28 July 1956 – the 24 Hours of Le Mans starts at 4 o’clock in the afternoon and it’s raining...
Cars in the Claydons, the UK’s major new motoring and motorsport festival, will take place for the first time this...
RM Sotheby’s Motor City auction is the official auction of the Concours d’Elegance of America at the Inn at St. John’s in Plymouth, Michigan, and this year’s July 30 auction features a carefully curated roster of 70 blue-chip motor cars, led by American classics, sports and muscle cars, complemented by...
The 8th running of the Le Mans Classic, a biennial event organized jointly by Peter Auto and the Automobile Club...
The Jaguar D-Type that claimed overall victory at the 1956 Le Mans 24 Hours will headline the 2016 RM Sotheby’s...
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...
Tazio Nuvolari Biography Tazio Nuvolari a legend in his own lifetime, was known as Il Montavano Volante, the Flying Mantuan. He...
Denny HulmePhoto: Hal Crocker Jim ClarkPhoto: Trevor Taylor Collection 2 The TWR Jaguar XJR-6 is driven for the first time...
Watkins Glen International has announced that Jaguar Cars North America will sponsor the United States Vintage Grand Prix weekend, one of the largest vintage racing events on the national calendar, this September 9-11. “We are very excited to confirm Jaguar as our entitlement partner for the United States Vintage Grand...
Briggs Cunningham was one of the most important figures in U.S. road racing during the era of the 1950s. He...
That’s some ride from West Lothian, Scotland to winning the great Indianapolis 500 three times, not to mention four IndyCar...
Niki Lauda came back into Grand Prix racing, because he could! It has been suggested that he needed the money, or was bored with retirement, but whatever the reasons he certainly believed that McLaren could do the job. Above all, he felt sure he could. I think the real story...
Over two-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of International Motorsports; the...
Augie Pabst: Behind the Wheel By Robert Birmingham Augie Pabst grew up an heir to the family brewing business, and one...
The second round of the 2016 Jaguar Classic Challenge was staged 21-22 May at the historic 3.6-mile Silverstone Circuit in Northamptonshire, England. The duo of Julian Thomas and Calum Lockie took their second consecutive race victory in the Jaguar Classic Challenge by a mere two-tenths of a second in the...
On May’s first weekend, Vintage Racecar’s European team was on hand to greet many subscribers and friends, old and new,...
In late March, around the time of the New York Auto Show, Jaguar made the surprising announcement that it would...
As expected, Alberto Ascari impressed everyone with his driving of the 340 hp Ferrari 375MM in the 1953 24 Hours of Le Mans, but no one anticipated the power of the new Dunlop disc brakes on the Jaguar C-Type. In the end, the Jaguar pairing of Duncan Hamilton and Tony...
Eddie Rickenbacker Rick Mears 1 Roberto Lippi drives a Stanguellini to victory in the Formula Junior race at Vallelunga, Italy...
Jaguar Land Rover has announced the renaming of its Heritage business to Jaguar Land Rover Classic. The rebranded division will...
I worked for Jaguar from 1952 to 1986 as Chief Test and Development Engineer. Throughout that time I drove some really interesting and special cars, but nothing compares to the 1955 long-nosed D-Type Jaguar, a car that I drove flat out down the Mulsanne Straight at Le Mans—192 mph—passing Karl...
The Hilton Head Island Motoring Festival & Concours d’Elegance has announced that the Honored Marque for its 15th annual event...
The second season of the Jaguar Classic Challenge will include a trip to Le Mans Classic on 8-10 July. The...
In this profile we explore the life and afterlife of a more modern Formula One car. Indeed, what does happen to old Formula One cars? I mean those multi-million dollar hi-tech racers of not too many years ago. Each and every year the dozen, or so, competing teams produce a...
James Bond and the Receivers Photo: Max Earey Dear Editor, Congratulations on maintaining a great magazine. It never fails to...
Jaguar enjoyed plenty of air time this year within the collector car auction world. Well represented at major collector car...
Storm Frank, which battered and flooded many parts of the UK at the turn of the New Year, didn’t deter nearly a thousand hardy souls attending the first of the Bicester Heritage Brunch Scrambles of 2016. Held on a Sunday, the informal “Scramble” mornings are a way for enthusiasts to...
The Morgan Motor Company With no thoughts of cars in mind, I first visited Malvern in the high summer of...
We continue our interview with John Grant, now Chairman of the British Racing Drivers Club. In Part One we learned...
There’s no denying the statement Jaguar’s Sir William Lyons made with the unveiling of the marque’s stunning new E-Type show car at the 1961 Geneva Motor Show. Coming off a decade of domination at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Jaguar realized the necessity for a new automobile to replace...
