1990 Ferrari F40 It has been 30 years since the last car ordered by Enzo Ferrari reached its first owners....
RM Sotheby’s has announced that its biennial Monaco sale on May 12, at the Grimaldi Forum in Monte Carlo, will...
Given this issue’s focus on safety equipment, and knowing that most of our readers possess at least an appreciation for ultra-sophisticated exotic cars, we thought it appropriate to bring you up to speed (as it were) with this site offering photos with cautionary captions of various exotic cars that have...
Maranello, Italy, November 1979. The introduction of the new Ferrari 312/T5 at Ferrari’s Fiorano test track. Standing behind the new...
Niki Lauda M. von Brauchitsch 1 Richard Petty drives a Ford Torino to victory in the NASCAR Grand National race...
Peter Gethin Nino Farina 1 Al Holbert, Chip Robinson, Derek Bell, and Al Unser Jr. drive their Porsche 962 to victory in the 24 Hours of Daytona (1987). 2 The first Cobra prototype arrives at Carroll Shelby’s shop in Southern California (1962). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To...
Graham Hill Ronnie Peterson 1 Bobby Rahal, Bob Garretson and Brian Redman drive a Porsche 935 K3 to victory in...
Lance Reventlow Enzo Ferrari 1 Mark Donohue and Chuck Parsons drive their Penske-prepared Lola T70 coupe to victory in the...
Jim Hall Enzo Ferrari 1 Daytona International Speedway opens for practice (1959). 3 Jim Hall wins the first United States Road Racing Championship race at Daytona, Florida, USA (1963). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited...
Entering the 1974 season, a pair of fresh, new faces began exerting significant influence upon Ferrari, Luca Cordero di Montezemolo...
Seventy years ago this week, on March 12, 1947, Enzo Ferrari fired up the 125 S (above), the first car to bear his name, and took it on a test-drive on the streets of Maranello. It marked the start of modern Ferrari history, and the then-modest factory quickly grew into...
Ferrari—let the word roll over your tongue. Doesn’t it taste good? Have you ever experienced—can you even imagine—a better name...
This year marks the 50th Anniversary of the race that began as the Daytona Continental in 1962 and evolved into...
Alfa Romeo’s place at the heart of motor racing for more than 90 years has not just been down to their official factory participation but, very often, to the enthusiastic amateur or semi-supported effort, matching an Alfa Romeo engine to a different single-seater chassis. While some were clearly more successful...
I cannot allow the twenty-fifth anniversary of the death of Gilles Villeneuve to pass unnoticed but it is, at the...
1966 Lola T70 SL71/48 Proper warming up of components and attention paid to maintaining balance with the handling were the...
I started to race not very, very, young like today as I didn’t have the permission of my father to do so. I had to wait until I was eighteen and a half years old, mainly because my family was not involved in the motorcycle trade or racing. When I...
That sound! A wild shriek spearing out of the new Japanese F1 sliced like a samurai sword through the dronings...
“Among my drivers, Giovanni Bracco was, perhaps, the one who scored the most spectacular success,” Enzo Ferrari once said about...
The 50th anniversary of Ferrari’s landmark 250 GTO will be celebrated with a special GTO class at the 17th annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance next March 9–11. The GTO is a tribute to the days when auto manufacturers paid special attention to racing’s various rulebooks and built cars specifically to...
A graduate in mechanical engineering, they called the nephew of Pinin Farina il dottore, the doctor. An austere, intolerant man,...
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...
Paul Newman Carroll ShelbyPhoto: Jim Williams 1 Sports car racer James R. “Hap” Sharp is born (1928). 6 Indy racer...
At the end of 1969, during the height of the Ferrari-Porsche World Sports Car Championship “wars,” Jo Siffert was wined...
When we presented the first part of our continuing interview with F1 design legend John Barnard last March, VR Contributing Editor Mike Jiggle got him to discuss his early years at Lola and going to work at McLaren, as well as his basic design philosophy. In this second installment he speaks...
John BarnardPhoto: Mike Jiggle In the first two installments of our multi-part interview with John Barnard he discussed his early...
In remembering and memorializing John Fitch upon the occasion of his death, Vintage Racecar has produced this brief photographic summary...
1964 World Champion Our Ed McDonough had the opportunity to interview John Surtees on a number of occasions, investigating how Surtees had his first test in a Formula One car in a Vanwall, and later became the only person ever to race Vanwall’s short-lived rear-engine car in 1961. As part...