In 1938, Tazio Nuvolari left Alfa Romeo after narrowly avoiding serious injury when the uncompetitive car he was driving burst...
The FIA sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations...
In the wake of the success of this year’s inaugural event at the historic O’Donnell Golf Club in Palm Springs, California, the second annual Desert Classic Concours d’Elegance will honor Alfa Romeo as its featured marque. Also planned for the March 1, 2009, event is a focus on great racing...
Despite mid-August being a predictably warm and sunny month, nothing was going to stop the climatic conditions, synonymous with the...
This week’s look back at old classified advertisements features a Alfa Romeo race car offered for sale in the May...
The more in-depth summaries of the life and career of Phil Hill have focussed on three significant aspects: the racing accomplishments, the complex nature of the man, and the fact that he was an underrated driver. Phil died of respiratory complications due to Parkinson’s disease on August 28, 2008. He...
Andre Boillot Rex Mays 1 Mika Hakkinen wins the Japanese GP and his first Formula One world title at Suzuka...
November 2008 Can-Am Thunder DVD By Duke Video As highlighted in this month’s feature on the 1970 Can-Am event at...
The 1938 Alfa Romeo 8C, owned by Jon and Mary Shirley of Medina, Washington, was named “Best of Show” at the 58th Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, held Sunday, August 18. Shirley, Vintage Racecar reader and the former president and chief operating officer of Microsoft who resides in Medina, Washington, purchased...
12/6/08 Update: We sold the Alfa back to the person that sold it to us. He was very happy to...
Nigel Mansell Bernd Rosemeyer 2 PJ Jones drives a Toyota Eagle MkIII to victory in the final IMSA GTP race,...
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 with their place in automotive history guaranteed as the creators of true classic sports cars, a genuine thoroughbred. The development of the racing...
October 2008 Carlos Lepro’s Giulia—The First Winning GTA By Bernardo D. Martínez, MD For ten days, in October 1965, a...
Andrea Pininfarina, 51, has died as the result of a road traffic accident in Turin on August 7th. He was...
Karl Abarth was a magician. A waver of wands whose magic brought the exquisite pleasure of higher-performance motoring and motor racing to men and women of modest means. His speciality was conversion. And he turned the Fiat 500 and 600 low-powered tin boxes into teeth-gnashing, tire-smoking predators that won thousands...
Jerry Marshall Tazio Nuvolari 1 Ferdinando Minoia drives an Isotta-Fraschini to victory in the Coppa Florio race in Italy (1907)....
On winter’s final weekend in the Southern Hemisphere, September 20-21, the Veloce Racing Association will hold its second annual East...
I stood back watching, as Monterey feted the Fangio marque. Fangio marque? Yes, Juan Manuel Fangio is the only person, to date, to be so honored by the Monterey Historics. A weekend packed with his cars, his victories, and a reenactment, as far as it was possible, of his glorious...
This year’s Monterey Historic Automobile Races marks the 35th running of this classic event. As shown schematically in the Laguna...
Mario Andretti I had three different seasons in Alfa Romeo sports cars. People remember that I drove for them in...
Ronnie Peterson Giuseppe Campari 1 James Hunt, driving a McLaren-Ford, wins the German Grand Prix on the Nürburgring. Niki Lauda crashes his Ferrari on the second lap and suffers serious burns that nearly kill him. Six weeks later, Lauda returns to racing (1976). 2 Ronnie Bucknum debuts the Honda RA271...
The under 2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever changing regulations of...
Carroll Shelby once remarked, “There are only two people I can think of who could sit down, take a welding...
July 2008 Hugh C. Hunter in his lovely 8C2900B Alfa Romeo on the Campbell Road Circuit. In ths race he finished a strong 2nd, 6.2 seconds behind Peter Aitken’s much faster E.R.A. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
John Zeitler Nigel Mansell Photo: Maureen Magee 2 Emerson Fittipaldi, driving a Penske PC-18, wins the CART Budweiser Cleveland Grand...
The man at the wheel of the 2.8-liter, six-cylinder, Ford Sierra XR4i may have been a schoolmaster, but he certainly did not drive like one. In fact, beads of sweat were breaking out on my forehead as he stylishly doorhandled the winged Ford along the narrow roads of the Targa...
I worked as the chief engineer at Lola (1969–1981) during one of their most productive and interesting periods. The number...
John Watson Manfred von Brauchitsh 3 Manfred von Brauchitsh scores the Mercedes-Benz Type W25 debut victory by winning the Eifelrennen...
The 2008 Alfa Romeo Owners Club Convention will be held Wednesday, June 18th – Sunday, June 22nd in Oak Brook, Illinois, outside Chicago. Registration for this year’s event, hosted by the Chicago Alfa Romeo Owner’s Club, is underway, with early bird registration ending May 17th. While the convention doesn’t officially...
