The white 1915 Stutz Indy racer comes alive with a thumping bark and a faint cloud of blue smoke, shattering...
All American Racers’ DGF Formula Ford has its first track test at Willow Springs Raceway (1977). 1 – Jean-Pierre Jabouille drives...
The Unsers from Albuquerque are one of the most iconic families in the history of auto racing, and are being honored with a once-in-a-lifetime exhibit at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum that opened Monday April 9. “The Amazing Unsers: From Albuquerque to Indianapolis,” will feature 25 cars that Unser family...
My fourth win at Indy was the best for a lot of reasons. The first will always have its place...
Bob Wollek was a champion many times over before he even got into motor racing. He won no fewer than...
Master automotive craftsman Joe Cavaglieri was named the 2017 recipient of the Racing History Project’s Peter Bryant Challenger Award at the project’s “Tribute to IMSA Dinner presented by Mazda,” held last weekend at the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum in Pomona, California. RHP’s Doug Stokes introduced the award by discussing the...
Four-time Indianapolis 500 winner Al Unser (above, IMS Photo) will return to racing at the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association’s Indy...
Indy racing legends Al Unser Sr. and Jr. were Grand Marshalls for the second annual Portland Vintage Racing Festival, hosted...
Tom Kendall may be best remembered for his dominant 1997 championship season in the SCCA’s Trans-Am series when he set a record with 11 consecutive victories in Jack Roush’s All Sport Ford Mustang on the way to his fourth Trans-Am crown, but he’s much more than that. He began his...
As a packed house assembled at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway last Sunday morning, the hours leading up to the 100th...
Two-time Indy 500 winner and two-time U.S. National Champion Al Unser Jr. will serve as Grand Marshal for the 20016...
Four-time Indianapolis 500 winner Al Unser and his two-time Indy-winning son, Al Jr., will headline the 7th annual Motorsports and Memories Winter Banquet presented by the Meadowdale International Raceways Preservation Association and the Vintage Sports Car Drivers Association at the Chicago Marriott Schaumburg in Schaumburg, Illinois, on Saturday, February 6,...
Nino Farina Jim HallPhoto: Keith Booker 1 Sports car racer Jim Pace born (1961). 2 Al Holbert, Derek Bell and...
Small independent shops are keystones of the automobile restoration industry, and among the more notable of these is Cavaglieri Restorations,...
Bruce BurnessPhoto: John Zimmermann When last we left Bruce Burness (April VR) he had just initiated his lasting association with Trevor Harris where they performed what he called “the ultimate male-bonding experience.” In this second part of VR Associate Editor John Zimmermann’s interview, Burness discusses the achievement he considers the...
To be honest, I’ve had a lot of great racecars in my career and it’s very difficult to select just...
Gilles Villeneuve Mark Donohue 1 Al Unser Jr. wins the CRA sprint car main event at Imperial, California (1981). 2...
Ralph DePalma John Surtees 1 Sportscar racer Jim Pace born (1961). 2 Al Holbert, Derek Bell and Al Unser Jr. drive a Löwenbrau-sponsored Porsche 962 to victory in the 24 Hours of Daytona (1986). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to...
The centenary of the first running of the Indianapolis 500 was celebrated at the Goodwood Festival of Speed (July 1-3)...
Mario Andretti Rick Mears Photo: Jim Hatfield 1 Gates at Indianapolis Motor Speedway open for practice for the first Indy...
Al Unser Jr., David Hobbs, and Les Richter (l to r above) headline the 2009 class of inductees to the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America during the Hall’s annual August induction ceremonies at the Fillmore Theater in Detroit. Unser, a two-time winner of both the Indy 500 and the...
Carlos Sainz Al Unser Jr. 2 Three-time Formula One World Champion Jack Brabham is born (1926). 3 Pierro Taruffi drives...
When Tom Sneva took the checkered flag on a sun-drenched May afternoon, in 1983, to win the 67th Indianapolis 500...
Jochen Rindt Richard Attwood 2 Dave Heinz and Dave Yarborough drive a Jaguar XJS from the U.S. Atlantic Coast to the Pacific Coast in a record 32 hours and 51 minutes to win the fifth and final Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash (1979). 3 Vern Schuppan and Naohiro Fujita...
Graham Hill Frank Costin 1 Guy Frequelin becomes competition chief of Citroen (1989). 2 Al Holbert, Derek Bell, and Al...
