DAN GURNEY’S REAL-FINE CHEVY 409

Posted on January 11, 2025 by MartynL

DAN GURNEY’S REAL-FINE CHEVY 409 will Pace the Dan Gurney Saloon Car Trophy Race at the upcoming Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion! Few would call American racing hero Dan Gurney subtle when he entered a slightly modified stock ‘61 Chevy Impala to race against smaller displacement cars at the British Saloon Car Championship at Silverstone 63 years ago. Now, under the rightful ownership of his son Justin Gurney, this original Impala will be driven by Justin as the pace car for the Dan G...

PORSCHE RENNSPORT REUNION 7

Posted on October 12, 2023October 13, 2023 by MartynL

Pizazz, performance & provenance at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca for the PORSCHE RENNSPORT REUNION 7. How do you know if a niche motorsports event is successful? Well for one, it's 6 AM and you're seeing cars parked all over the hills that surround the event location – WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey County, California. And then you begin to see signs along the entry roads stating "General Admission and Paddock SOLD OUT." After reading that I stared down at the media pass and...

JAN HYDE, MR. CORVETTE RACING

Posted on October 1, 2023October 1, 2023 by MartynL

The Registry of Corvette Racing’s - JAN HYDE, MR. CORVETTE RACING – was bitten by the Corvette ‘bug’ in 1964, resulting in the purchase of a ’60 Corvette Fuelie. And, he still owns it! Jan Hyde firmly believes that it was racing that saved the Corvette from an early death, and he has dedicated untold hours to preserving and celebrating its racing achievements from earliest times to the present. But it was probably his relationship with legendary privateer Corvette racer and SCCA B/Sport...

ULTRA-LIGHT SUPERCARS DEBUT IN MONTEREY

Posted on August 17, 2023August 17, 2023 by MartynL

Gordon Murray Design ULTRA-LIGHT SUPERCARS DEBUT IN MONTEREY, breaking cover at The Quail Motorsports Gathering! Today, Gordon Murray Automotive customers enjoyed an exclusive reveal of the very first production T.50, the T.33 Spider and the T.50’s dynamic prototype XP1. This incredible line-up will make its public debut at The Quail on Friday 18 August, 9:20 am. Gordon Murray Technologies Ultralight iStream® technology is an entirely new carbon/aluminum vehicle chassis architecture, first con...

JAGUAR C-TYPE & D-TYPE CONTINUATION CLASSICS

Posted on August 16, 2023 by MartynL

Laguna Seca and The Quail will showcase JAGUAR C-TYPE & D-TYPE CONTINUATION CLASSICS during Monterey Car Week! Jaguar Classic is continuing its global tour of its authentic luxury collectibles, the C-type and D-type Continuations. The official classic division of JLR will be exhibiting at this year’s Monterey Car Week in California for the first time since 2018, at both The Quail, and in a debut for the brand, the Rolex Motorsports Reunion at Laguna Seca. This comes after JAGUAR C-T...

VELOCITY INVITATIONAL MOTORSPORTS FESTIVAL

Posted on October 21, 2022October 21, 2022 by MartynL

Jim Palam headed to WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca for the VELOCITY INVITATIONAL MOTORSPORTS FESTIVAL with a craving. Discovers he's just one among 15,000 with a 'Need for Speed.' It is like your favorite piece of pie. You will make sacrifices just so you can enjoy it again and again. I had my first Velocity slice a year ago and what a treat to be back to enjoy the VELOCITY INVITATIONAL MOTORSPORTS FESTIVAL again in 2022! For those of you still waiting to take a bite of Velocity I'...

SALOON GROUP: 2022 ROLEX MONTEREY HISTORICS

Posted on February 8, 2022February 8, 2022 by MartynL

Among the many makes and models eligible for the SALOON GROUP: 2022 ROLEX MONTEREY HISTORICS is this ‘67 Alfa Romeo GTA, which Brandon Adrian drove at the 2018 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion. Visitors to the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion August 17-20 will see a decidedly European staple rev to life. The historic Saloon (or Touring) car race group is an exciting class that always produces an interesting variety of cars when they race at equally legendary tracks like Silverstone, Spa...

Velocity: Invitational Motorsports Festival

Posted on December 2, 2021December 3, 2021 by MartynL

There are times when even a serious car guy needs a little nudge to get up early and head out in the dark to cover a motorsports event. So, we're happy to report that our Jim Palam saw the light, set his alarm and got the story for us! Here's his coverage of the Velocity: Invitational Motorsports Festival, where legendary cars, drivers and fans soaked up the sun and racing fuel at Laguna Seca! Velocity is a vector quantity that refers to "the rate at which an object changes its position...

MONTEREY 2021: ROLEX MOTORSPORTS REUNION!

Posted on August 24, 2021August 24, 2021 by MartynL

Jim Palam set his GPS and focus on WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, as he headed out into a dense morning fog to capture the action and excitement of Monterey Car Week's largest event – historic car racing at MONTEREY 2021: ROLEX MOTORSPORTS REUNION! I consider myself a good driver but I was unusually nervous heading into a heavy fog shrouding the long, ridgetop South Boundary Road that leads to the admissions checkpoint at Laguna Seca. The unforgiving fog was one thing, but the realiza...

IN DETAIL: FLY LIKE AN EAGLE!

Posted on April 28, 2020April 28, 2020 by MartynL

Both Steve Miller (Band) and Dan Gurney had chart-topping Eagles, but IN DETAIL: FLY LIKE AN EAGLE! zooms in on Dan Gurney’s AAR, the only constructor in the US to design and build winning F1, Indy 500 and sports car Eagles. For our second installment of “In Detail”, we look at a pair of Eagles from the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance (AICE), up close and personal. These came from All American Racers (AAR), established by Dan Gurney who made many contributions to racing as a driver, owner, c...