In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Canadian industries of aerospace and racecar design were at the forefront of...
Brooklands Museum’s restoration of the original Brooklands Finishing Straight and the re-instatement of the Paddock Scoreboard was awarded a rare Special Commendation at the FIA (Federation Internationale de l’Automobile), annual prize-giving ceremony on December 8 at the Palace of Versailles near Paris. The Special Commendation was the first ever awarded...
The Sports Car Racing Association of the Monterey Peninsula (SCRAMP) has been awarded the prestigious FIA Members Heritage Cup in...
Environment affects evolution. Case in point: racing sedans. European sedans, contending with high fuel costs and operating on winding and...
Touring car racing has usually been seen as the court jester to the serious stuff of single-seaters, but in a passing conversation at the Goodwood Revival someone said to me words to the effect that it was the saloon car race there that made the event—all the rest, including the...
The Motorsport Safety Fund’s Watkins Lecture at Autosport International is to be given by Jean Todt, President of the Federation...
Sicily. Discuss. Well, it’s an island, it has, shall we say, a fearsome reputation and it was once home to...
Carroll ShelbyPhoto: Jim Williams In observance of Carroll Shelby’s recent passing, VR is presenting an edited combination of the interviews he granted the magazine—one conducted by Editor/Publisher Casey Annis, the other by Associate Editor John Zimmermann—during which he discussed various aspects of his life in the sport. Behind the wheel...
Warren Olson arrived in Southern California fresh out of South Dakota in the late 1940s, just in time to take...
Bill Milliken has had an interesting life. As an engineer in both the aviation industry and later consultant to the...
Few Americans have had as significant an impact on the history and direction of global motorsport as Texan Jim Hall. As both a driver and a car constructor, Hall created and guided the highly influential Chaparral line of sports cars, which almost singlehandedly ushered aerodynamics into the lexicon of professional...
