The noise! It took my breath away. A BMW M12 4-cylinder or Honda V-6 at around 10,000 rpm. Totally ear-splitting...
April 2008 The French Grand Prix; Reims, July 3, 1960. Phil Hill’s Ferrari 246/F1 rounds the Thillois hairpin at the...
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 French Grand Prix; Rouen-les Essarts, July 7, 1968. At this race Honda introduced an all-new car built in Japan...
1976 March 76B I have a confession to make. When I was but a pubescent young man, I used to...
November 2010 Entered by the French Maserati importer John Simone, this ungaily Maserati 151 was guided by Lucien Bianchi into 13th (and last) position in the Guards International Trophy contest at Brands Hatch on August 6, 1963. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access...
Unlike those of Jim Clark, Mario Andretti and Michael Schumacher, not a name at the forefront of all our minds....
Exotic doesn’t cut it when it comes to describing this gutsy, fun-loving, vivacious show-off of a beauty who was born...
Which sub-one-liter competition engine has the most international road racing victories of all time? OSCA? Bandini? Crosley? Abarth? Nardi? Moretti? The answer is not so obvious. It’s none of the above! Now here are a few hints. It’s not Italian. And it’s not English or German or American…honest. And it’s...
To supplement this month’s feature story on the 1961 French Grand Prix we offer this nearly 20-minute clip in summary...
Debutante’s Ball On a list of the greatest Grand Prix races will be the names of several which will strike...
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...
Widely experienced chief mechanic and author Sal Incandela has passed away at his home in the Las Vegas suburb of...
When Alan Taylor says he grew up in the restoration industry…he’s not kidding. At the tender age of eight, Taylor...
The author found the Amon AF101 quite enjoyable to drive at Donington, now that it has been extensively developed—note particularly the twin canard fin nose treatment.Photo: Pete Austin One of the problems in writing this profile is the temptation to indulge in a long list of Chris Amon misfortunes—and there...
This past July, Britain’s Beaulieu could have been mistaken for one of its French counterparts, as around 200 French vehicles...
Like so many great automobiles of our time, the Mercedes-Benz SL series can trace its origins directly to the racetrack....
On the whole, French racing drivers are quite friendly toward each other and generally there is a good rapport and camaraderie between us. I think this stems from the roots of our motor racing careers in France. Most, if not all, of us came through the motor racing school system...
French racing driver Henri Greder, who focused his career around the 24 Hours of Le Mans, has died at the...
Damon Graham Devereux Hill is the only son of a Formula 1 World Champion to have also won the title....
Photo: David Gooley One glance at a late 1937, ‘38 or ‘39 Darl’mat 402 Special Sport tells you it’s classic Art Deco French. Those swoopy airfoil fenders reminiscent of custom coachbuilder Saoutchik’s Delahayes, as well as Ettore Bugatti’s creations of the era are the giveaway. Also, the almost cubist bright...
Woodley Park, Van Nuys, CA November 4, 2012 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
My story of Formula One came into being after I’d driven my GT40 and got all that out of the...
Toyota’s first car, the AA, was a close copy of the DeSoto Airflow with essentially a 1933 Chevrolet engine. Photo: Toyota Motor Sales, U.S. Archives The decade of the ’30s was a time of incredible creativity among automobile designers and coachbuilders, especially in Europe. But it was also a decade of...
Bugatti entered a team of four, 8-cylinder Type 30s for the 1922 French Grand Prix at Strasbourg. Clothed in an...
The 63rd Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, to be held August 18, on the 18th fairway at Pebble Beach Golf Links,...
This year is the 50th anniversary of the 911. Its first public viewing was at the September 1963 Frankfurt Auto Show in Germany, though at that time it was know as the 901. However, in 1929 Peugeot had introduced the model 201. The company registered with the French government’s office...
Philanthropist Peter Mullin is founder of the Mullin Automotive Museum in Oxnard, California, as well as Chairman of the Board...
1925 Bugatti Type 39. Photo: Mike Jiggle There is something very special about a Bugatti, and this example is very special...
De Palma, his riding mechanic alongside, guides his factory Vauxhall over the 37.631-km Circuit de Lyon during the 1914 French Grand Prix, a race run barely a month before the onset of WWI. One of the greatest, and nice with it—that was Ralph De Palma. He won well over 2,500...