Each year the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion celebrates the greatest achievements in motorsport by accepting only the best of the...
The Formula 5000 Drivers Association has announced its racing schedule for 2022. The Association will hold three official races for...
Sports 2000, the popular road racing category that has provided an affordable yet competitive entry into sports car racing for thousands of racers around the world, will be the featured marque of the 44th Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) Mitty at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta, April 28 – May 1, 2022....
Officials of the Put-in-Bay Vintage Sports Car Races have officially announced that their 2022 event is planned, once again, for...
Lotus founder Colin Chapman was undoubtedly gifted at what he did, admittedly some of his cars were better than others...
The global Lotus community is saddened to learn that Hazel Chapman, the wife of Colin Chapman and co-founder of Lotus, has died aged 94. Her contribution to motorsport and the motor industry in the latter half of the 20th century should not be under-estimated. She was a successful racing driver,...
Bob Osiecki’s winged wonder Mad Dog IV, which shattered the international closed-course speed record at Daytona International Speedway in 1961,...
America’s premier sports car endurance race started at an abandoned WWII Army Air Corps base in Florida. “The 12-Hours of...
“Who do you think you are? Stirling Moss?” This, so the story goes, is what a policeman asked the legendary British racing driver following a particularly ‘daring’ overtaking manoeuvre on the streets of London. “Yes sir, I am” was the honest reply. There’s a nod to this legendary tale –...
Bob Tullius Aldo Andretti Romolo Tavoni Oscar Koveleski 1 Scuderia Ferrari is formed (1929). 2 British sports car racer and...
1968 Porsche 908 LH (long-tail) The number 64 Porsche 908, driven by Hans Herrmann and Gérard Larrousse, won the prototype...
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Subscriber exclusive Photo Gallery from HSR’s Oct. 30–31, 2021, Classic 24 Daytona. 133 Peter Rogal 76 Porsche 935 54 Forest...
1 Ricardo Rodriguez dies in an accident during the non-championship Mexican Grand Prix on the Magdalena Mixhuca Circuit in Mexico...
Author, photographer, racer and co-founder of the Fabulous Fifties organization, Art Evans has passed away at the age of 87. Arthur Grant Evans, Jr. was born on January 8,1934, in Santa Barbara, California. In 1950 Art joined the California Army National Guard, and was educated first at the United States Military...
On February 6th 1967, Ferrari pulled off one of the most spectacular feats in its entire history when it took...
While every family has a legacy of sorts, there’s only one that can boast the roots of Porsche motorsports in...
The only Dragonsnake Cobra equipped at the factory with the Stage III quadruple-Weber carburetion system, this 1965 Shelby 289 Cobra, CSX2427, was ordered new by Don Reimer of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, who—with his younger brother Mike—took delivery of the car from Adams County Motors Corporation. Invoiced to that Gettysburg Ford dealer...
Tom Tjaarda Master of Proportions by Gautam Sen While there are a number of post-war automotive designers that have penned...
The International “Senior Service” Sports Car Race; Silverstone, July 10, 1965 Bob Bondurant doing what he could with John Willment’s...
Out of the shadows of World War II and its aftermath has come an unique Alfa Romeo sports car flaunting stunning design and engineering. It also reveals secrets that contributed to the design of Enzo Ferrari’s post-war V-12. Among the many pleasures of Alfa Romeo’s 111th-year celebrations is the surprise...
On Friday, November 12, 2021, the automotive world lost one of the last, great American racing heroes of the ’50s...
Sam’s Scrapbook: My motorsports memories By Sam Posey with John Posey Even the most casual racing enthusiast will recognize the...
When the green flag waved on Nov. 9, 1957, for the Eighth Annual Pebble Beach Road Race, those in attendance had no idea that the freshly-paved race track quickly carved into the hills of the U.S. Army’s Fort Ord would evolve into WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca and become a world-renowned...
Mecum Auctions has announced that the famed Corvette Z06 known as “Gulf One”, will be offered for sale at its...
Photo Gallery from CSRG’s Oct. 2-3, 2021, Charity Challenge at Sonoma Raceway....
Click here to read “Chargers Part 1—World Rallying 1957–1965 The CSI struck again in 1965, this time putting out a much more comprehensive 17 pages of regulations called Appendix J to better govern the sport. And that was the year a works Lancia team, later to become a mighty force...
One of the best known cars in the world, James Bond’s 1693 Aston Martin DB5 from the 1974 “Goldfinger” movie. ...
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Subscriber exclusive Photo Gallery from the Sept. 17–19, 2021, VSCDA Fall Fest at Road America. All American Challenge – Scott Graham’s 1969 Pontiac Firebird leads the Chvrolet Monte Carlo of Craig Olsen in Turn 7. Photo: Jim Hatfield #894 – Adcock, Timothy Valley Park, MO 1984/SWIFT/DB1. Photo: Jeff Schabowski #89...
