The Porsche 356 is really the car that “started it all” for the iconic Porsche marque. Manufactured between 1948 and...
Lost in the sands of time for nearly 60 years a photographic collection has recently been unearthed by Automotive Collector...
A well-known name in Australian motor sport circles, Brian Foley commenced racing during the 1950s behind the wheel of an Austin A30. He soon moved on to other BMC cars, including an A40 Farina, Lancer, Austin-Healey Sprite and the mighty Mini Cooper S, though the late 1960s and early ’70s...
The year 2013 saw a number of significant automotive and racing milestones honored. Aston Martin’s 100th anniversary and the Corvette’s...
The world held its breath on April 23, 1989, when Gerhard Berger’s Ferrari 640 went straight on at Imola’s Tamburello...
I met Alex Zanardi back in the late ’90s when he first came into Indycar racing. My impression at the time was: what a happy, friendly guy. Alex is the type of person who shortly after you first meet him you feel like you’d known him for a long time,...
My obvious choice for my greatest racecar has to be the Bentley Speed-8 which I won with at Le Mans...
There’s a general feeling that endurance racing is about to enter a new age. Porsche is back and Porsche tends...
The scene is just prior to the start of the 1955 British Grand Prix at Aintree, and local favorite Stirling Moss is pictured amid the hustle and bustle of the starting grid talking with the brilliant manager of Mercedes-Benz Motor Sport, Alfred Neubauer. This race would end in victory for...
The German Grand Prix; Nürburgring, August 1, 1954. A field of Porsche 356s approaches the South Curve complex following the...
The year 1963 gave us the Lava Lamp, touch-tone phones, instant coffee and Johnny Depp. That same year Jim Clark...
Bahamas Half-Pint Dear Editor, Hugh Dibley’s splendid piece on racing a Formula Junior Lola at Bahamas Speed Week (Legends Speak, November 2013) is another example of why I enjoy your magazine so much. Alas, I must take issue with him when he says that the Formula Junior was the first...
1 Glenn Seton drives a Nissan Skyline to victory in the Australian Touring Car race at Calder Park in Victoria,...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula or Formula One was established by the FIA (Federation...
Silverstone Circuit, Northants, UK November 2–3, 2013...
Circuit of the Americas, Austin, TX October 24–27, 2013...
National Events Centre, Birmingham, UK November 15–17, 2013...
The Bahamas Speed Weeks Revised Edition, including the Revival Meetings By Terry O’Neil From 1954 to 1966, the Bahamas Speed Weeks—on New Providence Island in the Bahamas—was a must-do race meeting that combined post-season competition, with warm, tropical winter weather and a prodigious party scene that came to be just...
The Porsche 356 Registry is the world’s largest classic Porsche club, and this web site will tell you as much...
The man who called himself “Mister 500” in honor of the quest that dominated his life, has passed away at...
Donington Park will reverberate to the unmistakable sound of Bentley engines spanning nine decades on Saturday, June 7, 2014, as Bentleys of all ages come together in a unique one-marque race at the legendary British circuit. The iconic British marque will be celebrating the 90th anniversary of its first win...
Canadian racer Tommy Hoan has died in a one-car accident in his home town of Hamilton, Ontario, just before Christmas....
A triple anniversary will be celebrated in France this May as the Grand Prix de Lyon observes the three occasions...
Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR), in association with the Historic Motor Sports Association (HMSA) and Vintage Racing Events (VRE), has announced that the first 24-hour endurance race for vintage racecars in North America will take place at the famed Daytona International Speedway November 12-16, 2014. The “Classic 24 at Daytona” will...
Brooklands Museum and the Vintage Sports Car Club (VSCC) have confirmed preliminary details of the 2014 Brooklands Double Twelve Motorsport...
Engine builder and designer Brian Hart, aged 77, passed away in the first few days of the New Year. Like...
• Historic Sportscar racing (HSR) will sanction a vintage/ historic sportscar race as part of the 62nd Annual 12 Hours of Sebring, America’s oldest endurance race, on the weekend of March 12-15, 2014. The race meeting will also mark the debut of the newly reunited Tudor United SportsCar Championship for...
