Silverstone Circuit, UK April 26, 2008 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More)...
Pacific Raceways, WA April 18–20,2008 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access...
August 2008 Inside IMSA’s Legendary GTP Race Cars The Prototype Experience By J. A. Martin and Michael J. Fuller Among the most inspiring racing series of all time was IMSA’s Grand Touring Prototype category that enjoyed great competitive and popular success during the late ’80s and early ’90s. Essentially unencumbered...
For over 50 years, the Chevrolet Corvette has been considered by many to be “America’s sports car.” And as early...
Parabolica Publishing and Vintage Racecar are pleased to announce that noted racing historian and author John Zimmermann has assumed the...
Take a James Bond girl, a double Formula One World Champion, the mayor of Moscow, a fashion mogul, and the boss of Europe’s biggest car manufacturer, season with a handful of international businessmen and sprinkle with a few politicians, stir in 375 of the most sensational vintage racecars in the...
The sun shone on the principality of Monaco for the Monaco Historic Grand Prix on May 10–11, but at times...
Vintage racer Dino Crescentini, from Rochester Hills in suburban Detroit, was killed when his Wolf-Dallara Can-Am car crashed during the...
This year seems to be littered with 50-year celebrations of various marques, teams, and occasions in motor racing. The 50th Anniversary of the Lister Jaguar “Knobbly” was the latest to be observed at a sun-soaked Snetterton circuit, attended by Brian Lister, former driver John Coundley, and a number of former...
The new Group C Racing series held its inaugural races at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit, Belgium, in May. This new series...
John Surtees, the only man yet to win World Championships on both two and four wheels, has been named an...
Ove Andersson, the man responsible for shaping the global motor sport presence of Toyota in both rallying and Formula One, has been killed in a head-on crash during a vintage rally near his South African home city of George. A mini van apparently pulled out from behind a truck into...
We all know that life isn’t a bed of roses and, sometimes, we are dealt the cruelest of blows. Don...
On June 7–8, 1958, the Texas Region of the SCCA hosted a weekend of sports car racing 10 miles north...
Though historic racers themselves tend not to become “famous,” there certainly are a handful of very talented drivers, across the globe, that have risen to such a high level, as to have garnered their historic “fame.” Certainly, British-racer Martin Stretton must rank near the top of these elite amateur racers....
The history of motor sport is, in many ways, a history of barriers being broken. In the automobile’s 19th-century infancy,...
It may sound corny, but Dick Seaman’s short life really was the stuff of Hollywood movies. He was tall, handsome,...
I became involved in motor racing with some very good friends at the Midland Racing Partnership, located in my hometown of Wolverhampton, England. The team ran some really good drivers such as Richard Attwood, David Hobbs, and John Rhodes. David Baker and Alan Evans were the driving force behind the...
Al Holbert—winner at Daytona, Sebring, and many times at Le Mans; Peter Gregg—4 times winner at Daytona; and Jim Busby—2...
Carroll Shelby once remarked, “There are only two people I can think of who could sit down, take a welding...
When I was young, career advice was rudimentary. On hearing that I was interested in literature, an advisor told me that there was an opening for a printer’s apprentice in Stratford-upon-Avon. Nobody mentioned jobs that paid you millions for being incompetent. A classmate of mine got a job in a...
The Ferrari 330 P4 was the Scuderia’s weapon of choice for the 1967 World Manufacturers Championship. The car’s 4-liter V-12...
July 2008 Hugh C. Hunter in his lovely 8C2900B Alfa Romeo on the Campbell Road Circuit. In ths race he...
My first trip to Roebling Road (nee, Savannah-Effingham Raceway) was in the early 1960s to watch my Dad, Charlie, run a sports racer, called a Falcon. We observed from the “Drag Strip Tower,” which is not the one you see on your right just before you cross the track. Rather,...
Somewhere, just west of nowhere, sits one of Max Balchowsky’s masterpieces. Although it has been over a decade since Reagan...
John Zeitler Nigel Mansell Photo: Maureen Magee 2 Emerson Fittipaldi, driving a Penske PC-18, wins the CART Budweiser Cleveland Grand Prix at the Burke Lake Front Airport in Cleveland, Ohio (1989). 4 John Zeitler, driving a Zeitler, wins the first ever Formula Super Vee race, held at Lime Rock, Connecticut...
Formula Ford was a specification racing series created on the idea that the best drivers would win if all were...
Eastern Creek Raceway, Australia February 2–3, 2008 Andrew Fellows in his ex-Graham Hill Brabham BT36.Photo: Russell Windebank 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 removes most ads, lets you enjoy unlimited access...
