After ending his agreement with Alfa Romeo in 1939, Enzo Ferrari faced significant struggles in establishing his own race team...
Since its earliest days, Ferrari has been renowned for its passionate soul and focus on both the future and innovation....
Il Commendatore Research the Ferrari automobile, and it will soon become apparent that it was built from one man’s passion for speed. Enzo Ferrari’s vision to build a superior automobile and dominate motor racing was an enduring obsession that never faded throughout his lifetime. A man deeply enamored by racing,...
The 48 Best Grand Prix Drivers in Formula One History This website since its inception has covered The history of...
On the 120th anniversary of the founder’s birth, the Ferrari Museum pays tribute to his passion for cars with the...
1990 Ferrari F40 It has been 30 years since the last car ordered by Enzo Ferrari reached its first owners. That car, the F40, was in honor of the firm’s 40th anniversary, and it was kept very quiet until it was shown, first to a few Ferrari dealers and then...
May 2018 Enzo Ferrari By Luca Dal Monte When Enzo Ferrari was born in 1898, automobiles were still a novelty...
RM Sotheby’s has announced that its biennial Monaco sale on May 12, at the Grimaldi Forum in Monte Carlo, will...
1969 Mirage M2-BRM The Mirage profiled here is no optical illusion, although it is certainly as beautiful as some optical illusions can be. Only three Mirage M2s were ever built. They showed potential in the World Sports Car series, but their development was cut short when Porsche came knocking at...
lfredo Ferrari (Dino) was Enzo Ferrari’s first son, born January 19, 1932. At the time, Enzo was still racing for...
Phil Bachman has been collecting Ferraris at a rate of about one a year since he got his first one...
Fifty years after its first victory, to the day, Ford returned to Le Mans and won again, this time in the GTE Pro class with its EcoBoost GT piloted by Sébastien Bourdais, Joey Hand and Dirk Müller. Unlike 1966, Ferrari pushed them all the way this time, and by finishing...
As we cloased for press with this issue, it was announced that ’60s Italian flash-in-the-pan ATS (Automobili Turismo e Sport)...
I have a Minichamps model of the legendary Lancia Stratos HF rally car in Alitalia’s green and white colors sitting...
1931 Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Due to Jano’s suspension modifications over the ’31-’32 season, the 8C enjoys surprisingly flat handling for a car of its era. When this superior handling is coupled with the 8C’s remarkable grunt from it’s straight-8, supercharged engine, it’s no wonder it proved so dominant. Photo: James...
1966 Lola T70 SL71/48 Proper warming up of components and attention paid to maintaining balance with the handling were the...
1964 World Champion Our Ed McDonough had the opportunity to interview John Surtees on a number of occasions, investigating how...
Richard Petty Carl Haas 1 Chuck Daigh, driving a Lotus 19-Climax, wins the USAC-sanctioned sports car race at Mosport, Ontario, Canada (1963). 2 Henry Seagrave drives a Sunbeam to victory in the French Grand Prix at Tours (1923). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
In celebration of Ferrari’s 70th Anniversary, and with Ferrari President and CEO Sergio Marchionne, Vice President Piero Ferrari, Director of...
1959 Costin-Lister BHL133 While the Costin-Lister has proved to be a potent weapon, attention must be paid to both avoiding...
I remember talking to John Surtees a couple of years ago, and our conversation revolved around his many successes. With seven motorcycle World Championships, the 1964 F1 World Championship and the inaugural Can-Am Championship in 1966, to name but three, John wasn’t short of silverware. He did, however, cut me...
Seventy years ago this week, on March 12, 1947, Enzo Ferrari fired up the 125 S (above), the first car...
Luigi Bazzi Biography He was called the soul of Ferrari. He had been there from the beginning and Enzo Ferrari recalled his...
Arguably, one of the core tenets of vintage and historic racing is the notion of the rolling time frame, that is to say with each passing year, a new model-year or era of racecar becomes “classic.” With the passage of time, today’s modern weapon will eventually become tomorrow’s historic racing...
It’s not often that a Formula One driver can turn his hand to World Championship rallying. Look at 2007 F1...
Enzo Ferrari, in his autobiography in Automobile Quarterly Volume III No. 1, said “I have, in fact, no interests in...
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...
Tazio Nuvolari Biography Tazio Nuvolari a legend in his own lifetime, was known as Il Montavano Volante, the Flying Mantuan. He...
Fifty years ago, Henry Ford II realized his dream of winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans and defeating Enzo...
For the past 65 years, Formula One motor racing teams have relentlessly chased the dream of perfection that concludes with them winning a World Championship. In the early years of the modern Grand Prix series it was the Italian Alfa Romeo, Maserati and Ferrari teams—with occasional intrusions by the German...
