After 19 years, the high cost of operating the Coronado Speed Festival in San Diego is forcing the cancellation of the event after its organizer, the nonprofit San Diego Fleet Week Foundation, was pushed to the brink of insolvency.The foundation ran the Speed Festival as part of San Diego Fleet...

ABOVE: 1955 Lancia-Ferrari with owner Peter Giddings at the wheel at this year's SVRA U.S. Vintage Grand Prix at Watkins Glen. (Robert Adams photo)The Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) announced today a 15-race event schedule for 2017 that continues to enhance its national platform of premiere vintage racing events in...

Close historic racing like that seen above from Saturday's Group 6 race, is the order of the weekend at the Coronado Speed Festival, held in conjunction with Fleet Week San Diego in the Southern California seaside city.The event features fast-paced, thrilling auto racing and exhibitions for car enthusiasts of all...

At the Coronado Speed Festival, a homage to the Point Loma street race of 1915 was held with a field of period-correct cars.

Eleven Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) groups plus the Historic Trans-Am series converged on the tight, 1.7-mile makeshift course of the runways of North Island Air Station on Coronado Island Sept. 18-20 to produce some outstanding racing. The competitive action kept fans in packed grandstands affixed to their seats –...

The Coronado Speed Festival is a perfect example of the old adage, “a picture is worth a thousand words.” Anyone attending it can’t walk away with any impression other than it is a successful event. The word “festival” is apt but maybe an understatement. This thing is over the top....

One of the tenets of the San Diego Fleetweek Foundation – the organizers of the Coronado Speed Festival – is that they are there to serve active duty military personnel. It’s time for military men and women to enjoy and create special moments with their families without having to worry...

One of the delightful qualities of top-level vintage racing such as that found in the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) is the wonderful high-profile personalities you might bump into in the paddock. RACER reported yesterday how champion road racer Boris Said decided the Coronado Speed Festival was a great place...

Auto racing isn't new to the San Diego area and it didn't start with the first of 18 runnings of the Coronado Speed Festival vintage races dating back to 1997. In fact it was 100 years ago when the sport made its first big impression in the region. Some of...

When Coronado Speed Festival Founder Jim Philion considered last year the SportsCar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) as the sanctioning body for the event one stipulation was a must. The Naval Air Station paddock had to make ample room for the vintage NASCAR Cup racers.Related Stories"That was non-negotiable," Philion asserts. "We...