During the Fifties and Sixties, one of the most popular sports car racing venues in the West was Palm Springs....
Bonhams has announced that it has been commissioned to sell a recently discovered 1928 Mercedes-Benz 26/120/180 ‘S’ Type Sports Tourer,...
It hardly seems credible, but the 13th Goodwood Revival Meeting has just taken place and it was as good as ever. It is all credit to Lord March, who was a professional photographer, mainly in advertising, before duty called and he had to learn to take over the Goodwood Estate....
Ten years have passed since the Earl of March set out to revive the glory days of motor racing at...
Goodwood, Chichester, UK September 18–20, 2009...
Walking around the Goodwood Revival this year brought to mind the Brooklands Automobile Racing Club (BARC), which anyone was allowed to join. However, few enthusiasts could afford to, and its slogan became: “The right crowd and no crowding.” The club only admitted into the building those wearing members, or members’...
Goodwood has announced the dates for its three major 2017 vintage racecar events. The first of these is the 75th...
Goodwood, Chichester, UK September 9–11, 2016...
If you arrived at Goodwood just after the gates opened on any of the three days (September 16-18) there’s every chance that you were greeted by the sound of V12 engines firing up. Nothing unusual in that, as the Goodwood Revival is the premier historic race meeting, but these were...
Over its 22 editions the Goodwood Revival has built the reputation of a “bucket list” event for motorsport fans and...
Goodwood, Chichester, UK September 11-13, 2015...
The Bahamas Speed Weeks Revised Edition, including the Revival Meetings By Terry O’Neil From 1954 to 1966, the Bahamas Speed Weeks—on New Providence Island in the Bahamas—was a must-do race meeting that combined post-season competition, with warm, tropical winter weather and a prodigious party scene that came to be just...
Five years after HSR-West staged its first Palm Springs Revival at the Indio, California, airport, the second such event will...
Australia has decided to demote FF1600 and install Formula 4 as its national starter series. Formula 4 gives each country...
If ever a race meeting at Kyalami captured the essence of the circuit’s most memorable races, the Classic Car Africa Kyalami 9-hour Revival managed that and then some. Everyone who was at Kyalami on Saturday November 17, left thrilled by a stunning day’s classic racing to commemorate those legendary races...
The theme for Goodwood’s 2016 Festival of Speed, scheduled for the weekend of June 23-26, will be “Full Throttle –...
A week after the Goodwood Revival, Buckinghamshire held its own Revival on the weekend of September 25-26 to commemorate the...
As a teenager I sat in the Woodcote stand at Goodwood and watched Karl Foitek in a Giulietta TI come around at the end of the first lap in among the 3.8 Jaguars. I know I wasn’t dreaming as I have it on my cine film. On the next lap...
I have been quoted as saying that I didn’t much like the Tommy Atkins Cooper-Maserati. Now, I don’t know if...
Goodwood, Chichester, UK September 16–18, 2011...
The world’s finest gathering of significant and authentic racing Ford GT40s will be assembled at the 2013 Goodwood Revival, September...
Recently, well known collector and conservation stalwart Fred Simeone commented, “Certain cars nowadays have become so historically important that their strenuous use threatens to destroy their originality and integrity.” Hmm. I’m not sure how I feel about that statement. I appreciate his point. After all you wouldn’t want to damage...
Half a century ago, Speed Week in the Bahamas was one of the most popular race meets on motor racing’s...
Chuckwalla Valley Raceway, Desert Center, CA November 23–24, 2013...
My first open-wheeled car was a Lotus 22, in fact it was one of the cars used in the filming of Grand Prix. When I first got the car it still had the Jordan BRM mock-up body attached, which was discarded, binned, replaced and restored to be a conventional Lotus...
The helmet and goggles worn by Sir Stirling Moss when he won the 1957 British Grand Prix, Aintree, assisted by...
I’ve always been fascinated with the Goodwood Revival concept of “a magical step back in time.” For some time, I’ve...
Touring car racing has usually been seen as the court jester to the serious stuff of single-seaters, but in a passing conversation at the Goodwood Revival someone said to me words to the effect that it was the saloon car race there that made the event—all the rest, including the...
