The under 2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international...
Brands Hatch, Kent, UK May 25–27, 2013 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
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Phillip Island GP Circuit, Victoria, Australia March 8–10, 2013 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (&...
Donington Park, Castle Donington, UK May 3–5, 2013 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
holman-moody: The Legendary Race Team By Tom Cotter and Al Pearce This second edition of a book originally published more than a decade ago chronicles one of America’s all-time great racing teams. The story begins in 1957 when two guys with a shared dream became partners and shortly found themselves...
Readers of this magazine should be familiar with the work of Jesse Alexander, one of America’s foremost motorsports photographers. As...
Like other vintage festivals across America this year, the fourth Sonoma Historic Motorsports Festival celebrated the 60th anniversary of the...
One of the finest collections of ’50s and ’60s sports racing cars ever assembled by a single owner will cross RM’s auction block at its Battersea Park location in London as part of the St. James Concourse of Elegance on September 7-9. That owner, Irvine Laidlaw, considers himself an enthusiast...
Ferrari President Luca di Montezemolo officially inaugurated the new Museo Ferrari in Maranello on June 11. The building, extended by...
Oliver White took victory in the opening round of the 2013 Champion of Brands Formula Ford 1600 series at England’s...
Photo: Alejandro Ibanez The man who scored Ferrari’s very first Formula One World Championship victory, Argentinian Jose Froilan Gonzalez, has died at the age of 90 in Buenos Aires. Gonzalez, nicknamed the Pampas Bull for his physical presence and his muscular driving style, made his F1 debut in 1950 at...
Former F1 and endurance racer Howden Ganley has received his homeland’s highest motor racing honor, joining former inductees Bruce McLaren,...
MG Vintage Racers celebrated its 18th Focus Event at VRG’s “Jefferson 500” at West Virginia’s Summit Point Raceway the weekend...
Monterey’s Classic Car Week will add another dimension this year as the inaugural World Class Automotive Film and Arts Festival will celebrate the 24 Hours of Le Mans by screening the 1971 racing classic Le Mans, starring Steve McQueen, and other films from the period at The Golden State Theatre...
• Northern California’s Classic Sports Racing Group will host its 10th Annual Charity Challenge at Sonoma Raceway on the weekend...
Pete Lyons Fifty years ago, when people communicated on paper delivered by hand, her brother’s letters from far-off England would...
Forghieri shares a humorous moment with Commendatore Ferrari during testing at Monza. The two first became acquainted when Forghieri was a boy. Photo: Giorgio Nada Motorland, Italy, is amazing. It really is just a couple of towns, one Maranello, with a population of just over 17,000, the other, Modena, with 186,000,...
Chris CordPhoto: Courtesy Chris Cord He may have been born into a family whose name was etched upon the American...
I’ll confess, upfront, that I’m really not a NASCAR fan. But that fact didn’t deaden the shock, when I learned...
Contracted to race as a senior driver for Mercedes-Benz in 1937, Lang validated his selection with victories in the Tripoli Grand Prix and at Berlin’s dauntingly high-banked Avus Ring, where he recorded a top speed of more than 237 mph with this streamlined W125.Photo: Mercedes-Benz Hermann Lang so nearly didn’t...
Chris MeekPhoto: James Beckett Collection When Mallory Park was purchased, including the estate, in 1983, I cemented a long relationship...
The Porsche 962 and 956 generated an everlasting impression in the world of endurance racing, reigning for over a decade...
It is true that without the cars there would have been no “Bentley Boys,” but it is equally true that...
Maranello, Italy, November 1979. The introduction of the new Ferrari 312/T5 at Ferrari’s Fiorano test track. Standing behind the new...
A single blown tire put an end to one of the greatest open-road races of all time. Driving along the dazzling Italian countryside in May of 1957 at more than 150 mph, a punctured tire launched the Ferrari of Alfonso de Portago over a canal, instantly killing de Portago, co-driver...
Historics or Hysterics? Dear Editor, Bravo Harlan Halsey! A letter—actually a mini-article—over a page in length and I agree with all...
A.J. Foyt Mike Costin Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to...
Formula Ford was a specification racing series created on the idea that the best drivers would win if they were racing identical cars. The idea for this low-budget Formula was created by an Englishman named Geoffrey Clarke, who had a drivers school called Motor Racing Stables based at the Brands...
