It took a racing department of 240 people and a huge budget to put Michael Schumacher on top of the...
Maria Teresa De Filippis, the first woman to contest a World Championship Grand Prix, has passed away at the age of 89. F1’s traiblazing lady was born in Naples on Armistice Day in 1926 and made her competition debut aboard a Fiat 500 to satisfy a bet between her brothers...
Laury, Lucy O’Reilly and Harry Schell were father, mother and son. They were all larger than life characters who made...
November 2009 During the German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring on August 4, 1957, Ferrari driver Luigi Musso brakes for...
This painting depicts Mike Hawthorn, winner of the 1954 Spanish Grand Prix at Pedralbes, Barcelona, in the Ferrari 553 “Squalo” followed by Harry Schell, No. 24 Maserati, an early leader on half-full tanks. Alberto Ascari, No. 34, Lancia D50 was the fastest, but retired with oil in the clutch. The...
How will history remember Count Wolf-gang Alexander Albert Eduard Maximillian Reichsgraf Berghe von Trips? “Von Krash,” as the dim-witted sniggeringly...
November 2008 The Nürburgring 1000-km Race; Nürburgring, June 1, 1958. Phil Hill in the Ferrari 250TR which he drove with...
Tazio Nuvolari always used to say that if your car burst into flame, jump out and save yourself before it crashes. A similar philosophy to that of the bespectacled Masten Gregory, who often shocked fellow competitors and spectators alike by standing up and leaping from his troubled cars, once or...
March 2008 The Nürburgring 1000 km Race, June 1, 1958. Gino Munaron in the Karussell with the Ferrari 250TR/58, which...
Jim Rathmann’s career in motor racing is marked not only by a hard-fought win in the 1960 Indy 500 but...
Perhaps no one ever looked so much the part of the romantic ’50s driver as did the Roman Luigi Musso. Elegant, somewhat aristocratic, and (sadly) disdainful of his peers, he really did have the look. Teamed at Ferrari with the outgoing and boisterous Mike Hawthorn, he was never able to...
