The Tour Auto in France, the Tour d’Espagne in Spain, the Tour of Morocco and several other events which combine...
The history of American sports car racing is rife with talented individuals that raced at the highest levels of national...
This month’s Racecar Profile is really interesting to me because I think it typifies the diversity and general accessibility of motorsport to the “average Joe” in the ’50s and ’60s. In this case, the car in question is one of only three Formula Juniors built by an enterprising enthusiast in...
Immediately after the Second World War, Jean-Pierre Wimille, Louis Chiron, Philippe Etancelin, and Raymond Sommer carried France’s colors back into...
I made my first visit to the Silverstone circuit in the 1960s. It was just a mission of curiosity at...
When I consider the question of what is, in my opinion, the greatest racecar, I do not necessarily look at the racing success of the car. From a mechanic’s point of view, one looks at the engineering qualities rather than the on-track performance. In my early days, 1950s, the Italian marques were...
My first car after leaving active duty in the Army in 1953 was a 1948 Buick convertible that I sort...
I’m approaching my tenth anniversary of being hooked up to the Internet. One thing about the Net is that it...
In 1962, Georges Filipinetti, a wealthy Swiss buisnessman and diplomat, founded his namesake racing team, essentially a Swiss national team, whose primary purpose was the development and promotion of promising Swiss drivers. Filipinetti provided his drivers with the best cars available of the day, Porsche RSK and 904, Ferrari 250...
The Nürburgring 1,000 km. Race; Nürburgring, May 22, 1960. Giorgio Scarlatti chases a Ferrari 250TR with his Ferrari V-6 246...
While the world famous Cork Screw gets all the attention at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, if you account for the...
Jim Clark Peter Bryant 2 Four-time 500-cc Motorcycle Grand Prix World Champion and auto-racer Mike “The Bike” Hailwood is born in Birmingham, England (1940). 3 Carrol Shelby drives a Birdcage Maserati to victory in the Los Angeles Examiner Herald—Express International Grand Prix at Riverside, California (1960). Become a Member &...
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports; the World...
April 2006 Delage Styling and Design By Richard S. Adatto and Diana E. Meredith Enthusiasts can finally enjoy a book written in English about the historic French Delage marque, which manufactured road and racecars from 1929 to 1953. The book provides an account of the beginnings of the company founded...
Historic Formula Junior racing in Britain and Europe has steadily grown over the past decade in both the total number...
The Vintage Racer’s Group (VRG) has announced that their current Formula Ford group will be enhanced by allowing Club Ford...
Owners of almost any type of BMC “A Series”-engined car can now race at some of Europe’s most interesting, famous and challenging circuits at an affordable price. The opportunity to race at such venues as Dijon and Zandvoort comes with the announcement that the FISC EuroTour, a 10-year old series...
Over 64,000 members of the public and 26,000 trade visitors packed the halls of the NEC for the annual Racing...
To mark the change from the V-10 to V-8 engines for 2006 Formula 1 season, an exhibition of famous 8-cylinder cars is to open at Maranello’s Galleria Ferrari just before the start of the F1 championship in March. And they will not all be Ferraris, either. The show will include...
The British Racing Drivers’ Club (BRDC) recently announced that Sir Jackie Stewart, president of the famous British racing organization since...
A widespread series of infrastructure improvements at Connecticut’s Lime Rock Park have begun according to the track’s management team. Some...
Well-known American historic racer Duncan Dayton has announced that he and his team, Highcroft Racing, have purchased an ex-Dyson Racing Lola EX257 LMP1 prototype and will compete it for all of this year’s ALMS season. “Purchasing the Dyson car was an opportunity to jump-start the team with a proven package,...
There is very little doubt that the most glamorous and exciting of all historic racing events is the Grand Prix...
A group representing U.S. owners of Formula Juniors have announced a series of Formula Junior-only races to be held in...
The dates for this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed have been set for the weekend of July 7–9. The theme for the 2006 event will be “Racing for Glory—a Century of Grands Prix,” which will celebrate 100 years of Grand Prix racing history. Other themes for this year’s event will...
1955 Le Mans-Winning Jaguar D-type Chassis XKD 505 The temptation is to dissolve into a wave of superlatives…that would not...
Since the very beginning of motorsports competition, a common thread has run through the sport: It takes money to go...
Eldon Rasmussen Eldon Rasmussen was the second Canadian (after Billy Foster) to race in the Indianapolis 500 in the modern era. Eldon and Billy were supermodified drivers who had competed in the Canadian American Modified Racing Association or CAMRA series, which promoted races in western Canada and the western United...
