Nino Vaccarella won the Targa Florio three times, and for this alone he remains a Sicilian national hero. His name...
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1961 Ferrari 156 F1 Ricardo Rodriguez at the wheel of the Ferrari 156, during the 1962 Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort.Photo: Archives Trips Icon is probably an over-used word in automotive journalism, and modern commercialism has seen it applied to many automobiles which are clearly not icons – and sometimes...
Robert Benoist Björn Waldegård 3 First race held at Monza, Italy, a Grand Prix Voiturette race, is won by Pietro...
How do you get into the best Italian classic hillclimb experience that 95% of the historic world knows nothing about?...
Spring is in the air and historic sports cars are being fettled for the Mille Miglia, except they’re not. They...
If you raced small displacement production cars or modifieds in the US during the ’60s and early ’70s, then you’ve...
Ferrari 512S In 1967, the 512 was born out of a series of bad decisions by racing’s ruling body, the CSI, that were aimed at slowing down the 7-liter monsters like the Ford Mk IVs, which were dominating sports car racing. So the prototype class had a 3-liter limit imposed...
What else could it have been called? Born out of an established American idea, it probably didn’t take a long...
Conception, a friend of mine used to say, “is the biggest word in the English language.” His aphorism came to...
No one was exactly thrilled when word reached Maranello, Modena, Arese and points north that the automobile club of an Italian seaside town called Bari was organizing a new Grand Prix. “Their own Grand Prix? The audacity of it all,” some said. “Who are these people? Where and what is...
European Editor Ed McDonough recently had the exclusive opportunity to sit down and talk with Antony Sheriff, Vice President of...
1935 Maserati 4CS Photo: Peter Collins Ken Painter’s 1935 Maserati 4CS has had a highly active and dramatic existence, and...
RM Auctions at Fisherman’s Wharf 1964 Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe $4,000,000 1964 Fiat Abarth Racer Replica $8,000 1972 Shadow Mk 2/3 Can-Am $190,000 1964 Porsche 904 Carrera GTS $240,000 1966 Porsche 906 $270,000 1969 Porsche 917 (ex-Steve McQueen) $1,200,000 1970 McLaren M8C Can-Am $140,000 1971 OTAS Abarth Grand Prix Coupe...
John Surtees Barney Oldfield 1 Jim Clark wins his third straight USGP at Watkins Glen, New York, this time driving...
1972 Giannini Gruppo 2 Corse The story of Giannini is the tale of the Italian car tuners, the specialists who...
Just before he opened the door to the garage, I’d swear he gave me the evil eye and muttered something under his breath. It didn’t sound like English, but then again he was from New Jersey. I didn’t know it at the time, but this man – this voodoo priest,...
Richie Ginther Sir Stirling Moss 3 Dario Resta dies in a crash during a speed record attempt at Brooklands, England...
While the 2000 edition of Lord March’s Festival of Speed will be remembered by many as the year of disaster,...
For five years, the Monaco Grand Prix played host to the cut-throat world of Formula Junior racing. The Grand Prix Monaco Junior was a prestigious event – the one that everybody wanted to win – with its victors going on to careers in the very top echelons of motorsport. Michael...
World championship rallying is a tough sport. Its drivers seldom compete on nice, smooth asphalt circuits where the worst that...
Virginia Beach, VA May 5-7 The paint scheme of Jeff King’s 1969 Corvette honors the hosts of the Race at...
Robert Newman examines the men and machines that made the Mille Miglia one of the world’s greatest races. The Mille Miglia was a manifestation of raw courage. The courage of the top drivers, whose lives hung in the balance for a day as they forced themselves to take appalling risks...
With flashing precision, my memory recaptures exactly the milli-second that motor racing entered my life. It was reading a three-month-old...
Before paved roads became common and state highways were still an unrealized dream, driving from Southern to Northern California was...
Ronnie Bucknum Jim Clark 2 Mike Hailwood is born (1940). 3 Mario Andretti becomes the first American to win a US Grand Prix when he drives his Lotus to victory in the USGP-West in Long Beach, California. First win for the Lotus 78 (1977). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free...
As “Historic Racing Magazine of the Mille Miglia”, VRJ begins its coverage of the May 2000 event with a look...
Click here to read Part 1 of Something Special One of the chief complaints about early sports racers is that...
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