My colleague Tim Considine cordially feels I was unfair in my recent column about Cooper’s development of mid-engined race cars....
Gilles Villeneuve Carroll Shelby 2 The first South Africa Grand Prix, held on the Kyalami track near Johannesburg, is won...
An original 1939 Auto Union V-12 D-Type Grand Prix racecar will appear at Shelsley Walsh on Sunday, August 21st as the famous hillclimb celebrates its 100th anniversary. Shelsley Walsh and Auto Union are inextricably linked after Hans Stück raced up the hill in June 1936 as part of the prestigious...
Christie’s Auctions has announced that they will be offering a rare 1939 Auto Union D-Type for sale during their Feb....
Achille Varzi was the opposite of his capricious nemesis Tazio Nuvolari, who was steeped in instinctive talent. Varzi was a...
In a move that caught the auction world by surprise, Christie’s announced the postponement of its much-publicized sale of a 1939 Auto Union, just a week before the car was to cross the block at Retromobile. The venerable auction house released only the briefest of statements which read “Christie’s today...
In the early 1980s, the Marlboro British F3 Championship was reckoned the most desirable to be in. The top three...
This son of a German garage owner had never raced a car until May 26, 1935, at the superfast Avus...
In a surprise move, Christie’s announced, one week prior to their planned sale of a rare 1939 Auto Union Grand Prix car, that they were pulling the car from their February Retromobile sale, so that they and Audi could further research its provenance. On February 28, Christie’s announced their findings...
Performance perv that I am, I’m turned on by naked racecars. Even partially undressed ones. Lift an engine cover, unveil...
In 1980, people laughed when they heard Audi was developing a four-wheel-drive rally car. Hadn’t Ford tried that with their...
Having grown up the son of racer and team owner Reg Parnell, it’s little wonder that Tim Parnell has lived a life dominated by motorsport. Whether going to pre-war races with his father, racing himself in F2 or leading the BRM race organization, Tim Parnell has played an integral role...
This year’s Monterey Historic Automobile Races marks the 35th running of this classic event. As shown schematically in the Laguna...
Jerry Marshall Tazio Nuvolari 1 Ferdinando Minoia drives an Isotta-Fraschini to victory in the Coppa Florio race in Italy (1907)....
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...
May 2009 At the Donington Grand Prix in England on October 22, 1938, Silver Arrows pilot Dick Seaman applies the...
This year’s 12th annual Quail Lodge Classic Auto Auction, to be organized by Bonhams & Butterfields in Carmel, California, on...
The world may be in an economic downturn, but there wasn’t much sign of that at the 2009 edition of the Festival of Speed “garden party” held in the grounds of Goodwood House in West Sussex. Sponsors may have tightened their belts, but the paying public had prebooked in record...
Peter Collins Jacques Lafitte Photo: Mike Jiggle 5 Grand Prix and Le Mans winner Louis Rosier is born in Chapdes-Beaufort,...
Motor racing was banned in Switzerland in the aftermath of the 1955 Le Mans disaster, one of the most catastrophic...
Hans Stuck first met Adolf Hitler in 1925, when a mutual friend brought the budding Führer to the racing driver’s farm near Freiburg, Germany, for a day’s hunting. Hitler never forgot his day out and, after taking power on January 30, 1933, telephoned Stuck, who had been bemoaning the lack...
Die Silberpfeile – The Silver Arrows Teams The Fuhrer has spoken. The 1934 Grand Prix formula shall and must be...
Mario Andretti Photo: Pete Austin Jim Hall Photo: Keith Booker 2 Achille Varzi is killed when his Alfa Romeo 158...
Alfa Romeo had gone from zero to hero and beyond from the 1911 Targa Florio to the 1936 Mille Miglia. Its motor racing exploits were followed by the entire Italian nation as cars like the 1750 Super Sport, 8C 2300 Monza, P2 and then the P3 drove it to the...
Tazio Nuvolari James Hunt Photo: Dennis Gray 1 Dick Johnson and John Bowe drive a Ford Sierra to victory in...
Donington Park in the English Midlands, the historic site of 1930s Grands Prix, has once again echoed to the sound...
Benz ‘Tropfenwagen’ Car: Benz/ Engine: Inline 6 Cylinder / Maker: Tropfenwagen Typ RH (RH = Rennwagen mitt Heckmotor) / Bore X Stroke: 65 mm x 100 mm / Year: 1923 / Capacity: 1,991 cc / Class: Grand Prix / Power: 90 hp at 4500 rpm / Wheelbase: 2,830 mm /...
This large, domineering man invented the job of motor racing team manager and in doing so changed the way the...
Montjuic translates from medieval Catalan as “Hill of the Jews,” or an alternative derivation may be from the Latin Mons...
René Dreyfus Biography The story begins in 1914 when René was nine years old. The middle of three children he speaks of his early life with fondness, growing up in Nice. He later joined the Moto Club de Nice, which was sort of a junior league Automobile Club de Nice....
