October 2017 Matra Racing DVD, The Rebirth Many years ago I was drawn to the vibrancy of the Matra pit...
September 2017 Stephen South – The Way It Was By Darren Banks Darren Banks has followed the careers of many drivers for a good many years now and has always had a passion for the career of Stephen South, a driver with much talent, but who failed to really make...
With HMSA having brought Historic Can-Am cars back into the spotlight with its exhibition race at the Toyota Grand Prix...
Luigi Chinetti Briggs Cunningham Photo: courtesy Art Evans 1 Kazuyoshi Hoshino, who participated in two F1 races in the 1970s, born...
1966 Lola T70 SL71/48 Proper warming up of components and attention paid to maintaining balance with the handling were the keys to enjoying the performance available from Lola’s first venture into Group 7 competition. Photo: Roger Dixon If there was a racing car that most of the great and the good...
Engineer, Champion Rider, Champion Driver and Team Manager John Surtees, four-time motorcycle World Champion, aboard one of his title-taking MV Agusta...
John Surtees Photo: Mike Jiggle I first drove what was to become Graham Hill’s 1966 American Red Ball Special Indy...
It is an unfortunate fact of life that as we age, so we lose more and more friends to the ravages of time. As I sat in the church at the funeral of John Surtees—listening to the wonderful tributes from his daughters Leonora and Edwina, as well as a most...
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Lola Cars founder Eric Broadley has passed away at the age of 88. Broadley was one of the early players the post-war British racing car industry, and after his Mk1 sports racer convinced him to give up his own driving career to focus on being a constructor, his Lola designs...
With the HMSA having brought Historic Can-Am cars back into the spotlight with its exhibition race at the Toyota Grand...
The inaugural Can-Am Challenge was part of the 43rd Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, which took place April 7-9,...
The Spring Classic vintage car races and historic motorcycle exhibition will be held on May 19-21, 2017 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in California. A total of nine featured classes will participate in the inaugural event, including the always-popular rumbling Can-Am machines. The Can-Am Series held races at the Laguna...
Nearly two dozen cars from one of racing’s more golden ages took to the streets of Long Beach last weekend...
1967 Shelby King Cobra Can-Am If you were Carroll Shelby, 1966 was a pretty good year. Coming off his Cobras...
Kirk F. White took a circuitous route to his successful classic car business in Philadelphia, entering the workforce earlier than most young men after his father passed away when he was a pre-teen. Because he had to help keep the family afloat financially, he went to work as a gofer...
In this month’s Racecar Profile [“Bound by Fate”], you’ll read that I recently had the opportunity to test drive the...
April 2017 Away from green at the Labatt’s 200 Can-Am race at Mosport on June 13, 1971, Jackie Stewart’s Lola...
April 2017 • The Sportscar Vintage Racing Association has announced that it will offer season-long National Championships for both the short sprint races and longer endurance contests on its 2017 schedule of events. Previously, SVRA’s season-long points championships were centered in the eastern USA. Points awarded for finishing positions will...
Cars from the SCCA’s legendary Can-Am series will be in the spotlight at this year’s inaugural Monterey Spring Classic, scheduled...
The recreation of Peter Bryant’s Ti22 MkII Can-Am car will make its public debut at next month’s Toyota Grand Prix...
The iconic Ti22 Mk II Can-Am car returns to the track at the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach April 7, 2017 in the Historic Motor Sports Association (HMSA) Can-Am Challenge race. The original Peter Bryant-designed car was successfully raced in the Can-Am by Jackie Oliver and was one of...
February 2017 Bruce McLaren – From the Cockpit By Bruce McLaren Although in very recent years the domination of the...
Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca has created a new vintage event for its 2017 calendar, the Spring Classic that will take place on the weekend of May 19-21 at the scenic Central California raceway. The three-day event will showcase racing by vintage racecars from several different eras, focusing on the ’70s,...
Mike Hawthorn George Follmer 1 Paul Frere drives an Ecurie Belge Cooper T51-Climax to victory in the 80-lap Formula Libre South...
January 2017 Can-Am 50th Anniversary By George Levy and Pete Biro Can it really be 50 years since the Canadian-American...
December 2016 Jomar Legacy Dear Editor, My name is Alex Saidel and my father built the Jomar racecars that jump-started the TVR car company from 1955 to 1959. Over the past 25 years, I have been finding and restoring Jomar alloy-bodied racecars, as well as the fiberglass-bodied roadcars. There are...
