The French Grand Prix, Le Mans, July 2, 1967 The Mexican driver Pedro Rodriguez in the Cooper-Maserati V12. Rodriguez would...
On New Year’s Day of 1967 the South African Champion, John Love, was pipped at the post in the season...
Organizers have announced the special classes for the 26th Annual Amelia Concours d’Elegance, March 4-7, 2021. Shadow In 1970, the wildest year of Can-Am competition, everybody seemed to have a better, wilder or weirder idea. None more so than a radical, bizarre, unloved and evil handling little doorstop of a race...
The Formula 5000 Drivers Association has announced the results of the first round of its 2020 revival racing series at...
Today, Jaguar is remembering one of its most-loved and admired former employees, Coventry-born test driver and development engineer Norman Dewis OBE, who would have celebrated his 100th birthday on August 3. During his 33-year career with Jaguar, which began on January 1, 1952, Dewis was responsible for developing some of...
This California-built dune buggy tells an extraordinary story that brings together an auto racing legend, a surprising but thoughtful gift...
McPherson College has announced a $1 million matching gift challenge from Florida philanthropist and Brumos Collection owner, Dano Davis. The...
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 driver’s school called Motor Racing Stables based at the Brands...
Forty years after it was last sold new, the original Volkswagen Beetle can still be found on American roads, a...
Sixty years ago, Chevrolet had the guts to introduce a model that was drastically different than anything they had ever...
Famed racing car designer Ron Tauranac has passed away at the age of 95. Tauranac first came to fame in 1962 when he teamed up with World Champion Jack Brabham to create the later’s eponymous Formula One car, which would eventually win the World Championship in 1966 and 1967. Tauranac...
24 Hours of Le Mans, June 20–21, 1964 The Chevrolet-engined Bizzarrini A3 Grifo of Pierre Noblet and Edgar Berney en...
Sydney pharmacist John Hallihan is the man who brought a rare D-Type to Australia, in very interesting circumstances. During the...
John Watson Jean-Luc Thérier Danny Ongais Jackie Stewart 1 Ayrton Senna enters and wins his first go-kart race (1973). 3 Mark Donohue drives a McLaren-Offenhauser to victory in the USAC Pocono 500 in Long Pond, Pennsylvania. First Team Penske Indy Car victory (1971). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access...
The Lotus Elite that starred at the 1958 Earls Court Motor Show is set to be sold at The Silverstone...
Porsche 908/2 was campaigned as a factory entry in the 1969 24 Hours of Daytona, before being sold to Steve...
Racer, writer, broadcaster, entrepreneur and motivational speaker Lyn St. James is the Honoree of the 26th annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance scheduled for March 4-7, 2021. Lyn’s life is a high speed motorsports adventure. Her racing career began in a Ford Pinto — her daily driver — in the 1970s...
Over two-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports; the...
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway is pleased to announce a new exhibit opening August 1 dedicated to one of most colorful...
GPS Classic, organizers of the Alfa Revival Cup 2020, have announced that the 2020 series will resume July 11-12 at the “Enzo e Dino Ferrari” circuit in Imola. After the Imola event, the series will move on to the “Piero Taruffi” circuit at Vallelunga on September 5-6 and we will...
After an unprecedented temporary closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic the North East Motor Sports Museum (922 NH Route 106,...
In 1977, Porsche’s “improvised” Type 936/77 took on the full-court press of four Renaults at Le Mans. Retirements and technical...
Organizers of the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion have announced today that this year’s event will now be canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In a release organizers stated: After considerable discussion and consultation, WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca’s new management team has regrettably canceled the 2020 Monterey Motorsports Reunion. The difficult...
For many years, it was thought that Richie Ginther—one of Formula One’s best known drivers of the 1960s—had, in his...
Versatile Canadian racer and 1981 Trans-Am champion Eppie Wietzes passed away on June 10. According to his wife Barb, “Sad...
Hans Mezger, famed engineer and father to the legendary Porsche 917 and boxer 6-cylinder engine, passed away on June 10, 2020, at the age of 90. Porsche owes him not only the Porsche 911’s air-cooled, six-cylinder boxer engine but also the overall construction of the 917 and its 12-cylinder engine,...
The French Grand Prix; Charade (Clermont-Ferrand), June 27, 1965 The great Jim Clark drifting the works Lotus 25 on this...
The holy grail of land speed records resides in the vast solitude of a formerly thriving prehistoric lake. 14,000 years...
David Hobbs Jacky Ickx Ayrton Senna “Wally” Willmott 1 Greg Moore wins the Miller 200 at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for his first CART victory (1997). 2 Lancia finishes 1-2 in the Acropolis Rally in Greece. Walter Rohrl drives the winning car (1983). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This...
