Ever since my VRJ colleague, Pete Lyons, reminisced about his early trips to and ‘round the Nurburgring in the March...
American Customer Sports Racing Cars of the 1950s Everyone has heard of the scandalously beautiful Scarabs, the ground-pounding Cunninghams and...
Click here to read Part 1 of Something Special One of the chief complaints about early sports racers is that they cost too much, with RS Porsches, Jaguar D-Types and Ferraris going for $500K to over $1 million. Here are some suggestions that will get you into vintage sports racer...
As “Historic Racing Magazine of the Mille Miglia”, VRJ begins its coverage of the May 2000 event with a look...
Before paved roads became common and state highways were still an unrealized dream, driving from Southern to Northern California was...
Clemente Biondetti Describing Clemente Biondetti as colorful is like saying the Sears Tower in Chicago is tall. Unpredictable, imaginative, irascible, gentle, gruff, fascinating, stubborn, generous, outspoken, he was all of those things. He was also the only man to win the Mille Miglia four times, an extraordinary feat of skill,...
Robert Newman examines the men and machines that made the Mille Miglia one of the world’s greatest races. The Mille...
Thanks to the Ice Age, we were given the Bonneville Salt Flats upon which thousands of land speed racers have...
World championship rallying is a tough sport. Its drivers seldom compete on nice, smooth asphalt circuits where the worst that can happen – at least weather-wise – is that it rains. In rallying, the driver and co-driver navigate their car from one closed special stage to another. When they get...
For five years, the Monaco Grand Prix played host to the cut-throat world of Formula Junior racing. The Grand Prix...
Mercedes-Benz’ incredibly successful first half of the 20th century was going to be a really tough act to follow. Ritter...
To me, and all of us who knew him and worked with him at Shelby American, Dave MacDonald was much more than just another racing driver. He was a friend and an intensely committed individual who strove for excellence in everything he did. He was an extremely quiet person who...
A First-Hand Look at the 1954 Carrera Panamericana Photos and Story By Boyd Harnell A white Jaguar convertible hurtled out...
The Conclusion of Boyd Harnell’s First-Hand Look at the 1954 Carrera Panamericana Mexico City-Leon, Leon-Durango: November 21, 1954 The carnage...
No one was exactly thrilled when word reached Maranello, Modena, Arese and points north that the automobile club of an Italian seaside town called Bari was organizing a new Grand Prix. “Their own Grand Prix? The audacity of it all,” some said. “Who are these people? Where and what is...
Winning Le Mans, the Indy 500 or the Formula 1 World Championship is something to which most racing drivers aspire...
What else could it have been called? Born out of an established American idea, it probably didn’t take a long...
Dan Gurney has a serious conversation with Cosworth founder Keith Duckworth. Photo: Ed McDonough Collection The 1968 season was a year of outstanding change and innovation in Grand Prix racing. The 3-liter formula was in its third year and constructors sought new technical directions in the quest for speed and...
Roger Penske was a successful racing driver until he stepped out of the cockpit in 1964 to concentrate on his...
Michael Andretti slides the all-conquering Ralt RT-5 Super Vee to victory at Riverside Raceway in 1981. Andretti was just one...
The inaugural 1966 Trans-Am season turned out to be a great success for the S.C.C.A, and for American road racing...
Peter Collins examines the meteoric rise and tragic fall of Derek Bennett and his Chevron Cars. Enzo Ferrari was right...
In the first of a two-part series Michael Oliver examines the history of turbine-powered racecars. With the emergence of jet and turbine engines during and immediately after the second World War, leading automakers, like Chrysler in the US and Rover in the UK, began to look at the feasibility of...
The whoosh of a turbine became a familiar sound at the Brickyard during the 1960s, and albeit briefly, in Formula...
Whatever the French might say, an American named James Gordon Bennett, Jr. is the great granddaddy of the modern Grand...
Eventual winner, Harrison Evans, in a Ferrari Monza, chases the Jaguar D-Type of Bill Krause on Paramount Ranch’s opening weekend...
While the Northern Hemisphere battens down against winter, we here in Australia and New Zealand are reaching for our suntan...
In the first of a two-part series, Robert Newman explores the amazing life and career of “The Flying Mantuan” – Tazio Nuvolari Warm sun, drivers in short-sleeved shirts, jacketless officials, some spectators in shorts: the amiable warmth of midsummer had already eased its way over to Mantua, northern Italy. It...
