If this sounds painful, chances are good Dan Gurney would agree with you! After 20 years as a pet project,...
1970 SCCA Porsche 914-6 For better, and sometimes for worse, corporate culture and business strategy have historically played a significant...
You’ve just signed super-rookie Mario Andretti as your driver for the 1965 season, and you need a chassis. Everybody’s going with space-age monocoques based on the revolutionary Lotus Indy car. The heavy favorites to win the Indy 500 – Jim Clark, A.J. Foyt, Dan Gurney, and Parnelli Jones – all...
Jim Stokes is a boyish-looking 49 and has spent the better part of his life among some of the finest...
If you’re a regular reader of Vintage Racecar (and I hope you are!), then you’ve likely noticed a recent increase...
It’s nice to be asked back! (Taylor was featured in an interview in VRJ in March 1999). Especially to talk about the old days and the people I found so interesting. I always considered that I was lucky to have been close to some of the real characters of the...
One of the most beautiful front-engined Grand Prix cars ever built, the Maserati 250F carried Juan Manuel Fangio to his...
James Hunt Juan Manuel FangioPhoto: Bob Dunsmore 2 Bruce McLaren dies in a testing crash at Goodwood, England (1970). 4 Off-road champion Ivan “The Iron Man” Stewart is born (1945). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is...
Prices – Prices are based on an average of values submitted by our panel of expert consultants who this month...
Mark Donohue shut down his turbo Offy and made one last left turn into the Indianapolis victory circle. Obviously it...
Montlhéry, France March 9 The Gordini T16 (s/n 31) of Marc Val Vekens receives some service in Montlhéry’s historic pit lane.Photo: Thierry Lesparre 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. Our membership...
Phoenix, AZ Feb. 15-17 The Ralt RT5 Super Vee of Paul Lisec is pursued by the Chevron B-27 Atlantic of...
Sebring, FL March 13-16 The 1965 Mustang of Don Nesbitt. Photo: Robert Harrington Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access...
June 2002 Stirling Moss—The Authorised Biography By Robert Edwards As a long time fan of Stirling Moss, I have collected quite a few books dedicated to him and his cars – All But My Life, by Ken Purdy; Stirling Moss: Racing with the Maestro by Karl Ludvigsen; and My Cars,...
As highlighted in this month’s Racecar Profile (pg. 20), the Porsche 914-6 competed at both the professional and amateur levels...
Late in March, Reynard Motorsport announced that the company has been placed into receivership, the British equivalent of American Chapter...
Sebring celebrated its 50th anniversary this past March by inducting 10 legendary names into its newly created Hall of Fame. The first class of inductees included the Porsche marque, Sebring promoters Alec and Mary Ulmann, IMSA founder John Bishop, John Greenwood, Charles Mendez, Jim Hall, John Fitch, Juan Manuel Fangio...
Lord Charles March once again demonstrated his influence, and the power of motorsport in the U.K., when Central London came...
The National Motor Museum at Beaulieu in Hampshire is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. On March 19 the museum...
Historic Motorsport Holdings, Ltd. (HMH), the group which holds interests in HSR, SVRA and HSR-West, has announced the creation of a new national driver’s championship to be called the Vintage Road Race of Champions (VRRC). Plans for the new championship, which is slated for 2003, is to have a single...
Tall, quiet-spoken and modest Giulio Alfieri, one of the greatest motor racing engineers of the 20th century, died on March...
On March 14, 1957, promising Ferrari driver and 1956 Mille Miglia winner Eugenio Castellotti was killed while testing a Ferrari...
Racecar designer Ron Tauranac was awarded Australia’s highest non-military honor when he was bestowed the Order of Australia this year for his many contributions to motorsport. Tauranac is perhaps best known for designing the Repco-Brabham Formula One cars that took Sir Jack Brabham and Denny Hulme to World Championships in...
The Magnaflow Vintage 2.5 Challenge has been invited as a featured race group to the Pacific Northwest Historics July 5-7,...
Cooper Mk IX 500-cc Stirling Moss, Peter Collins, Stuart Lewis-Evans, Graham Hill, Trevor Taylor, Les Leston, John Cooper – these...
In the last of a two-part series, Robert Newman explores the amazing life and career of “The Flying Mantuan” – Tazio Nuvolari In 1930, Nuvolari had the most serious accident of his career in the minor Circuito di Bordino at Alessandria, Italy. It was raining and while overtaking textile millionaire...
Few racing personalities have been involved in as many capacities as Lew Spencer. From herding Cobras around Sebring to managing...
Rodney Dangerfield can’t get no respect. “Ho, I can’t get no respect! The other day I asked my wife if...
For me, to think of the important moments in motor racing means to think of the people I knew and had some good times with…and to think of the races. Sometimes these memories are both good and bad, happy and sad. I remember the days in Argentina at the Temporada...
