The Porsche Museum is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the 914 model series with a rare special exhibit on display...
Month: April 2009
The 2009 Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix will take place July 18-19 at Schenley Park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Pittsburgh Vintage...
Hermann Lang was born on April 6, 1909 in Cannstatt near Stuttgart, and if he were alive, today would mark...
Historic Trans-Am released their 2009 vintage race schedule, which only features vintage races on the West Coast. However, don’t be...
1934 French Grand Prix – Giants in the Ring By Barré Lyndon Although the French Grand Prix had always been...
1937 Donington Grand Prix – When The Germans Came to Donington by Rodney Walkerley The Donington Grand Prix of 1937...
1953 French Grand Prix – The New Boy Makes Good By Rodney Walkerley I find this a most difficult report...
1951 British Grand Prix – Froilán González’s Greatest Race By José Froilán González More than twenty years have passed since that...
1973 Argentine Grand Prix – Emerson Fittipaldi’s Greatest Race By Emerson Fittipaldi Before the 1973 Argentine Grand Prix, I knew...
1954 Fiat 8V Zagato If you lived through the ’60s and ’70s, then Sunset Boulevard, in Southern California, likely holds...
The Lotus 19 took sports car racing to a whole new level upon its debut in 1960, rendering rivals such...
A primer on in-car video systems for the historic racer. Humans are such visual animals that even when our eyes...
Bill Milliken has had an interesting life. As an engineer in both the aviation industry and later consultant to the...
A year or so ago, I wrote here about the number of inquiries I was receiving on my view of...
Some time ago, Vintage Racecar published ”Absent Friends,” my story of astonishing heroism of another kind. It involved three motor...
When Formula Junior came to the UK shores, to replace the now out-dated 500-cc Formula Three racing, I felt that...
Unquestionably, one of the most dominating racing cars was the Mercedes W196, particularly with drivers such as Fangio and Moss...
This is a little-known story, but the real father of Riverside Raceway was Jim Peterson. I thought this would be...
This painting depicts Mike Hawthorn, winner of the 1954 Spanish Grand Prix at Pedralbes, Barcelona, in the Ferrari 553 “Squalo”...
April 2009 The Dutch Grand Prix; Zandvoort, July 18, 1965. John Surtees during practice with the Ferrari 158/63 at Tarzan...
What started as an April Fool’s joke on a long defunct track, ended up becoming an interesting insight into fear...
Carlos Sainz Al Unser Jr. 2 Three-time Formula One World Champion Jack Brabham is born (1926). 3 Pierro Taruffi drives...
The 14th annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance highlighted the career of racing driver and SPEED TV racing analyst David Hobbs....
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motor sports: the...
Emerson Fittipaldi has an impish sense of humor and, one day at Brands Hatch, he unloaded it on my poor...
April 2009 OttoVú By Tony Adriaensens While I have said it before, thank God for obsessive enthusiasts—they always produce the...
Created by a quartet of members from the Binghamton Automobile Racing Club, this site bills itself as a repository for...
Vintage Racecar is saddened to learn of the passing of one of the founding fathers’ of South African motor sport...