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American motorsport legend Roger Penske is set to return to Goodwood for the first time in nearly 60 years this summer with a planned appearance at the Festival of Speed.

A Jordan-Cosworth 191 is set to be among the Formula 1 cars at Donington Park next month for the first of a new series of demos from Masters Historic Racing.

Goodwood's popular Festival of Speed event is the latest motorsport fixture to be postponed due to the global coronavirus pandemic.

Three-time Indianapolis 500 winner and four-time IndyCar champion Dario Franchitti will return to racing for the first time since his career-ending 2013 accident at next month’s Goodwood Revival.

Ferrari's test mule for the 275 GTB, which stretched its legs on Rally Monte Carlo in 1966, is now expected to fetch over $6m at auction

This all-American icon was fielded by Team Menard in Indycar racing during the 1980s, including a top 10 finish at the Indy 500

A Bugatti Type 35A grand prix car piloted by marque legend Louis Chiron will be auctioned in Arizona next January

A 1950s factory Scuderia Ferrari sports car raced by a star-studded list of F1 world champions is now the 10th most expensive car ever sold at auction

The Donington Grand Prix Collection, once the most outstanding assembly of racing cars in the world, will close its doors on November 5.

The death of Barrie ‘Whizzo’ Williams on Saturday morning has robbed motorsport of a great character who became one of Britain's premier touring car drivers before turning his deft hands to the historic racing scene.

Legends from Le Mans, Indycar and Formula 1 share their memories of racing and creating Lolas through the marque's great history

Former Formula 1 driver Karun Chandhok will race a McLaren-Elva M1A in next month’s Goodwood Revival.

Ten Le Mans 24 Hours winners will join approximately 1000 other drivers for the ninth running of the Le Mans Classic on July 6-8.

Former Formula 1 racer and British F3 champion Tommy Byrne will return to European racing at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone next month. 

The Roborace autonomous racing car will take part in the 2018 Goodwood Festival of Speed.

Jenson Button will make his historic racing debut this year, dovetailing his Japanese Super GT commitments with Le Mans Classic and Goodwood Revival outings.

One of the most memorable races in the history of Donington Park, the rain-soaked 1993 European Grand Prix won by Ayrton Senna, will be celebrated at this year’s Donington Historic Festival (May 4-6).

Former Grand Prix star David Coulthard will return to Goodwood for the 76th Members’ Meeting when he will race a Mercedes 300SL in the Salvadori Cup.

Imagine an exhaustive search led you to uncover a rare motor racing treasure destined for the scrap heap – and then it was sold out from under you for $336,000. That's what a German man is claiming happened to him.

The Monaco Grand Prix-winning Williams FW08C formerly driven by Keke Rosberg will be a star attraction at Thruxton’s 50th anniversary race meeting on June 2/3.

This year's British Grand Prix weekend will feature two support races for a full grid of cars from 1966 to 1985.

Hyundai WRC driver Thierry Neuville will use the Opel Corsa with which he began his rallying career 11 years ago for an event in Belgium next week.

An Arrows Formula 1 car and a street legal 1200-horsepower Toyota 86 are set to race each other during the Adelaide Motorsport Festival next weekend.

The 60th anniversary of the Formula Junior category will be a key historic motorsport display at Autosport International at the Birmingham NEC (11-14 January).

Some of the most beautiful, and now valuable, cars ever built for sports car racing will take part in a brand new event in France next September, supported by Richard Mille.

Marty McCormack and Barney Mitchell won the revived 2017 Roger Albert Clark Rally in their Ford Escort Mk2 after four days of forest competition.

The return of Formula 5000s to Castle Combe will be one of the key attractions at the circuits’ Autumn Classic race meeting on Saturday.

The remarkable story of Ferrari at Le Mans was the key theme of the fourth Chantilly Arts and Elegance Richard Mille event at Chantilly Castle, near Paris, last weekend.

Ex-Ferrari Formula 1 driver Felipe Massa and former team chief Jean Todt will be part of a 70th anniversary celebration at this weekend's Chantilly Arts and Elegance Richard Mille event.

Some of the biggest names in the sport will race at this weekend's Goodwood Revival meeting during the most colourful and theatrical event in the historic racing season.

French racer David Ferrer has passed away from injuries sustained in a crash at the Zandvoort Historic Grand Prix last weekend.

Competitive motorsport will make its annual return to Crystal Palace on the August bank holiday, 44 years after the south London track hosted its last race meeting.

Next year’s Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach support race roster will feature the ‘pony cars’ from the legendary era of Trans Am racing

The world’s largest gathering of Porsche racecars and drivers will return to Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in September 2018.

The 50th anniversary of Formula 2's 1600cc era will be celebrated at the Oulton Park Gold Cup by two headline races in the HSCC Historic Formula 2 FIA-sanctioned International Series.

A rare BMW 635 CSi built and raced to Australian Group C regulations in the 1980s won the ‘Most Admired Car’ award at last weekend’s Silverstone Classic.

Norisring DTM fans were given a wonderful nostalgia trip last weekend as the Tourenwagen Classics series joined the bill for the Nuremberg street track’s annual racing festival.

The first iteration of Aston Martin’s only outright Le Mans 24 Hours winner is expected to sell for more than $20 million when it goes for auction in August.

For the first time, the Central Feature at Goodwood’s Festival of Speed on June 29-July 2 will celebrate an individual rather than an honoured marque when it focuses on the life and career of Bernie Ecclestone.

The 18th edition of the Richard Mille Rallye des Princesses was decided by a change of lead on the last of five days of competition across France in classic cars.

A total of 100 all-female crews are taking part in the Richard Mille Rallye des Princesses this week, in five days of competition across France in classic cars.

Formula 1 cars will race against Formula 5000s at Silverstone this weekend, 42 years after the last non-championship International Trophy race at the British Grand Prix venue.

History will be made in November when Britain’s Shelsley Walsh hillclimb course is used downhill for a rally special stage.

Hollywood star Sir Patrick Stewart OBE will return to the racing scene at the Silverstone Classic in July in an Austin A35.

Classic Formula 1 cars will return to the streets of Adelaide later this year, with confirmation of the date of the 2017 Adelaide Motorsport Festival.

An incredible list of legends of Australian motorsport have been confirmed as guests at this year’s Muscle Car Masters at Sydney Motorsport Park, led by Ford icon Allan Moffat.

Zak Brown sweeps ex-Dyson Porsche 962 to victory from pole-position

Our sister website Motor1.com dissects David Kimble's famous cutaway drawing of the most expensive car ever sold at auction.