The 1957 season was Juan Manuel Fangio’s swan song. With four World Championship victories under his belt, Fangio rejoined the...
Charlie Kemp was born in Mississippi, and his inimitable southern drawl once led Carroll Shelby to say that had Charlie raced as slowly as he talked he’d never have won anything! Charlie did win, however, and he won big. He finished 3rd in his very first race in a jalopy...
Sexual debauchery, a regime’s imminent downfall and a kidnapping fit for a gentleman were some of the highlights of the...
Dale Earnhardt Nino Farina 1 Bobby Rahal, Bob Garretson, and Brian Redman drive a Porsche 935 K3 to victory in...
Over the course of nearly seven decades of Formula One history, only three men have ever won a World Championship Grand Prix race in a car of their own construction. Of course, none of them actually designed or built their cars all by themselves, they simply conceived, established, directed, managed...
When he competed in his first Formula One race, Eddie Cheever was even more baby-faced than when I got to...
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Enzo FerrariPhoto: Ferrari Juan Manuel FangioPhoto: Mercedes 1 Chuck Daigh, driving Frank Arciero’s Lotus 19-Climax, wins both heats of the...
You know the eternal pub debate about who is the greatest driver ever, or which was the greatest drive? I’m...
The 1955 24-hour race at Le Mans was set to be an epic contest. Mercedes-Benz had entered the brilliant new W196 single seater-based sports car, the 300 SLR. Stirling Moss had driven the 300 SLR to victory two months previously in the Mille Miglia. For this race he was to...
From 500-cc racing to a works ride with Cooper and later a British Hillclimb Championship, Mike MacDowel has had a...
Jimmy Bryan Ayrton SennaPhoto: Bury Mason 4 Colin McCrae and Derek Ringer win the Acroplis Rally in a Subaru Impreza...
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...
Pete Lyons 2006 already! Those mileposts are just whizzing by, aren’t they? I feel like I’m riding up Pikes Peak...
Jo Bonnier Vic Elford 3 Mosport International raceway in Ontario, Canada, opens with club races (1961). 5 The “Golden Submarine”...
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...
Rodger Ward Gioacchino Colombo 1 FISA bans sliding skirts on racecars (1981). 2 First South Africa Grand Prix to be...
Rodger Ward Jim Hurtubise Photo: IMS 1 Jim Clark wins the South African Grand Prix driving a Ford Cosworth-powered Lotus...
Wandering through that great Goodwood paddock of my mind, I delight in thousands of historic racing machines at every hand. All are magnificent and most are momentous, but some few hold my mental gaze longer than the rest. Pete Lyons Bugatti 35s… Alfa straight-8s… D-Types… GTOs… GT40s… 917Ks… Fangio’s 250F…...
You wouldn’t need all the fingers of one hand to count the number of men who could beat Juan Manuel...
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Juan Manuel Fangio, called by the Argentinos “El Chueco” the bandy-legged one, is considered by many to have been the greatest Grand Prix driver in the world. Five times a world champion Fangio won his titles driving for Alfa Romeo (1951), Mercedes-Benz (1954–55), Ferrari (1956), and Maserati (1957). Like most...
Louis Stanley Rudolf Caracciola 2 First South Africa Grand Prix to be held on the Kyalami track near Johannesburg is...
April 2009 OttoVú By Tony Adriaensens While I have said it before, thank God for obsessive enthusiasts—they always produce the best books! Sometime in the 1980s, Tony Adriaensens had his first exposure to the FIAT 8V and 8V-powered SIATAs, while helping his brother transport an 8V for a classic car...
John Watson Manfred von Brauchitsh 3 Manfred von Brauchitsh scores the Mercedes-Benz Type W25 debut victory by winning the Eifelrennen...
Cale Yarborough Juan Manuel Fangio 1 Jo Siffert and Brian Redman, sharing a Porsche 908 Spyder, win the 1000-kilometer sports...
Gilles Villeneuve Al Unser Jr. 1 Jacky Ickx and Dr. Dick Thompson win the 1000 Km of Spa, Belgium, in a Gulf Mirage-Ford M1 (1967). 2 George Follmer drives a Porsche-powered Lotus 23 to win the under-two-liter class of the USRRC race at Riverside, California. Jim Hall’s Chaparral wins overall...