In the February 2010 edition of Vintage Racecar, editor Casey Annis reported that a concours d’provenance had been held in...
This is the story of four Reuters, blood relatives… but not necessarily to each other. It’s also the story of...
Despite a still-recessionary economic climate, the annual International Racing Car Show in Birmingham, UK, celebrated it’s 20th Anniversary in a positive mood. The heady days of lavish opulence have hit hard times everywhere, and while it has to be said that the show is but a shadow of its former...
In what is believed to be one of the few one-make series in historic racing, Masters Historic Racing has launched...
Sixty years ago, an American sportsman built his own cars to tackle the world’s greatest endurance race Many in America today see road racing as more a sub-genre of motor sport, with the nation thoroughly consumed by oval racing on tracks that seem to dot the continental 48-state landscape with...
April 2010 The 14th Grand Prix of 24 Hours of Belgium; Spa-Francorchamps, July 10–11, 1949. Just two weeks after Le...
The man who is perhaps the best American endurance racer of all time has hung up his helmet—professionally, anyway. Hurley...
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motor sports: the World Sports Car Championship from 1953–1961; the Speedworld Challenge from 1962–1963; the International Championship of Makes from 1964–1971; and the World Championship of Makes from 1972–1981. There was even a...
Dario Resta competed in the first race ever held on Britain’s hallowed Brooklands circuit on July 6, 1907, and died...
Motor sport anniversaries and centenaries seem to have filled the calendar in the last few years, and as our sport...
Sergio Scaglietti celebrated his 90th birthday on January 9, and at his party received a special gift from Piero Ferrari,...
April 2010 Racing for Mercedes-Benz By Hartmut Lehbrink With the re-entry of Mercedes-Benz into Grand Prix racing as a factory effort, and the naming of seven-time titlist Michael Schumacher as one of the team’s drivers comes renewed interest in the marque. Schumacher is not the only famous name ever to...
Robert Donner Jr., whose interest in cars began as a toddler while his father was an Auburn, Cord, and Duesenberg...
Japan Tobacco International (JTI) has donated the freehold of the 30-acre Brooklands Museum site in Weybridge to the Museum’s governing...
You never know where interesting collections of rare photos will turn up. While cruising through the Desert Centre Triumph Register of America’s web site, we stumbled across this fascinating treasure trove of over 1,500 photographs taken in the early 1960s. Subject matter spans everything from local SCCA road races to...
As enthusiasts and students of racing history, we have a natural tendency to idolize, if not deify, the great men...
My love of motorsport is more a love of speed rather than racing, although it could be considered as a...
I think it was in 1957 that I saw Fangio race at Silverstone, it was a catalyst for me to get interested in motor racing and think of how I could design a racing car. I was always, and still am, fascinated by the technicalities of racing car design and...
It’s been a long time coming, but Crystal Palace will once again play host to a national motorsport event with...
The Road Racing Drivers Club has chosen Monterey Historics founder Steve Earle as the recipient of its Bob Akin Award,...
It is astonishing what you can learn about different countries if you follow motor racing. I have no real knowledge about tax except for those tear-stained begging letters I receive from the Inland Revenue, but I have picked up a few things. Cunningham, Scarab, and Chaparral were all major American...
2 Guy Moll wins the Monaco Grand Prix in an Alfa Romeo (1934). 3 Ronnie Peterson drives a March 722...
Mike Earle started his career with Derek Bell and Church Farm Racing. Over the years he has had a hand...
Cars of the Donald Healey Motor Company have developed an enthusiastic following the world over. The first Healey cars were bespoke vehicles available with standard body styles or available to be clad with the bodywork of your choice, until a 1952 joining with the British Motor Corporation led to the...
