What began as a study of Asian automobile advertising of the late 1950s has unearthed a rare tale of a...
The Monaco Grand Prix; Monte Carlo; May 10, 1970 After the start and up St. Devote hill to Casino Square....
1 The BPR Global GT race at Dijon, France, is won by the Venturi 600LM of Michel Ferté and Michel Neugarten (1994). 2 Sid Collins, the Voice of the Indianapolis 500, commits suicide after being diagnosed with ALS (1977). 3 A Porsche 906 driven by Tetsu Ikuzawa wins...
Sometimes a slogan doesn’t mean very much. Take for example Exxon’s “Happy Motoring” or Pontiac’s “We Are Driving Excitement” –...
1939 South African Grand Prix; East London Luigi Villoresi gets an unexpected gasoline bath during a pit stop for the...
Five years after Whitney Straight’s historic trip to South Africa to take part in the First South African Grand Prix, motor racing had become an established sport in the country and during the European winters British and Continental drivers escaped the cold to take part in the ‘summer series’ down...
ED SWART From Zandvoort to Daytona 60 Years of cars, characters, and the world’s most challenging race tracks Published...
The Scuderia Filipinetti Ford GT40 Mk I – driven by Peter Sutcliffe and Dieter Spoerry – from the 1966 24...
The reborn Bizzarrini brand, founded by arguably the most talented automotive engineer and designer the world has ever seen, has achieved its next significant milestone. The first Bizzarrini 5300 GT Corsa Revival prototype – the authentic recreation of Giotto Bizzarrini’s first car under his own name – has taken to...
A new 5 day event (September 7–11) that focuses on and celebrates the ‘look’ of race and rally cars is...
1 The Mercedes 450 SLC is homologated into Group 4 for rallying (1979). 2 Tom Sneva wins the USAC Texas...
In Italy, a country that’s home to numerous small, specialized companies making exotic sports and racing cars, few can compete with SVA in their combination of obscurity with exotic engineering. Turin’s SVA flourished briefly at the end of the 1940s and produced at maximum two cars and a few more...
Rick Mears, four-time winner of the Indianapolis 500® and three-time INDYCAR SERIES champion, will be honored by the Road Racing...
Sebring 12 Hours; March 20, 1971 The Porsche 917K of Vic Elford and Gérard Larrousse, from Hans-Dieter Dechent’s team, finished...
1968 British Grand Prix at Brands Hatch Vic Elford behind the wheel of the Cooper-BRM during the 1968 British Grand Prix. Elford would ultimately retire with engine trouble....
Alfa Romeo has a long history in racing that dates back to 1910 and extends to Formula One today. Throughout...
Porsche has announced that motorsport legend Vic Elford passed away at his home in Plantation, Florida on March 13. The...
1 Wendy Markey-Amey, British dancer and touring car racer dies at the age of 75 (2021). 4 NASCAR great Buck Baker born (1919). 5 Gregg Hansford dies when his Ford Mondeo crashes at Phillip Island, Australia, on the second lap of the first race of the new Australian 2-liter Touring...
Joe Huffaker, an icon of the sports car racing world since the 1960s, passed away peacefully in his Novato home,...
Ernest Nagamatsu racing his famous Old Yeller II at the 2012 Goodwood Revival. Pen & ink and markers on 9″x 12″...
Canossa Racing, the new division of Canossa Events dedicated to all racetrack enthusiasts, has recently acquired Alfa Revival Cup, the well-known Italian racing series dedicated to all Alfa Romeo GT and Tourism cars built from 1947 through 1981 and sanctioned by the Automobile Club of Italy (ACI). The Alfa Revival...
Photo Gallery from the Feb. 21-23, 2022, running of Brian Redman’s Targa 66 at Palm Beach International Raceway. [button link=”https://vintageracecar.com/targa-66-subscriber-photo-gallery-3/”...
Subscriber exclusive Photo Gallery from the Feb. 21-23, 2022, running of Brian Redman’s Targa 66 at Palm Beach International Raceway....
One hundred of the world’s most thoroughbred historic racing cars are set to take to the track in Dubai this winter at the second Historic Dubai Grand Prix Revival (HDGPR). This year, the program at the Dubai Autodrome has been enlarged from two days to three, taking place on Friday...
On the 20th anniversary of the date the Volkswagen W12 broke seven world speed records on the famed Nardò circuit...
I have been road racing since the early 1980s and vintage/historic racing since the late ’80s; always in 105 series...
1 Randy Bernard is introduced as the Indy Racing League’s new CEO (2010). 2 Mark Donohue and Chuck Parsons drive the Penske Lola T70 MkIII B to victory in the 24 Hours of Daytona (1969). 3 A.J. Foyt, Bob Wollek, Al Unser Sr. (all suffering from the flu) and Thierry...
Eight cylinders, a displacement of two liters, 100 PS and speeds up to 145 km/h – the figures of a...
The Tourist Trophy; Oulton Park; April 29, 1966 Jack Brabham with the one-off Brabham BT17, a kind of enlarged BT8...
In 1965, I enjoyed a working holiday in London. On Friday 18 June that year I took the cheapest tour I could find to the Le Mans 24 Hours, via a rickety old plane and a bus. It proved to be one of the most remarkable races in the event’s...
