McLaren Chicago hosted House of McLaren: Legends and Icons, an event which brought together some of the most significant McLaren...
The Players 200. Mosport, June 6, 1964 Bruce McLaren, in the ex-Penske Zerex now with alloy Oldsmobile V8 power, en...
1 Australian touring car driver Tony Longhurst is born in Sidney, New South Wales, Australia (1957). 3 Jim Epler becomes the first man in NHRA history to break 300 mph in a Funny Car when he runs 300.40 mph in Topeka, Kansas, USA (1993). 5 Pierre Goutte drives a Salmson...
1 The Prest-O-Lite smokestack outside of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway is torn down. Carl Fisher, who built IMS, also co-founded...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was created by the FIA (Federation Internationale de L’Automobile) in 1950, with its first race the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. This was to be the first World Drivers Championship, in the world’s most technically advanced...
Fitting that a classic car show is staged at a classic venue and with its move from London’s Millennium Excel...
McLaren Automotive has unveiled its new Ultimate Series roadster, the McLaren Elva. As the brand’s first open-cockpit road car, the...
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 Quail, A Motorsports Gathering will once again grace the picturesque fairways of Quail Lodge & Golf Club with more than...
Twenty years after earning his second consecutive Formula One drivers’ championship, Mika Häkkinen will demonstrate his considerable driving talents behind...
Wally Willmott, the first man hired by Bruce McLaren when he started his racing team, has died at the age of 78. An auto electrician by training, Willmott raced and hillclimbed a 500-cc Cooper in his native New Zealand, until an accident put a stop to his activities. Having got...
Three-time Formula One World Champion Niki Lauda has passed away from complications of a lung transplant that he received, last...
Gordon Murray has unveiled a fully-immersive, internet-based virtual exhibition of 40 different iconic race and road cars produced during the...
Professor Gordon Murray, the renowned automotive designer and engineer, was presented with a CBE (Commander of the British Empire) by the Duke of Cambridge, Prince William. The ceremony, held at Buckingham Palace, recognized the contributions made by Murray to the motorsport and automotive sectors over the past 50 years. Gordon...
Automotive designer and engineer, Gordon Murray has been awarded a CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in the Queen’s New...
A few weeks ago McLaren released their new sports car to the public. It’s not fair to really call it...
For the second successive year, Formula One World Champion Mika Hakkinen will return to the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion to meet with guests, sign autographs and drive exhibition laps. Last year, he was demonstrating McLaren’s first-ever world championship car, the legendary M23 that took Emerson Fittipaldi to the 1974 drivers’...
This year marks the 30th anniversary of Ayrton Senna’s first of three Formula 1 Drivers’ World Championships. It was also McLaren’s 4th...
May 2018 • RM Sotheby’s, in collaboration with the Porsche Experience Center Atlanta, has announced The Porsche 70th Anniversary Sale,...
One of the most memorable events in the history of Donington Park, the rain-soaked 1993 European Grand Prix a quarter-century ago, will be celebrated at this year’s Donington Historic Festival, set for May 4, 5 and 6 at the Derby circuit. That race was won, of course, by Ayrton Senna...
A 1929 Duesenberg J/SJ Convertible and a 1963 Ferrari 250/275P won the Best In Show honors on Saturday, March 10,...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was created by the FIA (Federation...
Last weekend’s Race Retro, the 16th edition of Europe’s finest historic motorsport show at Stoneleigh, was another super show and a resounding success. Record crowds produced a ten percent increase on the 2017 event, with 23,100 attendees counted over the three days. VR‘s European Editor, Mike Jiggle, summed up the...
Three-time Indianapolis 500 winner and 1980 Indycar National Champion Johnny Rutherford will be the guest of honor at the 10th...
It had been a long, hard ride from winning masses of kart races when he was a kid to winning...
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...
Mecum Auctions is preparing to return to the Fairplex in Pomona, California, February 16-17 for its Los Angeles 2018 auction,...
Over the course of nearly seven decades of Formula One history, only three men have ever won a World Championship...
When the sports car scene started to heat up again in ’65-’66, I went to work for Motorsport Design in Connecticut, and we built a McLaren M6A for John Cannon. After that I was hooked on the Can-Am so I moved back to California, when I became Peter Revson’s mechanic...
