Legends: King Kenny Roberts
August 30, 2010 – 11:38 AM | No Comment

It’s 32 years since Kenny Leroy Roberts hit the world 500 championship, shaking it from its previous Euro-centric axis.
Roberts was 26 — a cocky, race-savvy, mentally tough twice AMA national champion from a dusty part …

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Muscle Car Masters to celebrate 50 Years of the Australian Touring Car Championship
August 24, 2010 – 8:00 AM | No Comment
Muscle Car Masters to celebrate 50 Years of the Australian Touring Car Championship

Sydney’s Eastern Creek Raceway will once again play host to Australia’s largest gathering of racing muscle cars from as early as the 1960s – Muscle Car Masters.
Muscle Car Masters is a celebration of …

Miss Hurst Golden Shifter
August 13, 2010 – 10:32 AM | No Comment
Miss Hurst Golden Shifter

Check out these great pics of Miss Hurst Golden Shifter, Linda Vaughn.
Here is what the guys at The Selvedge Yard had to say
“Linda Vaughn, the lovely, leggy, legend of the auto racing scene from …

Legends: Max Deubel
August 12, 2010 – 7:51 AM | No Comment
Legends: Max Deubel

What do Max Deubel and Mike Hailwood have in common? From 1961 to ’65 both men won four successive world GP championships — Deubel in sidecars with Emil Hoerner, Hailwood in 500 GP. They were …

‘Godzilla’ returns to Lakeside 7-8 August
August 4, 2010 – 3:34 PM | No Comment
‘Godzilla’ returns to Lakeside 7-8 August

Two of the most exciting touring cars ever to race in Australia will be back on track at Queensland’s legendary Lakeside Park over the weekend of 7-8 August in the hands of their original drivers.
Touring …

Legends: Giacomo Agostini
August 3, 2010 – 10:19 AM | No Comment
Legends: Giacomo Agostini

Italy’s Giacomo Agostini holds the all-time records for the greatest number of world championships and grand prix victories.
Agostini between 1965 and 1976 won 122 grands prix in the 350 and 500 cm3 classes, and 15 …

Red and White Mini’s Return to Rallying
July 28, 2010 – 3:36 PM | No Comment
Red and White Mini’s Return to Rallying

Well it had to happen, I suppose: the words ‘Mini’ and ‘rally’ are to come into close contact for the first time since Monte Carlo in 1968, when the teeny tearaway’s reign of terror in …

Images of Burt Munro on the World’s Fastest Indian
July 22, 2010 – 9:06 AM | One Comment
Images of Burt Munro on the World’s Fastest Indian

Ron Kellogg is the owner of one of America’s largest and most important motoring photography archives.
Here is what Ron has said about these photos of Burt Munro from 1962-3 in the Jockey Journal.
Burt Munro was …

VMXWA 15th Anniversary Scramble 27-29 August 2010
July 14, 2010 – 9:10 AM | No Comment
VMXWA 15th Anniversary Scramble 27-29 August 2010

The Vintage Motocross Club of Western Australia are celebrating their 15th year with an Anniversary Scramble for its club Members. With a number of special guest riders from overseas attending, including former British scramble champions …

F5000 boost for New Zealand fans this summer
July 7, 2010 – 6:41 PM | No Comment
F5000 boost for New Zealand fans this summer

After seven seasons with rounds on both sides of the Tasman, the MSC F5000 Tasman Cup Revival Series looks set to be an almost all-New Zealand affair this summer.
Though allowance in the 2010/11 calendar has been made …

Tasman Series Photo Gallery 2: 1967-1969
July 4, 2010 – 10:03 AM | No Comment
Tasman Series Photo Gallery 2: 1967-1969

Here is another set of fabulous images from the Tasman Series from 1967 – 1969 by photographer Brian McInerney.
They are special, because this is the first time they have been published in …

Victory by design: Chevrolet Corvette L88
July 3, 2010 – 9:56 AM | One Comment
Victory by design: Chevrolet Corvette L88

Alain de Cadenet talks us through the rich heritage of one of Americas most famous racing cars. The Chevrolet Corvette L88.
The story begins with the number 9 car which entered Le Mans in 1967 and …

Retro Dude: Dan Šenkeřík
June 30, 2010 – 9:28 AM | No Comment
Retro Dude: Dan Šenkeřík

One of the most exciting things about our Facebook page is that it exposes us to the many talented and interesting people that make up our community. It serves as an excellent platform for you, …

Video: Lotus 38 to star at the Goodwood Festival of Speed
June 29, 2010 – 1:51 PM | No Comment
Video: Lotus 38 to star at the Goodwood Festival of Speed

One of the most eagerly anticipated appearances at next weekend’s 18th Goodwood Festival of Speed, indeed anywhere in historic motorsporting circles, will surely be the first public exercising of the iconic Lotus 38. Formula 1 …

Suzuki 50 years of racing 1960 – 2010
June 25, 2010 – 11:12 AM | No Comment
Suzuki 50 years of racing 1960 – 2010

Perched on a car bonnet, in freezing weather and while operating a cine camera, might sound a strange way to begin an international race program. But that was what entertained Isle of Man residents for …

Ford Focus RS goes retro with Le Mans editions
June 25, 2010 – 7:10 AM | No Comment
Ford Focus RS goes retro with Le Mans editions

Ecurie Ford France, one of the partners of the popular Le Mans Classic event which takes place between July 9th and 11th, has prepared a collection of just five Focus RS cars in …

Ride for your life – A Documentary about Grand Prix racer Mike Duff
June 19, 2010 – 11:31 AM | No Comment
Ride for your life – A Documentary about Grand Prix racer Mike Duff

Canadian born, Mike Duff was an excellent Grand Prix motorcycle racer of the 1960’s who won three Grand Prix in the 125cc and 250cc classes.
Ride for Your Life is a short documentary …

Trio at the top – The story of Kiwi legends McLaren, Hulme and Amon
June 14, 2010 – 10:26 AM | No Comment
Trio at the top – The story of Kiwi legends McLaren, Hulme and Amon

Click here to watch this wonderful documentary about Kiwi motor-racing legends Bruce McLaren, Denny Hulme, and Chris Amon.
Shot on a shoestring budget, but beautifully directed by one time amateur racer John Milligan, the doco uses …

Le Mans ’69: 100-yard humdinger
June 10, 2010 – 11:25 AM | No Comment
Le Mans ’69: 100-yard humdinger

The 37th running of the Le Mans 24 Hours features on most sportscar racing fans’ list of ‘greatest-ever races’ around the legendary La Sarthe venue – and for several good reasons.

Classic circuits: Brands Hatch
May 28, 2010 – 11:28 AM | 3 Comments
Classic circuits: Brands Hatch

Very few of the world’s modern-day, sanitised, super-safe international race tracks command the sort of respect their tree-lined, blind-summitted, heart-in-the-mouth forbearers once did. Names such as Elkhart Lake (Road America), Mosport, Nurburgring Nordschleife, Rouen and …

Motorsport Retro Launches Car Event Calendar
May 26, 2010 – 1:18 PM | No Comment
Motorsport Retro Launches Car Event Calendar

Motorsport Retro is pleased to announce the launch of its new Car Event Calendar.
Happily for us, the world of vintage and historic motorsport does not exist in a time capsule, a piece of history locked …

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