Jo Bonnier Vic Elford 3 Mosport International raceway in Ontario, Canada, opens with club races (1961). 5 The “Golden Submarine”...
The story of the Alfa Romeo 158 is packed with heroes, starting with its designer, Gioacchino Colombo. He submitted his...
Quite simply, cars raced by Dick Seaman are few and far between. The British driver was active in our sport for only a handful of years, and for three of those he was employed as a factory driver for Mercedes-Benz. This alone makes it extremely difficult to “get your hands”...
September 2003 Jean-Pierre Wimille by Jean-Michel Paris & William D. Mearns This has been one of those long, awaited books...
Tears streamed down a thousand faces in the Bois de Boulogne in Paris on September 9, 1945. Tears for the...
Achille Varzi, in the Alfa Romeo 158 “Alfetta”, set the 2nd fastest time for Heat 1 behind the Alfa 158 of Carlo Trossi.Photo: Ed McDonough Collection Motor racing, especially at the Grand Prix level, had reached a frenzied pace before World War II but was brought to a halt in...
Gilles Villeneuve Jean-Pierre Wimille 1 Sports car racer James “Hap” Sharp is born (1928). 11 American John Walter Christie, free-lance...
Nanni Galli Jo BonnierPhoto: Porsche 1 Jean-Pierre Wimille drives a Simca-Gordini to victory in the Coupe Robert Benoist on a...
Woolf Barnato is the man with a perfect score. He entered the 24 Hours of Le Mans three times and won it three times: in 1928, 1929 and 1930, driving his own beloved Bentley cars. A record that still stands today, despite many attempts to break it over the last...
It was really very gratifying to have received so much positive feedback on the “Absent Friends” feature that we ran...
The 48 Best Grand Prix Drivers in Formula One History This website since its inception has covered The history of...
Some time ago, Vintage Racecar published ”Absent Friends,” my story of astonishing heroism of another kind. It involved three motor...
The name Alfetta is still one that makes any red-blooded Italian motor sport fan throw out his chest with pride....
Jean-Pierre Wimille Biography Jean-Pierre Wimille was born in Paris, in 1908. His father, Auguste Wimille, was motoring correspondent for the Petit Parisien newspaper and later the Paris edition of the New York Herald under James Gordon Bennett. It would not be an exaggeration that Wimille grew up steeped in the history of...