Casey Annis Editor/Publisher Elsewhere in this issue you’ll read of the passing of an individual that you’ve likely never heard...
July 2017 Porsche 914 – The Racing History By Roy Smith Writing about a subject is relatively easy when there...
The 1927 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1927 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: March 26-27, 1927 / Winner: Minoia – Morandi / Winning Speed: 48.27 mph / Starters: 77 / Finishers: 54 And then they came, from all over Italy, young men most with more horsepower than talent many the sons of well to...
Notable American Grand Prix Drivers Michael Andretti The son of a racing legend, Michael Andretti was the Indy Car Champion...
The 1956 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1956 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: April 29-30 1956 / Winner: Castellotti / Winning...
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...
The 1932 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1932 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: April 9-10, 1932 / Winner: Borzacchini – Bignami...
Nestled in the Santa Monica Mountains above trendy Malibu, California, lies an artifact from the history of automobile racing in...
Nestled in a nondescript building at an industrial section of Lincoln, Nebraska lies one of the world’s most impressive automotive collections. If not for the race car out front, you’d have no idea of what awaits you inside. Before I dive into this story, I have a confession: I grew...
June 2008 Lancia 037 The Development and Rally History of a World Champion By Peter Collins Long-time VR author and...
Aston Martin and Zagato have collaborated on several automobiles, starting with the famed Aston Martin DB4 GT Zagato up to...
The 1953 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1953 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: April 25-26, 1953 / Winner: Marzotto G. – Crosara – Rolfo / Winning Speed: 88.96 mph / Starters: 481 / Finishers: 286 In 1953 the FIA inaugurated the World Sports Car Championship for cars conforming to Appendix C...
You sense the elements of Italian style long before you see the first machine in the museum. Even the entrance...
The 1957 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1957 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: May 12-13, 1957 / Winner: Taruffi / Winning...
The Important People Behind The Silver Arrows As part of our ongoing series, we take a look at the history of Grand Prix Motor Racing through the lives of its greatest drivers, people and events with a special focus on the history of Formula 1. Silver Arrows was the nickname...
Jimmy Murphy Biography Jimmy Murphy was born in 1894 but tragedy soon struck the Murphy family when his mother died...
The basic site here is very broad-based, but in its “Racing” section is this subsection devoted to Dan Gurney’s career...
The Best Swedish Grand Prix Drivers Perhaps surprisingly, only ten Swedes have ever driven in Grands Prix. Though, eleven Swedish drivers have entered. Erik Lundgren was the first-ever driver from Sweden to enter a Formula One race, in the 1951 German Grand Prix, but he later withdrew. Here is a...
June 2018 Jackie Stewart Enzo Ferrari Bruce McLaren Tim Birkin 1 – Greg Moore wins the Miller 200 at...
The 48 Best Grand Prix Drivers in Formula One History This website since its inception has covered The history of...
Motor Racing History – Origins of the First Automobile Races and the First Grand Prix Dawn of Automobile Racing The dawn of automobile racing was anything but that. It was thought that a car’s ability to navigate roads in a reliable manner was all that could be hoped for. Outright...
This one picture is why I’m writing these thousand words. I’m doing so in the first week of August 2008—precisely...
From the creation of the first automobile to this very day, the German industry’s commitment to technical perfection gave birth...
Even though the Japanese motoring industry explored sports cars decades later than European and American manufacturers, its rapid growth soon made up for that, and Japan is by all means a respectable contender when it comes to high-performance cars. In recent decades, Japan’s unique approach gave birth to dozens of...
At 30,000 feet, questions begin to crystallize like ice on the wing… Will the circulation ever return to my hopelessly...
Motor Racing: The Pursuit of Victory By Anthony Carter This new book is not a treatise on the competitive spirit...
In the last decade, car collecting has evolved from a niche hobby to a global industry, making car culture omnipresent and more diverse than ever. Everchanging and ever growing, the collector car world of today has seen an influx of people attracted by investing, experiencing new things in life, meeting...
Harold LeMay’s Humble Beginnings We’re all familiar with the expression “One person’s trash is another one’s treasure.” In the case...
December 2017 Le Mans: The Official History 1930-39 By Quentin Spurring This fine volume is a welcome addition to others...
The 1955 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1955 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: May 1-2, 1955 / Winner: Moss – Jenkinson / Winning Speed: 98.53 mph / Starters: 521 / Finishers: 281 The race would not start for another two months but already Daimler-Benz was hard at work earmarking 20,000 pounds...