His nickname was always “Tony A-to-Z,” in part because his last name was Adamowicz, but in larger part because his...
Using his pioneering style of “photo realism,” Dutch-born artist Arthur Benjamins created this commemorative print of Tony Adamowicz and the...
Champion racing driver Tony Adamowicz, known to many as A2Z, has passed away at the age of 75 following a valiant battle with brain cancer. Tony began racing in 1963 with a Volvo 544 sedan, and in 1965 won the SCCA’s Northeast Division B Sedan championship with the same car....
A panel of Trans-Am racing experts will discuss the series’ 50-year history at the International Motor Racing Research Center on...
One of the highlights of my many years of racing has to do with the 1966 Trans-Am Mustang that Jerry...
Some 550 vintage racecars competing in 15 race groups filled the paddocks at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca for last weekend’s Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, as the event marked the 100th anniversary of BMW, this year’s featured marque. What raceway officials called a record four-day crowd of 70,525 spectators partook of...
In this concluding installment of our interview with Trans-Am record-breaker Tom Kendall, we pick up the narrative just after he’s...
Tom Kendall may be best remembered for his dominant 1997 championship season in the SCCA’s Trans-Am series when he set...
Denny HulmePhoto: Hal Crocker Jim ClarkPhoto: Trevor Taylor Collection 2 The TWR Jaguar XJR-6 is driven for the first time in a test session at Snetterton, England, by Martin Brundle (1985). 3 Michael Kranefuss, NASCAR team owner and one-time head of racing at Ford, born (1938). Become a Member &...
Today, vintage racing is more popular than ever before and with packed fields of historic cars from virtually all eras...
Over two-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of International Motorsports; the...
• On page 30 of this issue, readers will find Brian Redman’s account of his first three victories at Spa, which is an excerpt from his new memoir, Brian Redman—Daring Drivers, Deadly Tracks, which is available to Vintage Racecar readers via a Special Offer of £10 off the regular retail...
Formula One will return to Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca as the Masters USA international Formula One field once again takes...
During the early years of the SCCA’s Trans-American Sedan Championship, fans could cheer for factory-backed entries from all the major...
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Niki Lauda M. von Brauchitsch 1 Richard Petty drives a Ford Torino to victory in the NASCAR Grand National race...
• The Fabulous Fifties held its annual Lindley Bothwell Award dinner in early December at the Proud Bird restaurant near...
Harsh Truth Photo: Allen Kuhn Dear Editor, It is a given that retired race drivers have a propensity for telling fish stories. The late Dick Guldstrand was not immune from this, as his tribute interview in the latest issue (November 2015) demonstrates. In it he makes the statement: “Did really...
Two names have become synonymous with Corvette over the years—Zora Arkus-Duntov and Dick Guldstrand. From the airport circuits of California...
David Hobbs has been selected to receive the “Spirit of Competition” award from the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum at the...
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...
Hermann Lang Bernd Rosemeyer 2 Louis de Palma drives a Benz to victory in the Vanderbilt Cup race in Milwaukee, Wisconsin...
Sad news this morning as it was announced by the Guldstrand family that Corvette racing legend Dick Guldstrand has passed...
Music and ground-pounding thunder were featured at last weekend’s SVRA Vintage Racing Festival at Oregon’s Portland International Raceway. Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels provided a ’60s soundtrack for the Saturday night concert, while Detroit iron handled the rest. Thirteen Historic Trans-Am racers took to the 1.9-mile, 12-turn circuit, with...
Mike Costin Bill Milliken.Photo: Bentley Publishing 1 Dario Franchitti wins the CART Marconi Grand Prix of Cleveland, Ohio (2001). 2...
Bob Tullius “I have often categorized Mosport as the most exciting and challenging track of all,”says Bob Tullius. “In fact...
Woody WoodardPhoto: Yours Truly Photography Woody Woodard was employed as a mechanic by Roger Penske, and in so doing worked closely with Mark Donohue on the Trans-Am effort, the Porsche Turbo Can-Am car and the most famous non-winning Ferrari ever, in the team’s Quixotic effort to best Porsche at the...
Richard Petty Emilio Villoresi 1 Richard Petty wins the NASCAR Winston Cup Talladega 500 in a Dodge Charger (1976). 2 ...
Photo: Hal Crocker John Bishop, the man most responsible for the establishment of professional sports car racing in America, has...
Gordon McCall is founder of the Motorworks Revival at the Monterey Jet Center and co-founder of The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering VR: Let’s start off right at the beginning. How did you first get started with cars? GM: Real early in life, like a lot of people in my demographic range,...
