Some of the greatest racecars, in my opinion, would have to be the Mercedes and Auto Unions of the 1930s....
Although all paintings are unique, periodically an artist is given the opportunity to work on a special project. When the...
1960 Maserati Tipo 61 “Birdcage” Across the annals of automotive history, few families can lay claim to more engineering genius than that of Rudolfo and Carolina Maserati. Between 1880 and 1898, Carolina gave birth to no less than six sons, Carlo, Bindo, Alfieri, Mario, Ettore, and Ernesto. All but one...
Nino Farina Jim HallPhoto: Keith Booker 1 Sports car racer Jim Pace born (1961). 2 Al Holbert, Derek Bell and...
Casey Annis (Editor) Photo: Dan R Boyd At the end of January, I was asked if I’d speak at the...
I drove the Birdcage Maserati for Lucky Casner’s Camoradi Team on three occasions in 1960, beginning with the 1,000 kilometers of Buenos Aires where Masten Gregory and I led until the gearbox failed. At Sebring I was teamed with Stirling Moss and we had built up a substantial lead, but...
Harry Miller Keke Rosberg 1 Scuderia Ferrari is formed (1929). 3 Wendell Scott, the first African American NASCAR racer, dies...
The Lotus 19 took sports car racing to a whole new level upon its debut in 1960, rendering rivals such...
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...
CAMORADI—an acronym for Casner Motor Racing Division—was formed by Lloyd “Lucky” Casner in late 1959. The intention was to win...
On May 28th, Maserati celebrated a significant anniversary; exactly 60 years ago, the Tipo 61 achieved an amazing victory at...
Carlo Chiti Emerson Fittipaldi 1 Scuderia Ferrari is formed as the Alfa Romeo factory racing team (1929). 2 Peter Gethin drives a Chevron B26 to victory in the sports car race at Welkom, South Africa (1972). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More)...
November 2009 Quixx Plexiglas & Acrylic Scratch Remover As any racer knows, scratches are an inevitable part of racing. In...
For only the second time in the 37-year history of summer’s annual vintage racecar festival at Laguna Seca on California’s...
William F. Milliken Jackie StewartPhoto: Thierry Lesparre 3 Carroll Shelby drives a Birdcage Maserati to victory in the Los Angeles Examiner Herald-Express International Grand Prix at Riverside, California (1960). 4 Clemente Biondetti drives a 2-liter Ferrari to victory in the revived Giro di Sicilia, in Italy (1948). Become a Member...
What’s the single most important component, for maximal performance, on a racecar? The engine? Suspension? In the grand scheme of...
The late 1960s brought a host of changes to the famed 24 Hours of Le Mans. The wave of “professionalism”...
The historic racing scene has brought many excellent cars back to the circuits over recent years, although quite a lot of them are not very original, and many have been substantially improved. While there are some safety arguments for this, it opens the door to modifying cars with new parts,...
Vic Elford Lucien Bianchi 1 Derek Bell, Hans Stuck and Al Holbert drive a Porsche 962 to victory in the...
At the 12 Hours of Sebring on March 25, 1961, John Fitch shared this Briggs Cunningham-entered Maserati T61 “Birdcage” with...
Stirling MossPhoto: Keith Booker I have had many co-drivers in my career…John Fitch, Juan Fangio, Peter Collins, Harry Schell, Tony Brooks…but Dan Gurney was the best co-driver I ever had, along with Fangio. There was no question that he was a superb driver. I only did a very few races...
For perhaps the first time in motorsport history, a podium found its three steps occupied by father-son driving pairings. Last...
Billy Krause started his racing career driving midgets on California oval dirt tracks. He went on to race his own...
If I said to you the words “historic racing” and “green,” what comes immediately to mind? A British racing green Jaguar? The infield grass at your favorite track? All the money you spent on your last racing engine? Any of these would seem valid to me. But would you have...
Overview of the Maserati Birdcage Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access...
How amusing, I often smile, that a breed of racer I associate with conservatism generally speeds around to the left....
USAC Road Racing Fades as the SCCA Overcomes Its Aversion to Racing for Money When we left the USAC road racing championship last month it was coming off its most successful season yet, with 11 races producing nine different winners, but the schedule for 1960 would feature only five races,...
1990 Penske PC19-Ilmor Chevrolet I first saw Roger Penske racing a Maserati Birdcage at Lime Rock Park in Connecticut. He...
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