A triple anniversary will be celebrated in France this May as the Grand Prix de Lyon observes the three occasions...
Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR), in association with the Historic Motor Sports Association (HMSA) and Vintage Racing Events (VRE), has announced that the first 24-hour endurance race for vintage racecars in North America will take place at the famed Daytona International Speedway November 12-16, 2014. The “Classic 24 at Daytona” will...
Brooklands Museum and the Vintage Sports Car Club (VSCC) have confirmed preliminary details of the 2014 Brooklands Double Twelve Motorsport...
Photo: BRDC Archive Engine builder and designer Brian Hart, aged 77, passed away in the first few days of the New...
• Historic Sportscar racing (HSR) will sanction a vintage/ historic sportscar race as part of the 62nd Annual 12 Hours of Sebring, America’s oldest endurance race, on the weekend of March 12-15, 2014. The race meeting will also mark the debut of the newly reunited Tudor United SportsCar Championship for...
Photo: Pete Austin Lawrence Bond was a stubborn man who often as not was unwilling to compromise on his ideas. He...
Von Neumann winning the main event at Torrey Pines in 1952 with his topless Porsche Le Mans Coupe. John Von...
Don Nichols Don Nichols is one of only three Americans ever to field a winning car in a World Championship Formula One Grand Prix—omitting, of course, the 10 years when the Indy 500 was a World Championship counter. Like Dan Gurney and Roger Penske, the other two, he is an...
Let me just go ahead shout “Fire” in a crowded theatre… aerodynamics have killed road racing. Perhaps I should refine...
Surtees qualified his Ferrari 158 5th for the 1964 British Grand Prix at Brands Hatch and drove up to finish...
Martin BrundlePhoto: Mike Jiggle In 1982, BP took me to F3 full-time. I finished 2nd in my first F3 race of the season; I was going really well. I remember getting taken down to BP HQ in Victoria because Les Thacker (BP Competitions Manager) thought I’d been a bit cocky...
Photo: Pete Austin Without a doubt my greatest racecar has to be the Matra 670. Matra worked so much since...
Mike Lawrence The size and shape of drivers is becoming an issue under the new regulations for Formula One. In...
Tom Havlasek was born in Brno, Czech Republic, and since childhood has enjoyed motorsport, keeping in close contact with it via the well-known Brno Circuit near his home. After graduating from secondary school specializing in computer graphic design, however, he began presenting his works of art, mostly street art paintings...
For the Anerley Trophy Formula Junior race at Crystal Palace on June 3, 1963, the Start of the first heat...
Then. Lyn Smith majored in education at Akron University but says he would have wound up in jail had he...
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Jo Siffert Andy Granatelli 1 Al Holbert, Chip Robinson, Derek Bell and Al Unser Jr. drive the Löwenbrau Porsche 962...
From 1964 to 1978, a series of flat-bottomed, formula cars were manufactured to serve as a stepping stone to Formula...
Sears Point Raceway, Sonoma, CA October 4–6, 2013 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 to all our premium content, and offers you awesome discounts on...
Virginia International Raceway, Alton, VA September 27–29, 2013 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
Lime Rock Park, Lakeville, CT October 12–13, 2013 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
Sywell Aerodome, Hall Farm, Sywell, Northampton, UK September 28–29, 2013 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 to all our premium content, and offers you awesome...
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Thanks to our South Pacific Editor Patrick Quinn for discovering this one, a(nother) lap (or two) of Germany’s notorious Nordschleife circuit at the Nürburgring. The clip runs just under 10 minutes and comes from a film produced in 1962 when driver Hermann Lang and competitions boss Alfred Neubauer took a...
• Stu Hilborn, widely known as the Father of Fuel Injection, has passed away at the age of 96. While...
The be-winged BMW 3.0 CSLs that American fans quickly dubbed “Batmobiles” and which took U.S. racing by storm in the...
1971 Datsun 510.Photo: Michael Casey-DiPleco The Sports Car Vintage Racing Association’s inaugural Vintage Racing National Championships, held at the Circuit of the Americas near Austin, Texas, from October 23-27, drew participants from seven countries as well as coast to coast in the USA. A dozen different vintage racing sanctioning bodies...
