A few days ago, Bugatti celebrated Jean Bugatti’s birthday. The renowned automobile designer and Ettore Bugatti’s son was born on...
The 48 Best Grand Prix Drivers in Formula One History This website since its inception has covered The history of...
“A technical product is not perfect until it is aesthetically impeccable as well,” Ettore Bugatti once said. And the company founder applied this standard not just to his own automobiles but to other everyday items too. If he was not satisfied with something he had bought, he often improved it...
With the Type 41 Royale, in 1926, Bugatti presented the strongest, largest and most luxurious automobile in the world, characterized...
After Ettore Bugatti’s death his family decided to keep his car-making company alive. Their creation of the Type 101 was...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These early innovators are in an elite club, their place in automotive history guaranteed as the creators of a true classic sports car, a genuine thoroughbred. The development of the racing...
The Bugatti name is widely known in the automotive world for the selection of exquisite roadcars and racecars produced by...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These...
The late 1960s brought a host of changes to the famed 24 Hours of Le Mans. The wave of “professionalism” that was sweeping across other forms of motorsport began to exert its influence at Le Mans. With increased money and prestige now flowing through professional racing, the caliber of teams...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These...
Patrick Depailler “Lofty” England 1 James Hunt, driving a McLaren-Ford, wins the German Grand Prix on the Nürburgring. Niki Lauda...
Tazio Nuvolari chats with Eugenio Siena (left) and Baconin Borzacchini (right) during practice for the 1934 Grand Prix of Italy. Carlo Massola’s Diatto 20 made only one lap of the 1922 Targa Florio. The Maserati name meant nothing as the First World War began to wipe out the youth of...
Gobbato’s Fate Dear Editor, In the article about Vittorio Jano, in your June issue, Robert Newman stated that the 1945...
Casey Annis / Editor I was very interested to read James Beckett’s profile last month on the Martini F3 car,...
Meo Costantini in the cockpit of the Bugatti Type 35 that he would drive to a 4th-place finish in the ACF’s 1925 French Grand Prix at Montlhéry. One day in 1923, Ettore Bugatti met Bartolomeo “Meo” Costantini, an encounter that would change both their lives. The suave Costantini, who was...
Ettore Bugatti Biography Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti though his family was French was born in Milan on 15 September 1881. He...
Photo: Steve Oom Photo: Steve Oom It would be interesting to ask any historic car enthusiast what picture enters their...
Philanthropist Peter Mullin is founder of the Mullin Automotive Museum in Oxnard, California, as well as Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Petersen Automotive Museum. VR: Tell me how you first became enamored with cars. Like so many of us, I would imagine you were bit by the bug...
The subject of this month’s VR Profile, Bugatti, is one of the legendary names of automotive history, and this link...
Photo: David Gooley One glance at a late 1937, ‘38 or ‘39 Darl’mat 402 Special Sport tells you it’s classic...
Mention the words “Rudi” and “Mercedes” and what comes to mind? Chances are good it will be images of famed driver Rudolf Caracciola wheeling a giant prewar SSK or W154 “Silver Arrow” around some exotic circuit, like the Nürburgring or Tripoli. Yet, there was another Rudi at Mercedes-Benz who arguably...
Woolf Barnato is the man with a perfect score. He entered the 24 Hours of Le Mans three times and...
1924 Bugatti Type 13 While many racing cars of the Edwardian period and the early 1920s and 1930s were huge—behemoths to some, especially on dirt-covered roads—there were equally a corresponding number that were miniscule in comparison, many almost fragile in appearance. At first some of these small cars suffered ridicule...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These...
There has been much rejoicing over the return to F1 next year of Team Lotus and I cannot understand what...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man pursued his passion for speed and technology by building cars for competition. These early innovators belong to an elite club, their place in automotive history guaranteed as the creators of true classic sports cars, and genuine thoroughbreds. The development of the racing...
Jerry Titus Frank Biela Photo: Stefan Warter 1 George Follmer drives a Ford-powered Lotus 70 to victory in the L&M...
A rare piece of automotive history will go on the block with no reserve as the 1936 Bugatti Type 57C...
Not for the first time, one of motor sport’s most successful cars was a huge flop when it made its debut. In this case, it was the Bugatti Tipo 35, six of which were driven on the public roads from Molsheim to Lyons in late July 1924, to compete in...
