Recently, the Motorsports Hall of Fame located in Novi, Michigan, announced its 2001 inductees. This year’s list included noted road...
Rocky Mountain Vintage Racing, Ltd., the Pikes Peak International Raceway and the Pikes Peak Hillclimb Association have joined forces to...
The Automobile Club de l’Ouest and Motoring Cavalcades have announced that they will be hosting a special historic race in conjunction with this summer’s running of the 24-Hours of Le Mans. This new event known as “Le Mans Legends” will be held on Saturday June 16, 2001, and will include...
The first decade of the 24-Hours of Le Mans was virtually dominated by Bentley. The famed cars from Crewe won...
Friends and owners of the Allard are being invited to take part in a special weekend of activities to be...
Ferrari 512S In 1967, the 512 was born out of a series of bad decisions by racing’s ruling body, the CSI, that were aimed at slowing down the 7-liter monsters like the Ford Mk IVs, which were dominating sports car racing. So the prototype class had a 3-liter limit imposed...
What else could it have been called? Born out of an established American idea, it probably didn’t take a long...
The Petersen Automotive Museum in Southern California is arguably one of the finest museums of its type anywhere in the...
Think for a moment what makes a driver great – a true champion. Go ahead, I’ll wait…hmmmh, hmmh, hmmmh. Done? What came to mind? Skill? Absolutely. Without doubt the true greats possess an inherent, seemingly hard-wired, ability to know and feel what a car is doing. This has been evidenced...
I am often asked what was my “greatest race,” and that is not an easy question. The Mille Miglia in...
I am not politically correct. I have never met anyone in motor racing who is. Motor racing and political correctness...
It’s probably to the good that Innes Ireland, Duncan Hamilton and Augie Pabst were never at a party together – the world would doubtless be configured differently if they had been – a matter of critical mass. I never met Ireland or Hamilton, but I’ve thought for some time that...
We’re all aware of a history of heart failures in vintage racing, some of them unfortunately fatal. Recently there have...
Jim Clark Robert Benoist 3 F1 World Championship debut for George Follmer and Shadow. Follmer brought his Shadow in sixth...
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Conception, a friend of mine used to say, “is the biggest word in the English language.” His aphorism came to...
Savannah, Georgia Dec. 8-10 Scott Ebert’s 1939 Dreyer-Ford leads an eclectic enduro group.Photo: Art Eastman Become a Member & Get...
Daytona Beach, FL Dec. 1-3 The 1970 Huron (#166) of Simon Hadfield leads the 1973 Chevron B23 of Tom Yeager through the banking.Photo: Art Eastman Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to paid subscribers only....
March 2001 Driven By Jesse Alexander Many great photographers have documented the history of motorsport, but few have captured the...
Though his tragically brief career spanned essentially only the ’60s, Bruce McLaren’s impressive list of accomplishments included a Formula One...
The Vintage Sports Car Club (VSCC) of Great Britain has recently announced that Audi will be sending prewar C and D type Auto Unions to take part in the VSCC’s Richard Seaman Memorial Trophy Meeting to be held on May 19-20 at the historic Donington Circuit. The return of the...
Five of Jim Hall’s remarkable Chaparrals will take part in the Can-Am Thunder 35th Anniversary Celebration at Wisconsin’s Road America,...
Porsche Cars North America and Brian Redman’s Intercontinental Events recently announced the creation of a race meeting featuring vintage Porsche...
The first production model Maserati Tipo 60 “Birdcage” (Chassis #2460) in unrestored, original condition will be offered for sale at Christie’s March 26th auction at London’s Jack Barclay showroom. Originally purchased by Odoardo Govoni in May 1960, the car was campaigned by Govoni extensively in Northern Italian events, primarily hillclimbs...
Famed California builder of Indianapolis roadsters, Quin Epperly passed away on January 11; he was 87. Epperly got his start...
Porsche 356A Modern automobile manufacturers would tell you – if you ran the Porsche history past them without putting a...
Winning Le Mans, the Indy 500 or the Formula 1 World Championship is something to which most racing drivers aspire but very few achieve. To win one of these “blue ribbon” titles is enough for most, to win two of them is pretty exceptional, but only one man has won...
Is it me? Am I the only person on the planet that feels that parting with a special car is...
Every so often you encounter an image which stops you in your tracks. For me it was a photograph of Geronimo. Yup, that Geronimo – not John Wayne’s best buddy. The photo was taken in 1906, Geronimo had become a farmer and he was at the wheel of his Model-T....
