Phil Remington. Photo courtesy Greg Sharp, Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum. Located in Daytona Beach, Florida, the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America (MSHFA) is the only institution to recognize...
NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte, North Carolina. Photo courtesy NASCARHall.com. Each year, a voting panel of NASCAR representatives, NASCAR Hall of Famers, track owners, media, manufacturer’s repres...
Photos courtesy public domain (left), and Bertel Schmitt (right). While his cousin and son got in before he did, Toyota Motor Company founder Kiichiro Toyoda will this year take his place alongside t...
Jeff Gordon celebrates Brickyard 400 win number five in 2014. Photo copyright and courtesy of Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Founded in 1952 as the Auto Racing Hall of Fame, the institution created to ...
Ed Justice, Jr. (L) and Scott Pruett. Photo courtesy Justice Brothers, Inc. In a racing career that spanned five decades, Scott Pruett earned countless wins, poles and podiums, along with championshi...
Jeff Gordon celebrates a win at Kansas Speedway in May 2014. Photo by HHP/Harold Hinson for Chevrolet. What do “Lil’ John” Buttera, Carl G. Fisher, Jeff Gordon, Howard Hughes, “Flyin’ Fred” Merkel, U...
Visitors at the 2017 induction ceremony. Photos courtesy British Sports Car Hall of Fame. Established in 2016, the British Sports Car Hall of Fame’s mission is to “preserve and perpetuate the legacy ...
Photos courtesy Automotive Hall of Fame archives. The man behind some of the most noteworthy successes in a wide variety of segments of the auto industry will, for the first time, get an exhibit dedi...
2018 Corvette Hall of Fame inductees John Greenwood, Burt Greenwood, Tom Wallace, and Mike Yager. Images courtesy National Corvette Museum. Since its inception in 1997, the Corvette Hall of Fame, loc...
Photo courtesy of FIA On the evening of December 4, The FIA formally introduced the Formula 1 Hall of Fame by inaugurating its first class: each of the 33 men who have won at least one F1 title since...
Back, L to R: Brad Francis, Greg Ozubko, Simon Menzies, Alan Kenny, Kevin Power, Rob Flynn, Gary Beck, Bob Papirnick, Eddy Bryck, Ray Peets, Don MacCallum and Robert Slater. Front, L to R: Greg Nicke...
Bud Moore at the Motor Trend 500, 1967. Images courtesy Ford Motorsports. Legendary crew chief, team owner, and 2011 inductee into the NASCAR Hall of Fame Walter Maynard “Bud” Moore Jr. has died. Moo...
Typical soap box derby stock cars. Photo by thegforcers. Formulas and templates dominate pretty much all forms of racing, and soap box derby racing is no exception. The stock car template in soap box...
Peter Fontana’s Deuce coupe at The Race of Gentlemen. Images by the author. There probably has not been a time, at least in living memory, when the 1932 Ford was anything less than an icon of motorin...
Photos courtesy NASCAR Hall of Fame. Each year, a panel of panel of NASCAR luminaries (including officials, retired drivers, track owners, and the current Monster Energy series champion), media, manu...
Pumpkin Seed at Bonneville in 2006. Photos by the author, except where noted. It put multiple racers in the 200-mph Club. It’s had multiple land-speed racing luminaries in its cockpit between two sti...
Pumpkin Seed at Bonneville in 2006. Photos by the author, except where noted. It put multiple racers in the 200 MPH Club. It’s had multiple land-speed racing luminaries in its cockpit between two sti...
Breedlove at the time he received the Spirit of Competition Award from the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum in Philadelphia in 2011. Photo courtesy Simeone Museum. “The Bonneville Salt Flats have...
Image courtesy Fruehauf Trailer Historical Society. The man who lent his name to the General Motors of the trailer industry will also take a place among the automobile industry’s pioneers later this ...
Dario Franchitti (L) and Bruce McLaren. Photo courtesy Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Bruce McLaren, best known for his dominance in the Can-Am series as both a driver and constructor, never drove in t...
Mario Andretti at the 1969 Indianapolis 500. Photo courtesy Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Established in 2014 and named for the man who brought motor racing to Watkins Glen, the Cameron R. Argetsinger...
Photo courtesy the Petty Family Foundation. Racing drivers are very seldom household names in the United States, but Richard Petty is surely an exception to this rule. Petty is known simply as “The K...
Photo courtesy Italdesign. Giorgetto Giugiaro, one of the most prolific automotive designers the world has ever known, has been awarded the inaugural Matita d’Oro, or Golden Pencil, award by the Nati...
Steve Kinser. Photo courtesy Tony Stewart Racing. Seven stars representing a variety of racing disciplines have been elected to the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America for 2017, their enshrinement an...
Rick Hendrick (L) and Dale Earnhardt Jr. at Martinsville in 2014. Photo by Andrew Coppley/HHP for Chevy Racing. It’s the opening month of the new year, and that means that NASCAR’s Hall of Fame in Ch...