At 30,000 feet, questions begin to crystallize like ice on the wing… Will the circulation ever return to my hopelessly...
March 2004 Maserati: A Racing History By Anthony Pritchard This new book, by noted author and historian Anthony Pritchard, chronicles...
January 2005 12 Hours of Sebring—1970 By Harry Hurst If you poll almost anyone familiar with the history of long-distance endurance racing and ask them what one of the most exciting, epic seasons of all time was, nine times out of ten the response will be 1970. The 1970 endurance...
This year’s Goodwood Revival Meeting was the seventh in the series—time flies when you’re having fun. One thing that marks...
Motor Racing History – Mille Miglia Introduction When I talk about the Mille Miglia, I feel quite moved, for it...
In honor of the recent passing of Alpine founder Jean Rédélé, Renault has unveiled an exposition of Alpine history, at its Paris exposition center. Titled “Passion Alpine,” the exhibit at Renault’s L’Atelier Renault, on the Champs Elysées, features a wide variety of Alpine racecars, including everything from the first 4CV...
The Best Swedish Grand Prix Drivers Perhaps surprisingly, only ten Swedes have ever driven in Grands Prix. Though, eleven Swedish...
June 2008 Lancia 037 The Development and Rally History of a World Champion By Peter Collins Long-time VR author and...
Targa Florio – The Ultimate Guide The Norman conquest of southern Italy led to the creation of the Kingdom of Sicily, which was subsequently ruled by the Hohenstaufen, the Capetian House of Anjou, Spain, the House of Habsburg, and then finally unified under the House of Bourbon with the Kingdom...
This one picture is why I’m writing these thousand words. I’m doing so in the first week of August 2008—precisely...
The Silver Arrows Story The history of Grand Prix Motor Racing through the lives of its greatest drivers, people and...
Billing itself as “America’s Largest and most historically important archive of automotive history,” this is the official site of the Kellogg Auto Archives, where Ron Kellogg has assembled a collection of more than a million negatives chronicling nearly a century of automotive activity. It also contains a vast array of...
The Important People Behind The Silver Arrows As part of our ongoing series, we take a look at the history...
History has a habit of repeating itself, and it did so at the 2010 Mille Miglia this May, when BMW...
The basic site here is very broad-based, but in its “Racing” section is this subsection devoted to Dan Gurney’s career as a racing driver, car builder and team owner. It has eight separate sections of its own, each dealing with a different aspect and phase of Dan’s time in the...
The 1927 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1927 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: March 26-27, 1927 / Winner: Minoia – Morandi / Winning...
The 1928 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1928 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: March 31-April 1, 1928 / Winner: Campari –...
The 1929 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1929 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: April 13-14, 1929 / Winner: Campari – Ramponi / Winning Speed: 56.05 mph / Starters: 83 / Finishers: 40 It was 1929 and two races were already on the books. The number of entries suffered due the Monaco...
The 1930 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1930 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: April 16-17, 1929 / Winner: Nuvolari – Guidotti...
The 1931 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1931 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: April 11-12, 1931 / Winner: Caracciola – Sebastian...
The 1932 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1932 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: April 9-10, 1932 / Winner: Borzacchini – Bignami / Winning Speed: 68.67 mph / Starters: 88 / Finishers: 42 The hoped for increase in foreign entrants as a result of Caracciola’s triumph the previous year did not materialize....
The 1933 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1933 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: April 8-9, 1933 / Winner: Nuvolari – Compagnoni...
The 1934 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1934 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: April 8-9, 1934 / Winner: Varzi – Bignami...
The 1935 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1935 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: April 14-15, 1935 / Winner: Pintacuda – Della Stufa / Winning Speed: 71.72 mph / Starters: 86 / Finishers: 47 This year saw the entry of thinly disguised Grand Prix cars with two-seater coachwork barely able to fit...
The 1936 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1936 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: April 5-6, 1936 / Winner: Brivio – Ongaro...
The 1937 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1937 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: April 4-5, 1937 / Winner: Pintacuda – Mambelli...
The 1938 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1938 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: April 3-4, 1938 / Winner: Biondetti – Stefani / Winning Speed: 84.61 mph / Starters: 141 / Finishers: 72 Prior to this years Mille Miglia the responsibility for running the Alfa Romeo cars was brought in house under...
The 1940 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1940 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: April 28, 1940 / Winner: von Hanstein –...
The 1947 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1947 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: June 21-22, 1947 / Winner: Biondetti – Romano...
The 1948 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1948 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: May 1-2, 1948 / Winner: Biondetti – Navoni / Winning Speed: 75.76 mph / Starters: 167 / Finishers: 64 Compared with the previous year most of the entrants resorted to smaller displacement engines for this years Mille Miglia....