Two of the most competitive drivers during the formative years of the Trans-Am series, Follmer and Jones will be reunited...
The distinct unmuffled rumble of brute American muscle cars will be celebrated at the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion August 12-15...
After bettering the Shelby team’s efforts in the 1969 Trans-Am season, Bud Moore Enterprise’s competing Ford Mustang team was awarded full backing by Ford Motor Company and Ford contractor Kar Kraft for the 1970 season. Parnelli Jones and George Follmer remained Moore’s drivers. The Bud Moore Trans-Am Boss 302 Mustangs...
When the 2021 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion kicks off for four days on August 12 at Monterey County’s WeatherTech Raceway...
Versatile Canadian racer and 1981 Trans-Am champion Eppie Wietzes passed away on June 10. According to his wife Barb, “Sad...
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Subscriber-exclusive Photo Gallery from SVRA’s Feb. 27–29, 2020, Vintage Trans-Am event at Sebring, Florida. 16A Jim Hague 71 Boss Mustang...
Fourteen of the most popular run groups have been selected to participate in the annual Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, August...
Ron Grable, SCCA FA/F5000 and A Sedan National Champion passed away, on Oct 31, at age 85. Born in 1933, in Sullivan, Indiana to parents, William and Ruth, Gable grew up Southern California. He joined the Navy and served aboard the USS Philippine Sea, during the Korean War. After the...
In the earlier days of his racing career, Craig Fisher (who recently passed away) raced just about everything he could...
Popular Indianapolis 500 veteran Willy T. Ribbs will be the featured guest speaker at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum’s “Fuel...
The Historic Motor Sports Association staged an exhibition race for Historic Trans-Am cars as part of the festivities surrounding the 44thrunning of the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach last weekend, featuring the pony cars that made the SCCA’s original Trans-American Sedan Championship a huge draw in the late ’60s...
Photo: Hal Crocker It is with a great deal of sadness that I write about Dan Gurney, who died on...
The second annual Spring Classic will take place at Laguna Seca on the weekend of May 18-20, featuring not only the usual vintage race cars (above, T.M. Hill photo courtesy of Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca) but also expanding this year to include on-track exhibitions for the Historic Motorcycles that were...
The Historic Motor Sports Association has announced that its annual Sommet des Légendes event, scheduled for July 13-15 at scenic...
Fresh from winning the FIA Founding Members’ Heritage Cup for last year’s event, the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion will try...
Walter Maynard “Bud” Moore Jr., a decorated veteran of World War II and D-Day’s Normandy Invasion and a 2011 inductee to the NASCAR Hall of Fame, died November 27 at the age of 92. Moore was a self-described country mechanic who fielded championship-winning teams in both NASCAR Cup competition and...
September 2017 • John Knepp, who with Don Devendorf founded the Datsun/Nissan performance specialty company Electramotive Engineering, has died at...
Portland International Raceway played host to the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) Racing Festival the last weekend of July with...
Bruce McLaren John Fitch Photo: Mercedes 1 Richard Petty wins the NASCAR Winston Cup Talledega 500 in a Dodge Charger (1976). 2 Jochen Rindt drives a Lotus 72-Ford to victory in the German Grand Prix at Hockenheim (1970). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
Over two-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports; the...
June 2017 Racing to Riverside By Brad R. Leach This book is subtitled: “The Untold Story of Walt Hane and his GT350,” but it could also very easliy be called “The Story of You and Your Car Going Racing.” This in no way diminishes the tale being told, just recognizes...
Last year the SCCA marked the 50th anniversary of its inaugural Trans-American Sedan Championship event at Sebring, Florida, on March...
In this month’s Racecar Profile [“Bound by Fate”], you’ll read that I recently had the opportunity to test drive the...
The inaugural Monterey Spring Classic vintage racecar weekend scheduled for May 19-21 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca will feature 10 run groups for racers joining in the celebration of the raceway’s 60th anniversary. Participants in the 1966-1972 Trans-Am and 1966-1972 Trans-Am 2.5 Liter groups, will once more return to the...
The combination of GM’s Jim Musser and Jim Hall proved to be one of the most potent combinations in autosport...
Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca has created a new vintage event for its 2017 calendar, the Spring Classic that will take place on the weekend of May 19-21 at the scenic Central California raceway. The three-day event will showcase racing by vintage racecars from several different eras, focusing on the ’70s,...
