How one car changed the culture of Japan and the mindset of America, one sports car at a time With...
Paddy Hopkirk Helio Castroneves Photo: Jim Hatfield 1 David Pearson wins the NASCAR Winston Cup race at Atlanta International Raceway...
Being a driver for Scuderia Ferrari, I must say, is the most amazing job any driver can have. The opportunity to pull on the famous red overalls of Ferrari and climb into one of the team’s beautiful red cars is something I will never get bored of. It is an...
Champion racing driver Tony Adamowicz, known to many as A2Z, has passed away at the age of 75 following a...
In this concluding installment of our interview with Trans-Am record-breaker Tom Kendall, we pick up the narrative just after he’s won his first Trans-Am crown and been invited to compete in the International Race of Champions. Then came the downside, and his big leg-smashing GTP crash at Watkins Glen, where...
Eddie Rickenbacker Rick Mears 1 Roberto Lippi drives a Stanguellini to victory in the Formula Junior race at Vallelunga, Italy...
Hermann Lang Vittorio Jano 1 The first Ford GT40 is completed, 11 months after pencil was first put to paper...
I wrote in this space, last month, that racecar drivers are just like us in that they too are human and suffer many of the same issues and problems that we all do. Of course, our image of the professional racecar driver tends to be more along the lines of...
holman-moody: The Legendary Race Team By Tom Cotter and Al Pearce This second edition of a book originally published more...
Nanni Galli Jo BonnierPhoto: Porsche 1 Jean-Pierre Wimille drives a Simca-Gordini to victory in the Coupe Robert Benoist on a...
Toyota’s first car, the AA, was a close copy of the DeSoto Airflow with essentially a 1933 Chevrolet engine. Photo: Toyota Motor Sales, U.S. Archives The decade of the ’30s was a time of incredible creativity among automobile designers and coachbuilders, especially in Europe. But it was also a decade of...
Pete Lyons Got paper and pen at hand? Or simple fingers will do: Try coming up with a list of...
The second Historic Festival took place at Donington Park in the English Midlands over the weekend of May 5–6. The inaugural event was so successful that the Historic Sports Car Club and Historic Promotions Ltd. chose to stick with their formula of varied on-track action staged in a friendly, accessible...
Let me get my bias out of the way, right up front—I’m not a NASCAR fan. Though I’ve tried at...
Like most racing drivers, I’ve driven many cars in my career, choosing just one as a greatest racecar is an...
A few hours before the start of this June’s 24 Hours of Le Mans, everyone in attendance will be treated to a 45-minute contest for cars from the Group C era at the legendary event. Race fans will be able to witness machinery from Jaguar, Sauber-Mercedes, Porsche, Mazda, and Nissan,...
I actually started racing with the Nissan GTP team late in 1988, while I was still racing Indycars. I was...
Pentti Airikkala, one of the famed “Flying Finns” of Scandinavian and then worldwide rally fame, died in Berkshire, England, at...
The latest incarnation of the Silverstone Classic took place around the full Grand Prix circuit on the weekend of July 24–26, 2009. This event was once the leading historic motor sport gathering in Europe, and in recent years a succession of promoters have made brave attempts to revive former glories....
No doubt by now you’ve heard of the passing of Paul Newman. Newman’s impact on the worlds of acting and...
Over the years, Vintage Racecar has been fortunate to have been able to include the work of talented cutaway artist...
Last year we celebrated a century of Grand Prix racing. The Grand Prix de l’Auto Club France was the first to bear the title and we still have a French Grand Prix, therefore it must be the world’s oldest race, right? I disagree and nominate the Indianapolis 500. The 500...
Rick Mears Alain Prost 1 John Surtees drives a Ferrari 312 to victory in the nonchampionship Syracuse Grand Prix in...
1991 Toyota Eagle MKIII GTP It’s amazing how one hair-brained idea can change the course of history. Such was the...
Jochen Rindt Richard Attwood 2 Dave Heinz and Dave Yarborough drive a Jaguar XJS from the U.S. Atlantic Coast to the Pacific Coast in a record 32 hours and 51 minutes to win the fifth and final Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash (1979). 3 Vern Schuppan and Naohiro Fujita...
Andre Ribeiro Len Sutton 1 Glenn Seton drives a Nissan Skyline to victory in the Australian Touring Car race at...
Walter Hayes Jim Clark 3 Carroll Shelby drives a Birdcage Maserati to victory in the Los Angeles Examiner Herald-Express International...
THE ELECTRAMOTIVE / NPTI NISSAN GTP ZX Nissans have been raced for far longer than most people think. Additionally, the people who have raced them have also stayed remarkably true to the marque. In 1971 the BRE Datsun team comprised: John Morton and Pete Brock as drivers (John also worked...
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