The 5th annual Sebring 12 Hour Grand Prix held in 1956 achieved international prominence when, for the first time, four...
Five times World Champion Juan Manuel Fangio competed in the 1948 Grand Prix of South America, and it was 70...
November 2009 During the German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring on August 4, 1957, Ferrari driver Luigi Musso brakes for the South Curve. Although his efforts were ultimately overshadowed by the titanic battle among Fangio, Collins, and Hawthorn, Musso soldiered on to finish a very respectable 4th. Photo courtesy of: THE...
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For the International Formula Libre Race at the British Grand Prix meeting at Silvertone, July 18, 1953, Juan Manuel Fangio...
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“Mirror, mirror, on the wall; Who is the fastest of them all?” Many are the racing drivers, fast and slow,...
Dale Earnhardt Nino Farina 1 Bobby Rahal, Bob Garretson, and Brian Redman drive a Porsche 935 K3 to victory in...
RM Sotheby’s has announced the addition of a 1956 Ferrari 290 MM with a significant motorsport pedigree, for its Petersen Automotive Museum Auction on December 8. Campaigned by Scuderia Ferrari for the 1956 and 1957 seasons, the fully matching-numbers, Ferrari Classiche-certified racer was piloted by an amazing assortment of factory...
Photo: Alejandro Ibanez The man who scored Ferrari’s very first Formula One World Championship victory, Argentinian Jose Froilan Gonzalez, has...
Gary Pearson stretches his and the D-type Jaguar’s legs during a Goodwood Revival.Photo: Roger Dixon My first open-wheeled car was...
The topic of great drivers and “who is the greatest” driver is always an interesting one and, of course, a difficult one, because it is not easy to compare drivers from very different periods of racing history. I have always considered Fangio the “greatest,” but there are certainly many others...
A graduate in mechanical engineering, they called the nephew of Pinin Farina il dottore, the doctor. An austere, intolerant man,...
For this special Porsche issue it was only right to interview the man who, in real terms, helped to put...
Raymond Mays demonstrates the BRM V16 during an “Ancien Pilotes” demonstration race in the late 1960s. Photo: J Pearson Archive Aspiration and reality are often diametrically opposed. Dreams, however, do come true every time an amateur driver clambers aboard, or wriggles into, a Grand Prix car once raced by a sporting...
Louis Stanley Rudolf Caracciola 2 First South Africa Grand Prix to be held on the Kyalami track near Johannesburg is...
Paul Newman George Follmer Photo: Pete Luongo 2 First South Africa Grand Prix to be held on the Kyalami track...
Rodger Ward Jim Hurtubise Photo: IMS 1 Jim Clark wins the South African Grand Prix driving a Ford Cosworth-powered Lotus 49 for his 25th GP victory (1968). 2 Walter Sobraske, machinist for Miller, Schofield, Offenhauser, and Meyer & Drake, is born in West Virginia (1901). Become a Member & Get...
A.J. Foyt Donald Mitchell Healey 1 • Colin Chapman and Michael Allen form Lotus Engineering Company (1952). 3 • Sprint...
Rodger Ward Vincenzo Florio 1 Colin Chapman and Michael Allen form the Lotus Engineering Company (1952). 2 The First South...
Rodger Ward Gioacchino Colombo 1 FISA bans sliding skirts on racecars (1981). 2 First South Africa Grand Prix to be held on the Kayalami track near Johannesburg is won by Pedro Rodriguez at the wheel of a Cooper-Maserati. First F1 win for Rodriguez and last for Cooper (1967). Become a...
Bernd Rosemeyer Ferdinand Porsche 6 Chris Amon wins the Pukekoke, New Zealand, Tasman Cup race (1968). 7 Gioacchini Colombo joins...
Gilles Villeneuve Jean-Pierre Wimille 1 Sports car racer James “Hap” Sharp is born (1928). 11 American John Walter Christie, free-lance...
Now, here was a giant killer. A man who beat the hell out of Mercedes-Benz at least twice and won Ferrari’s very first World Championship Grand Prix by beating the most successful racing car of all time. Born in Arrecifes, Argentina, in October 1922, Gonzalez was a tubby baby who...
Juan Manuel Fangio Biography Affectionately known as “bandy legs” by his many fans, Juan Manuel Fangio was born in Balcarce,...
Juan Manuel Fangio Biography Affectionately known as “bandy legs” by his many fans, Juan Manuel Fangio was born in Balcarce,...
Luigi Chinetti Briggs Cunningham Photo: courtesy Art Evans 1 Kazuyoshi Hoshino, who participated in two F1 races in the 1970s, born in Japan (1947). 2 Briggs Cunningham, racer, constructor and America’s Cup winner, dies at age 96 (2003). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
Nino Vaccarella Ronnie Peterson 1 Ronnie Peterson wins the French Grand Prix at Paul Ricard in a John Player Special...
Jimmy Bryan Ayrton SennaPhoto: Bury Mason 4 Colin McCrae and Derek Ringer win the Acroplis Rally in a Subaru Impreza...
Enzo FerrariPhoto: Ferrari Juan Manuel FangioPhoto: Mercedes 1 Chuck Daigh, driving Frank Arciero’s Lotus 19-Climax, wins both heats of the Player’s 200 sports car race at Mosport, Ontario, Canada (1963). 2 Henry Seagrave drives a Sunbeam to victory in the French Grand Prix at Tours (1923). Become a Member &...