It’s that time of year in the Pacific Northwest when the weather is just right for vintage racing. July 4th...
Pacific Raceways has been the home track of SOVREN since the club was formed in the late 1980s. The vintage...
Story by Will Silk Forty years ago the world was enjoying the height of heavy weight sports car action with such famous series as the SCCA Can-Am Challenge, and the European counter-part to the Can-Am, the Interseries. Both of these road racing venues brought out the best in technological developments...
By Art Evans What do you think was the toughest and most difficult race ever? After reading my September 2011...
Targa Florio – The Ultimate Guide The Norman conquest of southern Italy led to the creation of the Kingdom of...
Sixty years on from Aston Martin’s greatest victory, when Roy Salvadori and Carroll Shelby took Aston Martin’s only outright win at Le Mans, the crews of the Vantage GTEs once again prepare to fight. In the front-running GTE Pro class, Aston Martin Racing will race against five of the world’s...
In the week of the Spanish Grand Prix, why not revisit one of the strangest and most peculiar stories of...
Absence does indeed make the heart grow fonder. After a one-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Concorso d’Eleganza...
The heroes of the Mille Miglia are household names among motor racing fans: Nuvolari. Ascari. Moss. But without one behind-the-scenes figure, the famous Italian race might never have happened. Count Franco Mazzotti was an avid racer, the president of the Region Automobile Club of Brescia, and one of the original...
Over the Halloween weekend, HSR (Historic Sportscar Racing) held their now annual marquee event, the Daytona Classic 24. This event...
The route of the 2021 Mille Miglia followed the traditional track of “the most beautiful race in the world,” going...
History of the Aintree Grand Prix Circuit For horse racing enthusiasts planning to wager on the Grand National 2021 with bet365 in April, the Aintree racecourse is an iconic venue that has hosted great races in history. The world-famous Grand National venue also has a long history as a venue for motorsport. This 3-mile...
The Mille Miglia is an Italian icon, extending all the way back to 1927. The Coppa delle Alpi is a...
In a story spanning 40 years, motorsports photographer Hal Crocker compares and contrasts Mark Donohue’s experiences at the 24 Hours...
The storied history of then-named Laguna Seca Raceway officially began November 9, 1957 with the inaugural race called the Eighth Annual Pebble Beach Road Races. This was a continuation of the racing through the forest at nearby Pebble Beach that began in 1950 and ended six years later. But the...
By Art Evans The series we now know as Formula One traces its roots back to 1906. Before the term,...
By Art Evans As I described in my July column, the first motorized-vehicle race on land is acknowledged by historians...
Any racing fan that lived in Southern California in the early 70s knew of the late, great Riverside International Raceway (RIR). And if you followed top-level Porsche racing during the same period, no matter where you’re from, likely knew of the International Race of Champions (IROC), and that for its...
Story by Louis Galanos | Photos as credited In 1962 I was a junior in high school and living in...
The Circuits Dominated by The Silver Arrows Avus Length: 19.29 km (11.98 miles) Fastest Lap: Rosemeyer (1937) – 276.32 km/h (171.74 mph)...
The first Sebring 12-hour race took place in March of 1951 and within a short ten-year period the annual racing event held on a former World War II training base for B-17 pilots and crews was being touted as the premier sports car event in North America. During those first...
By Louis Galanos Over the past 60-plus years the legendary Sebring 12 Hour Grand Prix of Endurance has been surrounded...
The World’s Most Dangerous Racetracks If you love adrenaline and fast rides, you are probably familiar with Grand Prix races....
By Art Evans The Tourist Trophy is the oldest motor race in the world still being run. The first was in 1905 on the Isle of Man, organized by the Automobile Club of Great Britain and Ireland. The trophy itself is given by the Royal Automobile Club to the winner....
The 12 Hours of Sebring was held March 17, 2012 at Sebring International Raceway in Sebring, Florida. The 60th anniversary...
By Charles Dressing / ALMS Americans love underdogs but hate losers. And we really love upsets because they turn reality...
The Vanderbilt Cup, America’s First International Series By Art Evans The first Vanderbilt Cup Race, held in 1904, amounted to pandemonium according to press reports. Newspaper and poster promotion drew a huge crowd. Estimated to be as numerous as 50,000 spectators were lined dangerously close to the entire course, some...
By Rick Carey | Photos by Mark Coughlin This is by necessity a very personal account, since I arrived late...
Racing driver Paul O’Shea won his second title as the U.S. sports car champion in the 1956 season driving a...
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