Canada’s VARAC has announced that it will regretfully be canceling this year’s Mosport Vintage Grand Prix, which was to be...
Canadian motorsports owes a huge debt to the team of Jim Fergusson and his wife, Alice. Their efforts were almost...
F5000 racing stalwart, former Pro Mazda racer and Peoria, Illinois Ford dealership owner Jeff Green suffered a fatal, single car accident, during the running of the first round of the 2018 F5000 Revival race series at Mosport, on Saturday. Green, driving his ex-Jerry Hansen 1972 Lola T300 started from the...
John Wright speaks with the influential Canadian racer and official about the early days of racing in Canada, his tenure as the...
Brian Redman has been named the Grand Marshal for the Vintage Automobile Racing Association of Canada’s Vintage Grand Prix at...
Dan Gurney is a man whose accomplishments need no introduction. In addition to winning in everything from Formula One to NASCAR, Gurney laid claim to a long and successful career as a team owner, car constructor and truly one of racing’s nicest and most approachable individuals. As a long-time friend...
When the sports car scene started to heat up again in ’65-’66, I went to work for Motorsport Design in Connecticut, and we built a McLaren M6A for John Cannon. After that I was hooked on the Can-Am so I moved back to California, when I became Peter Revson’s mechanic...
Reg Hillary, 96-years of age as of this writing, is as sharp and lively as someone half his age. He’s...
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August 2017 Datsun vs. Ferrari Dear Editor, Read with some amusement your comment on the similarities between the Daytona and the 240Z. Couldn’t help thinking about Rhod Gainer a character from the New Zealand comedy, Small Poppies. He spent five years turning his 240Z into a 275 GTB/4. Become a...
Richard Petty Carl Haas 1 Chuck Daigh, driving a Lotus 19-Climax, wins the USAC-sanctioned sports car race at Mosport, Ontario,...
April 2017 Away from green at the Labatt’s 200 Can-Am race at Mosport on June 13, 1971, Jackie Stewart’s Lola...
April 2017 • 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 2017 schedule of events. Previously, SVRA’s season-long points championships were centered in the eastern USA. Points awarded for finishing positions will...
There is a warehouse in Houston, Texas, that is the automotive equivalent of Willie Wonka’s Chocolate Factory. There are no...
In retrospect, the end of the 1973 Can-Am championship was the pinnacle of the series. Porsche’s turbocharged “Panzer” 917/30 had...
Charlie Kemp was born in Mississippi, and his inimitable southern drawl once led Carroll Shelby to say that had Charlie raced as slowly as he talked he’d never have won anything! Charlie did win, however, and he won big. He finished 3rd in his very first race in a jalopy...
Tony SouthgatePhoto: Pete Austin At the end of the 1972 season, I left BRM to join Don Nichols and his...
Don Nichols’ new AVS Shadow Mk. 1 made its first public appearance at the Labatt’s Blue Trophy race at Mosport, June...
Denny Hulme Gianpiero Moretti 1 Gober Sosebee, driving a Chrysler, wins the NASCAR Grand National race at Hayloft Speedway in Augusta, Georgia (1952). 2 Henri Pescarolo and Gerard Larrousse drive a Matra M670B/C to victory in the 1000-kilometer sports car race at Imola, Italy (1974). Become a Member & Get...
From West Coast Juniors comes word of a global celebration of the formula’s Diamond Jubilee that will begin this January...
Victory in the Canadian Grand Prix at Mosport on September 26, 1964, fell to Luigi Chinetti’s North American Racing Team,...
Allen Berg Allen Berg began racing as most do, in karts, and soon progressed up the ladder to Formula Ford and Atlantic, then won the Tasman Series down under before tackling British F3 during perhaps its best season ever. A single season of F1 peaked his career, before a Mexican...
Dam Problems Dear Editor Pete Lyons article (Fast Lines, Dec. 2012) was interesting because I was involved with both Jim...
From 1950 until his premature retirement from road racing and hillclimbing just three years later, Tommy Hoan set his competitors...
As accustomed as we may become to losing our racing compatriots, there remain times when a death still comes as a shock, and one of those was the news that David Loring had died in mid-September at the age of 62. Although he had endured and survived previous internal ailments,...
Tiger Tales Dear Editor, I have to point out a rather large error in your article about the Sunbeam Tiger....
Back in the free-and-easy days when you still could cozy up to naked racecars right out in plain sight, some...
The Don Dear Editor, These days I tend to read Vintage Racecar from the back forward, in as much as I particularly enjoy Mike Lawrence’s “Last Lap” articles. “The Don” rang a strong bell with me, as Don was always a hero of mine, and while a little on the...
