Stirling Moss had a fall from his motor scooter on Thursday, July 17 while crossing Lambeth Bridge in London....
Eighty-six-year-old sports car racing legend John Fitch will attempt to enter the record books one more time when he takes to the Bonneville Salt Flats in a Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Gullwing. Fitch will attempt to break the World Land Speed Record in the F/GT production class on August 18, when...
