Carroll Shelby has just driven Alan Guiberson’s Ferrari 375MM to victory in the Sports Car Races at Torrey Pines, California,...
There I was, on Los Angeles’ Imperial Highway, helplessly hanging on in the passenger seat. No grab bar, no seatbelt,...
Tall Texan Tales Dear Editor, Your excellent June issue included Pete Lyons’ review of the happenings while Jim Hall was honored during the RRDC dinner at Long Beach. One of Jim’s recollections was how he used the engine of his Chevy pickup truck when the Chevy V8 in his Lister conked out in the prelim at...
Parnelli Jones “Lofty” England 2 Thirteen year-old Alessandro Zanardi, who will later become a two-time CART Champ Car champion, drives...
The under 2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international...
Pete Lyons You’d need a piece of paper the size of Texas to write down all that should be said about Carroll Shelby, so I’ll fall short here. But I’d like to share a few personal recollections. Years ago, during a supposedly formal banquet at the auto museum in San...
Carrera Panamericana 1950–1954 As covered several months ago in our “Lost McAfee Tapes” feature, the running of the Carrera Panamericana...
This is the official site of the Shelby American Collection in Boulder, Colorado, which houses many examples of significant Shelby...
Sebring International Raceway has announced that Vintage Speed LLC will serve as the event manager for the Sebring Historics scheduled for October 25–28, 2012. In conjunction with the 60th anniversary celebration of the Sebring 12-hour classic, the track is creating an annual event to honor the historic cars that have...
Under warm and sunny skies at the 3rd annual Sonoma Historic Motorsports Festival at Sears Point Raceway in Sonoma, California,...
Nelson Piquet once memorably described driving a Grand Prix car around Monaco as akin to trying to ride a bicycle...
Longtime SCCA stalwart Andy Porterfield died in mid-April at the age of 80 from complications following heart valve surgery. Beyond being honored with the club’s premier award, the Woolf Barnato Trophy, in 2009, Porterfield’s list of on-track accomplishments are highlighted by an unprecedented 22 Southern Pacific Division championships, back-to-back B-Production...
Brian Redman has accepted the position of Grand Marshal for the 2nd Annual Bahamas Speed Week Revival, scheduled for this...
German racer Paul Pietsch, the last surviving driver of the prewar Silver Arrows era and the oldest living Grand Prix...
Les Leston was born in 1920 named Alfred Lazarus Fingleston. He worked in the motor accessory business and was an accomplished drummer in the Clay Pigeons jazz band that included Belgian racer Johnny Claes. Leston’s racing career began in the late 1940s driving a Jaguar SS100, but he soon turned...
It has been 50 years since Graham Hill won the Formula One World Championship for BRM, and this achievement was...
Legendary team owner Frank Arciero has died from the aftereffects of an aneurysm. Arciero was a 14-year-old Italian immigrant when...
A number of years ago, in the early days of Vintage Racecar when I think we were still in “black and white,” the editor/publisher, Casey Annis, whom you now all know well, came to England to have a look at what the new “European team” was doing. I took him...
The main thing about the 1953 race at Watkins Glen was the question of whether there would be a race...
For three short years, in the early 1960s, Christabel Carlisle, now Lady Watson, was the name on the lips of...
Whether you are a fan of Formula One or not, it was hard to not read about the recent Bahrain Grand Prix. Due to the spreading “Arab Spring,” which has swept through many Middle Eastern countries as a backlash to oppressive or dictatorial governments, the Bahrain Grand Prix became a...
“Among my drivers, Giovanni Bracco was, perhaps, the one who scored the most spectacular success,” Enzo Ferrari once said about...
When Peter Gregg did his deal to race BMWs in IMSA in 1976, he asked me to take over in...
Many will believe my greatest racecar will be the Ferrari 156 “sharknose,” since featuring in my film and DVD of the late 1990s, La Passione. As a romantic young boy it was, but now I would say it wasn’t. It has to be remembered, Stirling Moss wiped the board with...
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