1958 Jaguar 3.4 Saloon It has had an impressive competition career in anyone’s language. In simple number of wins it’s...
Two events, one forever unforgettable, the other somewhat less memorable, shared the same Sunday, 40 years ago. The Sixties was...
When you first meet Walt MacKay, you are struck by what a quiet, modest man he is. Currently, he runs a shop repairing, restoring, and preparing vintage racecars, usually Porsches. Once you dig a little deeper into his background, however, you find a more than merely competent racecar driver, one...
No one reveres their heroes like the Brits (well, maybe the Italians). Whether it’s a perpetual race winner like Stirling...
Shot by the Gestapo, executed at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, killed on a death march from Sachsenhausen. All of those...
The Eagle Formula Ford that I won the SCCA Runoffs with in 1978 was a car I was involved with from very early in its development, and how that happened is a bit of a funny story. I was sitting at home in Massachusetts watching a hockey game on TV...
Frank Williams and Patrick Head are probably the best blokes I have ever driven for, so, it should come as...
Like many other sports during WWII, automobile racing experienced a hiatus. Soon thereafter, however, competition resumed. The Formula One World...
Two months before the end of WWII, an American P-51 Mustang was shot down over Germany. The pilot was Captain...
Autosport Three Hours; Snetterton, 1963 At the Autosport Three Hours race held at Snetterton on September 28, 1963, South African driver...
I’ve always liked Blackhawk Farms Raceway, a track not everybody knows about. It’s in Illinois, right on the border with Wisconsin, just outside a town called South Beloit. Blackhawk is not a high-speed track in the manner of Road America, but it’s very technical, with complex corners that really make...
In my book Vintage American Road Racing Cars, I wrote, “Of all the Kurtis road racing cars, the 500X is...
1 Nineteen-year-old Vincenzo Lancia, in his first race, drives a Fiat to victory in the 220-km Padua-Vicenza-Bassano-Treviso-Padua race. Also this is the first race for Felice Nazzaro (1900). 2 The first official Formula Ford race is held at Brands Hatch, England (1967). 3 Didier Pironi drives a Ferrari 126C2 to...
Formula Ford was a specification racing series created around the idea that the best drivers would win if all were...
Take something for granted, and we risk having it ripped away. For me, foolish me, Peter Bryant was always going...
Ritz Carlton, Amelia Island, Florida March 13-15, 2009...
Albert Park, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia March 28-29, 2009...
London to Edinburgh, UK March 27-28, 2009...
Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia March 13-15, 2009...
Phoenix, Arizona April 4-8, 2009...
Donington Park, Castle Donington, UK April 5, 2009...
Infineon Raceway, Sonoma, California April 3-5, 2009...
July 2009 The Rodriguez Brothers By Carlos Eduardo Jalife-Villalón In the early 1950s, two young Mexican brothers, Pedro and Ricardo...
In looking for some Formula 5000 video, we recently stumbled across this fantastic piece of a documentary on YouTube that was mistakenly labeled. This 3-minute video segment features racing legend Frank Gardner taking the viewer on a lap of Oulton Park, in 1973. The quality of the video is excellent...
A hardy group owning 32 cars made the sojourn to Albert Park in Melbourne, Australia, for the running of the...
It may be hard to imagine, but some vintage events are now becoming vintage themselves, and SVRA’s vintage Collier Cup...
Tony Marsh left nothing to chance during his long motor racing career. Indeed, he tried the whole gamut the sport had to offer from trials to sprints, rallies to racing. In fact, all forms of 4-wheeled competition came under his radar at some time during his career. He excelled, however,...
