The gift certificate to the Skip Barber Racing School her dad had given to her older sister, Crystal, sat unused for several years. In 2015, then-19-year-old Taylor Hagler just had to take it and use it.Almost overnight, after three days and dozens of laps at speed around Michelin Raceway Road...

Different issues of Vintage Motorsport have appeal for different reasons, for me the fact I’ve been around the sport for so many years now I can find something that trips my memory switch.July/August 2014 (which I recently “re-discovered” and got to spend time with) holds special appeal and is an...

The lack of competition in the 1973 SCCA Can-Am series clearly heralded its imminent demise. “All Porsche, all the time. And most of the time, just one Porsche … Not a compelling story,” penned “Fast Lines” columnist Pete Lyons in the latest issue of Vintage Motorsport magazine. (Be sure to...

He was outside the comfort zone of his own shop, tools and methodology, working under the mammoth J&L Fabricating trackside operation at the Rolex Monterey Reunion. It had been a rare free weekend for Nick Slade, who struggles to say “no” to a friend in need.In this case, J&L Fabricating...

In summer 2021, word emerged from the Skip Barber Racing School that U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Dustin Burkhalter, a combat veteran wounded and released from service, had joined the expansive SBRS SRO TC America effort.An intern of sorts, Sgt. Burkhalter would help guide the Barber principals in the needed specialty...

My new wife and I returned from our May 1982 honeymoon to the terrible news that my favorite F1 driver, Ferrari’s Gilles Villeneuve, had been killed in a terrible accident at a silly little track in Belgium. Fast-approaching our 40th wedding anniversary, and thus 40 years since his death, Villeneuve...

No question that natural ability separated teenager Kenton Koch from the kart-racing pack of others gripped by the hope of a professional motorsports career.But natural ability alone has never been enough.Koch, now an in-demand GT driver and headliner in the tough SRO GT4 America series, is one of an ever-expanding...

The 2022 Vintage Racing season is already off and running in parts of the country with more temperate winter climates. While I was out of town recently, I took with me a well-worn, 22-year-old Vintage Motorsport issue celebrating the joy of another fresh new season underway.Issue 2000/4, the July/August 2000...

Just turned 20 in March 2021 when the word came she’d been awarded the prestigious Gorsline Company Scholarship for Young Racers, Courtney Crone could already boast a 16-year racing career. Through karting to quarter midgets, dirt and pavement midgets, speedway motorcycles, Formula F, F4 and more, the young Californian had...

The Classic Sports Racing Group (CSRG) published its 2022 racing schedule in mid-December, of interest to the vast West Coast vintage racer community. A May 21-22 race date was of interest to a much wider audience, however.“Laps for Laguna” is a new event, the joint creation of both the CSRG...