1930 Riley Brooklands. Photo: Pete Austin Inspired by J.G. Parry Thomas and Reid Railton, the Brooklands Riley—the sporty member of the...
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Photo: Harold Pace Just in case anyone hadn’t heard the famous Sheb Wooley song, one car carried a license plate...
Tony Parella They say there is no greater zealot, than a recent convert. Though he came to the sport fairly recently in 2011, Corvette racer Tony Parella wasted no time in deeply immersing himself in the deep end of the sport. After selling his highly successful telecommunications company, Parella turned...
Ferrari has a storied history at the Monaco Grand Prix, having won the famous race eight times, yet it was...
Report and Photos by Victor Varela Mazda Laguna Seca Raceway hosted the third race of the season for the popular...
Jaguar will build six reproductions of the original, race-bred Lightweight E-type that was created in 1963. The new cars are the ‘missing’ six vehicles from the brand’s Lightweight E-type project, which originally started in February 1963 with the objective of building 18 ‘Special GT E-type Cars.’ Only 12 of the...
In June of 2014, Porsche will return to Le Mans with a newly designed LMP1 racing machine. With 16 overall...
Sir Jack Brabham AO, OBE, triple Formula 1 World Champion, has died at the age of 88. Sir Jack passed...
The streak of Chamber of Commerce conditions that blessed the first three rounds of the 13-race 2014 TUDOR United SportsCar Championship continued Sunday, May 4th at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca where the fourth round of the championship was witnessed by an enthusiastic and large turnout of motorsports fans. The Continental...
Creating a replacement for the hugely successful 250 series of Ferraris was a daunting task for the engineers at Maranello....
Jack Johnson behind the wheel. Black participation in American motorsports dates back to 1909, when then heavyweight champion Jack Johnson...
He is, after all, Mario Andretti, one of the most accomplished racing drivers of all time, the only man to have won the Formula One World Championship, the Indianapolis 500, the Daytona 500, the 12 Hours of Sebring (three times) and the Pikes Peak Hillclimb. Throw in four American National...
1960 Sebring 12-Hours Grand Prix – Porsche Racks Up Their First Overall Win at Sebring By Louis Galanos | Photos...
The Larry H. Miller Total Performance Museum in Utah purchased the 1964 Ford GT40 chassis P-104 that sold for $7,000,000...
In early 1956, Tony Parravano, a wealthy American housing developer, commissioned Maserati to build a new large-bore V-8 for use in a Kurtis Indy chassis. The order offered Maserati the chance to develop the V-8 project, coded Tipo 54, which had been shelved since the disastrous Le Mans accident of...
By Louis Galanos | Photos as credited The legendary nature of the Sebring 12 Hour Grand Prix extends way beyond...
Photo: Pete Austin Cars don’t come much better than this. Born in a golden era of sportscar racing, this French...
Scheckter’s Laguna Seca win was his first of four in a row that established a points lead he never relinquished.Photo: Treichler/VR Archive The decade of the 1960s was a historic time on dear old Planet Earth, as the evolution of human civilization rolled inevitably forward, advancing hard and fast with accelerated...
Photo: John Zimmermann Before 1975, sanctioned automobile races through city streets in North America were rare, the only real example...
In June of 2014, Porsche will return to Le Mans with a newly designed LMP1 racing machine. With 16 overall...
The 2014 running of the 12 Hours of Sebring was held Saturday, March 15th at the 3.74-mile, 17-turn Sebring International Raceway in Sebring, Florida. Time was the defining element in separating the wheat from the chaff at the 62nd Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring, which came to its dramatic...
The philosophy of constantly assessing, developing and re-engineering through the life cycle of a Formula 1 car was fundamental in...
Karl Kling, Mercedes W196.Photo: courtesy of Chris Bayley Automobilia (www.chrisbayleyautomobilia.co.uk) Lost in the sands of time for nearly 60 years...
A well-known name in Australian motor sport circles, Brian Foley commenced racing during the 1950s behind the wheel of an Austin A30. He soon moved on to other BMC cars, including an A40 Farina, Lancer, Austin-Healey Sprite and the mighty Mini Cooper S, though the late 1960s and early ’70s...
The prototype 1964 Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe (serial number CSX2287) became the first automobile to be recorded under the Secretary...
By Stephen Mitchell After a year or so of Jaguar E-Type ownership (‘There’s nothing like Jaguar motoring!” D.S. Jenkinson was...
By Leigh Dorrington World Rally Champion Sebastian Ogier’s victory in the 2014 Monte Carlo Rally in a Volkswagen Polo R was Ogier’s first at Monte Carlo and the first for Volkswagen. First victories in the world’s oldest and most famous rally have lifted countless drivers to prominence—and presaged record-breaking motorsport...
It really had been a sad few years for new sports car buyers, especially since 2008. There were good sports...
By Trevor Ely After shoving an industrial-looking lever into what felt like it must have been first gear, I heard...
In June of 2014, Porsche will return to Le Mans with a newly designed LMP1 racing machine. With 16 overall victories at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the pinnacle of endurance motor racing, Porsche is the most successful manufacturer in the race’s 90 year history. Their last win, though,...
