A trio of classic British racing circuits will tremble to the roar of Can-Am Thunder this summer as Masters Historic...
James Bond and the Receivers Photo: Max Earey Dear Editor, Congratulations on maintaining a great magazine. It never fails to...
Niki Lauda M. von Brauchitsch 1 Richard Petty drives a Ford Torino to victory in the NASCAR Grand National race at Riverside. California (1969). 2 The Corvette GTP (a Chevy-powered Lola T711) makes its race debut in the 24 Hours of Daytona (1985). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access...
Next July’s Silverstone Classic has announced plans to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the legendary Can-Am Series with a pair...
After concluding arrangements with Patricia and Amanda McLaren, widow and daughter of the late Bruce McLaren, TMP, the company that...
The theme for Goodwood’s 2016 Festival of Speed, set for the weekend of June 23-26, will be “Full Throttle—The Endless Pursuit of Power,” with the event celebrating the most powerful competition cars and bikes in the history of motor sport. Alongside its central theme, FoS 2016 will also celebrate the...
McLaren Honda has announced today that Tyler Alexander, one of McLaren’s founding fathers, passed away on January 7, 2016, at...
An evening of reunion and tribute to the United States Road Racing Championship, which ran from 1963 to 1968 and...
We continue our interview with John Grant, now Chairman of the British Racing Drivers Club. In Part One we learned how, from a relatively modest background and upbringing in Northern Ireland, Grant rose to the high echelons of command at Ford both in Europe and the USA and how he...
The fifth global gathering of Porschephiles, Rennsport Reunion V, took place before a record crowd of some 57,531 under sunny...
Next July’s Silverstone Classic has announced plans to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the legendary Can-Am Series with a pair...
After concluding arrangements with Patricia and Amanda McLaren, widow and daughter of the late Bruce McLaren, TMP, the company that owns and operates the international motorsport park at Taupo, New Zealand, has renamed the multi-purpose facility Bruce McLaren Motorsport Park. McLaren is, of course, the Kiwi-born racecar designer, driver and...
The Canadian-American Challenge Cup was an “unlimited” racing series co-sanctioned by the SCCA in America and the CASC in Canada....
Two names have become synonymous with Corvette over the years—Zora Arkus-Duntov and Dick Guldstrand. From the airport circuits of California...
Gaston Chevrolet L. Motschenbacher 1 Final Can-Am race for Chaparral. Vic Elford starts on the pole in the 2J at Riverside, California, but his race ends after five laps, with engine failure. Denny Hulme drives a Team McLaren M8D-Chevrolet to the win (1970). 2 Craig Breedlove sets a new Land...
• The Goodwood Road Racing Club has announced that its 74th Members’ Meeting will be held March 19-20, 2016, at...
McLaren established itself throughout the 1960s and ’70s as a world-beating force in one of the most extreme forms of...
The Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion has announced the run groups for its 43rd annual vintage racecar festival, set for August 18-21, 2016 at California’s Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. The registration process opens next Monday, October 26, for the 550 available entry slots at the event, and will continue through January...
I wrote in this space, last month, that racecar drivers are just like us in that they too are human...
Hermann Lang Bernd Rosemeyer 2 Louis de Palma drives a Benz to victory in the Vanderbilt Cup race in Milwaukee, Wisconsin...
Bugatti type 57 Grand Prix – A Celebration By Neil Max Tomlinson To dispel myths and legends of any subject is a very tall order. As a writer and researcher you stand alone with your head above a parapet just waiting to be shot down once your findings are published....
A special event, “Tribute to the Can Am 2015,” has been scheduled for Saturday, October 17 at the Wally Parks...
The old, established events in historic racing never cease to amaze the participants and spectators who flock here to Road...
The Hawk International Challenge with Brian Redman at Road America, one of the largest vintage racing events in the United States with more than 400 cars competing, will take place at the scenic central Wisconsin circuit on the weekend of July 16-18. This year, along with its usual race groups,...
The Hawk with Brian Redman, one of North America’s most popular and well-supported vintage racecar weekends, is set to take...
After watching McLaren dominate the Can-Am series for four years, in 1971, Lola and its American team leader Carl Haas...
The Canadian American Challenge Cup was co-sanctioned by the SCCA and CASC; it was a series nicknamed the “unlimited” series. Although there was a basic set of rules, the cars had to be two-seaters with bodywork covering the wheels, have doors, a windscreen, brake lights and various safety requirements, there...
Denny Hulme Biography Denny Hulme was born on June 18, 1936 in Motueka, on the South Island of New Zealand....
Photo: Hal Crocker John Bishop, the man most responsible for the establishment of professional sports car racing in America, has...
The thundering Can-Am class will be featured at the 2014 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, to be held August 14-17 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. Returning to their familiar home where they ran unbridled in the 1960s and early ’70s, a field of 30-plus authentic Can-Am cars will provide a huge...
