Behind Le Mans, The Film in Photographs By Michael Keyser Arguably one of the most influential racing feature films of...
Just as we went to press last month, we heard the tragic news of Dan Wheldon’s fatal accident in the...
Being Brazilian, my inspiration for motor racing came from Emerson Fittipaldi. Like him, England was the place to learn motor racing, so I moved there, and it was an English marque I had a long association with. My driving career saw me, in the main, driving Reynard chassis—right from my...
A.J. Foyt Pedro Rodriguez 2 Walter Sobraske, machinist for Miller, Schofield, Offenhauser and Meyer & Drake (later shop forman), born...
Englishman Dan Wheldon was killed in a 15-car crash on the 11th lap of the scheduled 200-lap IndyCar season finale...
To say that Roy Gane has strong opinions would be to say that Cadbury’s makes chocolates. It’s evident as soon as you open a conversation with Roy that he has strong opinions on people in racing, races, racecar preparation and on racing politics. Perhaps it’s because he has done nearly...
Indy Dear Editor, Just read this months Vintage Racecar while lying in my bed (NASCAR on in the background) at...
Hidden Kurtis Dear Editor, Just finished your terrific article on the Curtis Indycar. I am attaching a photo of two...
Greg Smith is a long time vintage racing enthusiast and runs a restoration shop that has traditionally specialized in European machinery. His taste is eclectic and his breadth of knowledge is impressive, spanning the gamut from Bugatti to OHC Maudslay with loads of experience in between. About 10 years ago...
1964 Lotus 30 During his test drive at Silverstone, the author found that most of what he’d heard about the...
Pat Flaherty’s time on racing’s grandest stage may have been all too brief, but he managed to make it count....
USAC Road Racing Fades as the SCCA Overcomes Its Aversion to Racing for Money When we left the USAC road racing championship last month it was coming off its most successful season yet, with 11 races producing nine different winners, but the schedule for 1960 would feature only five races,...
The Riverside International Automotive Museum has announced that Parnelli Jones will be the Honored Guest at the third annual Legends...
Looking Back on a Brilliant Career… One Photographer’s Personal Recollections of the Most Successful American Endurance Racer of All Time...
For a 16th time, vintage Indycars raced around the Milwaukee Mile in honor of Harry Miller and the incredible machines he designed, built and raced. However, in recognition of the January passing of event and Miller Club founder David Uihlein, this year’s renewal was dedicated to his memory, with his...
One of the men who figured prominently in our tribute to Dan Gurney in last month’s issue, veteran Indycar mechanic...
To Salute Dan Gurney’s selection as Featured Guest for the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, we asked the All American Racer...
I sit here pondering: “How do you say something about Dan Gurney that hasn’t already been said?” It’s tough. Few, if any, across motor sport history have had the breadth of success and experience that Gurney has enjoyed. Sure, many have won Grands Prix, or Le Mans, or NASCAR races,...
Dan Gurney’s motor racing career as a driver, car constructor and team owner is just about as star-spangled as his...
A number of those among us stood head and shoulder above all others during the Golden Age of Motorsports. Juan...
The basic site here is very broad-based, but in its “Racing” section is this subsection devoted to Dan Gurney’s career as a racing driver, car builder and team owner. It has eight separate sections of its own, each dealing with a different aspect and phase of Dan’s time in the...
During the sixties, Carroll Shelby tried almost anything having to do with cars and racing. A little-known episode was his...
The 16th Annual Millers at Milwaukee Vintage Indy Car Event will be organized by the Harry A. Miller Club on...
Just about everything there is to write has been written about American racing legend Mario Andretti, but we would be remiss here not to spotlight this charismatic man and his remarkable achievements. We are talking about a motor racing galaxy, not just a star, someone so talented and versatile that...
As enthusiasts and students of racing history, we have a natural tendency to idolize, if not deify, the great men...
The Motorsports Hall of Fame of America has reached an agreement with the Detroit Science Center to relocate a significant...
You’ve certainly heard many of us here at Vintage Racecar lament the fact that today’s racecar drivers seem to be so homogenized and politically correct, as to be seemingly devoid of any kind of real character or personality. Perhaps even worse, however, so many of today’s drivers seem to combine...
Jim Hall, creator of the legendary Chaparrals and the man who gave Gil de Ferran his first Indycar drive, was...
Several record-breaking sales of racing cars were made during the auction activities surrounding Monterey Auto Week 2009. Topping the list...
The 14th annual Concours d’Elegance at Amelia Island drew an estimated 20,000 onlookers to the fairways of the Ritz Carlton golf course on Florida’s northeast coast in mid-March. The event was another tribute to the organizational efforts of founder and cochairman Bill Warner, and crowned an outstanding pair of cars...
