In the early 1950s, Donald Healey turned the British automotive industry on its ear with his affordable, mass-produced sports car,...
With more than 60 chapters across the U.S. and Canada, Jaguar Clubs of North America is undoubtedly one of the...
Though often overlooked by many historians, the history of Australian road racing is rich with a long and varied selection...
In 1956, Colin Chapman and Frank Costin sat down and penciled a new front-engined sports racer to be powered by the tidy and powerful Coventry Climax 1100 cc engine. This new car, dubbed the “Eleven”, featured a 70 lb tubular spaceframe reinforced with stressed aluminum panels and slippery Costin-designed aluminum...
As one of the most recognized names in motorsport, the blood red cars of Ferrari are perhaps one of the...
This month’s featured Web site is devoted to the many models of MG cars spanning from 1928 to today. This extensive site boasts a wide variety of sections that include news; motorsport; a history of the birth of the company and the genesis of the MG badge; model-by-model history with...
Ever wanted to know where you can race in Angola, or what the course at Charade looks like turn by...
Long time readers of Vintage Racecar Journal will be aware of the husband-and-wife photographic team of Walt & Louiseanne Pietrowicz...
This month’s featured Web site was created by a British group of enthusiasts dedicated to preserving the U.K.’s motor racing heritage. The MRA collects and preserves various forms of motor racing history, including photographs, programs, movies, audio recordings and magazines, and is available to research various topics of interest for...
Founded in 1911 by a Japanese engineer trained in the United States, the Datsun Motor Car Company ranks as one...
Luigi Fagioli Biography Luigi Fagioli was born on June 9th, 1898 to a wealthy family in the small city of...
Starting as early as 1903, the hills outside of Stuttgart, Germany were used for racing. First it was bicycles, followed by motorcycles and eventually automobiles. As time progressed, the track that came to be known as “Solitude” evolved from a hillclimb course to a full FIA-sanctioned road course. Between 1953...
From 1954–1967, Wilmot Hills Raceway, in Wilmot, Wisconsin, played host to a wide variety of road races. Built by the...
Like so many great racing drivers over the ages, Swede Savage was a talented, up-and-coming racing driver who was snatched...
While often overlooked in the annals of motorsport history, from 1963 to 1988 the European Touring Car Championship (ETCC) provided some epic production car racing. In its early days, the ETCC was an affordable entry point for young drivers to hone their craft. Future stars like Baghetti, Ickx and Whitmore...
Few would argue with the fact that Scottish racing great Jim Clark ranks as one of the greatest Formula One...
Carlo Abarth started his own car company in 1949 after taking over what was left of the Cisitalia company. In the following years, Abarth built a virtual automotive empire on the sale of aftermarket performance parts for Fiat-based cars and the limited production of small displacement sports and racing cars....
While it is oftentimes overlooked, north of the equator, Australia and New Zealand have a long and rich motor racing tradition that stretches back as early as the ’20s. However, it wasn’t until after World War II that Australian motorsport really came into its own. This month’s featured Web site...
This month’s featured Web site is an impressive and extensive archive of photos and results from the last 40 years...
The Web is a funny old place… there is no shortage of sites devoted to the greatest Formula One drivers...
Arguably, of all the Italian car manufacturers, few possess the depth of road and racing history as that of Alfa Romeo. Founded in 1910, the history of Alfa Romeo is, in many ways, the history of the Italian automotive industry. Due to this tremendous depth of history, many years ago,...
Jack Turner began building his own racing special in 1951 and early successes with the car quickly led to a...
This month’s featured Web site is devoted to the history of the Corvette, with an emphasis on its racing history...
During the late ’60s and early ’70s few racecar drivers better fit the image of the playboy racer than Frenchman François Cevert. Born the son of a wealthy Parisian jeweller, Cevert sought adventure and found it in the form of motor racing, winning the French Volant Shell driver training award....
