Perhaps best known from his time as Competitions Manager of the British Motor Corporation, Marcus Chambers died in early August...
Bruce Kessler had a meteoric motorsports career, which started with drag racing his mother’s Jaguar XK120, progressed to practicing for...
Enzo Ferrari telephoned his driver Peter Collins before the 1956 Grand Prix of Italy for one of “those” conversations. The Great Man said he would not ask Peter to give up his chance of winning the year’s Formula One World Championship in favor of Fangio, but he wanted to know...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man pursued his passion for speed and technology by building cars for competition....
Luigi Chinetti’s iconic North American Racing Team—represented by Luigi Chinetti Jr.—and several of its legendary drivers, including Sam Posey and Denise McCluggage, will be honored at the Saratoga Wine & Food and Fall Ferrari Festival, presented by the Saratoga Automobile Museum and Saratoga Performing Arts Center in the scenic Saratoga...
1969 Porsche 917K In 1969 it was make-or-break time for Porsche. After over a decade of dominating small-bore racing, the...
Contrary to what many may believe, the first time I drove a Porsche 917 was when I first sat in...
Porsche assembled a massive armada of 917s for its attack on Le Mans in 1970, its sole intent overall victory. At the end of the 24 hours in steadily changing weather conditions, two of their drivers, Hans Herrmann and Richard Attwood, stood atop the podium soaking in the adulation of...
The under-2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports;...
This fabulous-looking 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa was sold by RM-Sotheby’s “Ferrari Legend and Passion” auction at the famous Fiorano...
The 2009 edition of Italy’s Mille Miglia Storica attracted its usual mixed bag of royalty, politicians, motor racing icons, and showbiz folk, all presided over by Italian TV actress Manuela Arcuri, whose love life is of constant speculation in the country’s media. The regularity race’s impressive collection of 378 spectacular...
1957 Aston Martin DBR1 Aston Martin’s relationship with the 24 Hours of Le Mans goes all the way back to...
Aston Martin entered the1959 sports car season targeting just a single race, Le Mans, but walked away the deserving winner...
One of a baker’s dozen of American citizens to have won the 24 Hours of Le Mans overall, Carroll Shelby accomplished the feat 50 years ago this month, driving an Aston Martin DBR1 in company with Roy Salvadori. Shelby had begun racing back in his native Texas shortly after returning...
This month marks the 50th anniversary of Aston Martin’s one and only victory at Le Mans. With such a major...
Tall, handsome, and charming, Roy Salvadori was everything Hollywood ever wanted a racing driver to be. He was a ’50s–’60s...
Patrick Head James Hunt Photo: Dennis Gray 1 Arturo Merzario and Jacques Laffite drive an Alfa Romeo T33TT12 to victory in the 1,000-km sports car race on the Nürburgring in Germany (1975). 5 Patrick Head, cofounder and Technical Director of Williams Grand Prix Engineering, is born (1946). Become a Member...
Over 2-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever changing regulations of International Motorsports;...
Lloyd Ruby was best known as an excellent Indy car driver who nearly won two Indianapolis 500s, but in truth,...
April 2009 OttoVú By Tony Adriaensens While I have said it before, thank God for obsessive enthusiasts—they always produce the best books! Sometime in the 1980s, Tony Adriaensens had his first exposure to the FIAT 8V and 8V-powered SIATAs, while helping his brother transport an 8V for a classic car...
1953 Austin-Healey 100 Is this the ideal sports car of the 1950s? The car that sparked thousands of people into...
Englishman Andy Wallace is one of only eight drivers ever to post at least one victory in each of endurance...
I have been asked, a number of times, which branch of motor sport I enjoyed the most: driving, management, or loosely speaking designing, as my career has encompassed most of those disciplines. Although cars have raced bearing my name, I cannot really take any responsibility for their design; it was...
The Bentley Drivers Club will celebrate six decades of racing at Silverstone with an unprecedented two-day meeting on August 8-9....
The Earl of March has announced the theme of the 2009 Goodwood Festival of Speed, scheduled for July 3–5, as...
Dan Rubin, whose photographs of the calamitous 1955 Le Mans 24 Hours brought the tragedy into American homes on the...
A graduate in mechanical engineering, they called the nephew of Pinin Farina il dottore, the doctor. An austere, intolerant man,...
John Michael “Mike” Hawthorn won the Formula One World Championship in 1958, and in doing so became the first British driver ever to win it. He first appeared at Goodwood in 1952 as a comparatively unknown and amazed everyone by driving this very, very quick Cooper-Bristol, and became a star...
