1952 Ferrari 225 S While the history of the Ferrari you see here will forever associate it with the great...
Once upon a time it was not unusual to find American constructors on Grand Prix entry lists… With February’s announcement...
If there is a single quality that best defines Marc Surer it must be determination. When you consider that he grew up in a country that banned racing when he was four years old, and then overcame a seemingly endless succession of debilitating accidents behind the wheel of competition cars...
As I follow the recent political soap opera, which has become Formula One, I can’t help but think of the...
John Watson was one of those rare beasts: an Irish Grand Prix winner. It was a feat pulled off by...
My career, like many people, started in Formula Ford, in 1971, before progressing to Formula Italy, and on to Formula 3—a championship I stayed in for about four or five years. Formula Three was a good experience for me and my team, Euroracing. In 1977 we won the European F3...
The best cars I ever drove were the John Player Special, which gave me the 1972 Formula One World Championship,...
It is well known that some great stock car road racing took place at the Riverside International Raceway. Dan Gurney...
People have often expressed surprise that the Indianapolis 500 was included in the World Championship, between 1950 and 1960. For the first two years of the series it made sense, because both formulae allowed engines of 4,500-cc. After 1951, it made no sense at all, but the 500 was included...
Sir Stirling Moss scored the first of his three Monaco Grand Prix wins in 1956 with this Maserati 250F, nipping...
September 2009 Led away from the start by Graham Hill’s Rondel Racing Brabham BT36, the field for the August 30,...
Having raced at “Mid-O” in karts and cars since 1964, the track’s site picture is indelibly scribed on the inside of my skull, where, naturally, there’s little else to get in the way. I grew up (ok, that’s an exaggeration) in Mansfield, Ohio. In 1958 my parents, Doris and John,...
Ever wonder what it must’ve been like way back when during those early shade-tree mechanic days when racers would vanish...
2 Belgian Formula One and sports car racer Willy Mairesse commits suicide (1969). 4 Arturo Merzario drives an Alfa Romeo T33/SC/12 to victory in the World Sports Car Championship race at Imola, Italy (1977). 5 George Follmer drives a Porsche 934 to victory in the SCCA Trans-Am race at Trois...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seat racing cars built to a specific set of rules and powered...
How do you stop a racing runaway? Well, you might try throwing more races in its way. Ending McLaren Can-Am...
Silverstone Circuit, Northants, England May 30, 2009...
Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Indianapolis, IN May 29, 2009...
Infineon Raceway, Sonoma, CA May 29–30, 2009...
New Jersey Motorsports Park, Millville, NJ May 29–30, 2009...
Prescott Speed Hillclimb, Cheltenham, UK May 23–24, 2009...
Buttonwillow Raceway, Buttonwillow, CA May 16–17, 2009...
September 2009 Mark Donohue: Technical Excellence at Speed By Michael Argetsinger The difficulty in chronicling a career as diverse as...
They linger in legend long after the last echoes of Offenhauser exhaust faded into the breeze blowing across the hallowed...
The Automobile Club de Monaco has announced that the seventh Grand Prix Monaco Historique has been scheduled for May 8–9, 2010. The event will precede the 68th Grand Prix de Monaco by two weeks in order to allow both groups ample time to access the paddock area of the circuit...
Vintage Racecar was stunned to learn of the tragic death of Henry Surtees while he was competing in Round 4...
The helmet and goggles worn by Sir Stirling Moss when he won the 1957 British Grand Prix, Aintree, assisted by...
The famous Jaguar museum in Coventry, England, has been re-launched. This follows the renaming of the Trust that owns it and the reopening of the famous gates on Browns Lane to the public. The Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust (“JDHT”), founded in 1983 as an independent educational charity, has been restructured...
