Portland International Raceway played host to the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) Racing Festival the last weekend of July with...
September 2017 • John Knepp, who with Don Devendorf founded the Datsun/Nissan performance specialty company Electramotive Engineering, has died at...
The 14th annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance, set for March 13–15, 2009, on the grounds of the Ritz Carlton Amelia Island, will celebrate both famed coachbuilder Bohman & Schwartz and a pair of 50th anniversaries for significant races at Sebring and Daytona. Additionally, this year’s event will pay tribute to...
Just as we were going to press last month, we learned of the …..tragic death of historic racer Dino Crescentini,...
Music and ground-pounding thunder were featured at last weekend’s SVRA Vintage Racing Festival at Oregon’s Portland International Raceway. Mitch Ryder...
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George Follmer, Can-Am champion, Trans-Am champion and a winner in virtually every form of racing he tried, was honored by...
In the days before data logging transformed our sport into a science, the judge of all things was the simple...
• The Fabulous Fifties held its annual Lindley Bothwell Award dinner in early December at the Proud Bird restaurant near Los Angeles International Airport, where it honored George Follmer with its Lifetime Achievement Award. Follmer is, of course, the only driver ever to win two major U.S. professional racing championships...
The late news—very late—that U.S. open-wheel racing’s long uncivil war has finally staggered to its hemorrhagic conclusion, fell with less...
George Follmer, the subject of this month’s VR Interview (page 30), was inducted into the Watkins Glen Drivers Walk of...
The Historic Motor Sports Association has announced that its annual Sommet des Légendes event, scheduled for July 13-15 at scenic Le Circuit Mont Tremblant in Quebec Canada, will feature the cars of the fabled SCCA Trans-American Sedan Championship. The Trans-Am’s pony cars will be joined on the weekend’s schedule by...
When you first meet Walt MacKay, you are struck by what a quiet, modest man he is. Currently, he runs...
1 Dario Franchitti wins the CART Marconi Grand Prix of Cleveland, Ohio (2001). 2 Pierre Veyron wins the voiturette race...
1 James Hunt, driving a McLaren-Ford, wins the German Grand Prix on the Nürburgring. Niki Lauda crashes his Ferrari on the second lap and suffers serious burns that nearly kill him. Six weeks later, Lauda returns to racing (1976). 2 Ronnie Bucknum debuts the Honda RA271 in the German Grand...
Formula One will return to Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca as the Masters USA international Formula One field once again takes...
2 Belgian Formula One and sports car racer Willy Mairesse commits suicide (1969). 4 Arturo Merzario drives an Alfa Romeo...
The combination of GM’s Jim Musser and Jim Hall proved to be one of the most potent combinations in autosport...
1 Richard Petty wins the NASCAR Winston Cup Talladega 500 in a Dodge Charger (1976). 2 Karl Kling leads a Mercedes-Benz 1-2-3-4 finish in the Rhineland Cup sports car race on the Nürburgring in West Germany (1952). 4 John Surtees, driving a Ferrari 156, wins his first Grand Prix, the...
Subscriber-exclusive Photo Gallery from SVRA’s Feb. 27–29, 2020, Vintage Trans-Am event at Sebring, Florida....
December 2009 Ferrari 312P & 312PB By Ed McDonough and Peter Collins Billed as “the story of a great car...
The second annual Spring Classic will take place at Laguna Seca on the weekend of May 18-20, featuring not only the usual vintage race cars (above, T.M. Hill photo courtesy of Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca) but also expanding this year to include on-track exhibitions for the Historic Motorcycles that were...
2 The Mercury division of the Ford Motor Company holds a press conference in Carmel, California, to announce the formation...
In this concluding installment of our interview with Trans-Am record-breaker Tom Kendall, we pick up the narrative just after he’s...
Moving ahead with its ambitious agenda for advancing vintage racing, Historic Motorsports Productions has named the featured marques for the first two Bobby Rahal Signature events of its inaugural season, and added a fourth event. Mario Andretti and Lotus will be honored by the Legends of Motorsports series at Alabama’s...
I wrote in this space, last month, that racecar drivers are just like us in that they too are human...
1 Arturo Merzario and Jacques Laffite drive an Alfa Romeo T33TT12 to victory in the 1,000-km sports car race on...
John Bishop, the man most responsible for the establishment of professional sports car racing in America, has died at the age of 87. As executive director of the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA), Bishop’s vision took the club down the path to professionalism in the 1960s, forming first the...
