This month’s Hidden Treasure begins with the sound of J. Why do I bring this up? Because for years I’ve...
Today, a great racecar has to be very powerful, have a great deal of downforce to give grip, and be...
2 Hermann Lang drives a Mercedes-Benz to victory in the Grand Prix race run in Pau, France (1939). 3 Battista...
The first thing to say about www.autoracinghistory.com is that this is a text-heavy site where the word works more powerfully...
F1-67 “NONDA” Think back, if you can, to the 1950s, ’60s, ’70s and possibly even the ’80s. Did you ever think that the sports cars and single-seaters roaring around the circuits of the world would someday be about the most expensive and desirable items even the most acquisitive of us...
The Vintage Racing Club of B.C. (VRCBC) has announced that its annual marquee race weekend, the British Columbia Historic Motor...
CONGRATULATIONS! At this past year’s Lime Rock Historic Festival, Vintage Racecar teamed up with Nikon and Lime Rock Park to...
This acrylic on canvas painting depicts one of the most famous and iconic racing cars of all time. The JPS Lotus 98T chassis 004 was Ayrton Senna’s racecar for the latter part of the classic 1986 Formula 1 season. The car’s debut was at the last Grand Prix to be held...
I was fifteen years karting, and ten years karting and car racing. I started with Mercedes Benz as a mechanic;...
The California Sports Car Club is organizing a “dream” weekend this October at Buttonwillow Raceway Park north of Los Angeles,...
Derek Gardner will be remembered, by many, as the designer of one of the most radically designed cars ever to win a Grand Prix; the Tyrrell Project 34 six-wheeler. However, they overlook his greatest achievement as the designer of racing cars that took the Tyrrell team to 16 Grand Prix...
To celebrate the 100th year of Chevrolet, Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wis., will host a special tribute to the...
April 2011 During the 1975 Monaco Grand Prix, Tom Pryce rounds Rascasse in his Shadow DN5, not long after the...
That sound! A wild shriek spearing out of the new Japanese F1 sliced like a samurai sword through the dronings and raspings of the commonplace European engines. Beware, that unearthly cry proclaimed. We are coming. It was at Watkins Glen in 1964, the next to last year of the 1.5-liter...
The outrageous Group B cars from the World Rally Championship of the 1980s have been added to the Donington Historic...
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway has added another element to its ongoing centennial festivities by announcing it will host the 100th Anniversary Indy 500 Celebration of Automobiles, a competition featuring two divisions of cars manufactured between 1911 and 1961, the first half century of the Indianapolis 500. The Celebration will take...
At Monza on the weekend of June 3–5, the HGPCA will hold three 20-minute heat races, with the third race...
April 2011 Jochen Rindt – Uncrowned Champion By David Tremayne Books about 1970’s posthumous World Champion Jochen Rindt are few and far between. On the 40th anniversary of his death it was inevitable that someone would look at the enigmatic driver again, but I didn’t think anything would come near to...
The original Trans-Am was part and parcel of one of the things that made the Golden Age golden. Many of...
One driver rarely mentioned in the endless pub debate about great drivers is Sir Jack Brabham, yet in many ways...
Friend of the magazine Toly Arutunoff is in serious but stable condition in the aftermath of a gruesome highway accident during the blizzard that struck much of the USA during early February. Arutunoff was headed for the annual SCCA National Convention in Las Vegas on February 8 when he stopped...
The public address announcer at a racetrack may be the single most important aspect for enticing new fans into the...
The man known to many as “Mr. MG,” Tony Roth, has passed away after a long fight with cancer. Roth...
You may have looked at this month’s cover car and said, “That’s not vintage!” You might also have looked at this month’s cover car and thought, “Hmm, I wouldn’t mind something like that!” And therein lies the predicament. Having done numerous surveys and questionnaires of our readership, we know that...
Is it possible to have too many racecars? We didn’t think so either. With a growing number of interesting “Track...
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motor sports: the...
