The 33rd annual Concorso Italiano, arguably the world’s largest and most prestigious exotic and luxury Italian car show, announced that a...
Robert Opron passed away last month, tragically from complications due to Covid 19. His body of work would certainly warrant...
After some fifty years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was formed by the FIA (Federation Internationale de L’Automobile) in 1950 with its first race, the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. This was to be the first World Drivers Championship, in the world’s most technically advanced...
Palm Beach International Raceway, West Palm Beach, FL January 24–25, 2013 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This...
1925 Bugatti Type 39. Photo: Mike Jiggle There is something very special about a Bugatti, and this example is very special...
The Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance 2010 paid tribute to all that is Alfa Romeo, celebrating the centennial of the Italian auto manufacturer founded as Anonima Lombarda Fabbrica Automobili. The Pebble Beach Concours gathering along Carmel Bay showcased vehicles ranging from a 1910 A.L.F.A. 24 HP to the just-unveiled Alfa Romeo...
Carroll Shelby once remarked, “There are only two people I can think of who could sit down, take a welding...
Just days after his 1959 Le Mans-winning teammate, Carroll Shelby, and a matter of weeks since Ted Cutting, designer of...
Peter Revson Alexander Wurz Niki Lauda Richard Seaman 1 Bobby Rahal, Bob Garretson, and Brian Redman, drive a Porsche 935 K3 to victory in the 24 Hours of Daytona. First IMSA GTP race (1981). 3 Paul Goldsmith drives Smokey Yunick’s Pontiac to victory in the last stock car race on...
FIA Safety Delegate Any organization is, in truth, only as good as the people in it, and motor sport’s global...
A little more more than 50 years ago, Montreal, Canada was busy preparing to host the 1967 World’s Fair, to be known as Expo ‘67. The theme for this celebration of Canada’s Centennial was “Man and his World”, which was to celebrate the many technological advances modern humans were making,...
The FIA sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations...
On February 20, the Alfa Romeo Sauber F1 Team launched its new challenger, the C37, for the 2018 Formula 1...
December 2009 Italian Monster Dear Editor, Beautiful job with the Cad-Alfa (also loved the Watkins Glen story and Kessler interview). The three Torrey Pines photos were all taken at the July meet, not the December ’52 one, which I know not only because I took one of them, but because...
Still racers, after all these years. That’s what I was thinking as one veteran driver after another mounted the stage...
lfredo Ferrari (Dino) was Enzo Ferrari’s first son, born January 19, 1932. At the time, Enzo was still racing for...
I spent the greater part of my Formula One career with Alfa Romeo, joining them in 1979 and leaving at the end of 1982. In 1978 I did five Grands Prix for McLaren in a third car. I don’t remember exactly how Alfa Romeo contacted me, but they wanted to...
Last weekend, Alfa Romeo showcased its racing heritage at the 101st edition of the Targa Florio, held in Sicily, Italy....
Goodyear has announced a long-term tire supply agreement with Masters Historic Racing, one of the world’s leading promoters of historic...
In just a few days, the Concours of Elegance 2021 will start and again, we’ll be able to see the world’s rarest cars gathered together and displayed amidst celebration and revelry. The full list of cars that will be in attendance is now known and it shows the evolution of...
The 1932 season would be fought without the German cars from Daimler Benz. It would also be one with an...
Eight distinguished automobiles have been selected as finalists for the 3rd annual Peninsula Classics Best of the Best Award, with...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These early innovators are in an elite club, their place in automotive history guaranteed, as the creators of true classic sports cars, genuine thoroughbreds. The development of the racing sports car...
Storm Frank, which battered and flooded many parts of the UK at the turn of the New Year, didn’t deter...
[Click here to read the second installment] Sure enough, the more liberal formula of the 1949 Mille Miglia attracted a record number of 375 entries for the 1950 event. Many of the drivers simply regarded the race in their tiny, uncompetitive cars as a fun day out. But the seriously...
Exotic doesn’t cut it when it comes to describing this gutsy, fun-loving, vivacious show-off of a beauty who was born...
Bonhams Festival of Speed Sale will see three track legends on offer, including the last Alfa Romeo to campaign in...
The 182T, the 182 chassis fitted with the Turbo V-8, first appeared at Monza, near the end of the 1982 season, although it was not run in the race. Photo: Centro di Documentazione Storica Alfa Romeo Our rest had been interrupted by teens partying in the motel, in Syracuse on...
