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Ken Tyrrell once said that, contrary to what had been written about him, he had no special talent for spotting good racing drivers. “If they’re quick, they’re good,” he growled....
In September, I had the good fortune to be able to attend this year’s Goodwood Revival. I had never been before but, like many people, have followed the hype for...
The Mercedes-Benz 300SL Roadster, introduced in 1957, remains an icon of automotive excellence. Combining innovative engineering with elegance, its mark in automotive history continues to solidify over half a century...
We tend to make a lot out of automotive anniversaries, which is why I’ve been surprised that last month’s 60thanniversary of the Lotus Cortina, slipped by with nary a nod....
Photo Gallery from the June 2–3 Greenwich Concours d’Elegance, held in Greenwich, Connecticut. Connecticut. Michael Casey-DiPleco Convoy of Cunningham on the Connecticut roads and en route to the concours. Photo:...
Porsche 908: The Long Distance Runner By Jörg Thomas Födisch and Harold Schwarz Perhaps Porsche’s 908 is remembered more for a race it lost than any of the many it...
Pete Lyons The year was 1970. The year the ground turned over under America’s greatest sports racing car series. No Subscription? You’re missing out Any Text Here Get Started Already...
Unlike those of Jim Clark, Mario Andretti and Michael Schumacher, not a name at the forefront of all our minds. Yet it was one that had been hovering about in...
I had just been discharged from the Army and was pursuing my education with the help of the GI Bill. My Uncle Phil, who had just bought a new Austin...
I don’t have one favorite racecar; I have several: the Daytona Coupe I raced at Le Mans with Dan Gurney, the Ford GT40, the Ferrari P3, and, of course, the...
Bugatti had won the Targa Florio three consecutive years from 1925 – 1927 by the time their new recruit, Albert Divo, was flagged away from the Cerda start of the...
Casey Annis (Editor) Today, I’m going to confess two of my most deeply held, darkest secrets: 1) For the past two decades, I’ve spent an inordinate amount of time at...
Now available on Netflix is “A Life of Speed: The Juan Manuel Fangio Story.” The 92-minute movie originates in Argentina and so it is no surprise that it is more...
Ercole Spada was one of the most prolific sports car designers of the post-war era. Though his name is not nearly as recognized as Giugiaro, Gandini, or Scaglione, his body...
Clive Chapman, son of famed Lotus founder Colin Chapman and the guiding light at Classic Team Lotus, revealed an interesting little bit of Lotus trivia recently. Apparently, tucked away in...
Members of Hagerty Classic Insurance’s Driver’s Club were recently asked what car was the most luxurious ever. The answers ranged from Studebakers to Rolls-Royces. No one suggested either Hispano-Suiza or...
I find it really hard to believe that this issue of Vintage Racecar is our 100th! I recently had a full set of back issues bound and it is kind...
The car hobby has many tropes, but one of the more common — and perhaps most accurate — is that our favored pastime is a disease, an incurable affliction. And...
On the whole, French racing drivers are quite friendly toward each other and generally there is a good rapport and camaraderie between us. I think this stems from the roots...
Home tracks – every racer has one. For some, it may be the track nearest to where you live. For others, it may be the track you started racing at...
It’s an extremely complicated question to start answering, because of the different periods and different types of cars. You have to pick between sports cars and F1 cars—you have such...
Here’s a big four-oh for me: That many years ago this month the Can-Am began, and basically so did my career in journalism. Without the Canadian-American Challenge Cup Series coming...
When I was a college student, some friends told me about a woman who ran a hair salon in her West Los Angeles apartment. She ran a steady business cutting...
Tony Brooks continues to participate in select vintage racing festivals and other historic events. Photo: Keith Booker No Subscription? You’re missing out Any Text Here Get Started Already a Member?...
Wealthy Belgian aristocrat Olivier Gendebien has the unique distinction of being Ferrari’s most successful GT and sports car racer. He won 24 top endurance classics, including the 24 Hours of...
It’s doubtful that any designer or design house has done more seminal mid-engined automotive designs than has the incomparable Giorgetto Giugiaro and his (and son Fabrizio’s) ItalDesign Giugiaro. No Subscription?...
American sports car racing in the 1950s is perhaps best known for the titanic battles between Italian-built Ferraris and Maseratis and the home-grown specials like the Scarabs and the Ol...
The 1938 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1938 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: April 3-4, 1938 / Winner: Biondetti – Stefani / Winning Speed: 84.61 mph / Starters: 141 / Finishers:...
William H. Swanson is a serious and committed driving enthusiast and car collector, with something more than 40 superb top-end exotics and classics in his real and metaphoric car barn. ...
Daytona is a name that has long been part of the speed racing history as early American-based land speed record attempts were undertaken on the beaches within a 20-minute drive...
Subscriber exclusive Photo Gallery from the HSRCA’s Mar. 21-22, 2020, Autumn Festival at Wakefield Park....
The Porsche Rennsport Reunion V was held September 24-27, 2015 at the 11-turn, 2.238-mile Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Salinas, California. A record 57,531 enthusiasts experienced an event like no...
