After 37 years of ownership, Skip Barber today announced a new Lime Rock Park ownership structure to propel future growth...
For the very first time, the Simeone Automotive Foundation Museum in Philadelphia (above) has teamed up with Lime Rock Park...
The 14th annual Hilton Head Island Motoring Festival & Concours d’Elegance will take place over two weekends beginning Thursday October 22 with a Pace Lap Party at City Market in Savannah, Georgia, beginning at 5:30 p.m. and sponsored by Critz BMW and Hilton Head BMW. The first weekend then continues...
Skip Barber, founder of the Skip Barber Racing School and owner of Connecticut’s Lime Rock Park, will serve as Grand...
As accustomed as we may become to losing our racing compatriots, there remain times when a death still comes as...
The MG Vintage Racers’ Newsletter celebrates its 30th anniversary this month, having been around longer than a number of vintage racing organizations. Founded in December of 1981 by MGTD racer Greg Prehodka with 40 of his MG racing buddies, it has helped MG racers stay in touch with each other...
Nelson Ledges is a fun, fast and reasonably flat racetrack in northeast Ohio, originally raced as a dirt road course...
I’ve always liked Blackhawk Farms Raceway, a track not everybody knows about. It’s in Illinois, right on the border with...
Racer or wannabe, everyone knows Watkins Glen’s full course is one of the world’s truly elite tracks. Besides its storied past, it’s got terrific elevation changes, great turn variety, long straights and, of course, the “blue bushes” (the blue guardrails at every point around the track). It was at the...
Of all the race tracks that I have driven and raced on in North America, Road America is up there...
Turn 7 at the newly opened New Jersey Motorsports Park Lightning course is as pivotal as it is exciting. It...
Considering the résumés of the people who have raced here, I am both humbled and honored to be writing about this world-renowned and historic facility. I have had great fun and success racing Formula Fords at this very fast and challenging track. One of the things that I think makes...
Homestead–Miami Speedway is a fun and fast track. It’s definitely one of the best oval/road course combos out there. In...
From May 27 to July 3, Lime Rock Park underwent a major transformation. Not only was the original 7-turn configuration...
Justly famous for corners such as the Corkscrew and Andretti (a.k.a. Turn 2), plain-named Turn Six is actually one of the more important corners at this world-famous track. As you’ll remember from “Racecar Driving 101,” good lap times are based on straightaway speeds. Straightaway speeds are based on corner exit...
My first trip to Roebling Road (nee, Savannah-Effingham Raceway) was in the early 1960s to watch my Dad, Charlie, run...
Summit Point’s main circuit was repaved last fall, which enhances an already wonderful track. The Chute through the Carousel is...
One of the “old school” low-grip/high-fun tracks, Moroso Motorsports Park, is a car control circuit, rewarding smoothness and sensitivity. The state of the art—for 1963—layout and paving (all the shell and coral is exposed as the tar has long since been bleached away) makes for an interesting combo of high...
Built in 1969, Road Atlanta epitomizes the saying, “They don’t make ’em like they used to.” While modern-day track designers...
Although not as famous as its corner mates—the Corkscrew and the Andretti Hairpin—Turn 9 at Mazda Raceway, Laguna Seca is...
When we think of Southern California’s Willow Springs Raceway, what often first comes to mind is a fast corner such as Turn Nine, thanks to its speed and “hang on” factor. But more important for a good lap time at Willow is Turn Five, a classic exit-speed corner. Five, with...
While every turn has technical challenges, there are very few corners anywhere that require equal measures of skill, perfection and...
With the European Grand Prix season upon us, few circuits command as much respect as the notorious Nürburgring. While the new...
Turn One at Sebring is one of the fastest corners in North America. It also has the distinction of being one of the bumpiest (second only to Sebring’s Turn 17). Thanks to starting life as a runway for bomber training in World War II, and, well, continuing to be the...
Lime Rock Park’s Big Bend really is a big bend and represents a significant chunk of the total lap time...
Okay, it’s my turn in the barrel. Asked to “do a corner” for VR, I took a look at the...
Thunderhill Raceway Park was built thanks to the efforts of the San Francisco Region of the SCCA. Realizing that two of its most used tracks, Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca and Infineon Raceway (née Sears Point), were becoming very popular—too popular—the region wanted to insure the club always had a place...
On the northern side of Bowmanville, Ontario, lies a track steeped in automobile racing heritage. Mosport International Raceway is a daunting...
Brands Hatch, on the southern outskirts of London, is a classic Grand Prix circuit in the mold of Spa-Francorchamps, Watkins...
Close by the heart of Northern California’s wine country, and with tons of elevation changes to thrill and challenge a driver, how could Sears Point Raceway not be one of the best tracks in North America? OK, I know it’s now called Infineon Raceway, but I ran my very first...
