This piece was created by mixed media artist Jonathan Carter to commemorate Maserati’s centennial. The painting depicts Juan Manuel Fangio...
This year is the 50th anniversary of the 911. Its first public viewing was at the September 1963 Frankfurt Auto...
French Grand Prix; Dijon-Prenois, July 1,1979. Mario Andretti with the unhappy Lotus 80. It was not a success, and the team subsequently reverted to the Lotus 79. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION PMB 219 – 65 High Ridge Road, Stamford, CT 06905-3814 USA., Tel: (203) 461-9804 • Fax: (203)...
The 63rd Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, to be held August 18, on the 18th fairway at Pebble Beach Golf Links,...
When Alan Taylor says he grew up in the restoration industry…he’s not kidding. At the tender age of eight, Taylor...
My story of Formula One came into being after I’d driven my GT40 and got all that out of the way. I thought I could become a decent single-seater driver in the various club events that existed at the time. I was studying Autosport one day in late 1968 and...
Toyota’s first car, the AA, was a close copy of the DeSoto Airflow with essentially a 1933 Chevrolet engine. Photo: Toyota...
Photo: Beaulieu Enterprises Ltd On May 12, visitors to Beaulieu were once again transported to France as crowds of French...
As you’ll read in this month’s Racecar Profile, I recently had the great honor of being invited to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway to test drive the mighty 1909 Blitzen Benz. This was an event that pegged a lot of firsts for me: My first trip to the Speedway; My first...
Bugatti entered a team of four, 8-cylinder Type 30s for the 1922 French Grand Prix at Strasbourg. Clothed in an...
Like so many great automobiles of our time, the Mercedes-Benz SL series can trace its origins directly to the racetrack....
Damon Graham Devereux Hill is the only son of a Formula 1 World Champion to have also won the title. His father, Graham, won the 1962 and 1968 championships and Damon the 1996. The 1994 Grand Prix season outlook seemed bright for Williams with Senna coming aboard to partner Hill...
Photo: David Gooley One glance at a late 1937, ‘38 or ‘39 Darl’mat 402 Special Sport tells you it’s classic...
November 2010 Entered by the French Maserati importer John Simone, this ungaily Maserati 151 was guided by Lucien Bianchi into...
The French Grand Prix; Rouen-les Essarts, July 7, 1968. At this race Honda introduced an all-new car built in Japan using an air-cooled V-8. Jo Schlesser, a 40-year old French driver of modest reputation, was called in when John Surtees decided to stay with his older V12 Honda RA 301....
April 2008 The French Grand Prix; Reims, July 3, 1960. Phil Hill’s Ferrari 246/F1 rounds the Thillois hairpin at the...
The French Grand Prix; Charade (Clermont-Ferrand), June 27, 1965. The great Jim Clark guiding the works Lotus 25 around this...
During the French Grand Prix at Rouen-les Essarts on July 8, 1962, John Surtees aims the Bowmaker Lola Mk4-Climax into the Nouveau Monde hairpin. He finished 5th after various mechanical bothers. Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article...
Unlike those of Jim Clark, Mario Andretti and Michael Schumacher, not a name at the forefront of all our minds....
The 1929 Lincoln Aero Phaeton, by LeBaron, was one of the earliest American vehicles to employ a tailfin. Priced at...
1976 March 76B I have a confession to make. When I was but a pubescent young man, I used to lie in bed at night and fantasize…that I was Gilles Villeneuve. In an era before in-car cameras, I could close my eyes and visualize a complete lap of the U.S....
Woodley Park, Van Nuys, CA November 4, 2012 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
To supplement this month’s feature story on the 1961 French Grand Prix we offer this nearly 20-minute clip in summary...
Exotic doesn’t cut it when it comes to describing this gutsy, fun-loving, vivacious show-off of a beauty who was born to a country postman and his wife on December 15, 1900 in Aunay-sous-Auneau, about 50 miles southwest of Paris. At 16, she broke loose from her provincial shackles and invaded...
French racing driver Henri Greder, who focused his career around the 24 Hours of Le Mans, has died at the...
Initially, Jean-Pierre Jabouille made his mark in France’s national Formula Three racing in 1968. Not only did he race, but...
Jimmy Murphy Biography Jimmy Murphy was born in 1894 but tragedy soon struck the Murphy family when his mother died while Murphy was two and his father succumbed to injuries suffered in the great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 which left Murphy an orphan. Forced to work for a living...
A.J. Foyt Mike Costin 1 A.J. Foyt drives a Coyote-Foyt to victory in the USAC Championship race at Pocono, Pennsylvania,...
1925 Bugatti Type 39. Photo: Mike Jiggle There is something very special about a Bugatti, and this example is very special indeed. Highly original, this race winner from the 1925 season has lived nearly all of its life “down under” in Australia, and has only recently found its way to Britain,...
