RM Sotheby’s third Manhattan sale, entitled ICONS, produced $45.5 million worth of sales last Wednesday night, December 6, at Sotheby’s...
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum has opened a new exhibit featuring the engines that have earned fame in the annual...
Following in the tracks of its Euro F2 Classic, introduced in 2017, and the takeover of Group C Racing in 2016, Peter Auto is continuing to enlarge and develop its offerings in historic racing by introducing the 2.0L Cup in 2018. This single-make grid will be reserved for two-liter, short-chassis...
The Sports Car Racing Association of the Monterey Peninsula (SCRAMP) has been awarded the prestigious FIA Members Heritage Cup in...
The annual Winter Crossing of Paris will take place on Sunday January 7, 2018, bringing together 700 vintage vehicles (cars,...
Historic Sportscar Racing staged the second running of its Classic 12 Hours at Sebring, Pistons and Props, presented by the Alan Jay Automotive Network, last weekend, December 1-3, at Florida’s Sebring International Raceway, bringing down the curtain on its 2017 racing season. The event uniquely combines vintage sportscar racing with...
Dr. J. Dudley Benjafield founded the British Racing Drivers Club (BRDC) in 1928 as a social club for British racing...
The landmark 30th annual Motorsports Hall of Fame of America (MSHFA) Induction Ceremony Presented by Bridgestone will be held on...
To mark the 50th Anniversary of the birth of Formula 5000 — initially Formula A — the Formula 5000 Drivers Association has announced a four-race 2018 schedule that will visit three classic North American circuits that were part of the original professional series during its all-too-brief life between 1968 and...
A 2005 Ford GT (above, photo courtesy of Mecum Auctions) with all four options and but 3,600 miles on its...
The Midwest Racing Preservation Association, formerly known as the Meadowdale International Raceway Preservation Association, will host its annual Winter Banquet...
A Lola B09/86 prototype racecar that Dyson Racing campaigned to a pair of championships in the American Le Mans Series has found a new home in the Racing in New York State exhibit at the Saratoga Automobile Museum in Saratoga, New York. The exhibit is a major part of the...
Mecum Auctions will return to Kissimmee, Florida, for the world’s largest annual collector-car auction, offering more than 3,000 classic and...
“Boy’s Own” Racer Personally speaking, I’m not an advocate of racing specials, especially those cars built that have little, or...
Forty years ago, in 1977 and ’78, Mario Andretti was the man to beat in Grand Prix racing aboard Colin Chapman’s JPS Lotus 78 and 79 Formula One cars. Andretti made his Grand Prix debut with Lotus in 1968, qualifying on pole for the United States GP at Watkins Glen....
It was seeing Raymond Mays’ ERA that first drew a young John Sismey to mechanical engineering. After a grammar school...
A little over 20 years ago, I made a radical switch from research scientist to magazine publisher. That ridiculous move...
An Alfa Romeo car mechanic who rose to become one of the greatest endurance drivers of his generation, the man responsible for establishing Ferrari in the United States and patron of his own highly successful motor racing team. Almost too much to be rolled into one man, but that, in...
Ron Harris was a wealthy man who had a company distributing 16-mm films, obviously prior to the days of video,...
“Mirror, mirror, on the wall; Who is the fastest of them all?” Many are the racing drivers, fast and slow, who would like to answer “Me” to that question. Unfortunately, with few exceptions, the response to that has to be “No, it isn’t you.” Howden Ganley I usually try to...
This is Fernando Hoyos’ depiction of the 1939 Plymouth raced by C. Hortal in the 2,751-mile-long Gran Premio Extraordinario between...
December 2017 When Colin Chapman was investigating four-wheel drive for his Lotus Formula One cars, he designed the Type 63,...
I want to be Rich Plavetich. Is he cool? Check. Does he have a wonderful and beautiful wife who also loves cars? Check. How about a fabulous career? Check (General Manager, Nissan Design America). But does he have a car collection? Check, and it’s awesome! (see Hidden Treasures, December, 2016)....
Alfonso de Portago Michael Schumacher Photo: Mercedes-Benz 1 Canadian open-wheel racer Claude Bourbonnaise born (1966). 2 Charlie Kolb wins the...
The Canadian American Challenge Cup was co-sanctioned by the SCCA and the CASC; it was a series nicknamed the “unlimited” series. Although there was a basic set of rules, the cars had to be twoseaters with bodywork covering the wheels, have doors, a windscreen, brake lights and various safety requirements,...
Goodwood, Chichester, UK September 8-10, 2017 The Bizzarrini 5300GT of Andrew Hall and Jamie McIntyre.Photo: Roger Dixon Become a Member...
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Watkins Glen Int’l., Watkins Glen, NY September 6-10, 2017 Michael Moss and Bud Bennett raced this Lola T70 MkIIIB in the Historic Endurance contest.Photo: Rich Martin Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to paid subscribers...
