Today we think of Fiat’s role in Grand Prix racing as the owner of Ferrari, but the Turin company was...
Visitors to the 9th annual Put-in-Bay Road Races Reunion, scheduled for August 27-30, 2017, will discover a decidedly Italian flavor...
Unlike Vintage Racecar’s editors I don’t spend my working life thrashing the pants off other people’s rare and priceless racing cars, mores the pity, so when the offer came to get intimate with two Italian models I jumped at the chance. It was in Sicily during the centenary celebrations for...
It’s not often that a Formula One driver can turn his hand to World Championship rallying. Look at 2007 F1...
The FIA sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations set forth by the FIA (Federation International Automobile) in the International Championship of Makes from 1964-1971, and the World Championship of Makes from 1972-1981. The regulations changed somewhat as the...
From gas station owner in 1954 to leading Le Mans in 1967, sports car racer Scooter Patrick enjoyed an amazing...
A 1934 Alfa Romeo Tipo B P3 (above, Tim Scott photo courtesy of RM Sotheby’s) will be offered for public...
A 1934 Alfa Romeo Tipo B P3 campaigned by Scuderia Ferrari in period will headline the 2017 RM Sotheby’s Paris auction, scheduled for 8 February at Place Vauban. The auction will mark the first time in over a decade that an Alfa P3 will be offered for public sale. RM’s...
Jo Siffert Peter Revson 1 Pedro and Ricardo Rodriguez drive a NART Ferrari 250 GTO to victory in the 1000K...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These...
A silver 1960 Aston Martin DB4GT, one of only 75 factory-built examples, generated the highest bid of last weekend’s 10th Anniversary London sale for RM Sotheby’s, pulling in £2,408,000 to establish a new world record for a factory-bodied Aston sold at auction. It was joined in the spotlight by a...
In early July, Aston Martin and Red Bull Racing made a dramatic debut of a new, jointly developed “Hypercar.” Dubbed...
I’ve been fortunate to have driven a lot of racecars, both those I’ve raced and those I’ve driven to try...
Sixty cars were sold for more than $1 million during the various auctions held last week as part of Monterrey Classic Car Week, but while the top end of the market continues to look good, some erosion is appearing at the lower echelons. Of the major houses, Gooding & Co....
The 1937 Talbot-Lago T150-C “Goutte d’Eau” owned by Peter and Merle Mullin (above) has won the inaugural Peninsula Classics Best...
Vintage Racecar‘s Peter Collins has been accepted to participate in the NEC Classic Motor Show Tour, organized by HERO, the...
Giuseppe Campari Riddelle Gregory 3 The ISRS race at Zolder, Holland, is won by Didier Theys and Freddy Lienhard, driving a Ferrari 333SP (1997). 4 Giuseppe Campari wins the fifth Coppa Acerbo road race in an Alfa Romeo P2 (1928). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article...
The under two-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever changing regulations of...
A one-off Alfa Romeo RL Normale Coupé de Ville (above) will be featured at the Chubb Insurance Concours d’Elégance at...
Touring car racing has usually been seen as the court jester to the serious stuff of single-seaters, but in a passing conversation at the Goodwood Revival someone said to me words to the effect that it was the saloon car race there that made the event—all the rest, including the...
Tazio Nuvolari Biography Tazio Nuvolari a legend in his own lifetime, was known as Il Montavano Volante, the Flying Mantuan. He...
Denny HulmePhoto: Hal Crocker Jim ClarkPhoto: Trevor Taylor Collection 2 The TWR Jaguar XJR-6 is driven for the first time...
The 52nd Grand Prix de l’Age d’Or, the oldest meeting for historic cars organized in Europe, fulfilled its promise again last weekend at France’s Dijon-Prenois Circuit, despite changeable weather conditions. Although Friday morning’s free practice took place on a track soaked by a heavy drizzle, the afternoon’s qualifying sessions enjoyed...
The “Half-and-Half” Alfa Romeo Giulietta SZ Zagato of Corrado Lopresto won the FIVA preservation award at the 2016 Concorso d’Eleganza...
Briggs Cunningham was one of the most important figures in U.S. road racing during the era of the 1950s. He...
Two hundred classic cars from all over Europe will take part in the 21st Silver Flag hillclimb in Vernasca, in the Italian province of Piacenza, on June 17-19, to celebrate the Alfa Romeo’s racing heritage. “We received over 300 applications for just 200 spaces available,” revealed event organizer Claudio Casali....
The history and intrigue of the sprawling Doheney Estate — known by most as Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills, California...
At the Alfa Revival Cup Classica held April 2-3 on the Circuit Enzo and Dino Ferrari in Imola, Italy, fastest qualifier...
For the past 65 years, Formula One motor racing teams have relentlessly chased the dream of perfection that concludes with them winning a World Championship. In the early years of the modern Grand Prix series it was the Italian Alfa Romeo, Maserati and Ferrari teams—with occasional intrusions by the German...
