Ian Walker has been in and around motor racing for over 50 years. He started as a competitor but was...
FORMULA ONE & TWO AT REIMS, 1958 | It could never happen now. Ian Burgess was a works Cooper driver...
1959 Old Yeller Mk II As with so many of the great racecars and specials of the ’50s, the success and genesis of the famed Old Yellers rests with a single talented individual, Max Balchowsky—or more properly, Max and his wife Ina. Max Balchowsky was born on January 15, 1924...
Long Beach celebrated 30 years of racing on its famous street circuit with a full weekend of fierce competition that...
Notre Dame’s Snite Museum of Art will open a special exhibit called “Art of the National Sports Car” on June...
HSR-West has announced that it will be holding a special round of the BOSS Super Cup Series at Sonoma, California’s Infineon Raceway (Sears Point) on October 30–31. This special race will be open to all Formula One, F5000, F3000, F-Holden, Indy and Indy Lights cars. Entries are limited for this...
Millions of roadside spectators had cheered the 2004 Mille Miglia Storica and its 375 cars and crews from 30 different...
Former Formula Atlantic champion Bill Brack (1974–1975) has announced the formation of a new Historic Formula Atlantic Association, which will...
The two-car historic Mustang GTP effort of Americans Richard and Benton Bryan made their European debut at the Group C/GTP organization’s May 7–9 race at Spa Francorchamps. The Bryans, of Knoxville, Tennessee have been ardent supporters and competitiors of the Group C/GTP group, having run many races with them in...
Hundreds of enthusiasts attended the Donington Grand Prix Collection on May 1st to witness circuit owner Tom Wheatcroft and his...
This month’s featured Web site is devoted to the many models of MG cars spanning from 1928 to today. This...
July 2004 Maserati Tipo 63.64.65 Birdcage to Supercage By Willem Oosthoek Sometimes you have to applaud the publisher who will stick his corporate neck out and produce a book which has only a limited niche market. Such is the case with Oosthoek’s debut masterwork on the rear-engine Birdcage Maseratis. However,...
California Speedway, Fontana, California March 20-22, 2004 The 1994 Arrows F1 of Imran Husain. Photo: Wayne Kitano Become a Member...
Donington Park, England April 11, 2004 Tim Bishop in his 1960 Sauter-DKW Formula Junior is followed by Michael Ashley-Brown’s 1959 Volpini F.Jr.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...
Speaking to a room packed with eager ears, Vic Elford was well into a detailed description of how he used...
Formula Ford was a specification racing series created on the idea that the best drivers would win if they were...
Richard Petty Antonio Ascari 3 Mark Donohue wins the USAC Champ Car race at Pocono, Pennsylvania, for Team Penske’s first Champ Car victory (1971). 4 Frank Verbeck wins $50,000 when he drives a Fiat to victory in the 444-mile Pan-Pacific Road Race from Los Angeles to Sacramento. Longest race on...
This large painting study was inspired by my first visit to Lime Rock Park 17 years ago. I couldn’t believe...
As I write this column in late April, the mass media is full of stories about Ayrton Senna. I must...
Back in the early 1950s I was racing my own Cooper 500 fairly successfully. I managed to beat the works team a couple of times, and I got noticed. Colin Chapman was looking for another driver. The people who did most of the sponsorship in those days, probably the only...
A racing friend of mine was recently lamenting the fact that he was turning 50 this year. “I think you’re...
A new event in the British racing calendar took place in July 1973, the Avon Motor Tour of Britain. The...
It’s the stuff of Hollywood. Likeable, luckless Jimmy Stewart type, after a series of DNFs and an horrific accident that very nearly cost him his life, is about to go out and win his first race, only to discover his car is missing! With his racecar missing, Gurney confronts his...
The Qvale Sebring MGBs By 1959, the MG Car Company was looking to update the somewhat dated and underpowered MGA...
The third round of the FIA World Championship for Thoroughbred Grand Prix Cars was held at England’s undulating Donington Park...
On August 13, Bonhams and Butterfields will offer two very rare Italian single-seaters for sale at their Quail Lodge auction. The first is a 1953 Ferrari 500/625 (Chassis No 0210F), which was raced by Guido Mancini, Alejandro de Tomaso and Giorgio Scarlatti as part of the Scuderia Centro Sud. The...
The largest gathering of Porsche racecars—more than 550 from around the world—descended on Daytona International Speedway on April 23–25 for...
Douglas James “Doug” Shierson, who owned the Indy car that Arie Luyendyk drove to victory in the 1990 Indianapolis 500,...
“Just happy to have arrived” was a comment heard several times at the end of the 2004 Tour Auto in France. The remark echoes a concern expressed by several participants in recent classic road events after a spate of serious accidents. 2500 kilometers of driving across France from the Paris...
