In addition to the event’s tribute to Dan Gurney, attendees at August’s Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion will be able to...
To help celebrate the 50th anniversary of the American Bugatti Club, one of the feature races at this year’s renewal...
Soon after motor vehicles were invented they were raced. Initially the contests were held on open roads, often from city to city. The very first I have been able to find documented involved two steam-driven tractors chugging between Madison and Green Bay, Wisconsin, on July 16, 1878. The problems of...
Mazda Laguna Seca Raceway, host of the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, has announced that this year’s event, scheduled for August...
Like a large number of enthusiasts in the historic racing community, I was at first startled and then fascinated by the recent unfolding saga of the change in leadership at the Monterey Historics. Once the initial shock of Steve Earle’s departure had set in, many questions began bubbling to the surface....
Officials of Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca have announced that the Historic Motor Sports Association (HMSA) will be the sanctioning body...
Jim Hall, creator of the legendary Chaparrals and the man who gave Gil de Ferran his first Indycar drive, was...
New race courses keep blinking onto our radar screens, which seems like a good thing until they turn up on our TV screens. Or at least on mine. For me, the new breed of supercircuits mostly invokes disappointment and, worse, boredom. There are exceptions. Even on TV, which tends to...
Today almost exclusively remembered as the genius behind the competition cars named for a road-running bird in the southwest, Jim...
A new organization, Historic Motorsports Productions, is seeking to raise the game of vintage and historic racing in North America...
In early July, HMSA the sanctioning body for the annual Monterey Historic Automobile Races sent an email to all its members informing them that Steve Earle and his company General Racing, Ltd., would no longer be organizing the famed Monterey peninsula event that Earle founded in 1976. HMSA president Cris...
Turn 5 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca may not be one of the first corners that everyone talks about when...
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The Lotus 19 took sports car racing to a whole new level upon its debut in 1960, rendering rivals such as the Cooper Monaco and Maserati Birdcage obsolete overnight and leading photojournalist Pete Biro to label it the “Birdcage Cleaner.” A real “wolf in sheep’s clothing,” it was essentially a...
Emerson Fittipaldi has an impish sense of humor and, one day at Brands Hatch, he unloaded it on my poor...
Turn 7 at the newly opened New Jersey Motorsports Park Lightning course is as pivotal as it is exciting. It...
The 46th birthday of Formula Vee will be celebrated at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca this April 4–5, in a vintage event organized by the San Francisco Region of the SCCA. The event is being presented as a West Coast opportunity to celebrate the popular Volkswagen-powered class in the wake of...
Roger Penske was honored with induction into the Legends of Laguna Seca during ceremonies preceding this year’s mid-October American Le...
Joseph Pendergast, historic racer, race organizer, and collector for nearly 40 years, succumbed to complications from pneumonia on September 14, 2008, at the age of 69. Pendergast was owner and general manager of West Coast Caterers, and upon selling it to Dobbs House in 1973, he sought his Bachelor’s degree...
Andre Boillot Rex Mays 1 Mika Hakkinen wins the Japanese GP and his first Formula One world title at Suzuka...
Imagine what it was like for Eric Broadley to have come up with the T70 coupe after the heady days...
Third-time charm! That’s what we Can-Am fans were hoping for 40 Septembers ago. On the first of this month in 1968, our beloved Big Bangers would bellow to life for their third season. Maybe this time the grandly unrestricted sports cars, stunningly powerful and torque-rich machines that were faster than...
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Photo: Dennis Gray If you’ve ever attended the Monterey Historics, the Wine Country Classic, a Classic Sports Racing Group (CSRG),...
On this, the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Monterey Historics, I thought it would be interesting to look back and see how it all started. The date was August 10, 1974. August 10 that year fell on a Saturday. There was no Sunday racing even though California has no “blue laws”...
Justly famous for corners such as the Corkscrew and Andretti (a.k.a. Turn 2), plain-named Turn Six is actually one of...
Laguna Seca, Monterey, CA March 15–16, 2008 Tom Morgan’s 1959 MGA was one of a score of MG’s in attendance...
1969 Mercedes 300 SEL 6.8 AMG 1969 Mercedes 300 SEL 6.8 AMG. Photo: Mercedes-AMG It seems hard to believe that most of the past 50 years of Mercedes-Benz motor sport history is, in large part, due to a small German company that, until recently, was not Mercedes-Benz. The little company...
