The Formula 5000 Drivers Association has announced its racing schedule for 2022. The Association will hold three official races for...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seat racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
The Formula 5000 Drivers Association has announced the results of its final race event to close the 2021 season at Watkins Glen in conjunction with the SVRA SpeedTour and the winners of the 2021 F5000 Championship. Finishing first at Watkins Glen on September 12, in F5000 Class A (pre-1972 cars)...
Lost in Time Formula 5000 in North America By John Zimmermann Readers of VR&R will be well acquainted with the...
The Formula 5000 Drivers Association has announced its racing schedule for 2021. The Association has announced three official races for...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seat racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine of choice was the venerable small block Chevrolet V8 of five-liter displacement. It started as a bright idea in 1967 and ran successfully until politics among the governing body, race...
The Formula 5000 Drivers Association has announced the results of the first round of its 2020 revival racing series at...
Versatile Canadian racer and 1981 Trans-Am champion Eppie Wietzes passed away on June 10. According to his wife Barb, “Sad...
The L&M Formula 5000 Championship; Mid-Ohio, June 3, 1973. Mark Donohue in Roger Penske’s Lola T330 with AMC Javelin power, finished third behind the Lolas of Jody Scheckter and Brian Redman. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION PO Box 8204, Stamford, CT 06905 USA., Tel: (203) 461-9804 • Fax: (203)...
The Formula 5000 Drivers Association has announced its racing schedule for 2020. The Association has announced three official races for...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seat racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
The Formula 5000 Drivers Association is pleased to announce the results of its race event to close the 2019 season at Watkins Glen in conjunction with the SVRA U.S. Vintage Grand Prix on September 8, 2019. Finishing first in F5000 Class A (pre-1972 cars) was Paul Dudiak in a 1969...
The Formula 5000 Drivers Association has announced its racing schedule for 2019. The Association will host four official races for...
The Mid-Ohio Grand Prix, Mid-Ohio, September 27, 1970 John Eiteljorge with his Brabham BT21F (#74) leads the field to the...
Ron Grable, SCCA FA/F5000 and A Sedan National Champion passed away, on Oct 31, at age 85. Born in 1933, in Sullivan, Indiana to parents, William and Ruth, Gable grew up Southern California. He joined the Navy and served aboard the USS Philippine Sea, during the Korean War. After the...
Autosport International, the world’s biggest pre-season motor show, will play host to the 50-year anniversary celebrations of Formula 5000. Autosport International...
F5000 stalwarts Kevin Bartlett, Howden Ganley and Ken Smith used a visit to a very special workshop in Salinas, California,...
F5000 racing stalwart, former Pro Mazda racer and Peoria, Illinois Ford dealership owner Jeff Green suffered a fatal, single car accident, during the running of the first round of the 2018 F5000 Revival race series at Mosport, on Saturday. Green, driving his ex-Jerry Hansen 1972 Lola T300 started from the...
April 2018 Whatever Happened to the Gold Cup? by Mike Allen Once retirement is upon us, whether forced by age...
While not the greatest racecar of all time, the Cooper 86B-Maserati was that for me, as it gave me a...
Over the course of nearly seven decades of Formula One history, only three men have ever won a World Championship Grand Prix race in a car of their own construction. Of course, none of them actually designed or built their cars all by themselves, they simply conceived, established, directed, managed...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seat racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
Like many motor racing fans, my original dream of becoming a World Champion racing driver started when I was a...
1 Guy Frequelin becomes competition chief of Citroën (1989). 2 Seven drivers (Rob Dyson, Elliott Forbes-Robinson, Butch Leitzinger, John Paul Jr., John Schneider, Andy Wallace and James Weaver) share the winning Dyson Racing R&S MkIII-Ford in the 24 Hours of Daytona (1997). 3 The SCCA’s first USRRC race, held at...
His nickname was always “Tony A-to-Z,” in part because his last name was Adamowicz, but in larger part because his...
January 2017 • The Formula 5000 Drivers Association has announced its 2017 schedule of events with the season kickiing off on the weekend of June 8-11 as part of the SVRA’s Open Wheel World Challenge at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and follows up with a July 20-13 appearance at Road...
From gas station owner in 1954 to leading Le Mans in 1967, sports car racer Scooter Patrick enjoyed an amazing...
I am very pleased to be able to announce that starting with this issue, racing legend and long-time friend of...
I could talk about David Purley, or Dave as I’ve always known him, all day long, but for the sake of this piece I’ll restrict it to a few lines to give readers a glimpse into my view of a truly great character and a very good friend. As boys,...
