After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was created by the FIA (Federation...
Even a weekend of changeable weather conditions at Road America couldn’t stop some great racing for Masters USA, at the...
Photo Gallery from the June 13-14, 2019, FIA Masters Formula One races at Mt. Tremblant, Canada...
Circuit Mont-Tremblant was the stunning mountainous backdrop this last weekend for the crowd-pleasing Masters Historic Formula One USA cars, as...
Formula One designer and March Engineering co-founder Robin Herd has passed away at the age of 80. After graduating from...
Neville Lederle, the 1963 South Africa Champion driver, has passed away at aged 80. Lederle was one of the few privateers to score a world championship point in Formula One. This he did in the 1962 South African Greand Prix, driving his 4-cylinder Lotus 21-Climax, when he finished 6th at...
Gordon Murray has unveiled a fully-immersive, internet-based virtual exhibition of 40 different iconic race and road cars produced during the...
1964 Elva-Porsche One of the most important characteristics of a performance or racing car is the power-to-weight ratio. The goal...
Mike Hailwood had won no fewer than nine World Motorcycle Championships before he ever competed in his first Formula One motor race. Not to mention 14 victories in the heart-in-your-mouth Isle of Man TT. So he quickly earned himself the nickname of “Mike the Bike.” If the truth were told,...
This was going to be an important year for me. My win at Oulton Park, in Richard Attwood’s Cooper, had...
In the history of racing there have been formulae that quickly become popular and continue to grow, while others are...
1 – Jean-Pierre Jabouille drives a Matra MS5 to victory in the F3 race at Magny-Cours, France (1968). 2 – The All American Racers DGF Formula Ford has its first track test at Willow Springs Raceway in California (1977). 3 – Ken Tyrrell, F1 team owner, is born in West...
Wow Gilles!—Villeneuve, The Undying Legend By Ercole Columbo Thirty-six years after his untimely death at Zolder, the legend of Gilles...
1969 Mirage M2-BRM The Mirage profiled here is no optical illusion, although it is certainly as beautiful as some optical...
Jim Crawford would have turned 70 this year. After a brief stint in Formula One with Lotus he rebuilt his career in America during the 1980s. Following a devastating crash at Indianapolis, Jim made a fairytale comeback. He died aged just 54, but the good natured and courageous Scotsman is...
Remember when Hollywood used to produce the odd “fun” movie—in somewhat the same theme as “the Grand Old Opry?” A...
1 • Dan Gurney, driving a Climax-powered Lotus 18, wins the USAC Road Racing Championship Formula Libre event at Hilltop...
April 2018 Whatever Happened to the Gold Cup? by Mike Allen Once retirement is upon us, whether forced by age or other circumstances, how to fill the time is an initial worry. Author Mike Allen’s project to fill his time was to research the Oulton Park International Gold Cup races....
The Grand Prix Association of Long Beach has announced that Juan Pablo Montoya and Helio Castroneves will be honored with...
1966 Eagle-Weslake It is a privilege to update and run my test of the Eagle-Weslake. At Vintage Racecar we were...
It is with a great deal of sadness that I write about Dan Gurney, who died on January 15. We were close friends and our times together go back to 1955 when he raced at Torrey Pines. A number of those among us stood head and shoulders above all the...
Dan Gurney is a man whose accomplishments need no introduction. In addition to winning in everything from Formula One to...
So we have lost Dan Gurney, a few months shy of his 87th birthday. Dan was one of the sport’s...
There comes a time, all too often in history, when there arrives the “end of an era,” and with the sad passing of Dan Gurney so it has happened once more. Dan was part of that wave of American drivers from the ’50s sports car racing scene who all arrived...
Artist John Rice created this watercolor painting of Dan Gurney and his Eagle 104-Weslake racing in his home GP, the...
March 2018 Dan Gurney scored his initial Grand Prix victory in this 8-cylinder Porsche 804, seen here at Nouveau Monde...
1 • Glenn Seton drives a Nissan Skyline to victory in the Australian Touring Car race at Calder Park in Victoria, Australia (1987). 3 • Nobuhiko Kawamoto, Honda F1 engine designer and later Honda President and CEO, born (1936). 4 • Ronnie Peterson drives a JPS Lotus 78 to victory...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was created by the FIA (Federation...
1965 Lola T60-Cosworth SCA Since the birth of the Formula One Championship, in 1950, there has been a ladder for...
