Photo Gallery from SVRA’s June 24-27, 2021, SpeedTour event at Mid-Ohio. [button link=”https://dev.sportscardigest.com//svra-mid-ohio-subscriber-photo-gallery/” size=”large” color=”blue”]Subscribers click her for 5 more...
Subscriber exclusive Photo Gallery from SVRA’s June 24-27, 2021, SpeedTour event at Mid-Ohio. Gp 3 – Lance Clark in his...
Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) has confirmed June dates at both Road America and the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. The agreement with Road America is a new date after a postponement from the original May 15 -17 Vintage Festival. Fathers’ Day June 18 – 21 weekend became available with the...
The L&M Formula 5000 Championship; Mid-Ohio, June 3, 1973. Mark Donohue in Roger Penske’s Lola T330 with AMC Javelin power,...
The Mid-Ohio Grand Prix, Mid-Ohio, September 27, 1970 John Eiteljorge with his Brabham BT21F (#74) leads the field to the...
The Sportscar Vintage Racing Association has announced that it will offer season-long National Championships for both the short sprint races and longer endurance contests on its schedule of events. Previously, SVRA’s season-long points championships were centered in the eastern USA. Points awarded for finishing positions will be the same for...
Mid-Ohio, Steam Corners, OH June 23-26, 2016 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
The International Motor Sports Association Camel Six-Hour GT; Mid-Ohio, July 9, 1972. Jim Greendyke and Denny Long finished 2nd in...
Nanni Galli Jo BonnierPhoto: Porsche 1 Jean-Pierre Wimille drives a Simca-Gordini to victory in the Coupe Robert Benoist on a road circuit near Nimes, France (1947). 3 Jody Scheckter drives a Trojan T101 to victory in the L&M Continental F5000 race at Mid-Ohio in Lexington, Ohio (1973). Become a Member...
My first racing was in motorcycles on a Triumph 350. That would be in 1958 while I was in Japan...
Pete Lyons Partway through an evening of kind words, warm recollections and congratulations, the moderator came on the mic and...
Bruce BurnessPhoto: John Zimmermann When last we left Bruce Burness (April VR) he had just initiated his lasting association with Trevor Harris where they performed what he called “the ultimate male-bonding experience.” In this second part of VR Associate Editor John Zimmermann’s interview, Burness discusses the achievement he considers the...
Alessandro Zanardi is an inspiration to us all. Here is a double CART champion who lost both his legs in...
Cliff Reuter and I suffer from codependency. The phone calling and emailing is incessant. I regularly disturb him while he’s giving tennis lessons and he has a particular talent for ringing my cell phone just when I’m beginning to do surgery on the bones. But we share a passion for...
Last month we ran the first half of the tale of Hal Crocker’s relationship with Peter Gregg, encompassing the early...
A.J. Foyt Giuseppi Campari 1 A.J. Foyt, driving a Coyote-Foyt, wins the USAC Championship race at Texas World Speedway in...
Two of the longest established and most successful vintage racing organizations in the United States have announced a new series for historic single-seat racing cars. Murray Smith, chairman of the Lime Rock Historic Festival, and Peter McLaughlin, manager of SVRA, have announced a new category called Formula Historic for owners...
Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, Lexington, OH June 24–27, 2010 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (&...
New race courses keep blinking onto our radar screens, which seems like a good thing until they turn up on...
Having raced at “Mid-O” in karts and cars since 1964, the track’s site picture is indelibly scribed on the inside of my skull, where, naturally, there’s little else to get in the way. I grew up (ok, that’s an exaggeration) in Mansfield, Ohio. In 1958 my parents, Doris and John,...
When you first meet Walt MacKay, you are struck by what a quiet, modest man he is. Currently, he runs...
After church one Sunday in 1957, a 13-year-old Philadelphia boy named Tom Pomeroy was playing with some of his friends,...
The Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course is one of America’s most technical and challenging circuits, as most corners involve both radius and elevation changes. Only two of its 14 turns (Turn 1 and the Keyhole) stand alone; the rest are in combinations or sequences. Turns 7-8-9, also known as “Madness,” are...
Imagine what it was like for Eric Broadley to have come up with the T70 coupe after the heady days...
Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, Lexington, OH October 13–14, 2007 Storm Field’s 1960 MGA.Photo: Jim Hatfield 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 all...
1991 Toyota Eagle MKIII GTP It’s amazing how one hair-brained idea can change the course of history. Such was the...
The MG Vintage Racers (MGVR) have moved their annual “Focus Event” for 2007 to VSCDA’s (Vintage Sport Car Driver’s Association) vintage race weekend...
Lexington, Ohio August 19–20, 2006 Jim Simpson in a McLaren M8C 3-liter finished 4th in the Group 2 and 5 Feature.Photo: Jim Hatfield 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...
