Hans Mezger, famed engineer and father to the legendary Porsche 917 and boxer 6-cylinder engine, passed away on June 10,...
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 ago, this epic lake flooded out, evacuating the equivalent of Lake Michigan into Idaho’s Red Rock Pass. This devastating flood would last for over a year, continuously moving trillions of...
The Masters has announced new dates for its rescheduled events at Donington and Brands Hatch. The Masters Historic Race Weekend...
David Hobbs Jacky Ickx Ayrton Senna “Wally” Willmott 1 Greg Moore wins the Miller 200 at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for his...
Texas professional and historic racer Charles Nearburg has a long and diversified motorsport resume. At the profession level, he’s competed in everything from Super Vee and Toyota Atlantic to Le Mans and Champ cars, while even breaking the Land Speed Record for piston-powered, wheel-driven vehicles at 414.316 mph along the...
June 2, 2020, marked half a century since the death of pioneering racing driver and engineer Bruce McLaren, who was...
The Maranello Concessionaires 250 LM driven by Graham Hill and Joachim Bonnier won the 1964 12 Hours of Reims. A...
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum is scheduled to reopen to the public at 9 a.m. (ET) Tuesday, July 7, following a three-and-a-half month closure due to the COVID-19 national emergency. Museum officials have kept in regular contact with Indianapolis Motor Speedway officials throughout the crisis, and in order to comply...
Pat Flaherty A.J. Foyt John Watson Zora Arkus-Duntov 1 Zora Arkus-Duntov, who will go on to become the “Father of...
On May 23, 1940, Maserati celebrated a fantastic four wins in a row at the Targa Florio. In fact, a...
On May 29, 1960, Sir Stirling Moss drove his Lotus 18 for almost three hours of punishing racing, battling through the rain on the streets of Monte Carlo to win the Monaco Grand Prix. It was the first victory in a Formula 1 world championship race for Lotus. Exactly 60...
Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) has confirmed June dates at both Road America and the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. The...
The Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix, presented by the Greater Pittsburgh Automobile Dealers Foundation, has announced major schedule changes to this...
One of my favorite automotive books is Doug Nye’s “Motor Racing Mavericks”. Published in 1975, it explores failures—high-end failures—in Grand Prix and IndyCar racing. “Failures” is a harsh word to apply to some; no turbine car won at Indy, but in 1967 Parnelli Jones came within three laps of victory...
The game-changing Audi quattro made its UK debut, in London, in 1980. Here, five former members of the Audi UK...
During the late ’50s and early ’60s American racers were doing battle in a wide variety of homebuilt racecars and...
Subscriber exclusive Photo Gallery from the HSRCA’s Mar. 21-22, 2020, Autumn Festival at Wakefield Park. The Turnham Clubman of Sean Turnbull. Steve Oom Photo. The Brabham BT9 of Brian Wilson with Wayne Wilson’s BT21C on the outside. Steve Oom Photo. The MX-5 powered MGB of Geoff Morse followed by Edward...
This year’s Historic Leyburn Sprints for historic and classic cars, which was scheduled to run on August 22–23, has been...
Canada’s VARAC has announced that it will regretfully be canceling this year’s Mosport Vintage Grand Prix, which was to be...
A prototype of the Maserati MC20, the new Maserati super sportscar, pays homage to Sir Stirling Moss, the British motor-racing ace who died on April 12, at the age of 90. The design used for this prototype is taken from the Maserati Eldorado, the iconic single-seater driven on its debut...
The Albi Grand Prix; Albi, France, July 16, 1939 Arthur Dobson in the very fast E.R.A. E-type which set pole...
The powers-that-be in 1920s auto racing, namely the American Automobile Association’s Contest Board, barred anyone who wasn’t a white male...
The flying man from Mantua On April 13, 1930, just after 5:00 am, the silent shadows beside Lake Garda are shaken by the rumble of an Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 Gran Sport spider Zagato driving at 93 mph with its headlights turned off. At its steering wheel is Tazio Nuvolari,...
Not long before his untimely death a few years ago, our Robert Newman wrote this tribute to his friend and...
Two-liter sports racing 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. There was even a European...
While 2020 marks Formula One’s milestone 70th anniversary, April has also featured an historic 70 years since Maserati not only...
Now available on Netflix is “A Life of Speed: The Juan Manuel Fangio Story.” The 92-minute movie originates in Argentina...
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