Johnny Dumfries, who was Ayrton Senna’s teammate at Lotus in 1986, has died at the age of 62 following a short illness.The Scotsman’s full name was John Colum Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute, but he raced under the name Johnny Dumfries and won the 1984 British Formula 3 championship, and...

Sports car racing has lost one of its brightest lights with the passing of Chris Syfert, whose battle against pancreatic cancer came to an end on July 8.Having recently celebrated her 70th birthday, Syfert spent decades as a fixture in the sport before retiring to Florida earlier in the year....

IMSA's favorite teams and fastest drivers struggled to grasp the enormity of what had just taken place after 24 hours of frenzied racing.Porsche's streak of 11 consecutive wins at Daytona International Speedway, including back-to-back victories in 1986 and 1987 by Al Holbert Racing with its proven 962 prototype, had been...

Tags: Sahlen's Six Hours of The Glen«» Davy Jones ran the fastest lap in North American sports car racing history at Watkins Glen International back in 1992, touring the revised 2.45-mile Short Course in a mere 58.699 seconds – a 150.335 mph average – driving a Jaguar XJR-14 prepared by...

With the launch of the 2015 World Endurance Championship this weekend at Silverstone, we thought it would be appropriate for Throwback Thursday to to recall a bygone era of international sports car racing – the Group C cars of what was then called the Sports Prototype World Championship. Enjoy this...

The Group C designs of the 1980s and '90s generally, and the Jaguar prototypes entered by Tom Walkinshaw Racing in particular, are fondly remembered by many longtime sports car fans. Ahead of a meeting of the Goodwood Road & Racing meeting this March commemorating the era, British transport designer Mark...

RM Auctions offers a rare piece of sports car art: Jaguar XJR-9 #388 is the third of just three cars constructed for the 1988 IMSA GT Championship, run by Tom Walkinshaw Racing (TWR), and one of only two chassis ever manufactured as purpose-built IMSA specification cars.For more details about the...

Euroformula Open driver Sean Walkinshaw is to follow his late father Tom into sports car racing, starting with an assault on this month's Gulf 12 Hours in Abu Dhabi.The 21-year-old Briton, who has raced in the series formerly known as European Formula 3 Open for the past two seasons, will...