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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BMW M1 Procar at the Nurburgring
September 3, 2010 – 10:37 AM | No Comment
BMW M1 Procar at the Nurburgring

Hang on and enjoy the wonderful sounds of the BMW Procar being riven hard around the Nurburgring.
The BMW M1 Procar Championship, sometimes known simply as Procar, was a one-make auto racing series created by Jochen …

Photo Gallery: Salzburgring Classic August 28 2010
September 1, 2010 – 10:18 AM | No Comment
Photo Gallery: Salzburgring Classic August 28 2010

Enjoy another fine gallery of photos from Karsten Arndt taken at the Salzburgring Classic.
There were some interesting cars and drivers at the event. The driver of the Ferrari in picture no. 27 is Walter König, …

Torana SLR 5000 heralds new era in Touring Car Masters
August 30, 2010 – 12:02 PM | No Comment
Torana SLR 5000 heralds new era in Touring Car Masters

The Touring Car Masters presented by Autobarn is set to move into a new era with the highly anticipated 1974 Holden LH Torana SLR 5000 debut at Muscle Car Masters on 4-5 September.
An icon of …

Tributes to John Surtees and BRM at Goodwood Revival
August 27, 2010 – 2:38 PM | No Comment
Tributes to John Surtees and BRM at Goodwood Revival

In just three week’s time Goodwood will be marking the important contribution that two British legends have made to the sport of motor racing over the decades when it pays tribute to multiple …

David Piper’s Porsche 917
August 27, 2010 – 1:39 PM | One Comment
David Piper’s Porsche 917

What do you say we let Porsche Club GB Motorsport and Marketing Director Geoff Turral show us around David Piper’s Porsche 917 #10—the first 917 available to a private team.
Harlo
via: TheChicaneBlog.com

Last-minute shootout clinches record sixth Leyburn Motor Sprints for Ray Vandersee
August 26, 2010 – 10:51 AM | No Comment
Last-minute shootout clinches record sixth Leyburn Motor Sprints for Ray Vandersee

A LAST-MINUTE, all-or-nothing run clinched a record sixth outright victory for Ray Vandersee and his self-built Skelta G-Force sports car at the 15th annual Leyburn Motor Sprints on Queensland’s Darling Downs last weekend.
Vandersee engaged in …

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 …

Touring Car Masters: Jim Richards AMC Javelin delayed
August 23, 2010 – 10:44 AM | No Comment
Touring Car Masters: Jim Richards AMC Javelin delayed

The long-awaited debut of Jim Richards’ AMC Javelin has been delayed, scrapping the chance for a Father’s Day father-son race in the Touring Car Masters presented by Autobarn at Muscle Car Masters on 4-5 September.
A …

AvD Oldtimer Grand Prix 2010: Photo Gallery
August 20, 2010 – 1:57 PM | No Comment
AvD Oldtimer Grand Prix 2010: Photo Gallery

Check these wonderful photos from Karsten Arndt taken at the 38th AvD-Oldtimer-Grand-Pri from the 13th – 15th August.
60.000 spectators and many professional and well-known drivers flew into the Eifel for the 38th AvD-Oldtimer-Grand-Prix.
The Nürburgring transformed …

Onboard: 1984 Jaguar XJR-5 at Monterey Motorsports Reunion
August 18, 2010 – 11:17 PM | No Comment
Onboard: 1984 Jaguar XJR-5 at Monterey Motorsports Reunion

Ride along with former IMSA GTP racer Rick Knoop as he pushes his big cat hard during the 2010 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion. The immaculate Group 44 XJR-5, built in 1985, produces the …

Second “Original” to join New Zealand F5000 series
August 18, 2010 – 10:29 PM | One Comment
Second “Original” to join New Zealand F5000 series

A second category original – Reg Cook – is set to join New Zealand’s world-leading MSC F5000 Tasman Cup Revival Series this season
Cook, now 63, raced a Lola T300 to second place in the local Gold …

Targa Florio ’73: last of the real road races
August 16, 2010 – 10:28 AM | No Comment
Targa Florio ’73: last of the real road races

An important chapter of sportscar racing came to an end on May 13th 1973 when the last ‘proper’ Targa Florio took place on the 45-mile Piccolo Madonie circuit on the Italian island of Sicily. Since …

Michel Collet: sculpteur de performances
August 15, 2010 – 11:12 AM | One Comment
Michel Collet: sculpteur de performances

Michel Collet likes details. Those little somethings that may seem insignificant to the untrained eye, but which, when done just right, are the difference between something ordinary and something timeless. We’re talking the headlamps on …

AvD Oldtimer Grand Prix 2010: Set to roar at Nürburgring 13-15 August
August 13, 2010 – 9:27 AM | No Comment
AvD Oldtimer Grand Prix 2010: Set to roar at Nürburgring 13-15 August

The AvD-Oldtimer-Grand-Prix at the Nürburgring is one of the outstanding meeting-places for the oldtimer community and the season highlight for oldtimer fans and lovers of classical racing sport. On the third August weekend (from 13th …

Stirling Moss to open the inaugural Chelsea AutoLegends
August 12, 2010 – 8:01 AM | No Comment
Stirling Moss to open the inaugural Chelsea AutoLegends

Sir Stirling Moss OBE will open this year’s inaugural Chelsea AutoLegends, an exciting new automotive extravaganza to be staged in the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea on Sunday 5 September.
Britain’s best-loved and …

Jenson and Lewis discuss Senna’s legendary 1988 McLaren MP4-4
August 11, 2010 – 8:15 AM | No Comment
Jenson and Lewis discuss Senna’s legendary 1988 McLaren MP4-4

It seems that Formula 1’s two most recent World Champions have a healthy respect for the sports history.
In the clip Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton visit  the world’s greatest garage containing McLaren’s F1 cars …

The Silverstone Classic 2010: Race Report and Photo Gallery
August 8, 2010 – 10:39 AM | No Comment
The Silverstone Classic 2010: Race Report and Photo Gallery

The Silverstone Classic conjures up images of classic racing cars thundering round Silverstone’s former Grand Prix circuit, this years event didn’t disappoint. The 22 race programme ranging from the HSCC’s ‘big engined touring cars’ of …

‘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 …

You were there: Silverstone Classic 2010
August 3, 2010 – 12:02 PM | No Comment
You were there: Silverstone Classic 2010

With some of the world’s most expensive classic cars not only on display but also racing – what more could a Motorsport Retro fan want for a weekend?
Absolutely nothing!!!!!
True classics that you …

You were there: Hockenheim Historic 2010
July 30, 2010 – 9:35 AM | No Comment
You were there: Hockenheim Historic 2010

The sixth edition of the “Jim Clark Revival” was run at the famous Hockenheimring in Germany on April 16-18 2010.
More than 24 000 fans turned up to watch more than ten racing series, like the …

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