In the youth of our racing enthusiasm, we tend to think obituaries are for drivers. We don’t foresee, or at...
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,...
The under 2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international...
A rare, “pontoon-fendered” Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa will headline RM Auctions’s 25th Anniversary Sports and Classics of Monterey event during...
In addition to the event’s tribute to Dan Gurney, attendees at August’s Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion will be able to enjoy a double dose of Trans-Am glory as well, since the weekend will feature both the muscular 5-liter sedans and the nimble machines from the Under-2-Liter class that enlivened the...
Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, Monterey, CA April 24–25, 2010 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (&...
To help celebrate the 50th anniversary of the American Bugatti Club, one of the feature races at this year’s renewal...
June 2010 Ode to Briggs Dear Editor, Vintage Racecar’s April article celebrating the 60th anniversary of Briggs Cunningham’s Le Mans effort was excellent! 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...
The Formula Junior category was introduced in Italy in 1958 by Count Giovanni Lurani, and in 1959 became an International...
Mazda Laguna Seca Raceway, host of the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, has announced that this year’s event, scheduled for August...
Back in the June 2008 issue of Vintage Racecar we announced that two special 4-cylinder Austin-Healeys were being prepared in Australia for the purpose of retracing the steps made by the Donald Healey Motor Company at Bonneville in 1954. Back then, with the likes of Carroll Shelby, Roy Jackson-Moore, and...
Like a large number of enthusiasts in the historic racing community, I was at first startled and then fascinated by...
Duncan Rabagliati, chairman of the Formula Junior Historic Racing Association, has announced the inclusion of Formula Junior in the three...
The FIA sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations set forth by the FIA (Federation International Automobile) in the International Championship of Makes from 1964–1971, and the World Championship of Makes from 1972–1981. The regulations changed somewhat as the...
Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, Monterey, CA August 14-16, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (&...
Among the special awards presented at August’s 59th Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance was the Gran Turismo Award taken by the...
Several record-breaking sales of racing cars were made during the auction activities surrounding Monterey Auto Week 2009. Topping the list was the highest price ever paid for an American car at auction, the $7.25 million brought in by the Mecum Auctions offering of the FIA Manufacturers championship-winning 1965 Shelby Daytona...
With Porsche as the featured marque for the 36th Monterey Historic Automobile Races, attendees were treated to a broad variety...
Call me a jinx if you like. No sooner did I put the finishing touches on last month’s column about...
In early July, HMSA the sanctioning body for the annual Monterey Historic Automobile Races sent an email to all its...
The under-2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports;...
A pair of historic Miller racing cars, an ex–Phil Hill Jaguar C-Type, and a rare Ferrari 225S headline the 24th RM Auctions “Sports & Classics of Monterey” event scheduled for August 13–15 at the Portola Hotel and Spa, 2 Portola Plaza, Monterey, California. The auction preview will commence August 12...
Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, Monterey, CA January 31–February 1, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article...
Andre Boillot Rex Mays 1 Mika Hakkinen wins the Japanese GP and his first Formula One world title at Suzuka in a McLaren-Mercedes (1998). 3 Ferrari wins the World Sportscar Championship as the Maserati factory team is destroyed in the final round at Caracas, Venezuela. Afterwards, Maserati abandons their racing...
Monterey, CA. August 15–17, 2008 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access...
With the financial world still reeling from the ramifications of the subprime housing implosion, the four major auctions held in...
Among the 450 entries for this year’s Rolex Monterey Historic Automobile Races presented by Toyota was an ex–Ken Miles 1960 Dolphin Formula Junior driven by Californian Phil Binks. Beyond those basic facts is the reality that the event marked Binks’s 50th anniversary of his first driving school, his first involvement...
