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At next year’s 82nd Members’ Meeting, we will see a time attack from the first generation of GT3 cars (2006 – 2012), like the Mercedes SLS, Porsche 911 GT3 R, Ferrari F430 or Aston Martin V12 Vantage.
It would be easy to sing the praises of a book costing €350 ($370). But for that kind of money, it had better be good. De Tomaso: Racing Blue Blood is not just good, it’s outstanding.
Even if he wasn’t a genius-level engineer and designer, Jim Hall would still be worthy of an in-depth biography by dint of his status as a genuine world-class racing driver, certainly one of the world’s finest during the 1960s.
Own 25 masterful photographs from the lavish McKlein motorsport archive, in large format. Oh yes, and know what day of the month it is as well. McKlein’s 2025 Motorsport Classic calendar is a great gift.
It was surprising news, a couple of weeks ago, when Rétromobile and duPont Registry announced there would be a USA edition of the classic Paris show in 2025 as well. ‘Why?’, we asked Rétromobile chief Romain Grabowski.
Masters Historic Racing has announced the 2025 calendar, which consists of eight rounds. For the final rounds of the season, Masters Historic turns to the Middle East, to Dubai and Abu Dhabi. Nineties 3.5-litre F1s appear in a demo series, and there is a new focus on Group C prototypes.
384 pages on a driver who was always there throughout the eighties and nineties, but rarely found himself where he wanted to be: at the front. Never look back is the story of the (racing) life of Derek Warwick.
Belgian Thierry Boutsen (67) is a triple Grand Prix winner in Formula 1. In last weekend’s Masters Racing Legends, ahead of the Spa Six Hours, Boutsen made his comeback in an F1 race, on the track where he made his Formula 1 debut in 1983.
Occasionally, a racing driver comes along who’s so phenomenally good, and whose record of accomplishment is so amazingly long and lofty, that a single autobiography simply isn’t enough. Appropriately, this title is the first of a planned two volumes on the life and racing legacy of the American motorsport icon, Anthony Joseph Foyt Jr.
Review by Jim Donnelly
The September rain turned the 26th running of the Goodwood Revival into an absolute treat for drivers and historic racing aficionados alike.
