In early May, the American motorsport community lost another member of its postwar road racing pioneers when Bob Grossman succumbed...
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Chris Amon Lance Reventlow 2 Achille Varzi dies in a low-speed accident while practicing in the rain at Bremgarten for...
July 2002 Red Arrows—Ferraris at the Mille Miglia By Giannino Marzotto There are few races in the annals of motorsport that conjure more images of historic drivers and memorable moments than the Mille Miglia. Likewise, when it comes to famed and revered manufacturers, few names can duplicate the history and...
Jim Stokes is a boyish-looking 49 and has spent the better part of his life among some of the finest...
Sebring, FL March 13-16 The 1965 Mustang of Don Nesbitt. Photo: Robert Harrington Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access...
In the last of a two-part series, Robert Newman explores the amazing life and career of “The Flying Mantuan” – Tazio Nuvolari In 1930, Nuvolari had the most serious accident of his career in the minor Circuito di Bordino at Alessandria, Italy. It was raining and while overtaking textile millionaire...
Monaco Jan. 25-30 The Plymouth Barracuda “S” of Canadian Tom Jones and American Ralph Beckman at Lachamp Rafael.Photo: Ed McDonough...
Paris, France Feb. 8-17 A 1954 Pegaso Z-102 on the Classic Car Associates stand. Photo: Thierry Lesparre Become a Member...
Paris is always a great place to visit, and one of the best off-season events every February is Europe’s most respected and stylish classic car show, Retromobile, which runs for a full ten days at the Parc des Espositions. This year’s event featured 100 years of racing history and featured...
1959 Abarth Allemano Spyder The Abarth Allemano Spyder is about as curiously 1950s Italian as you can get. Carlo Abarth,...
In the first of a two-part series, Robert Newman explores the amazing life and career of “The Flying Mantuan” –...
Targa Florio – The Ultimate Guide The Norman conquest of southern Italy led to the creation of the Kingdom of Sicily, which was subsequently ruled by the Hohenstaufen, the Capetian House of Anjou, Spain, the House of Habsburg, and then finally unified under the House of Bourbon with the Kingdom...
Is Renault French? Is the Pope a Catholic? I ask because Renault has bought the Benetton team and has renamed...
Dr. Guiseppe Farina—we also know him as “Nino,” “Il Dottore,” “The Great Farina” and countless unmentionable names used by competitors...
Vanwall VW14 Vanwall is best remembered for becoming the first British racing car manufacturer to win a World Championship Grand Prix. The first wins came back in 1957 when Tony Brooks and Stirling Moss shared the winning car at the British Grand Prix at Aintree. Moss won again at Pescara...
The son of a wealthy textile manufacturer from Vercelli, near Milan, Italy, Marquis Antonio Brivio was one of the great...
With over 400 entrants, the September 2001 historic race meeting held at Sydney’s Eastern Creek Raceway went down in the records as being the largest racecar meeting ever held in Australia. The Eastern Creek meeting, while large, was typical of how Australian events have become, with a total of 34...
Brian Redman is well-known as one of the most successful and versatile sports car drivers of the late ’60s and...
Bobby Rahal A.J. Foyt 1 Sports car racer James “Hap” Sharp is born (1928). 6 Indy 500 winner Pat Flaherty...
While indulging one of my secret vices the other day – watching motorcycle racing on TV – I started thinking about something a commentator mentioned. This is the last year of 2-stroke engines in the Grand Prix bikes. Next season they start using 4-strokes. Not that anyone asked me, but...
The 2001 Targa Florio Autostoriche Rally, November 3-4, came closer to recreating the fabulous Sicilian road racing event of the...
On September 8, the Vintage Racecar Journal was very proud to sponsor the first Gallery Opening reception at the International...
Hamilton/Rolt Jaguar C-Type Sit down with a pen and a piece of paper – write out a list of your 10 all-time favorite sports racing cars. Then do the same with road cars. After you have done that little task, pick the top three in each category and the one...
Rick Mears Howden Ganley 2 As a publicity stunt, Ford has professional racers drive Cortinas down the Cresta bobsled run...
Lime Rock, CT Aug. 31- Sept. 3 The 1967 Lola Mk IIIB of Duncan Dayton is hotly pursued by the...
Alfa Romeo may have produced an ungainly looking, graceless racing car, but none come to mind…I’m a pushover for Alfas...
Nino Vaccarella won the Targa Florio three times, and for this alone he remains a Sicilian national hero. His name...
I was watching the German Grand Prix, and the TV commentator said that the sea of Ferrari flags indicated the level of support that Michael Schumacher commanded. That sounded reasonable until I recalled that there was a sea of Ferrari flags at Hockenheim before Michael signed for Maranello. When Schumacher...
