It is well known that some great stock car road racing took place at the Riverside International Raceway. Dan Gurney...
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Series & Races
The American Grand Prize – The Great Races By Dennis David The Vanderbilt cup under the control of the American...
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...
Richie Ginther Biography Those readers familiar with the Grand Prix History website know that central to this site is the...
1933 Tripoli Grand Prix – The Race That Was Rigged By Alfred Neubauer from Speed was My Life It was...
1968 German Grand Prix – Jackie Stewart’s Greatest Race By Jackie Stewart For Grand Prix drivers the German Grand Prix each year is a very special event because the Nurburgring is certainly the most difficult, the most treacherous, and the most demanding of the tracks that the circus travels to...
500 Miglia di Monza – The Race of Two Worlds By Dennis David In 1954, redevelopment of the Autodromo Nazionale...
1955 Syracuse Grand Prix – Sensation at Syracuse By Peter Lewis In October 1955, with nearly ten years of motor...
December 2009 Ferrari 312P & 312PB By Ed McDonough and Peter Collins Billed as “the story of a great car and a great time in motorsport history,” this is the first book devoted solely to Ferrari’s 312P and 312PB models, and it features many rare and previously unpublished photos. The...
By 1963, Cobras were doing very well in Sports Car Club of America races. Cars driven by Shelby American drivers...
George Follmer Biography Follmer was born in Phoenix on January 27, 1934, but it was not long before his father,...
1933 Tourist Trophy – Sensation at Syracuse By Richard Hough “It seems perfectly apparent,” wrote Sammy Davis after the 1932 race, “that the prospects for next year are not particularly good.” They did, indeed, look bleak a week or two before the race, with no more to support the MGs...
Strangest Formula 1 Records The Longest Gap Between First and Second Place Two-time world champion Jim Clark is widely considered to be...
Alfa Romeo P2 Car: Alfa Romeo P2 / Engine: 8-Cylinder In-line / Maker: Alfa Romeo / Bore X Stroke: 61.0...
Jim Hall, creator of the legendary Chaparrals and the man who gave Gil de Ferran his first Indycar drive, was the honoree during festivities surrounding de Ferran’s final race as a driver at Laguna Seca’s American Le Mans Series finale. After beginning his Indycar career with Hall’s team in 1995,...
When I first talked with Vintage Racecar editor Casey Annis in 2005, the conversation revolved around the subject of me...
I actually started racing with the Nissan GTP team late in 1988, while I was still racing Indycars. I was...
You’ve certainly heard many of us here at Vintage Racecar lament the fact that today’s racecar drivers seem to be so homogenized and politically correct, as to be seemingly devoid of any kind of real character or personality. Perhaps even worse, however, so many of today’s drivers seem to combine...
Peter Revson Biography He was born IN 1939, a heir to the Revlon cosmetics fortune but died a respected professional...
1903 Paris to Madrid – The Race to Death By Charles Jarrott PARIS-BORDEAUX! The very name conjures up old memories...
The title of my column reads: “The Fabulous Fifties.” The era is one I know something about. During that time, I raced, rallied, officiated, and was an SCCA Regional Board member. In addition, I shot photos, wrote articles, and had a wide friendship that included some of you. Also, I...
Story and photos by Rich Martin Any race weekend at Watkins Glen is a great event but for me, the...
City to City Motor Races It began with demonstration runs such as one that took place on the 22nd of...
Horribly Beautiful The story of the Mille Miglia begins in 1921 when the Auto Club di Brescia organized the first Italian Grand Prix. Seeing the success of this race the much larger Automobile Club of Milan built the Autodromo Nazionale Monza and had the 1922 Italian Grand Prix held on...
Jochen Rindt Henri Pescarolo 2 Guy Moll wins the Monaco Grand Prix in an Alfa Romeo (1934). 3 Ronnie Peterson...
Jim Hall Biography Jim Hall was born on the 23rd of July, 1935 in Abilene, Texas, the 2nd of three sons. Hall spent his early years growing up in New Mexico where he first caught the four-wheel bug. While still only fourteen he acquired a 1929 Model A Ford which...
Fresh on the heels of the successful Ferrari 250 GTO (4675 GT) offering, RM Auctions announced that it is representing...
Die Silberpfeile – The Silver Arrows Teams The Fuhrer has spoken. The 1934 Grand Prix formula shall and must be...
During the sixties, Carroll Shelby tried almost anything having to do with cars and racing. A little-known episode was his effort at Indianapolis. The Shelby Indycar was one of the famous, or infamous if you will, turbine-powered cars. Here’s how it came about. Turbines had been tried at Indy before,...
