Lotus 30 The Lotus 30 was built for all the wrong reasons. Colin Chapman designed it basically to get even...
A number of sources, including AutoWeek, are reporting that a battle is brewing over control of the famed Monterey Historic...
The Formula One community lost one of its finest on August 25th, when former team owner Ken Tyrrell lost his silent battle with cancer at the age of 77. Tyrrell got his start in racing shortly after World War II, when he competed for six seasons in an F3 Cooper-Norton....
On August 11-16, a small band of vintage racers left the Chicago area on a mission – to break several...
Brands Hatch played host to the international Shell Ferrrari-Maserati Challenge on July 21-22, with a series of hotly contested races....
Bentley shined on center stage as this year’s featured marque at the Monterey Historic Automobile Races on August 17-19. According to John Crawford, Director of Public Relations for Bentley’s North American operations, this year’s event was the second largest gathering of Bentleys ever held, with well over 100 cars in...
Sales figures were dramatically down this year on the Monterey Peninsula at the Brooks, Christie’s and RM auctions compared to...
When the subject of discussion turns to French racecars, the famed name of Delage always features prominently. Though Louis Delage...
November 2001 Circuito Del Garda Quindici Volte Via! By Giancarlo Cavallini This is the fascinating story of a small, obscure racetrack in the Italian Lakes region near Salo. The track offered most everything one could want – changing elevations, tight winding turns, a long sweeping straight and a fast section...
Lime Rock, Connecticut July 27-29 Jacky Ickx at the wheel of the F2 Porsche 718. Photo: Walt & Louiseann Pietrowicz...
Monterey, CA August 17-19 The 1920 Bugatti 13/22 of Leo Keushian. Photo: Jim Williams Become a Member & Get Ad-Free...
Brands Hatch, England July 21-22 Plinio Haas leads Carlo Vogele, both in Ferrari 250 Tour de Frances. Photo: Peter Collins Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to paid subscribers only. Our membership removes most ads,...
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George Follmer Masten Gregory 1 David Bruce-Brown, the first American to win a Grand Prix, dies during practice for the American Grand Prize race in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (1912). 3 The FIA declares that beginning in 1993, all F1 cars must have flat bottoms. Ground effects chassis are essentially outlawed (1982)....
Alfa Romeo may have produced an ungainly looking, graceless racing car, but none come to mind…I’m a pushover for Alfas...
At the end of the 1955 season, Mercedes Benz made the decision to withdraw from motor racing, partly because of the Le Mans disaster, but in reality they wanted to concentrate on developing their road cars. This left me without a Grand Prix drive for 1956, but I had some...
Frank Costin had a reputation for innovation and creativity unsurpassed in British motorsport. He brought skills and knowledge from the...
The whoosh of a turbine became a familiar sound at the Brickyard during the 1960s, and albeit briefly, in Formula One in the early 1970s. In this, the final installment, Michael Oliver recounts the story of their silent, but significant impact on open-wheel racing. The positive reasons for using a...
Harris-Costin Protos F2 Many of the drivers who progressed through the standard single-seater stages of racing in Europe in the...
For the second year, the Historic Grand Prix (HGP) organization took to the track as a support event for the...
The 2001 Goodwood Revival, coming days after the shattering events in the USA, was even more of an Anglo-American celebration than usual, with WWII camaraderie and Mustang and Spitfire flypasts focussing attention on our “special relationship.” With all the period costume and special events at Lord March’s Revival meeting, the...
On September 21, a special going away party was held for the Eagle TG104 that carried Dan Gurney to a historic...
On September 25, several hundred enthusiasts of the famed Can-Am race series joined stars such as Phil Hill, Dan Gurney...
The 2002 Chrysler Jeep Classic Speed Festival, which was to be held on Oct 20-21 was cancelled several weeks after the tragic terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Washington, D.C. Held for the past four years on the U.S. Navy’s North Island Naval Air Station on San Diego’s...
A rare piece of Champ car history is currently being offered for sale via private treaty, by Christie’s Motor Cars....
As first reported in VRJ in October 2000, the legendary Cisitalia has moved a little closer to making its comeback....
Though not generally well known, the little Sunbeam Alpine chocked up an impressive array of racing victories in the U.S. between 1960 and 1968 and was driven by some of the greats including Jack Brabham, Stirling Moss, Jerry Titus and Ken Miles. This month’s featured Web site is exclusively devoted...