1973 Argentine Grand Prix – Emerson Fittipaldi’s Greatest Race By Emerson Fittipaldi Before the 1973 Argentine Grand Prix, I knew exactly how a world champion in any sport must feel....
A Review of the Jaguar E-Type. No Subscription? You’re missing out Any Text Here Get Started Already a Member? Sign in to your account here....
The Porsche 906 Artwork Artist Thom Montanari creates an evocative image of a mighty endurance racing legend – the Porsche 906. I photographed this car during the 1997 Vintage Festival...
During the late ’50s and early ’60s American racers were doing battle in a wide variety of homebuilt racecars and Specials. Taking production car engines and chassis and creating their...
We celebrate Ferrari in this issue [Click here to see Ferrari Special Issue], but how much is Ferrari’s success due to Pininfarina? In the early days of the marque, Enzo...
Now, here was a giant killer. A man who beat the hell out of Mercedes-Benz at least twice and won Ferrari’s very first World Championship Grand Prix by beating the...
In June of 2014, Porsche will return to Le Mans with a newly designed LMP1 racing machine. With 16 overall victories at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the pinnacle...
1934 French Grand Prix – Giants in the Ring By Barré Lyndon Although the French Grand Prix had always been regarded as the most vital race of the year, the...
Despite Germany being divided by the Iron Curtain, Porsche enthusiasts in the Communist section of the country still accomplished their desires of a sports car, the 356 Miersch. No Subscription?...
In the inaugural post on T’s Corner, I had committed to sharing some of my experiences at the race track. Here is a compilation of short clips featuring my Nissan...
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...
Ferrari SN: 18139 started life as a 365 GT4/BB. It was delivered to Chinetti’s 1970s NART shop in Connecticut – a place I would visit a lot were time travel...
The FIA regulations governing Formula One for 1977 allowed for a 3-liter normally aspirated engine or a 1.5-liter turbo-charged engine. Both were supposed to give similar power output, but I...
The Circuits Dominated by The Silver Arrows Avus Length: 19.29 km (11.98 miles) Fastest Lap: Rosemeyer (1937) – 276.32 km/h (171.74 mph) The name of the trace is actually the initials of...
Howden Ganley There is an old maxim which says America and Britain are two countries divided by a common language and in the automotive world this does seem to hold...
A 1928 Isotta Fraschini 8ASS owned by Peter Boyle of Oil City, Pennsylvania, captured Best in Show honors at the 2016 Pinehurst Concours d’Elegance—it is Boyle’s second victory at Pinehurst...
Subscriber exclusive Photo Gallery from SVRA’s Nov. 20–21, 2021, SoCal SpeedTour at California Speedway, Fontana, California. #116 – 1967 Triumph Spitfire – Alan Berry Boris Said, yes that Boris, in...
What could be more refreshing on a warm, Saturday afternoon than opening up the fridge? Recently, I had the opportunity to do just that. “Boring” you say, “a refrigerator, is...
Pierce-Arrow’s Refusal to Sacrifice Quality to Save the Company There is something about the archer on the hood of a Pierce-Arrow that makes the car hard to pass by at...
The search for rare or interesting automobiles to profile for Vintage Road & Racecar has a few obvious starting points. Concours, especially ones like Amelia Island and Hilton Head, can yield...
The Ferrari F40 drove along the path of its predecessor, the Ferrari 288GTO, and became the second Ferrari with a limited number of manufactured units. No Subscription? You’re missing out...
Introduction Hello again! For those of you who have been following “T’s Corner” closely, you would have become quite familiar with my adventures in a 2020 Porsche Taycan 4S. It...
The Eagle Formula Ford that I won the SCCA Runoffs with in 1978 was a car I was involved with from very early in its development, and how that happened...
As you’ll read in this month’s news—and likely learned from our web site back on March 10—multi-time motorcycle and Formula One World Champion John Surtees has passed away at the...
Since the very dawn of motorsport, automobile racing has been governed by rules. The very first motoring competition was the Paris-Rouen trials in 1894. Organized by the Parisian newspaper Le...
Now Auto Union’s number one driver after replacing the dead Bernd Rosemeyer, Tazio Nuvolari and his Auto Union Type D on full song at the Nürburgring on 23 July 1938....
I was given the opportunity recently to see an advanced screening of Ron Howard’s much-anticipated movie Rush. I was allowed to bring a guest, so much to my wife’s chagrin,...
For the most part of the 20th century, Jaguar had been a dominant force on the race tracks around the world, winning the 1951 and 1953 Le Mans with the...
Seems unfathomable that we have never looked at this site (forgive us, Ferrari fans), but better late than never, and especially so given this month’s feature about the ex-Ascari Ferrari...
1961 Ferrari 250GT SWB “Comp/61” Inevitably, when the name Ferrari is brought up in conjunction with racing, the first thing that comes to the average enthusiast’s mind is Formula One. After...
Vector W8 Contents Engine & Performance Chassis & Handling Design, Styling & Interior Performance & Specs Summary Model & Pricing Info Body, Suspension & Powertrain Engine & Output Performance &...
