• The Indianapolis Motor Speedway Foundation has selected motorcycle champion Paul Goldsmith, and veteran car owner Pat Patrick as this...
By 1963, Cobras were doing very well in Sports Car Club of America races. Cars driven by Shelby American drivers...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine of choice was the venerable small block Chevrolet V-8 of 5-liter displacement. It started as a bright idea in 1967 and ran successfully until politics between the governing body, race...
Jochen Rindt Henri Pescarolo 2 Guy Moll wins the Monaco Grand Prix in an Alfa Romeo (1934). 3 Ronnie Peterson...
For the 1955 season, Monza was refurbished and the Milan Auto Club considered an oval race. Contact was made with...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine of choice was the venerable small block Chevrolet V8 of 5.0 liters displacement. It started as a bright idea in 1967 and ran successfully until politics between the governing body,...
Paddy Hopkirk Helio Castroneves Photo: Jim Hatfield 1 David Pearson wins the NASCAR Winston Cup race at Atlanta International Raceway...
When Tom Sneva took the checkered flag on a sun-drenched May afternoon, in 1983, to win the 67th Indianapolis 500...
Michael Andretti Al UnserPhoto: Jim Hatfield 1 Jody Scheckter drives a Ford-powered Tyrrell 007 to victory in the South African Grand Prix (1975). 2 Michael Andretti drives a Swift-Ford to victory in the CART Marlboro Grand Prix of Miami at Homestead, Florida. First CART win for Swift in their first...
The Motorsports Hall of Fame of America has announced its Class of 2011, which will be enshrined during ceremonies in...
John Cannon Jean Pierre Jabouille 2 Jochen Rindt, at the wheel of a Roy Winkelmann Racing Brabham BT23, wins the...
Gaston Chevrolet Peter Revson 1 Mika Hakkinen wins the Japanese GP and his first Formula One World Title at Suzuka in a McLaren-Mercedes (1998). 4 Sportscar racer Bob Wollek born (1943). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article...
Bobby Allison Bill Kraus 1 Stefan Bellof dies from injuries sustained in the crash of his Porsche 956 during the...
Carroll ShelbyPhoto: Jim Williams In observance of Carroll Shelby’s recent passing, VR is presenting an edited combination of the interviews...
Lorenzo Bandini Adrian NeweyPhoto: Pete Austin 3 Stanley Dickens and Kunimitsu Takahashi win the 1000-kilometer All Japan Sportscar Championship race at Suzuka in a Porsche 962. It is the 31st (of 35 races) and final win for the 956/962 in Japanese competition (1989). 4 Stirling Moss, driving an Aston Martin DBR2,...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
During the early fifties, one of the biggest sports stars in the United States was Sam Hanks. Notice I said...
In this guide we are going to cover the popular single-seater series of Formula B, Formula Atlantic and Formula Two. From 1964 to 1978, these racing categories and the flat-bottomed formula cars manufactured to compete in them served as a stepping stone to the upper echelons of open-wheeled racing, be...
1966 Eagle-Weslake It is a privilege to update and run my test of the Eagle-Weslake. At Vintage Racecar we were...
David Scotney was, for many years, the face of Lola Cars at motor racing events around the world. Born and...
How amusing, I often smile, that a breed of racer I associate with conservatism generally speeds around to the left. But we don’t do politics here, just history, so let’s have a look back at interesting times when oval drivers first tried their hands at turning both ways. The big...
I’ll confess, upfront, that I’m really not a NASCAR fan. But that fact didn’t deaden the shock, when I learned...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine of choice was the venerable small-block Chevrolet V8 of 5-liter displacement. It started as a bright idea in 1967 and ran successfully until politics between the governing body, race organizers...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seat racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
Andre Ribeiro Len Sutton 1 Glenn Seton drives a Nissan Skyline to victory in the Australian Touring Car race at...
People have often expressed surprise that the Indianapolis 500 was included in the World Championship, between 1950 and 1960. For the first two years of the series it made sense, because both formulae allowed engines of 4,500-cc. After 1951, it made no sense at all, but the 500 was included...
Nino Vaccarella Ronnie Peterson 1 Ronnie Peterson wins the French Grand Prix at Paul Ricard in a John Player Special...
While many racecar drivers have earned the title of “living legend,” there are very, very few that can also lay...
Call me a jinx if you like. No sooner did I put the finishing touches on last month’s column about history repeating itself with schisms and rebellion in Formula One than the news broke that Steve Earle and his General Racing, Ltd. would no longer be organizing the famed Monterey...
