With three days of racing on December 1–3, organized by the Historic Sports and Racing Car Association, the Tasman Revival...
Time flies when you’re having fun…or trying to make a relentless deadline every month! With all the work that went...
Robert Benoist Mika Hakkinen 1 Stefan Bellof dies from injuries sustained in the crash of his Porsche 956 during the...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine of choice was the venerable small block Chevrolet V-8 of 5.0 liters displacement. It started as a bright idea in 1967 and ran successfully until politics between the governing body,...
Winton Raceway, Victoria, Australia May 27–28, 2006 Keith Simpson’s Lola Mk1 (#17) stays in front of Graeme Marks and the...
September 2006 Phillip Island—A History of Motor Sport Since 1928 By Jim Scaysbrook Phillip Island at the southern tip of...
As explored in this month’s “Racecar Profile,” the Sunbeam Alpine was developed by the Rootes Group as a way of creating a more “sporty” two-seater version of the successful Sunbeam Rapier. With the first Series I versions appearing on the scene in October 1959, the Sunbeam Alpine evolved through a...
The Manilla Sports Car Club is the top classic car association in the Philippines. The Mercedes Benz SL Register, MG...
There are a number of names synonymous with Cooper. Charles and John Cooper, of course, but there is one other....
Jack Brabham takes his second Formula One World Championship crown after winning the 1960 Portuguese Grand Prix. His fifth consecutive...
Ignazio Giunti Jackie Oliver 4 Count Agusta buys O.S.C.A. from the Maserati brothers (1963). 8 F1 and CART champion Nigel...
The under 2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports; the World Sports Car Championship from 1953–1961, the Speedworld Challenge from 1962–1963, the International Championship of Makes from 1964–1971, and the World Championship of Makes from 1972–1981. This included...
August 2006 Stirling Moss Scrapbook 1961 By Stirling Moss and Philip Porter This book is the second in a series...
After reading this issue, and re-discovering the breadth and significance of Cooper racing cars to the history and progression of...
1955 Crowfoot Holden Special The author opens up the wailing Crowfoot Special onto Wakefield Park’s front straight. Photo: Casey Annis Now I understand why Australia was put where it is. When world geography was organized, it was recognized that motor racing would get everywhere, but in places where it would...
Mario Andretti at speed in his Ferrari 312B with flat-12 engine. Andretti was the race favorite having won the opening...
Due to the peccadilloes and vagaries of the publishing world, I sit here writing this column in the beginning of...
Ronnie Peterson Biography Ronnie Peterson was born on 1944 in Örebro, Sweden, the son of an avid racer of moderate accomplishments. His father’s love for all things mechanical was inherited by his son. When Peterson was only eight years old his father built him a car, or at least the young Ronnie...
John Michael Hawthorn, the “Farnham Flyer” to his countrymen and “Le Papillon” to the French (because of his habit of...
Antonio Ascari Pedro Rodriguez 2 Camille Jenatzy, driving a Mercedes 60 HP, wins the Gordon Bennett race. He covers 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...
July 2006 Speed, Frozen in Time : Vintage Racecar Images By Jamie Hankin Readers of Vintage Raecar will be familiar...
This month’s featured Web site is the official site of the U.S. Alfa Romeo Owners Club. With over 4,000 members owning everything from prewar 8C Monzas to Duetto Spiders, the AROC is a large body of like-minded individuals devoted to the maintenance, preservation and, perhaps most importantly, the racing of...
Australia is blessed with a wide range of historic motorsport from circuit racing to “around the houses” speed events. Speed...
McLaren MP4/4 Car: McLaren MP4/4 / Engine: Honda RA168E, 1,494 cc (91.2 cu in), 80° turbocharged V6 / Maker: McLaren /...
As probably the most successful designer/builder of racing cars, Ron Tauranac was celebrated at a historic race meeting at Eastern Creek in Sydney which payed tribute to the man and his cars. This watercolor was used as a poster and program cover for the meeting. The original painting was presented to him...
