On May 9th, 1992, Roberto Guerrero earned the pole position for the 76th running of the Indianapolis 500-mile race. Piloting...
Vintage Racecar Features
This Hustler is not an unsavory men’s magazine, nor is it Jackie Gleason playing a pool shark, nor a con...
The Ford Motor Company recently announced its entrance into a technical partnership with defending Formula One World Champions Red Bull Racing, opening what the company’s executive chairman William Ford termed “an exciting new chapter” in the firm’s long and illustrious motorsports history. New FIA engine regulations for Formula 1 are...
1955 Aston Martin DB 2/4 Four days, four countries, more than 1,000 kilometers, in cars that are the envy of...
The 2012 European Grand Prix at the forgotten, abandoned Valencia Street Circuit. Image via Planet F1 Formula One, by its...
PRELIMINARIES The 2023 Daytona 24 hours was the 61st year of the event. It was once again a watershed year, as this was the first year of the new GTP (Grand Touring Prototype) cars. These of course are the new prototypes that came out of the combined rule set between...
These are not happy times for Aston Martin. The British luxury carmaker is fighting ferociously for its survival in a...
The first few years of the 1950s saw sports car events evolve from chummy club gatherings for “gentlemen racers” into...
The Targa Florio is like an opera. Dramatic, historic, and totally Italian. An event orchestrated to honor tradition and emotion, with all the characters you’d expect from an Italian classic. Drivers first raced these roads in 1906 (Targa Florio history), back when they were little more than dirt paths winding...
There is a road in Bennington County, Vermont, called Skyline Drive. It takes you to the top of Mt. Equinox....
I recently had the pleasure of chatting with professional race car driver, Max Hanratty. As part of the Fast MD...
Nineteen thirty-five was an excellent Grand Prix season, the best against strong and varied opposition that Mercedes-Benz enjoyed in Year Two of the new 750-kilogram G.P. formula. In its second season the W25 was fully proven and raced as part of a team that was at last operating as a...
For years, a collection of the most extraordinary, unrestored Bugatti cars has sat, meticulously cared for and researched, in a...
At Watkins Glen they said, “It looks like the box it came in.” Even that harsh judgement of the appearance...
Can it be? Well, yes it is! 50 years since Emerson Fittipaldi took his first F1 World Championship. At 25, Emerson was, at the time, the youngest champion in F1 history. Completing the double that year, Team Lotus also won the F1 Constructors Championship using the Lotus 72, or John...
New Zealand motor sport enjoyed a golden age during the 1960s and early 1970s when no less than three drivers...
If you are in any way, shape, or form a fan of Formula One, you were probably as surprised as...
On New Year’s Eve in 1950, the first endurance race run at Sebring was won by a very unlikely car, a car with an engine that displaced just 44 cubic inches, put out 26.5 horsepower, and had only been entered the day before the 6-hour race was held. It was...
Unleashing the rampant horsepower of its global ‘Total Performance’ campaign, Ford funded many racing stables but could never quite commit...
I don’t usually spend too much time on preamble prior to getting into the nitty-gritty of the subject car. However,...
All photos by Sean Smith & Ai Design. Matt Figliola’s dad was much more creative than your average bear. He impressed upon his son the importance of attention to detail. Dad started Matt and his brother on a long list of hobbies: model plane building, RC planes, RC cars, and...
Some 38 years ago, there was a vintage event like no other. It was the 1985 Palm Springs Vintage Grand...
The search for speed has motivated every racer since the dawn of the sport, obsessively driving them to go as...
Ferrari put the pedal to the metal in 1957 with new racing cars of magnificent four-cam V-12 power. In spite of Maserati’s V-8 response, Ferrari prevailed in what history would declare the final season for sports-racers of unlimited capacity. The 1956 season of the World Sports-Car Championship saw Ferrari resuming...
Motorsports, for better or for worse, 80% of the time need to be run at dedicated facilities built precisely to...
Arie Luyendyk is a household name in motor racing, especially in Indianapolis folklore, but it was a long and arduous...
Out there since the mid-1950s, the Mercedes-Benz SL has been a staple post-WW2 sports car for Stuttgart’s automaker. Deeply rooted in motorsport, the roadgoing SL was born by taming a Le Mans-winning 300SL race car and from there, it branched into two categories. First, there was the über SL, a...
Back in 1977, a group of Atlanta car folk had a need for speed but didn’t want to end up...
What began as a study of Asian automobile advertising of the late 1950s has unearthed a rare tale of a...
Sometimes a slogan doesn’t mean very much. Take for example Exxon’s “Happy Motoring” or Pontiac’s “We Are Driving Excitement” – given the ever-increasing price of gas and the recent demise of an entire GM brand, these slogans may ring hollow in many ears. However, at Philadelphia’s Simeone Foundation Museum, home...
