Auto Union Type C Car: Auto Union Type C / Engine: 45 deg V16 / Maker: Auto Union / Bore...
Eighty years after his father contested the Shelsley Walsh Hill Climb, Hans-Joachim Stuck will do the same, driving a replica...
Performance perv that I am, I’m turned on by naked racecars. Even partially undressed ones. Lift an engine cover, unveil a shapely suspension arm, merely de-Dzus an access panel and I’m there, slavering. I simply groove on racing’s luscious secret places. Pete Lyons That’s probably one more reason I so...
Now Auto Union’s number one driver after replacing the dead Bernd Rosemeyer, Tazio Nuvolari and his Auto Union Type D...
In the early going of the 1934 Coppa Acerbo, in Pescara, Italy, Hans Stuck’s Auto Union Type A led Achille...
Die Silberpfeile – The Silver Arrows Teams The Fuhrer has spoken. The 1934 Grand Prix formula shall and must be a measuring stick for German knowledge and German ability. So one thing leads to the other: first the Fuhrer’s overpowering energy, then the formula, a great international problem to which...
Pavel Kasik recently bid farewell to his beloved Tatra T77 only days after completing its 20-year restoration. The Tatra started...
1966 Eagle-Weslake It is a privilege to update and run my test of the Eagle-Weslake. At Vintage Racecar we were...
German racer Paul Pietsch, the last surviving driver of the prewar Silver Arrows era and the oldest living Grand Prix racer, has died at the age of 100. His family confirmed his May 31 passing, just three weeks short of his 101st birthday. The former Auto Union works driver was...
After the First World War and into the ’20s, many car manufacturers throughout Europe became involved in Grand Prix racing....
My colleague Tim Considine cordially feels I was unfair in my recent column about Cooper’s development of mid-engined race cars....
Motor racing was banned in Switzerland in the aftermath of the 1955 Le Mans disaster, one of the most catastrophic in the sport’s history. The lifting of the ban has been discussed on a number of occasions by the Swiss authorities, but ultimately to no avail. It was, therefore, very...
Jerry Marshall Tazio Nuvolari 1 Ferdinando Minoia drives an Isotta-Fraschini to victory in the Coppa Florio race in Italy (1907)....
May 2009 At the Donington Grand Prix in England on October 22, 1938, Silver Arrows pilot Dick Seaman applies the...
Mystery GT40 Dear Editor, While perusing Roadcar, on Page 49 (May 2013) I saw a picture of a white GT40 GT 108. I was wondering what, if any, relationship there is between that car and the two attached scans. They were taken at the October, 1965 Times GP with Chris...
Peter Collins Jacques Lafitte Photo: Mike Jiggle 5 Grand Prix and Le Mans winner Louis Rosier is born in Chapdes-Beaufort,...
Auto Union Type D Car: Auto Union Type D / Engine: 60 deg V12 / Maker: Auto Union / Bore X Stroke: 65 X 75 mm / Year: 1938 / Capacity: 2,990 cc / Class: Grand Prix / Power: 420 bhp at 7,000 rpm / Wheelbase: 108 inches / Track:...
Tazio Nuvolari James Hunt Photo: Dennis Gray 1 Dick Johnson and John Bowe drive a Ford Sierra to victory in...
Tim ParnellPhoto: Pete Austin It was my father, Reg Parnell, who first went to Donington Park in 1934. Living near...
Auto Union (Audi) history at a glance (left to right): 1938 Horch 830 B; 1953 DKW3=6F91; 1959 NSU Prinz 30; 1937 Wanderer W25K; 1936 Audi Front 225....
Christie’s Auctions has announced that they will be offering a rare 1939 Auto Union D-Type for sale during their Feb....
In a surprise move, Christie’s announced, one week prior to their planned sale of a rare 1939 Auto Union Grand...
This large, domineering man invented the job of motor racing team manager and in doing so changed the way the sport was run forever. Believe it or not, racing drivers of the 1920s used to thrash around circuits for hours on end without ever knowing their position or even whether...
Hans Stuck first met Adolf Hitler in 1925, when a mutual friend brought the budding Führer to the racing driver’s...
Laury, Lucy O’Reilly and Harry Schell were father, mother and son. They were all larger than life characters who made...
Achille Varzi was the opposite of his capricious nemesis Tazio Nuvolari, who was steeped in instinctive talent. Varzi was a controlled, calculating driver, a ruthless opponent, ferocious in exploiting his adversaries’ weaknesses and was, of course, immensely fast. As a man, he could be charming, had a sardonic sense of...
Whether you are a fan of Formula One or not, it was hard to not read about the recent Bahrain...
Toyota’s first car, the AA, was a close copy of the DeSoto Airflow with essentially a 1933 Chevrolet engine. Photo: Toyota...
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....