1955 Austin-Healey 100S It was as black as the inside of a coalmine as we left the comfort of the...
Achille Varzi, in the Alfa Romeo 158 “Alfetta”, set the 2nd fastest time for Heat 1 behind the Alfa 158...
Francis Bradley, the 1962 Canadian Road-Racing Champion, was born in Germany and raised in England, and served during the Second World War as a motorcycle dispatch driver. He made his way to Canada, as many others did in the early 1950s, to discover a burgeoning motorsport scene. As so many...
One of the few awful things that we have to contend with in the historic racing world is the relentless...
My career started many years ago, in 1974. I was born in 1962, but I did my first racing in...
Ferruccio Lamborghini, whose businesses included tractors and air conditioning units, once treated himself to a Ferrari. He found it wanting and took it back to the factory, where Enzo Ferrari was dismissive. Lamborghini was so infuriated that he decided to build a better car. It’s not quite David and Goliath—...
In 1984, Niki Lauda had a new teammate at McLaren—Alain Prost—who left Renault in a huff after barely missing out...
Karl Kling Jim Clark 1 Lloyd “Lucky” Casner drives a Ferrari Testa Rosa to victory in a race at Opa-Locka,...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was formed by the FIA (Federation Internationale de L’Automobile) in 1950 with its first race, the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. This was to be the first World Drivers Championship, in the world’s most technically advanced...
Jamie Hankin...
March 2005 Jackie Stewart—World Championship—The Official DVD Biography The market is, and for years has been, full of videos —and more recently DVDs— on motor racing’s characters, but this is the first one produced by the son of the subject. Mark Stewart, son of Jackie and Helen and brother of Paul,...
In the early 1950s, Donald Healey turned the British automotive industry on its ear with his affordable, mass-produced sports car,...
Tour Britannia, an exciting new race tour for historic cars, was recently announced by the British Racing Drivers’ Club (BRDC)....
The Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix Association and the Vintage Racer Group have announced that the Ford Mustang will be the featured marque at the July 9–10, 2005 Historic Races at BeaveRun. The Ford Mustang was introduced in 1964 as a 1965 model, making this the 40th anniversary of Ford’s “Pony”...
The Historic IMSA Registry is a new group of enthusiasts dedicated to preserving and racing the cars campaigned in International...
Sports car and Porsche racing legend Milt Minter passed away at his Sanger, California home on December 23, after a...
Titan Motorsport NA and the Titan Registry have announced that a 2005 Titan Reunion is planned for April 29–May 1 at HSR-West’s Thunderhill event in Northern California. According to Titan Motorsport NA president Andy Antipas, this three-day event will feature a reunion of more than 20 Titan open-wheeled racecars, as...
If you want to revel in unadulterated self-indulgence, perhaps you should consider a membership at the Ascari Race Resort. It...
Chaparral, one of the truly great names in American racing history, will be the Featured Marque of the 32nd Rolex...
In honor of this year’s 40th anniversary of Derek Bennett’s founding Chevron Cars, a group of dedicated enthusiasts is organizing a 2005 Chevron Tour. This series of race weekends will feature special Chevron-only races, as well as dedicated paddock displays, parties and race souvenirs. The tentative schedule of events is...
On March 6, the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Boston will unveil 16 classic European sports cars drawn from the...
Alfa Romeo Tipo 33/3 It’s a bit of a euphemism to say that cars have personalities… of course they don’t....
Pete Lovely said it best: “We couldn’t believe they would let us race through this beautiful park, which was almost in the heart of a major city.” Not only were the races held for three years on what many sports car publications called “the best road race course in the...
One of the great things about the growth of historic racing over the past decade is the wide variety of...
I read with some interest the other day an account of this year’s gathering of the faithful at Hershey. For those not familiar, Hershey is probably one of the—if not the—largest classic car gatherings in the United States. What caught my attention in this account, however, was the fact that...
I drove the McLaren F1 with the Alfa Romeo engine. It had the same problem that the Alfa Tipo 33...
James Duncan Hamilton was the epitome of the 1950s racing driver, fast and full of joie de vivre. A fighter pilot during the second World War, Hamilton joined the Jaguar factory team in 1952 and successfully drove both C-types and D-types. In 1953, teamed with Tony Rolt, Hamilton won the Le...
