Some 38 years ago, there was a vintage event like no other. It was the 1985 Palm Springs Vintage Grand...
Vintage Racecar Features
The search for speed has motivated every racer since the dawn of the sport, obsessively driving them to go as...
Ferrari put the pedal to the metal in 1957 with new racing cars of magnificent four-cam V-12 power. In spite of Maserati’s V-8 response, Ferrari prevailed in what history would declare the final season for sports-racers of unlimited capacity. The 1956 season of the World Sports-Car Championship saw Ferrari resuming...
Arie Luyendyk is a household name in motor racing, especially in Indianapolis folklore, but it was a long and arduous...
Back in 1977, a group of Atlanta car folk had a need for speed but didn’t want to end up...
What began as a study of Asian automobile advertising of the late 1950s has unearthed a rare tale of a unique racecar that resided in Hong Kong, Singapore and Selangor between 1955 and 1971. Adestne quisquam de Maranello? You might want to sit down for this one. OBSCURUM PER OBSCURIUS...
Sometimes a slogan doesn’t mean very much. Take for example Exxon’s “Happy Motoring” or Pontiac’s “We Are Driving Excitement” –...
Five years after Whitney Straight’s historic trip to South Africa to take part in the First South African Grand Prix,...
In Italy, a country that’s home to numerous small, specialized companies making exotic sports and racing cars, few can compete with SVA in their combination of obscurity with exotic engineering. Turin’s SVA flourished briefly at the end of the 1940s and produced at maximum two cars and a few more...
Alfa Romeo has a long history in racing that dates back to 1910 and extends to Formula One today. Throughout...
I have been road racing since the early 1980s and vintage/historic racing since the late ’80s; always in 105 series...
In 1965, I enjoyed a working holiday in London. On Friday 18 June that year I took the cheapest tour I could find to the Le Mans 24 Hours, via a rickety old plane and a bus. It proved to be one of the most remarkable races in the event’s...
In the 1950s, home-made, one-off sports cars were being created everywhere across the country, the majority of them emerging from...
Brausch Niemann had a brief but successful career in motor sport and took part in two world championship Grands Prix,...
Lotus founder Colin Chapman was undoubtedly gifted at what he did, admittedly some of his cars were better than others but in general, when Lotus built a racing car it was a good one. The Type 23 design was, in hindsight, one of the really good ones. Introduced at the...
America’s premier sports car endurance race started at an abandoned WWII Army Air Corps base in Florida. “The 12-Hours of...
Out of the shadows of World War II and its aftermath has come an unique Alfa Romeo sports car flaunting...
Click here to read “Chargers Part 1—World Rallying 1957–1965 The CSI struck again in 1965, this time putting out a much more comprehensive 17 pages of regulations called Appendix J to better govern the sport. And that was the year a works Lancia team, later to become a mighty force...
The late ’60s were a revolutionary period in racecar design. Advances in aerodynamic research were creating a fiercely fast, new...
A single-seater Brabham arrives in Singapore for the 1969 Singapore Grand Prix. On the nosecone reads “Costin Brabham”, not the...
The Peterson Museum in Los Angeles is filled with wonderful automotive treasures. The eye-catching post-war muscle cars, sports cars, exotic supercars and racecars are amongst the most popular with visitors. We are all fascinated with fast cars and the technology used to create them. One of the greatest performance cars...
There were no rally cars, as such, during the sport’s first 50 years or so, just the bog standard daily...
Ex-Donald Healey Motor Company works driver, Clive Baker first began his connection with Healeys and Austin-Healeys in Tasmania. Clive went...
Accused of sandbagging at Daytona, two WSC-95 spyders were in storage until called to duty by Team Joest. Porsches by adoption, they took two straight victories at Le Mans in 1996 and ’97 in some of the company’s most improbable successes. “Buoyed by our success at the 1994 Le Mans,”...
In 2015, it was announced that the Malaysian city of Kuala Lumpur would hold a street Grand Prix for GT3...
The engines roar, pushing the rev limiters to their limits. When the light turns green, the racecars accelerate at full...
By the mid-1950s international motor racing was beginning to flourish in Africa, south of the equator. In September 1957, international racing spread to the west coast of Africa and the first Angolan Grand Prix took place. It had an international flavor and TAP, the Portuguese airline, ferried a trio of...
At 4pm on the June 23rd, 1991, Johnny Herbert crossed the finish line at the Le Mans 24 Hour race to...
On the Bubble One of the most exciting relationships in sports car history is that of Alfa Romeo and Zagato....
“It was lovely and fast-flowing, a wonderful and challenging circuit, and so gratifying when you manage to put it all together. You never ever thought, ‘‘Ooo’, what if I go down there?’” Australian Vern Schuppan, the last winner of the Singapore Grand Prix, unfazed by all the hype about the...
