Alfa Romeo’s place at the heart of motor racing for more than 90 years has not just been down to their official factory participation but, very often, to the enthusiastic amateur or semi-supported effort, matching an Alfa Romeo engine to a different single-seater chassis. While some were clearly more successful...
Ferdinand Porsche Cale Yarborough 1 Stefan Bellof dies from inuries sustained in the crash of his Porsche 956 during the...
Vintage Racecar’s European Editor Ed McDonough and photographer Peter Collins, co-authors of the new Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 book, were...
May 2006 Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 By Peter Collins & Ed McDonough Of all the postwar, long-distance, sports racing prototypes, none has a longer or more convoluted history than the famed Alfa Romeo Tipo 33s. The brainchild of Alfa’s Satta, Busso and Carlo Chiti, in the mid-1960s, the Tipo 33...
Jacques Laffite has enjoyed a reputation for many years as an open and straightforward person, willing to talk seriously about...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine of choice was the venerable small block Chevrolet V8 of 5-liter displacement. It started as a bright idea in 1967 and ran successfully until politics between the governing body, race...
The familiar trademark Marlboro Stetson was bobbing about in the pit lane at the Mores circuit in Sardinia, Italy, in...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seat racing cars built to a specific set of rules and powered...
The latest incarnation of the Silverstone Classic took place around the full Grand Prix circuit on the weekend of July 24–26, 2009. This event was once the leading historic motor sport gathering in Europe, and in recent years a succession of promoters have made brave attempts to revive former glories....
March 2010 The Targa Florio; Sicily, May 4, 1969. “VIVA L’ALFA” say the words painted on the road as the Alfa...
1968 Alfa Romeo T33/2 “What goes around comes around.” That, I believe, is a largely English way of referring to “life repeating itself,” or coincidences, or both. This is a bit of a story of automotive déjà vu. 1968 Alfa Romeo T33/2. Photo: Peter Collins In 1968, I made my first...
July 2010 During the Spa-Francorchamps 750km Race on May 4, 1975, Henri Pescarolo extracts full speed from his Alfa Romeo...
John Gunn, an independent entrant who contested some of North America’s most prestigious auto racing championships during a career that...
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...
Three apparently unconnected things seemed to me to have a synergy. One is the supposed 75th anniversary of Jaguar, a...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The...
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...
Pete Lyons Something is missing. Look around the race tracks, the city streets, the holiday hotspots … see what isn’t...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seat racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
Sicily. Discuss. Well, it’s an island, it has, shall we say, a fearsome reputation and it was once home to probably the greatest race in the world. After four days of covering the Eco Targa Florio, or Targa Classic, organized ably by MAC, the same people who now run the...
Nanni Galli Jo BonnierPhoto: Porsche 1 Jean-Pierre Wimille drives a Simca-Gordini to victory in the Coupe Robert Benoist on a...
Casey Annis Editor/Publisher Unless you’ve somehow managed to live completely “off the grid” for the past few months, by now...
The late 1960s brought a host of changes to the famed 24 Hours of Le Mans. The wave of “professionalism” that was sweeping across other forms of motorsport began to exert its influence at Le Mans. With increased money and prestige now flowing through professional racing, the caliber of teams...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seat racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
My racing started during the spring of 1962 at the Goodwood racing circuit, I was racing a Lotus Elite. I went on to drive an Elan and then a Ferrari 250LM with Peter Clarke. It was in the Ferrari that I did my first Daytona 24 Hours. I shared the...