With this weekend’s 60th Rolex 24 At Daytona serving as an appropriate backdrop, the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) and...
The pioneer eras of showroom stock and street stock endurance road racing and IMSA Racing Stocks and International Sedan (RS/IS)...
When you troll the paddock at a vintage race meet as often as I have, it takes a special car to catch your eye. While my heart still goes pitta-pat for Alfas, Moggies, 356s, and just about every Lotus and Jaguar, when a bright orange sports racer I have never...
From hot sunny days to misty mornings, the weather was as varied and interesting as the incredible field of historic...
Photo Gallery of HMSA’s Historic IMSA GTO race at the April 12–14, Long Beach Grand Prix. [button link=”https://vintageracecar.com/historic-imsa-gto-at-the-long-beach-grand-prix/” color=”blue”]Subscribers click...
Subscriber only Photo Gallery of HMSA’s Historic IMSA GTO race at the April 12–14, Long Beach Grand Prix....
When the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach takes over the streets for racing this coming Friday through Sunday (April...
While the illustrious history of IMSA is littered with great cars and great drivers, it’s easy to forget that the...
Hurley Haywood has been named Grand Marshal of the 2019 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca on August 15-18. Considered among the greatest drivers in endurance racing history, Haywood is a major part of the 50th anniversary celebration of the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA), which is...
While the illustrious history of IMSA is littered with great cars and great drivers, it’s easy to forget that the...
The Long Beach Grand Prix has announced that in addition to the Indycar and IMSA WeatherTech Sports Car Championship races,...
In an unusually early announcement, officials from WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca and the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) today announced that IMSA will be the featured marque for the 2019 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion to be held at the world-renowned facility in Monterey, California on the weekend of Aug. 15-18,...
The Grand Prix Association of Long Beach has announced that Juan Pablo Montoya and Helio Castroneves will be honored with...
With its current naming rights contract with Mazda set to expire at the end of this month, the still-named Mazda...
So we have lost Dan Gurney, a few months shy of his 87th birthday. Dan was one of the sport’s internationally famous and successful icons: he was a motor racing driver, car constructor and team owner, whose outstanding good looks could just as easily have qualified him for an acting...
Fresh from winning the FIA Founding Members’ Heritage Cup for last year’s event, the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion will try...
Championship-winning team owner Alex Job (above) is ceasing his team’s professional racing operations and will instead focus upon its historic restoration and competition business. Alex Job Racing has been one of the most successful teams in sports car racing, scoring more than 70 wins since 1995 — including Rolex 24...
Longtime sportscar entrant and driver Bruce Leven has died at the age of 79. Leven founded Bayside Disposal, the Seattle-based...
2 Paul Tracy wins the CART Champ Car race through the streets of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (2000). 3 Dr....
September 2017 • John Knepp, who with Don Devendorf founded the Datsun/Nissan performance specialty company Electramotive Engineering, has died at the age of 75. Knepp made his first splash on the American motorsports scene working with Pete Brock’s Brock Racing Enterprises as it built 2.5-Liter Trans-Am-winning Datsun 510s for John...
1 Richard Petty wins the NASCAR Winston Cup Talledega 500 in a Dodge Charger (1976). 2 Jochen Rindt drives a...
John Knepp, who with Don Devendorf founded the Datsun/Nissan performance specialty company Electramotive Engineering, has died at the age of...
July 2017 • Two-time Rolex 24 at Daytona winner Preston Henn has passed away at the age of 86 from natural causes. Floridian Henn, a colorful character who made his fortune with drive-in theaters and swap meet flea markets at his movie venues, first began racing in 1977 and subsequently...
Two-time Rolex 24 at Daytona winner Preston Henn (above, right, Hal Crocker photo) has passed away at the age of...
1 John Greenwood drives a Greenwood Corvette to victory in the IMSA sports car race at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida, (1974). 2 Land Speed Record setter John Cobb is born in Esher, Surrey, England (1899). 4 Stirling Moss, driving an Aston Martin DBR2, wins the Governor’s Trophy...
Fourteen vintage racecar run groups have been set for next summer’s Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, set for August 17-20, 2017,...
The Racing History Project has announced its event schedule for 2017. Coming off a string of successful fundraisers in Pomona and...
There have been so many great cars in my life and they have all been such fun. The wildest racecar I ever drove was a three-liter Abarth prototype that had hillclimb gearing in it. That car would do 138 mph at 8,000 rpm in fifth, so it got there in...
