Fathers and their sons who have each won the Formula 1 World Championship are few and far between. There are...
Lotus is asking for help help in tracking down the long-lost Lotus Mark I, the first car built by company...
Howden Ganley Do you like your racing cars to be aesthetically pleasing? Most people do, me included. So how do we finish up with so many ugly cars? Probably a variety of reasons, starting with the fact that not all stylists have the requisite eye for line, that the regulations...
Photo Gallery from the Aug. 25-27 running of the HSCC’s Gold Cup at Oulton Park....
The new Ferrari Monza SP1 and SP2 have been unveiled upon the occasion of the company’s Capital Market’s Day at...
RM Sotheby’s has announced another headlining car for its Porsche 70th Anniversary auction, set for October 27 at the Porsche Experience Center Atlanta (PEC). To the growing All-Porsche line-up, RM Sotheby’s now adds what is perhaps one of the most original examples of the Porsche 956 Group C. Few race...
September 2018 Heinz Melkus Tom Walkinshaw Jackie Ickx Francois Cevert 1– Mario Andretti wins three midget feature races at two...
Our Roger Dixon brings you a brief video overview of the sight and sounds of the 2018 Goodwood Revival. Click...
Last Friday I was mindlessly killing some time on Facebook, when I happened to stumble across the livestream of Goodwood’s Kinrara Trophy race for over 3-liter GT cars. Dubbed as the world’s most expensive race grid, this one-hour twilight race featured 8 Ferrari 250 SWBs, 8 Jaguar E-Types, 4 Ferrari...
Twenty years! It can’t be! Yes it is! The Duke of Richmond’s time capsule has been taking some of us...
Photo Gallery from Sept. 7-9, 2018, from the 20th Goodwood Revival in Chichester, UK. Subscribers click here for additional, multi-page...
Subscriber exclusive Photo Gallery from Sept. 7-9, 2018, from the 20th Goodwood Revival in Chichester, UK. Line astern 1963 Ford Galaxie 500, 1965 Plymouth Barracuda & 1960 Ford Anglia. Photo: Roger Dixon Klaus Lehr’s 1948 Talbot-Largo 26c leads an ERA B-Type and an Alfa Romeo Tipo B through Goodwood’s chicane....
Prince Bira coming out of Holly Wood with the ex-Whitney Straight Maserati 8CM, during the Donington Grand Prix, on October...
A number of years ago the 500-cc Club of America instituted a very special perpetual award of recognition aimed at...
The Golden Days of Thompson Speedway and Raceway 1945-1977 By Terry O’Neil Occasionally a spark of inspiration can become the catalyst for change. Just such a convergence took place with the construction of Thompson Speedway in 1940, a 5/8thmile oval track, dubbed “The Indianapolis of the East.” A road course...
Louis Wagner [dropcap]S[/dropcap]eeing the Darracq 120 racer that Louis Wagner (also a pioneer aviator) drove to victory in the 1906 Vanderbilt...
The number 17 E-Type as driven by privateer Peter Sargent and Peter Lumsden at the 1964 24 Hours of Le...
From September 7-9, 2018, Goodwood will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Revival. The hallowed Motor Circuit will once again come alive to the sights and sounds of the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s. Visitors will enjoy world-class historic racing, stunning air displays, music, dancing, vintage fashion shows, and a nostalgic funfair....
The under 2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international...
An image of Reid Railton with his parents depicted the engineer at the time of his decision, supported by Henry...
George Tuma, Historic Sportscar Racing LLC owner and an industry leader, competitor and friend of all in vintage and historic racing, passed away Sunday night at his home in Germany. Tuma and his friend and business partner, David Hinton, acquired majority ownership of HSR in 2012 and were later joined...
Howden Ganley As the calendar year moves into its second half, we come to what motor racing calls its “Silly...
RM Sotheby’s made auction history when a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO, chassis no. 3413 GT, long considered to be the...
Photo Gallery from the August 4–5, 2018 running of the Prescott Hillclimb....
On Friday September 14, at Spa Francorchamps, as part of this year’s Spa Six Hour event, the autumnal air will...
One of just four Scuderia Ferrari works cars built to contest the World Sports Car Championship in 1963, the 275...
August 2018 Danny Sullivan “Big Daddy” Don Garlits W.O. Bentley Frank Nichols 1 – “Big Daddy” Don Garlits becomes the first drag racer to run the ¼–mile at over 200 mph. He drives his Swamp Rat dragster to 201.34 mph at Island Dragway in New Jersey, (1964). 3 – Giuseppe...
The British Grand Prix, Brands Hatch, July 11, 1964. Jim Clark in his Lotus 25. He started from pole and...
The history of the racing engine—and perhaps to a lesser extent the road going engine as well—has been driven by...
A bumper crowd numbering thousands of eager spectators headed to Croft Circuit on August 4–5, to lap up the sunshine, an irresistible feast of 1940s-’70s retro-themed entertainment and the highest quality historic racing at the ninth annual Croft Nostalgia Festival. Visitors were treated to Nostalgia’s time-honored combination of top-tier historic...
