For years, a collection of the most extraordinary, unrestored Bugatti cars has sat, meticulously cared for and researched, in a...
Travelling just shy of 11,000 kilometers in purpose-built, air-cooled Porsche 911s and first- and second-generation Cayennes through some of South...
At Watkins Glen they said, “It looks like the box it came in.” Even that harsh judgement of the appearance of the new Chaparral 2J may have been too generous. However, handsome is as handsome does and in its astonishing way the 2J did handsomely. A World Champion was sufficiently...
RM Sotheby’s has sold Michael Schumacher’s Championship-winning Ferrari F2003-GA, chassis no. 229, at Sotheby’s Luxury Week sale in Geneva, for...
Can it be? Well, yes it is! 50 years since Emerson Fittipaldi took his first F1 World Championship. At 25,...
The United States Grand Prix; Watkins Glen; October 10, 1973 Emerson Fittipaldi, in his Lotus 72, qualified well, but was only able to finish 6th, the last car on the lead lap, due to having flat-spotted his front tires. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTIONPO Box 8204, Stamford, CT 06905...
1 John Henry Bradley and Rodolfo Ponce drive a stripped-down Nash Ambassador to victory in the 500-kilometer Miguel Grau Road...
Monsters come alive. In 1966 things were spicing up with a totally new motor racing series – Can-Am. It started...
New Zealand motor sport enjoyed a golden age during the 1960s and early 1970s when no less than three drivers from the tiny island nation—thousands of miles from the motor racing capitals— were front-runners and serious contenders for the World Drivers’ Championship crown. However, one wonders if it had not...
The Anglo-European Trophy; Brands Hatch; September 14, 1963 The start of the Anglo-European Trophy for Formula Juniors. Closest to the...
Organizers of the 2023 1000 Miglia 2023 have announced that the venerable event has been expanded to now cover 5...
1 F1 & sports car racer Willy Mairesse is born in Momignies, Belgium (1928). 2 The Lancia-Bertone Stratos HF rally car is homologated for Group 4 by the FIA (1974). 4 Emerson Fittipaldi drives a Patrick racing March 85C-Cosworth to victory in the CART Indy Car race at Road America...
The Porsche 917K number 20, featured in the 1971 movie “Le Mans” with Steve McQueen at the wheel. The 917...
Ticket sales for Porsche Rennsport Reunion 7 have gone live as the countdown begins for the world’s biggest Porsche gathering....
As usual Goodwood played host to thousands of historic car racing fans dressed in a fantastic assortment of period gear along with hundreds of pre-1966 cars over the September 16–18 weekend. Of course, none of that would be considered in anyway usual unless you have fallen under the Revival spell....
On New Year’s Eve in 1950, the first endurance race run at Sebring was won by a very unlikely car,...
Carrera Panamericana; November 22, 1952 This is the factory-entered Ferrari 250 Sport driven by Giovanni Bracco and Gino Bronzoni to...
The Ford Mustang, fresh off its seventh generation unveiling, will soon return to Le Mans in the form of the Mustang GT3. “Mustang is raced at all the great tracks around the world, but there is no race or track that means more to our history than Le Mans,” said...
Unleashing the rampant horsepower of its global ‘Total Performance’ campaign, Ford funded many racing stables but could never quite commit...
1 NASCAR driver Richard “Richie” Panch dies in an airplane crash near Winnsboro, South Carolina (1985). 2 Wolfgang Kaufman and...
I don’t usually spend too much time on preamble prior to getting into the nitty-gritty of the subject car. However, in this case, I believe it is totally warranted to explore the background as this piece is a, if not the, pivotal point where not only a new marque of...
1960 Porsche 718 RS60 Jo Bonnier and Hans Herrmann drove this Porsche 718 RS60 to victory at the 1960 Targa...
Enthusiasm ran at full throttle as the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion celebrated motorsport history with 400-plus incredible historic race cars,...
Photo Gallery from the Aug. 21, 2022, Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance....
Photo Gallery from the Jul 14-17, 2022, International Challenge with Brian Redman at Road America. Subscribers click here for more...
Worldwide Auctioneers has announced that an exceedingly original Grand Prix Bugatti Type 35A—believed to be the first car raced by Louis Chiron in a circuit event— will be offered for sale at their Sept. 1–3, Auburn sale. Numbered 4631, this wonderful 1925 Bugatti Type 35A is an exceptionally pure example,...
Worldwide is lining up a star-studded grid for its three-day auction extravaganza at home in Auburn over Labor Day Weekend,...
1 The Women’s Global GT race at Portland, Oregon, is won by Sara Senske in a Panoz Esperante GT (1999)....
Some 38 years ago, there was a vintage event like no other. It was the 1985 Palm Springs Vintage Grand Prix. Why was it so different? Would you believe 19 Formula One and Indy veterans on the same grid, all in competitive open-wheel cars? How about Dan Gurney in his...
