Photo: David Gooley, courtesy of the Don Murray Collection It is easy to examine an early Ferrari or a Maserati...
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 Internationale de L’Automobile) in 1950 with its first race, the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. This was to be the first World Championship for Drivers, in the world’s most technically...
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 once a successful pacesetter in the sport in its own right. Using radical new designs, it transformed Grand Prix technology. Both spectacular and practical, the test track atop Fiat’s five-storey...
Visitors to the 9th annual Put-in-Bay Road Races Reunion, scheduled for August 27-30, 2017, will discover a decidedly Italian flavor...
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 world champion Kimi Raikkonen. He cut his Grand Prix career short in 2010 to join Citroën, but could only turn in mediocre results, before returning in 2012 to what he...
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 career. Perhaps best remembered for his prowess and speed at the wheel of Otto Zipper’s many Porsches in the ’60s, Patrick also enjoyed racing success in a wide variety of...
A 1934 Alfa Romeo Tipo B P3 (above, Tim Scott photo courtesy of RM Sotheby’s) will be offered for public...
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 sports car race at Montlhéry, France (1962). 2 The first SCCA road race, a four-lap qualifier through the streets of Watkins Glen, New York, is won by Frank Griswold in...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These...
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 the AM-RB 001, this collaborative effort saw famed F1 designer Adrian Newey turn his prodigious skills toward the creation of an F1-inspired supercar for the road. According to Newey, “I’ve...
I’ve been fortunate to have driven a lot of racecars, both those I’ve raced and those I’ve driven to try...
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 of the Best award, which was presented last night in Carmel, California. The prize, judged by a panel of nearly two dozen notable motoring experts, evaluated the Best of Show...
Vintage Racecar‘s Peter Collins has been accepted to participate in the NEC Classic Motor Show Tour, organized by HERO, the...
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 a Ferrari 333SP (1997). 4 Giuseppe Campari wins the fifth Coppa Acerbo road race in an Alfa Romeo P2 (1928). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article...
The under two-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever changing regulations of...
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 passing conversation at the Goodwood Revival someone said to me words to the effect that it was the saloon car race there that made the event—all the rest, including the...
Tazio Nuvolari Biography Tazio Nuvolari a legend in his own lifetime, was known as Il Montavano Volante, the Flying Mantuan. He...
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 last weekend at France’s Dijon-Prenois Circuit, despite changeable weather conditions. Although Friday morning’s free practice took place on a track soaked by a heavy drizzle, the afternoon’s qualifying sessions enjoyed...
