1954 Fiat 8V Zagato If you lived through the ’60s and ’70s, then Sunset Boulevard, in Southern California, likely holds...
Some time ago, Vintage Racecar published ”Absent Friends,” my story of astonishing heroism of another kind. It involved three motor...
Carlos Sainz Al Unser Jr. 2 Three-time Formula One World Champion Jack Brabham is born (1926). 3 Pierro Taruffi drives a Ferrari Tipo 118 to victory in the 671-mile Tour of Sicily (1955). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the...
Vintage Racecar is saddened to learn of the passing of one of the founding fathers’ of South African motor sport...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula or Formula One was formed by the FIA (Federation...
Pete Lyons You know how someone’s opposing opinion, one that seems inconsequential enough to let slide at the time, can keep gnawing on you ’til finally you just gotta explode? That’s what I’ve been nursing ever since a NASCAR telecast last year, when I heard announcer Darrell Waltrip say something...
A brand-new, purpose-built racing facility on the western edge of the Great Plains, an hour east of Denver, is scheduled...
1967 Brabham BT24-Repco Sometimes all your birthdays and Christmases come at once. Shaking down the BT24 on Australia’s legendary Phillip...
Pete Lyons News that Formula One is so financially distressed… Wait! Let us savor this! 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...
For fans of the Alfa Romeo Type 105 series, the following video is a must see. And as unequivocal fans...
A graduate in mechanical engineering, they called the nephew of Pinin Farina il dottore, the doctor. An austere, intolerant man,...
In 1938, Tazio Nuvolari left Alfa Romeo after narrowly avoiding serious injury when the uncompetitive car he was driving burst into flames. He declared that he would never race an Alfa Romeo again! The same year, Auto Union was in crisis after having lost their star driver Bernd Rosemeyer to...
The FIA sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations...
In the wake of the success of this year’s inaugural event at the historic O’Donnell Golf Club in Palm Springs,...
Despite mid-August being a predictably warm and sunny month, nothing was going to stop the climatic conditions, synonymous with the Dundrod circuit, prevailing. Jaguar Competitions Manager, “Lofty” England once said of Dundrod, “One can be pretty sure of bad weather, which is not much fun for the competitors, and much...
This week’s look back at old classified advertisements features a Alfa Romeo race car offered for sale in the May...
The more in-depth summaries of the life and career of Phil Hill have focussed on three significant aspects: the racing...
Andre Boillot Rex Mays 1 Mika Hakkinen wins the Japanese GP and his first Formula One world title at Suzuka in a McLaren-Mercedes (1998). 3 Ferrari wins the World Sportscar Championship as the Maserati factory team is destroyed in the final round at Caracas, Venezuela. Afterwards, Maserati abandons their racing...
November 2008 Can-Am Thunder DVD By Duke Video As highlighted in this month’s feature on the 1970 Can-Am event at...
The 1938 Alfa Romeo 8C, owned by Jon and Mary Shirley of Medina, Washington, was named “Best of Show” at...
12/6/08 Update: We sold the Alfa back to the person that sold it to us. He was very happy to have it back and we are grateful to see it go to such a good owner. Sports Car Digest is selling one of its own, a 1974 Alfa Romeo GTV....
Nigel Mansell Bernd Rosemeyer 2 PJ Jones drives a Toyota Eagle MkIII to victory in the final IMSA GTP race,...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These...
October 2008 Carlos Lepro’s Giulia—The First Winning GTA By Bernardo D. Martínez, MD For ten days, in October 1965, a grueling, 4,236-km touring car race—the Gran Premio Internacional de Turismo—was held around Argentina. During that race, a young teenager named Bernardo Martínez watched the race and was spellbound by the...
Andrea Pininfarina, 51, has died as the result of a road traffic accident in Turin on August 7th. He was...
Karl Abarth was a magician. A waver of wands whose magic brought the exquisite pleasure of higher-performance motoring and motor...
Jerry Marshall Tazio Nuvolari 1 Ferdinando Minoia drives an Isotta-Fraschini to victory in the Coppa Florio race in Italy (1907). 2 Peter Gethin drives a Chevron B9B to victory in the F3 race at Brands Hatch, England (1968). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
On winter’s final weekend in the Southern Hemisphere, September 20-21, the Veloce Racing Association will hold its second annual East...
I stood back watching, as Monterey feted the Fangio marque. Fangio marque? Yes, Juan Manuel Fangio is the only person,...
This year’s Monterey Historic Automobile Races marks the 35th running of this classic event. As shown schematically in the Laguna Seca track map to the right, over the course of those 35 years, a wide variety of significant automotive marques have been honored with the distinction of “featured marque.” Interestingly,...
