Foretelling the future is impossible, yet that is what executives in car companies have to do. When I was a...
Audi has recently reacquired an extremely rare Auto Union Silver Arrow racing car consisting largely of original parts. It is...
Nine-time 24 Hours of Le Mans winner, six-time 24 Hours of Sebring winner and 2013 FIA World Endurance champion Tom Kristensen (above, right) will share his experiences as guest speaker at the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion’s annual Picnic in the Paddock on Saturday, August 19. Joining the legendary Dane on...
Brian RedmanPhoto: Mike Jiggle Jacques Villeneuve.Photo: Michael Casey-DiPleco 2 Gilles Villeneuve wins the South African Grand Prix at Kyalami in...
There is a section in The Sunday Times called In Gear and it is basically boys’ toys, with cars as...
The 59th Annual Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, scheduled for Sunday Aug. 16, 2009, will feature the fabled marques of Bentley and Bugatti, while also celebrating the 100th anniversaries of both Audi and Morgan, and highlighting the designs of Ugo Zagato. The Concours will be preceded by a string of complementary...
This past February, the fifth annual Leadfoot Festival was held at international rally champion Rod Millen’s ranch on the Coromandel...
In the recent decades, Audi has established itself as a household name both in motorsports and on the luxury car...
My involve-ment with Audi came directly from my work, as a supplier to Audi, with exhaust systems and catalytic converters. The company I was involved with was Gillet, a West German company where I was head of their research and development department. Audi was a regular customer, and I got...
The game-changing Audi quattro made its UK debut, in London, in 1980. Here, five former members of the Audi UK...
I have competed in many good cars during my rallying career. My very first rally car was the Saab 96,...
Johnny of the ready smile and blonde hair was a motor racing shooting star who might have aspired to becoming the new Jim Clark. His rise to fame, however, came to a sudden—even if temporary—standstill after a horrendous 10-car, 150 mph Formula 3000 accident while driving Jordan Racing’s Reynard-Ford Cosworth...
Walter Röhrl, the two-time World Rally Champion driver who was voted Rally Driver of the Millennium and called “a genius...
When John Sanderson, a pupil of the famous English landscape architect Lancelot “Capability” Brown, initially laid out the Claydon Estate gardens for the 2nd Earl Verney, in the 18th Century, the first steam-powered horseless carriages were at a very embryonic stage and the first petrol-fuelled internal combustion engine was...
Watch this video featuring an Audi R8 GT3 LMS Ultra while being driven by Marcus von Oeynhausen during the Masters...
It was a very difficult decision at the time to go to Audi, which seems strange now. But then I...
The Earl of March has announced the theme of the 2009 Goodwood Festival of Speed, scheduled for July 3–5, as “True Grit—Epic Feats of Endurance” to celebrate the drive and determination of motor racing’s heroes who overcame huge physical, mental, and mechanical barriers in their quest for glory. Jackie Stewart’s...
The inaugural Cars in the Claydons will take place Saturday September 3 at The Claydon Estate in Buckinghamshire, featuring a...
The rules were: One lap of Lime Rock, driving backwards from a standing start. You could bring any car, use...
Michael Andretti Al UnserPhoto: Jim Hatfield 1 Jody Scheckter drives a Ford-powered Tyrrell 007 to victory in the South African Grand Prix (1975). 2 Michael Andretti drives a Swift-Ford to victory in the CART Marlboro Grand Prix of Miami at Homestead, Florida. First CART win for Swift in their first...
A.J. Foyt Mike Costin 1 A.J. Foyt drives a Coyote-Foyt to victory in the USAC Championship race at Pocono, Pennsylvania,...
The Mecum Chicago 2017 collector-car auction held this past weekend, October 5-7, at the Schaumburg Convention Center in suburban Chicago achieved $12.6 million in overall sales with 72 percent of the 795 vehicles offered hammering sold. Top sales at the Chicago 2017 auction included several Corvettes from the Mercurio Collection,...
Pete Lyons Got paper and pen at hand? Or simple fingers will do: Try coming up with a list of...
Nanni Galli Jo BonnierPhoto: Porsche 1 Jean-Pierre Wimille drives a Simca-Gordini to victory in the Coupe Robert Benoist on a...
Toyota’s first car, the AA, was a close copy of the DeSoto Airflow with essentially a 1933 Chevrolet engine. Photo: Toyota Motor Sales, U.S. Archives The decade of the ’30s was a time of incredible creativity among automobile designers and coachbuilders, especially in Europe. But it was also a decade of...
Audi Tradition—the division responsible for preserving the brand’s colorful automotive heritage—has just undertaken its most complex restoration project since the...
David’s repeated defeats of Goliath this summer—American Le Mans Series victories by Porsche’s RS Spyder over Audi’s much bigger and...
Team Audi Sport has optimized the pioneering rally car prototype that has an electric drivetrain, a high-voltage battery and an energy converter, in meticulous detail for the toughest rally of the year. The three driver crews of Mattias Ekström/Emil Bergkvist, Stéphane Peterhansel/Edouard Boulanger, and Carlos Sainz/Lucas Cruz are facing the...