Turn Up the Gane Dear Editor, Thanks for an enjoyable and diverse November issue. I would like to make a...
Pete Lyons Something is missing. Look around the race tracks, the city streets, the holiday hotspots … see what isn’t...
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...
Historics at Brooklands will offer an Alfa Romeo model car collection at its winter sale, scheduled for February 18, 2012...
Montjuic translates from medieval Catalan as “Hill of the Jews,” or an alternative derivation may be from the Latin Mons...
Some may disagree with me, but I think a great racing car must be a winning car. Racing cars can look fantastic and nice, but if they don’t win races they’re no good. In my experience, I can completely rule out any of my Formula One cars. Unfortunately, I didn’t...
Report and photos by Dirk de Jager The Alfa Romeo 8C Europe Rally 2011 was held September 20-25 in Austria....
The original idea for this “special” feature had been to do a test on Porsche’s famed Moby Dick…the 935/78 long-tail beast from 1978, the company’s first racecar with water-cooled cylinder heads. However, that particular machine was on tour in China and not due back at the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart...
Jack Brabham Francois Cevert 2 Frank Griswold drives an Alfa Romeo 8C 2900 to victory in the Junior Prix, the...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These...
In the days when racing’s regulations were somewhat less restrictive than perhaps they are now, designers occasionally looked beyond current conventions to try something new and different Racers are renowned for their knack for circumventing daunting situations, finding solutions to problems considered insoluble and generally thinking outside the proverbial box....
Nigel Mansell Stirling MossPhoto: Pete Austin 1 Pietro Laureati wins Italy’s Tolentino Colle Paterno hillclimb driving an Alfa Romeo T33 Stradale...
The under 2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international...
Debutante’s Ball On a list of the greatest Grand Prix races will be the names of several which will strike a chord for all racing enthusiasts: the German Grand Prix 1957, Monaco 1955, France 1979, Spa 1998. The year 1961 could account for three races on that list…Monaco, Nürburgring and...
Hidden Kurtis Dear Editor, Just finished your terrific article on the Curtis Indycar. I am attaching a photo of two...
Phillip Island GP Circuit, Victoria, Australia March 18–20, 2011 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
Arizona Highways near Tempe, AZ April 9–13, 2011 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 offers you awesome discounts on...
In response to Alfa Romeo’s request for a TZ successor, Autodelta’s co-founder Lodovico Chizzola built this prototype, only for Alfa...
Exotic doesn’t cut it when it comes to describing this gutsy, fun-loving, vivacious show-off of a beauty who was born...
Mark Donohue Giuseppe Campari 3 Manfred von Brauchitsch drives a Mercedes-Benz W25 to its first victory when he wins the Eifel Race on the Nürburgring in Germany (1934). 4 The first organized midget race, sanctioned by the newly formed Midget Racing Association, is held in Sacramento, California (1933). Become a...
For the 2011 edition of the historic Mille Miglia tribute, the Alfa Romeo Historic Motoring team will be lining up...
Following the enthusiastic response from racers to the launch of the JD Classics Challenge, the new Historic race series for...
F1-67 “NONDA” Think back, if you can, to the 1950s, ’60s, ’70s and possibly even the ’80s. Did you ever think that the sports cars and single-seaters roaring around the circuits of the world would someday be about the most expensive and desirable items even the most acquisitive of us...
By Louis Galanos In secret testing almost two weeks (April 1 to be exact) after the 1970 12 Hours of...
By Will Silk With Alfa Romeo celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2010, Auto Art released a line of Alfa replicas in 1:18th scale diecast metal. While many will remember the Italian manufacturer for the 1967 1600 Duetto Spider that appeared in the American film classic “The Graduate”, hard core enthusiasts...
A Personal Recollection of Der Nürburgring by a young English Lad Who Grew Up to Become a Motorsports Photojournalist Later...
After some fifty years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was formed by the FIA (Federation...
Three apparently unconnected things seemed to me to have a synergy. One is the supposed 75th anniversary of Jaguar, a date that both the company and most of the media have got wrong. Jaguar Cars Ltd. was registered in March, 1945, Jaguar had been the name of some models made by...
