1933 Stickney Lincoln, UK – 2025 Redwood City, California.John passed away on Friday, March 21, 2025 age 91. [1] An appreciation compiled by Marcus Bicknell (marcus@bicknell.com www.dmtrg.com). You can download this tribute, with even more details, in pdf form here John Streets was remarkable in his straightforwardness, an engineering and race boffin delighted to express… Continue reading John Harold Streets 1933-2025
Category: Race Cars
Lee Osborne 1600cc Del Monte Trophy
The Del Monte Trophy Race Group for 1948-1955 sports racing cars makes an annual award to the best car and driver both for unlimited engine size and for the under-1600cc class. The 2024 under-1600cc trophy was presented to winner Leland Osbourne on March 30, 2025 at Laguna Seca during the HMSA Spring Event. The chairman… Continue reading Lee Osborne 1600cc Del Monte Trophy
Lime Rock – come and play
Calling all owner-drivers… The Lime Rock Vintage Festival 43 on the Labor Day Weekend of 2025 (August 29 – September 1) invites post war sports-racing cars to a unique race event… the first time the Monterey Sports Car Road Racers 1947-1955 are travelling to the east coast to take on the locals. This is the… Continue reading Lime Rock – come and play
Bill Pollack & Phil Hill talk
Bill Pollack (1925-2017) interviews Phil Hill (1927-2008) at his home on February 11, 2003 to discuss their early days in racing, often against each other. Phil Hill drove his Jaguar XK120 to victory in the first Pebble Beach Road Race, November 5, 1950, and provided the cornerstone of the 1948-1955 sports racing class which we… Continue reading Bill Pollack & Phil Hill talk
Our cars at the 2024 Rolex
We know you cannot get enough of these cars, on track or images. I have trawled through our photos from the 2024 Rolex Monterey Motorsport Reunion at Laguna Seca in August and show all but five of the cars we raced with. Most of these photos are by our esteemed friend and Allard fiend Colin… Continue reading Our cars at the 2024 Rolex
1952 Jaguar C-Type XKC018
Every Jaguar C-type is special, but few cars can claim to have had Formula 1 champions as both its first owner and its current one, from many decades apart. This particular C-type, chassis XKC018, is believed to have been originally supplied to Juan Manuel Fangio, and raced extensively across South America. Despite the arduous nature… Continue reading 1952 Jaguar C-Type XKC018
New movie on the Del Monte Trophy Race Group
February 1, 2025 – our brilliant 5-minute movie is releasedThe 1950s cars of the Del Monte Trophy Race Group triumph at the 2024 Velocity Invitational at Sonoma in California. British thoroughbreds including Jaguar, Cooper and MG fight off the assault of the California road race specials, the cars of the original Pebble Beach Road Races… Continue reading New movie on the Del Monte Trophy Race Group
Rob Manson, Baldwin Special
Rob Manson, Steward of the Del Monte Trophy Race Group, at the wheel of his unique 1949 Baldwin Mercury Special. Details about the car athttps://dmtrg.com/rob-manson-1949-baldwin-mercury-special/andhttps://dmtrg.com/1949-mercury-baldwin/ We are so grateful to have friends who take great photographs and make them available for the pleasure of everyone. Colin Warnes, leading light of the Allard Register http://www.allardregister.org/, has… Continue reading Rob Manson, Baldwin Special
Walt Hansgen Jaguar XK120 Special
Walt Hansgen’s 1951 Jaguar XK120 Special, now raced by Bob Millstein. Unable to purchase a C-Type for the 1953 season, Hansgen decided to transfer his Jaguar XK120’s key components to a lightweight “special”. By replacing the XK120’s basically two-dimensional ladder frame with an elaborate three-dimensional structure of (mostly) round tubing, he hoped to meet or… Continue reading Walt Hansgen Jaguar XK120 Special
More videos from Velocity
At the Velocity Invitational at Sonoma Raceway near San Francisco CA on 5th October 2024, the Group 1 cars, Sports Racing Cars 1948-1955 (the Del Monte Trophy Race Group after which this web site is named) took to the track for their first of 2 races. At the rolling start, Marcus Bicknell’s camera car (yellow… Continue reading More videos from Velocity