Walter Hayes Paddy Hopkirk 1 Count Eliot Zborowski is killed in an accident during La Turbie Hillclimb at Nice, France...
Janet Guthrie Carlos Pace 1 NASCAR racer Dave Marcis is born (1941). 2 Sports car racer Nino Vacarella is born...
Five-time Safari Rally champion and current FIA World Rally Championship commission president Shekhar Mehta died from pneumonia on April 12, he was 60 years old. Mehta first drove in the Safari Rally in 1971, when Datsun’s first choice driver Joginder Singh switched to Ford and, as a result, Mehta was...
One of the many wonderful things about the internet is that it provides the ability for people from around the...
Chevrolet recently debuted the new Corvette Z06 GT3.R racecar, a year before it makes its competition debut at the 2024 Rolex 24 At Daytona. Making its public debut at Daytona International Speedway ahead of the Rolex 24, the Corvette Z06 GT3.R is Chevrolet’s first racecar that fully meets FIA technical...
On the 20th anniversary of the date the Volkswagen W12 broke seven world speed records on the famed Nardò circuit...
Formula Ford was a specification racing series created on the idea that the best drivers would win if they were...
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....
Prices are based on an average of values submitted by our panel of expert consultants who this month include: Jack...
1 Frederick Woodruff “Ted” Field, entrepreneur, media mogul, and owner of Interscope Racing is born (1953). 3 Jackie Ickx, driving...
This 30″ x 40″ image was in response to Nigel Mansell’s epic outside overtake of Gerhard Berger at the 1990 Mexican Grand Prix. The 150 mph ‘Peraltada’ curve was treacherous to say the least, but Mansell’s bravery to overtake on the outside was something racing fans still get teary-eyed about....
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports; the World...
The Shelby American Team car driven by Dan Gurney and Bob Johnson, at the 1964 12 Hours of Sebring. With about an hour left in the race, Bob Johnson smashed the number 11 Cobra into a limping Alfa Romeo TZ near the entry to the pits. The Cobra flipped end-over-end,...
Tech—IT’S OK! by Bob Williams, Chief of Tech & Safety Inspections, Sportscar Vintage Racing Association For some race entrants, technical...
The 5th annual Sebring 12 Hour Grand Prix held in 1956 achieved international prominence when, for the first time, four...
Many successful Bugatti racing drivers of the “golden era” were former pilots and perhaps not surprisingly many famous pilots were Bugatti enthusiasts. Uncompromising racing cars and daring pilots. Bugatti is directly associated with numerous historic racing successes, in the glorious Grand Prix days of the brand. Racing cars produced by...
Rob Dyson, retired American sports-car racing driver and owner of Dyson Racing, was named the 2019 recipient of the RRDC...
Porsche has announced that motorsport legend Vic Elford passed away at his home in Plantation, Florida on March 13. The...
Formula Ford was a specification racing series created on the idea that the best drivers would win if they were racing identical cars. The idea for this low-budget Formula was created by an Englishman named Geoffrey Clarke, who had a driver’s school called Motor Racing Stables, based at the Brands...
Modena Aerautodromo, December 21, 1964 Initial shakedown test of Count Volpi’s Serenissima mid-engined V8 GT car, which featured a bespoke...
After 40,000 hours of work, Bentley Mulliner has completed the first new Bentley Blower in 90 years, with the delivery...
Trevor Taylor Colin Chapman 1 Ernesto Maserati dies of natural causes (1975). 3 Indy car racer Rick Mears is born in Wichita, Kansas (1951). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to paid subscribers only. Our...
Vanwall Group, the successor to the legendary British Vanwall motor racing team of the 1950s, has announced the renaissance of...
Goodwood has announced that this year’s Goodwood Revival (Sept. 8–10, 2023) will celebrate Lotus’ 75th anniversary. Welcoming a fleet of...
April 2000 Porsche 917 By Peter Morgan When racers and enthusiasts are asked to name the greatest racing car of all time, inevitably the Porsche 917 is somewhere at the top of the list. While many Porsche books have devoted chapters to the 917, few, if any, have really delved...
The aspect of motor racing which I admire the most is the production racing car industry. You can make a...
For years, a collection of the most extraordinary, unrestored Bugatti cars has sat, meticulously cared for and researched, in a...
Mike Costin (left) and Keith Duckworth. A single-seater Brabham arrives in Singapore for the 1969 Singapore Grand Prix. On the nosecone reads “Costin Brabham”, not the customary Repco Brabham badge seen on other Brabham single-seaters. Many would have already heard of the name Costin, some would even have known the...
