Hurley Haywood has been named Grand Marshal of the 2019 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca on...
All sports have heroes. But there are some individuals who transcend their sport: Muhammad Ali, Joe Montana, Wayne Gretzky, Michael...
From 1964 to 1978, a series of flat-bottomed formula cars were manufactured to serve as steppingstones to Formula One and the upper echelons of open-wheel racing. In the late ’50s, F2 and F3 were consolidated into Formula Junior. However, with that category’s demise at the end of 1963, F2 was...
Dale L. von Trebra, a motorsports photographer who documented more than 40 years of automobile racing in the United States,...
The story of the Cooper Car Company is well known where father and son team Charles and John Cooper in...
Built and raced by Hot Rodding pioneer Bill Burke of San Gabriel, California, the Harley-Davidson-powered Bonneville Streamliner Super Shaker made its one and only appearance at the Bonneville Speed Trials in August 1959 with Burke at the controls. This was the second time the inventive Burke, long an advocate of...
Vern Schuppan The motor racing career of Australian Vern Schuppan has been written up extensively over the years. Born in...
The Portuguese Grand Prix at Monsanto, August 23, 1959. Stirling Moss, in the Cooper, on his way to another victory....
While the illustrious history of IMSA is littered with great cars and great drivers, it’s easy to forget that the series also catered to young, up-and-coming drivers, racing on a budget, in much less “exotic” machinery. What follows is the first of a two-part tale of these fascinating IMSA undercards,...
February 2019 Ralph de Palma Enzo Ferrari Alan Jones Jim Crawford 1 Al Holbert, Chip Robinson, Derek Bell, and...
Italian aftermarket tuning wizard Carlo Abarth turned his attention to the diminutive Fiat 600 sedan, in the 1960s and progressively...
Photo Gallery form the Jan. 26–27, 2019, Daytona 24 Heritage Exhibition Laps. 1984 March 84G Porsche #84G-3 sits in front of a 1973 BMW CSL #2275465, in the paddock. Photo: Martin Spetz 1965 Shelby GT-350 #SFM5S424, car#: 65, Owner/Driver: Darek Stennes. The Shelby GT-350 was the muscle car version of...
The transfer of technology from F1 to production cars will be embodied by a selection of models exhibited by Renault...
The FIA sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations...
My association with Team Lotus covered the period from October 1975 until May 1984. After the second season, and particularly after we lost Ronnie, I had started to get on with other parts of my life. I was still involved with Team Lotus on a race-to-race basis, depending on my...
The 60th anniversary of the extraordinary Mini Minor will be celebrated with two record-breaking races at this summer’s Silverstone Classic (July...
What’s the single most important component, for maximal performance, on a racecar? The engine? Suspension? In the grand scheme of...
The Formula 5000 Drivers Association has announced its racing schedule for 2019. The Association will host four official races for 2019. The 2019 U.S. Formula 5000 Revival Races will take place at the following venues: May 3-5: Trans-Am SpeedFest with SVRA at WeatherTech Raceway at Laguna Seca July 18-21: Road...
The world’s most successful Capri racer will lead the celebrations honoring the Ford fastback’s golden anniversary at this summer’s Silverstone...
Goodwood has announced that the theme for the 2019 Festival of Speed presented by MasterCard, which takes place July 4–7,...
This man was a motor racing whirlwind, journalist, author of seven motor sport books, vintage car fan, ran driving courses for the British police and was the founder, president or vice-president of some of the UK’s most prominent motoring and racing organizations. And he kept up that pace until he...
Goodwood is pleased to announce the themes and dates for the ever-popular Breakfast Club events taking place at the Goodwood...
Rear-mounted, air-cooled cars are a common site at racetracks, persistently challenging their conventional, front-engine, water-cooled competition often with great success....
The one-of-a-kind 1967 Shelby Mustang GT 500 “Super Snake” smashed the existing record for a Mustang, at Mecum’s 2019 Kissimmee auction, when it sold for a staggering $2.2 million. The previous record for the most expensive Mustang was set by the same car, when it was sold by Mecum in...
Well respected historian and author Michael T. Lynch passed away on January 11th. Perhaps best known for his award-winning book,...
This past summer Dennis Gray had the opportunity to interview his longtime friend Giddings. Sadly, this would prove to be...
One of the most widely recognized vintage racers in the sport, Peter Giddings, passed away earlier this week at his home in Northern California, at the age of 79. In a vintage racing career that began over four decades ago, Peter owned and/or drove many of the greatest cars ever...
In 1964, Nissan Motor Company introduced a two-door sports coupe named the Silivia 1600 Sports Coupe. One year later, at...
The International Hillclimb course, Klosters-Davos in Switzerland, on August 27, 1961. This BMW 700 was being driven by Mark Aron...
On the 110th anniversary of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway the 24th annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance will celebrate the brilliant and radical ideas and the ground breaking cars that helped revolutionize America’s great race. From its earliest days the “500” was the cradle of innovation and the nursery of famous,...
