The dust has settled on this year's Monterey Car Week and that means the results are in from four days of vintage racing (six for those participating in the Pre Reunion) at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. The latest installment of the storied event highlighted 70 years of the Chevrolet Corvette...

alinas, CA -- While high-profile vintage racing groups such as 1967-84 Formula 1, 1966-74 Can-Am and the Historic Trans-Am anchored last month’s Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, the 50th anniversary celebration of Formula 5000 put on a whopper of a show for fans and participants alike.The F5000s platoon out for the...

You only get one opportunity to make a first impression. At Long Beach, that opportunity came in a Formula 5000 race in 1975. Elliott Forbes-Robinson, veteran sportscar racer and current IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship driver advisor, participated in that inaugural event and came away wowed with what he saw.“It was...

Subtitle:Redman Recalls 1975 Grand PrixBack in 1975, street racing was a distant memory for American sports car fans.An accident at the beginning of the second lap of the 1952 Grand Prix on the streets of the village of Watkins Glen, N.Y. effectively ended competition on public roads, leading to the...

Related StoriesIt was significant that Zak Brown's Lola T332, in the hands of Richard Dean, won Sunday's Formula 5000 race at the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. When the last professional Formula 5000 race was held at Monterey 40 years ago (Oct. 12, 1975), it was...