From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete, with a passion for speed and technology. These...
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Pittsburgh, PA July 4, 2007 The 1955 Jaguar D-Type of Tom Mittler.Photo: Walter Pietrowicz Become a Member & Get Ad-Free...
November 2007 Racing Sports Cars, Memories of the Fifties By Art Evans Readers of this magazine will no doubt be familiar with Fabulous Fifties columnist Art Evans and his previous books on both the drivers and the tracks of ’50s American sports car racing. In his latest work, Racing Sports...
Italian-born, Swiss-national Hans Ruesch died on August 27 in Lugano, Switzerland, at the age of 94. He was one of...
The Can-Am Porsche 917 The Can-Am Race Series, held from 1966 to 1974, helped propel professional sports car racing to...
Antonio Brivio Mario Andretti 1 A.J. Foyt wins the USAC Championship race on the dirt track at Sacramento, California (1967). 5 Graeme Bailey and Allan Grice drive a Holden Commodore to victory in the James Hardie 1000 at Mount Panarama in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia (1986). Become a Member...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These...
Sadly those two iconic road races, the Targa Florio and Giro Di Sicilia, both instigated by Vincenzo Florio at the...
His contemporaries called him the “Garibaldino,” a term they reserved for the best of their select band. Like Giuseppe Garibaldi, the general who kicked the Austrians and French out of Italy in the mid-19th century, Antonio Ascari, was a courageous and determined fighter. He was the one who always got...
September 2007 Graham Hill Scrapbook, 1929–1966 By Philip Porter Over the past couple of years, we’ve brought you reviews of...
Who else but Ferrari could turn on such a magnificent birthday party? Four days of celebrations at Maranello and the company’s own test track at nearby Fiorano to mark the Prancing Horse’s 60th anniversary. Said Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, president of Ferrari S.p.A. since 1991, “This is an important weekend,...
Vincenzo Lancia Keith Duckworth 2 Jochen Rindt drives a Lotus 72-Ford to victory in the German Grand Prix at Hockenheim...
The under-2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports;...
Donington Park, UK May 6–7, 2007 David Bennett’s 1953 Maserati A6GCM.Photo: Peter Collins Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to paid subscribers only. Our membership removes most ads, lets you enjoy unlimited access to all our premium content, and...
Northern California April 29–May 3, 2007 1959 Ferrari 250GT California Spyder of Richard and Renee Vento.Photo: John Fulton Become a...
1940 BMW 328 MM “Berlin-Rome” Touring Roadster The author puts the 328 MM Roadster through its paces at BMW’s Spartanburg,...
Jacques Laffite has enjoyed a reputation for many years as an open and straightforward person, willing to talk seriously about his career and motor racing in general. He was very helpful when VR’s European Editor asked him to contribute to his Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 book, and he was just...
Back in late May, I flew over to England to, among other things, be a part of the GPLive event...
Pocono, PA April 13–15, 2007 George Vapaa streaks by in his Lotus 7.Photo: Walter Pietrowicz Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to paid subscribers only. Our membership removes most ads, lets you enjoy unlimited access to all...
This year’s 10th anniversary edition of the Techno-Classica show, held in Essen Germany, saw a total attendance of 154,300 enthusiasts...
1976 Holden Torana L34 A month or so back, Vintage Racecar interviewed Leo Geoghegan, a true icon of Australian motorsport. While Leo may have started his racing career in an early model Holden, he later became a household name from his successes with a series of Lotus open-wheelers. While this...
American sports car racing in the 1950s is perhaps best known for the titanic battles between Italian-built Ferraris and Maseratis...
Louis Chiron Biography Born in August 1899, the son of a French hotelier in Monaco he became that principalities most...
Recently, I bought a ticket for the European Lottery, prompted by the fact that the jackpot was £66 million. The £1.50 I paid for my ticket bought a few days of fantasy, cheaper than Playboy. Apart from the anonymous acts of charity such booty would enable me to perform, my...
Jack Brabham Richard Petty 1 Dereck Bell, Hans Stuck, and Al Holbert drive a Rothmans Porsche 962 to victory in...
Ferrari—let the word roll over your tongue. Doesn’t it taste good? Have you ever experienced—can you even imagine—a better name...
Stoneleigh Park welcomed almost 25,000 visitors to Race Retro, the International Historic Motorsport Show, on March 23–25—20% up on last year’s attendance. “We’re delighted with this evidence of the show’s growing popularity, particularly in the current tough market,” said Event Director Ian Williamson. The range of cars of all types...
