1933 Alfa-Cadillac “Keenan Wynn Special” It’s enough to make any self-respecting purist cringe. Take a seductive 1933 Alfa Romeo 8C...
The 7th running of the fall races at Watkins Glen, N.Y., was held at the Interim Course, a 4.6-mile, 9-turn...
Bruce Kessler had a meteoric motorsports career, which started with drag racing his mother’s Jaguar XK120, progressed to practicing for the 1958 Monaco Grand Prix, and ended with a horrific crash in a sports car race at Pomona in 1959, and it all happened in the span of six short...
Call me a jinx if you like. No sooner did I put the finishing touches on last month’s column about...
Enzo Ferrari telephoned his driver Peter Collins before the 1956 Grand Prix of Italy for one of “those” conversations. The...
My father, Tom Bamford, first got involved in motor sport in his late teens when he bought an Ariel motorcycle in the late ’30s that he had to keep down the street at a gas station because my grandparents didn’t want him to own it. One day he was following...
I’ve driven many types of cars, Indycars, NASCAR, Sprint Cars, the whole bit; I started at the old Devil’s Bowl...
As everyone knows, after the 1960 racing season, Carroll Shelby retired as a driver and became even better known for...
It seems that we may have had the last Grand Prix at Silverstone. There was a time when I lived nearby and, in 1983, I reported on every meeting. At a Saturday “clubbie” I was the whole press corps and a tenth of the crowd. It remains my most enjoyable...
Having graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2003, the first classic car Ms Felstead ever painted was at...
October 2009 Headed for his first Grand Prix victory, Nelson Piquet takes his Brabham BT49-Ford over the old “Linden Leap”...
George Valerio of Lincoln, California, has been hunting cars for as long as he can remember. Yes, it’s the way he earns his living, but it is more of an obsession than a vocation. After a few minutes on the telephone, it’s obvious that Valerio finds great joy in unearthing...
1 Sarah Fisher, the first woman to compete in the Indy Racing League, is born (1980). 2 The first road...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man pursued his passion for speed and technology by building cars for competition. These early innovators belong to an elite club, their place in automotive history guaranteed as the creators of true classic sports cars, and genuine thoroughbreds. The development of the racing...
Losing a child is one of the harshest agonies of life, and even people who don’t personally know John and...
Auto Club Speedway, Fontana, CA June 27–28, 2009...
Ciircuit de la Sarthe, Le Mans, France June 13, 2009...
Virginia International Raceway, Danville, VA June 4–7, 2009...
Oran Park Raceway, Sydney, Australia June 27–28, 2009...
Watkins Glen International Speedway, Watkins Glen, NY June 11–14, 2009...
Castell’Arquato, Italy June 22–28, 2009...
Autodromo di Monza, Monza, Italy June 5–7, 2009...
Goodwood, Chichester, UK July 3–5, 2009...
October 2009 Fast Ladies By Jean-Françoise Bouzanquet Women play the most crucial role in human life as mothers of us...
Billing itself as “America’s Largest and most historically important archive of automotive history,” this is the official site of the...
The Petersen Automotive Museum and Checkered Flag 200, the museum’s premier membership group, will present another gala tribute this November in honor of the SCCA’s Trans-American Sedan Championship. “Tribute to Trans-Am” will take place November 12, beginning with a 6:00 p.m. cocktail reception, followed by dinner. Also scheduled is a...
Al Unser Jr., David Hobbs, and Les Richter (l to r above) headline the 2009 class of inductees to the...
VR columnist Mark Brinker was at it again in his 750-cc Deutsch Bonnet HBR-5 during Bonneville Speed Week 2009. This year Team BoneEvil started the meet with several unexpected mechanical problems including a damaged gas tank, a broken carburetor jet, a dead engine timing gun and major gearbox problems. Chief...
