The heavy toll on people and machinery over the summer months resulted in a somewhat thinner entry than hoped for,...
After a couple of laps of the Murwillumbah Showground, it’s out for a timed run through the streets of the...
Motor Racing Legends, organizers of the Le Mans Legend, the historic race which takes place a few hours before the start of the Le Mans 24 Hours, have announced the eligibility criteria for entries in the 2005 event. On Saturday, June 18, 2005, Le Mans cars of 1935 to 1955...
Historic Grand Prix (HGP) has announced that it will serve as a support race for two 2005 IRL road course...
January 2005 12 Hours of Sebring—1970 By Harry Hurst If you poll almost anyone familiar with the history of long-distance endurance racing and ask them what one of the most exciting, epic seasons of all time was, nine times out of ten the response will be 1970. The 1970 endurance...
Infineon Raceway, Sonoma, CA October 9-10, 2004 “Seems drafty in here!” The door pops open on Charles Nearburg’s gorgeous 1954...
Murwillumbah, Australia September 18-19, 2004 The rather purposeful 1976 Chevy Monza of Steve Voight.Photo: Justin Ealand Become a Member &...
VIR, Danville, Virginia October 14-17, 2004 The 1972 Detomaso Pantera of Rick Bell.Photo: Walter Pietrowicz 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, lets you enjoy unlimited access to all...
Road America, Elkhart Lake, WI September 16-18, 2004 The 1968 Morgan +8 of Craig Sebert enters Turn 8.Photo: Fred Sickler...
NAS North Island, Coronado, CA October 8-9, 2004 Ken Epsman, who finished the Trans-Am race only 0.001 seconds off the...
This month Pete is recovering from a “close encounter of the surgical kind.” Pete is doing well and will return next month. Please enjoy one of Pete’s best from a very early issue of VRJ. “Absolutely amazing, what you accumulate. Photos, trophies; as we were going through, we thought we...
The FIA sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations...
Gilles Villeneuve Carroll Shelby 2 The first South Africa Grand Prix, held on the Kyalami track near Johannesburg, is won...
Eric Broadley introduced his Lola T–70 roadster at the Racing Car Show in London, England in 1965. The car stunned the public and immediately joined that select pantheon of sports racing vehicles, like the Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa, Jaguar D-Type and Maserati 300S, to which one ascribes the epithet: exquisite....
I did 525 races. I had five wheels come off, I’ve had seven or eight brake failures, and I have...
If you examine the incredible growth in participation and popularity of historic racing over the past couple of decades, one of the biggest contributing factors to this success story has to be the sport’s accessibility. Historic racing is, without doubt, one of the most accessible forms of motorsport in the...
Hans Ruesch has had an amazing life. At age 23, he won the Donington Grand Prix (with Richard Seaman as...
No other Grand Prix winner has ever sung Puccini, Verdi and Leoncavallo in public or been able to cook like...
1967 BRM H-16 The author opens the H-16 up on the banking of England’s Rockingham Motor Speedway. Photo: Peter Collins The history of Grand Prix racing is dotted with great and successful winning designs, and is equally littered with no-hopers—the Life Grand Prix, the Bellasi, Merzario, Coloni, Derrington-Francis—and then there...
Grand Prix Masters, the international race series for historic Formula One cars from 1966–1978, is expanding its role in historic...
The Friends of Triumph (FOT) and the MG Racers Group have announced that both will come together at HSR’s “Walter...
Legendary racecar driver Phil Hill was honored at a special event at the Petersen Automotive Museum on November 11, 2004. The museum was packed with some of the greatest names in American auto racing who paid tribute to Hill’s 20-year racing career, including winning the first American Formula One World...
An Argentinean senator slipped into the cockpit of Michael Schumacher’s 2004 Formula One World Championship–winning car at Ferrari’s private Fiorano...
It had to be at least one of the biggest gatherings of Ferraris and Maseratis of all time: 250 racing...
Monoposto Racing, one of North America’s finest open-wheel vintage racing organizations, has announced that Barry Durham and Joe Blacker have been crowned the 2004 series champions. Champions are named based upon their best results in six races in two categories. The first category, F70, consists of Formula 5000, Formula Two,...
February 2005 Ferrari: A Champion’s View by Phil Hill It turns out that Phil Hill—America’s first world champion, three-time Le...
Silverstone, England October 16, 2004 Michael Moore’s Falcon Sprint only lasted two laps in the Historic saloon race before spinning off.Photo: Ed McDonough 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...