Historic Downtown Port Perry, Ontario, will once again play host to the 7th Annual Brits on the Lake Classic Motoring Revival, billed as the British motor event with a heart!...
The Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion 2013 was staged August 15-18 on the 11-turn, 2.238 mile Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Salinas, California. The thrill of racing wheel-to-wheel is the theme...
2010 Concorso Italiano – Gallery 6 Main 2010 Concorso Italiano Coverage In its 25th year, Concorso Italiano had the largest display of the 2010 Monterey Weekend. Two fairways at the Laguna...
Casey Annis (Editor)Photo: Dan R Boyd At the end of January, I was asked if I’d speak at the new L.A. Classic Auto Show, that was being held at the...
Thirty years ago the world was no less crassly simplistic than it is today, and many people glancing at Peter Revson only wanted to see his glamorous lifestyle and gorgeous...
Alfa Romeo’s place at the heart of motor racing for more than 90 years has not just been down to their official factory participation but, very often, to the enthusiastic...
On July 26, 2022, Lamborghini teased a video showing the production-ready Huracán Sterrato supercar. It’s titled ‘Beyond the Concrete’ and is all part of a carefully curated marketing campaign to...
In 1955 Denis Jenkinson wrote of the EMW sports racers: “By comparison, the well-known 300 SLR Mercedes-Benz sports cars have a poor air-flow over the bodywork with their numerous louvers,...
I drove the Birdcage Maserati for Lucky Casner’s Camoradi Team on three occasions in 1960, beginning with the 1,000 kilometers of Buenos Aires where Masten Gregory and I led until...
I don’t know about you, but I’m big into planning. Whether it’s working around the house, restoring a racecar or going to a race, I like to have a game...
On a recent sunny Sunday afternoon, my wife walked into the kitchen to find me elbow deep in racing books, mumbling to myself. “Mumble, grumble, 128, mumble, mumble, 132…” “What...
Shanghai’s gaudy new, $300-million supercircuit, home of the first-ever Grand Prix in China, has a truly distinctive first turn complex. It coils up tightly one way like a watch spring,...
2016 Concours of Elegance Established in 2012, the inaugural Concours of Elegance is held within Windsor Castle. The show is a classic car-lovers dream. This year saw over 12,500 fans visit Windsor Castle to...
I did 525 races. I had five wheels come off, I’ve had seven or eight brake failures, and I have had the steering shear twice…where I have been driving along...
Can you hear that sound? It’s me, beginning to climb way out on a limb. Like most enthusiasts, I was anxious to digest the results of this year’s Scottsdale and...
You’ve just signed super-rookie Mario Andretti as your driver for the 1965 season, and you need a chassis. Everybody’s going with space-age monocoques based on the revolutionary Lotus Indy car....
The performance car world can be brutal for automakers. It becomes even more intense as you move into the limited-series supercar category. Within this niche space, performance alone is not...
Ever since my VRJ colleague, Pete Lyons, reminisced about his early trips to and ‘round the Nurburgring in the March 1999 issue, I’ve been waiting for the chance to indulge...
Hermann Paul Müller’s Auto Union heads into Schwantz Curve in 1938. Photo: Simon Lewis Donington devotee John Bailie is researching, designing and editing a book, planned for launch later this...
What else can you do but build your own car, if you cannot afford to do anything else? And what else is there to do but to offer $101 to...
Photo: BRDC Archive My greatest racecar is not a car I actually drove, but it represents a missed opportunity I had to get into Grand Prix racing in the 1960s....
Just before the holidays, I had the good fortune of attending a special tribute dinner at Southern California’s Petersen Automotive Museum. The museum holds several of these dinners each year...
No one was exactly thrilled when word reached Maranello, Modena, Arese and points north that the automobile club of an Italian seaside town called Bari was organizing a new Grand...
There have been countless memories created by Porsche at Le Mans, and to celebrate these moments, Porsche Museum will focus on “The Porsche success story in Le Mans” during the...
Brausch Niemann had a brief but successful career in motor sport and took part in two world championship Grands Prix, but he is best remembered for his exploits with a...
It was in March of 1974 when mass production of the Countach started at the Lamborghini factory in Sant’Agata Bolognese; a model that entered into legend and remained on the...
Sullivan’s best GP came in the tight and twisty streets of monaco where he started at the back of the grid, but drove through to finish a creditable 5th. Photo:...
Motor Racing History – The Big 12 Cylinders & The Arrival of Sponsorships, Advanced Safety and Aerodynamics Checkbook Racing The 1968 season had barely begun before it was rocked to...
One of the interesting things about getting older—at least as a car enthusiast—is looking back on all the cars that you either owned or let slip through your fingers…that are...
The 1950 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1950 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: April 23-24, 1950 / Winner: Marzotto G. – Crosara / Winning Speed: 77.00 mph / Starters: 375 /...
On October 15, 1953, Achille Castoldi sat in his boat on the water of Lake Iseo nestled between its more famous siblings Lake Como and Lake Garda. Surrounded by dense...
