Luigi Bazzi Biography He was called the soul of Ferrari. He had been there from the beginning and Enzo Ferrari recalled his...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was formed by the FIA (Federation...
Alfa Romeo TZ-TZ2 Born to Win By Vito Witting da Prato Having left motor racing in the early ’50s—at least officially—Alfa Romeo returned to the sport once again at the start of the following decade due to the commitment and enthusiasm of its racing department Autodelta. This Alfa offshoot distinguished itself...
1972 Eifelland Type 21 The 2016 Formula One season found the World Championship taken by a German team, Mercedes, and...
Today we think of Fiat’s role in Grand Prix racing as the owner of Ferrari, but the Turin company was...
Visitors to the 9th annual Put-in-Bay Road Races Reunion, scheduled for August 27-30, 2017, will discover a decidedly Italian flavor at this year’s event as it celebrates racers of vintage Alfa Romeos, Fiats and (who knows?… perhaps even a few Isettas and Siatas). Beyond the tribute to Italy, the event...
Unlike Vintage Racecar’s editors I don’t spend my working life thrashing the pants off other people’s rare and priceless racing...
It’s not often that a Formula One driver can turn his hand to World Championship rallying. Look at 2007 F1...
The FIA sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations...
From gas station owner in 1954 to leading Le Mans in 1967, sports car racer Scooter Patrick enjoyed an amazing...
A 1934 Alfa Romeo Tipo B P3 (above, Tim Scott photo courtesy of RM Sotheby’s) will be offered for public sale for the first time in more than a decade at RM Sotheby’s upcoming Paris sale on February 8, 2017, the beginning of the city’s famed Rétromobile week. This particular...
A 1934 Alfa Romeo Tipo B P3 campaigned by Scuderia Ferrari in period will headline the 2017 RM Sotheby’s Paris...
Jo Siffert Peter Revson 1 Pedro and Ricardo Rodriguez drive a NART Ferrari 250 GTO to victory in the 1000K...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These early innovators are in an elite club, their place in automotive history guaranteed as the creators of a true classic sports car, a genuine thoroughbred. The development of the racing...
A silver 1960 Aston Martin DB4GT, one of only 75 factory-built examples, generated the highest bid of last weekend’s 10th...
In early July, Aston Martin and Red Bull Racing made a dramatic debut of a new, jointly developed “Hypercar.” Dubbed...
I’ve been fortunate to have driven a lot of racecars, both those I’ve raced and those I’ve driven to try to teach them manners, to shake them down for people who own them and have maybe just had them put together. So, I would have to say Alfa Giuliettas are...
Sixty cars were sold for more than $1 million during the various auctions held last week as part of Monterrey...
The 1937 Talbot-Lago T150-C “Goutte d’Eau” owned by Peter and Merle Mullin (above) has won the inaugural Peninsula Classics Best...
Vintage Racecar‘s Peter Collins has been accepted to participate in the NEC Classic Motor Show Tour, organized by HERO, the Historic Endurance Racing Organisation. Peter will be driving his 1962 Alfa Romeo Giulietta TI (above), and providing readers with a “From the Cockpit” report in a subsequent issue of VR....
BMW has long followed a policy of racing cars and engines derived from production vehicles. Until BMW entered Formula One...
Giuseppe Campari Riddelle Gregory 3 The ISRS race at Zolder, Holland, is won by Didier Theys and Freddy Lienhard, driving...
The under two-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever changing regulations of international motorsports; the World Sports Car Championship from 1953-1961, the Speedworld Challenge in 1962-1963, the International Championship of Makes from 1964-1971 and the World Championship of Makes from 1972-1981. This...
A one-off Alfa Romeo RL Normale Coupé de Ville (above) will be featured at the Chubb Insurance Concours d’Elégance at...
Touring car racing has usually been seen as the court jester to the serious stuff of single-seaters, but in a...
Tazio Nuvolari Biography Tazio Nuvolari a legend in his own lifetime, was known as Il Montavano Volante, the Flying Mantuan. He epitomized courage and daring and for 30 years he amazed the racing world with his exploits on both two and four wheels. He was born November 18, 1892, in Casteldrio...
Denny HulmePhoto: Hal Crocker Jim ClarkPhoto: Trevor Taylor Collection 2 The TWR Jaguar XJR-6 is driven for the first time...
The 52nd Grand Prix de l’Age d’Or, the oldest meeting for historic cars organized in Europe, fulfilled its promise again...
The “Half-and-Half” Alfa Romeo Giulietta SZ Zagato of Corrado Lopresto won the FIVA preservation award at the 2016 Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este, held 20-22 May at the Grand Hotel Villa d’Este on Lake Como in Cernobbio, Italy. The pictures tell it all — half the car is cleaned but not...
