In the youth of our racing enthusiasm, we tend to think obituaries are for drivers. We don’t foresee, or at...
John Gunn, an independent entrant who contested some of North America’s most prestigious auto racing championships during a career that...
The Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) first appeared on the motorsports landscape as a support race for the Can-Am at Road Atlanta in September of 1980. Seventeen cars attended that inaugural event, but within a year the car count had swelled to 110 and the event had become a standalone...
Can-Am Racing Cars – The Specials Honker II A car named after a truck’s air horn doe not lend itself...
1962 Porsche 804 Dan Gurney was about as versatile as a racecar driver could ever be. He pretty much skipped...
A number of those among us stood head and shoulder above all others during the Golden Age of Motorsports. Juan Fangio, Stirling Moss, Carroll Shelby, John Fitch, Dan Gurney and Phil Hill immediately come to mind. Only one from that exhalted group, however, was proposed for President of the United...
For all the great drivers who contested the old Can-Am, few did well. Your Amons, Andrettis, Brabhams, Elfords, Joneses, Halls,...
The basic site here is very broad-based, but in its “Racing” section is this subsection devoted to Dan Gurney’s career...
BRM P154 The car was designed and built in house to compete in the 1970 Can-Am series for Group 7 cars by Tony Southgate, who had joined British Racing Motors in 1969. Southgate had worked earlier at Lola working on the T70. While he worked on the Formula 1 BRM...
Peter Gethin may have been the son of a jockey, but he pursued a different kind of horsepower, making his...
Like all heroes, Brett Lunger denies being one. To him, running into fire broiling from Niki Lauda’s crashed Ferrari, its...
My greatest racecar would have to be a choice between my first F5000 car, the 1969 McLaren, or, the 1970 McLaren Can-Am car. The first Formula 5000 car I raced was the McLaren M10A with the big rear wing. Bruce McLaren and I got the car working very well, it...
Rick Parsons and Don Devine have formed the Vintage Indy Racing Group to facilitate the further inclusion of Indycar racing...
Fresh on the heels of the successful Ferrari 250 GTO (4675 GT) offering, RM Auctions announced that it is representing...
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...
John Rice produced a series of a dozen watercolor paintings for a show celebrating memorable moments at Watkins Glen, with...
Pete Lyons The year was 1970. The year the ground turned over under America’s greatest sports racing car series. It...
May 2010 The Strasbourg Sunbeams By Neville S. Webb It is amazing that the four Grand Prix Sunbeams built by the factory for the 1922 French Grand Prix at Strasbourg all still exist, and mostly in original form. Equally amazing is this publication by Australian historian Neville Webb into the...
Moving ahead with its ambitious agenda for advancing vintage racing, Historic Motorsports Productions has named the featured marques for the...
Story and photos by Rich Martin Any race weekend at Watkins Glen is a great event but for me, the...
Although he will probably be remembered mainly for a contrasting pair of Indycar accomplishments, Jerry Grant was yet another of the American all-rounders who could, and would, drive virtually any kind of car. After a tour of duty as chauffeur for the head of NORAD Command in Colorado, the Washington...
The title of my column reads: “The Fabulous Fifties.” The era is one I know something about. During that time,...
The Motorsports Hall of Fame of America has reached an agreement with the Detroit Science Center to relocate a significant...
February 2010 Second Coming Photo: Brian Green Dear Editor, In your First Turn column of December Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to paid subscribers only. Our membership removes most ads, lets you enjoy unlimited access to...
Bobby Unser François Cevert 1 Al Holbert, Chip Robinson, Derek Bell, and Al Unser Jr. drive the Löwenbrau Porsche 962...
When I first talked with Vintage Racecar editor Casey Annis in 2005, the conversation revolved around the subject of me writing about the fifties, the fabulous fifties as it were. After all, this was what I was known for. I had written seven books about the decade. One of my...
Paul Newman George Follmer Photo: Pete Luongo 2 First South Africa Grand Prix to be held on the Kyalami track...
Chaparral 2J Legend “according to Jim Hall” has the idea for the Chaparral 2J came to him through a child’s...
George Follmer Biography Follmer was born in Phoenix on January 27, 1934, but it was not long before his father, an engineer for a company that made flour mills, moved the family to suburban Los Angeles. “I did okay in high school, when I focused on books instead of girls,”...
