The 1962 24 Hours of Le Mans did not look as though it would be a walkover for Phil Hill,...
“Among my drivers, Giovanni Bracco was, perhaps, the one who scored the most spectacular success,” Enzo Ferrari once said about...
There was a flurry of events in Italy to mark the 30th anniversary of Gilles Villeneuve’s death in a crash during qualifying for the 1982 Grand Prix of Belgium at Zolder. Probably the most evocative happened on May 8, when his son Jacques, the 1997 Formula One World Champion, drove...
2012 marks the 60th anniversary of the Ferrari 250 GT and to celebrate that milestone, the Ferrari Museum has organized...
In order to understand the Pegaso story, it’s first necessary to understand the man behind the car and the tumultuous...
Pete Lyons Something is missing. Look around the race tracks, the city streets, the holiday hotspots … see what isn’t...
This year marks the 50th Anniversary of the race that began as the Daytona Continental in 1962 and evolved into...
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...
Porsche by Mailander By Karl Ludvigsen Rodolfo Mailander was a German photographer whose work had already achieved a degree of...
I started to race not very, very, young like today as I didn’t have the permission of my father to...
Mark Donohue Giuseppe Campari 3 Manfred von Brauchitsch drives a Mercedes-Benz W25 to its first victory when he wins the Eifel Race on the Nürburgring in Germany (1934). 4 The first organized midget race, sanctioned by the newly formed Midget Racing Association, is held in Sacramento, California (1933). Become a...
That sound! A wild shriek spearing out of the new Japanese F1 sliced like a samurai sword through the dronings...
Carlo Pintacuda was one of the Florentine greats, a motor racing elite from the Tuscan city that also included Gastone Brilli-Peri, Emilio Materassi, Clemente Biondetti and Giulio Masetti. Pintacuda not only won the fabled Mille Miglia twice in Scuderia Ferrari Alfa Romeos, he was also the man who convinced Enzo...
Few automobile marques evoke images of style, speed and sports better than the Prancing Horse of Ferrari. Fortunately for motorsports...
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...
Alfa Romeo will be 100 years old on June 24 and its motor sport pedigree almost 99—one of only a...
June 2010 Tales from the Toolbox By Michael Oliver Chances are good that one of the reasons you read this...
Just about everything there is to write has been written about American racing legend Mario Andretti, but we would be remiss here not to spotlight this charismatic man and his remarkable achievements. We are talking about a motor racing galaxy, not just a star, someone so talented and versatile that...
Wealthy Belgian aristocrat Olivier Gendebien has the unique distinction of being Ferrari’s most successful GT and sports car racer. He...
Now, here was a giant killer. A man who beat the hell out of Mercedes-Benz at least twice and won...
Dr. Elio Zagato passed away in Milan, Italy, on September 15. The son of Ugo Zagato, founder of the famed Milanese coachbuilder, Elio played a significant role in both automotive design and the Gran Turismo racing scene in the post-war era. Having first raced in 1947 with a rebodied Fiat...
Enzo Ferrari telephoned his driver Peter Collins before the 1956 Grand Prix of Italy for one of “those” conversations. The...
1952 Ferrari 225 S While the history of the Ferrari you see here will forever associate it with the great...
As I follow the recent political soap opera, which has become Formula One, I can’t help but think of the famous quote by George Bernard Shaw, “We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.” In case you’ve missed it (or more likely, lost interest in caring), Formula One...
Given this issue’s focus on safety equipment, and knowing that most of our readers possess at least an appreciation for...
A graduate in mechanical engineering, they called the nephew of Pinin Farina il dottore, the doctor. An austere, intolerant man, in 1950, Emilio Giuseppe (Nino) Farina became the first driver to win the modern Formula One World Championship. The Italian was also famous for his laid-back (literally), straight-arm driving style,...
