OM Tipo 665 – Car Profiles The origins of Officine Meccaniche can be found along the shores of Lake Maggiore,...
Salon Privé Concours d’Elégance presented by Aviva is bringing together two Italian thoroughbreds who both have their roots from competition....
Giannino Marzotto Biography He was born at Valdagno on 13 April 1928, the son of the king of the Italian wool industry, Count Gaetano Marzotto. Soon after his 20th birthday he entered his father’s Lancia Aprilia in the Giro di Sicilia and came in second in his class. In 1950...
The Fairfield County Concours d’Elegance will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of Alfa Romeo with a broad array...
Motor Racing History – Origins of the First Automobile Races and the First Grand Prix Dawn of Automobile Racing The dawn of automobile racing was anything but that. It was thought that a car’s ability to navigate roads in a reliable manner was all that could be hoped for. Outright...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These...
David’s repeated defeats of Goliath this summer—American Le Mans Series victories by Porsche’s RS Spyder over Audi’s much bigger and...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These early innovators are in an elite club with their place in automotive history guaranteed as the creators of true classic sports cars, genuine thoroughbreds. The development of the racing sports...
Jim Proffit, arguably the king of the pre-war BMW chasers, passed away on April 2, 2018, from an apparent heart...
After an aborted late summer start, the inaugural Mille Miglia North America Tribute finally put rubber to the road from...
Mercedes-Benz Classic will celebrate the 90th anniversary of the Mille Miglia with a total of ten vehicles. The classics represent various eras in the involvement of Mercedes-Benz in the road race from Brescia to Rome and back held since 1927. The 2017 Mille Miglia will take place from 18-21 May...
Ferrari—let the word roll over your tongue. Doesn’t it taste good? Have you ever experienced—can you even imagine—a better name...
From the very beginning of the automobile man built cars to compete, with a passion for speed and technology. These...
The Mille Miglia is, of course, a historic Italian over-the-road event that originally covered the 1,000 miles referenced in its name, but which came to an end after its 1957 running as open-road races were generally replaced by closed-circuit events worldwide. Today, the Mille Miglia — which has been reborn...
Clemente Biondetti Describing Clemente Biondetti as colorful is like saying the Sears Tower in Chicago is tall. Unpredictable, imaginative, irascible,...
Two of the most magical names in auto racing history are intertwined in a single car that will be offered...
I have just marked my half-century of being a motor racing enthusiast. On February 1, 1957, I bought a copy of Motor Sport. Many years later, I was chatting with James Weaver at Silverstone, who said, “Bloody Denis Jenkinson, it’s thanks to him I’m in my current mess.” In 1957,...
Alberto Ascari intrigues me – while I can’t claim to know a great deal about him. Like so many of...
Report by Dennis Gray | Photos by author and Bob Ross The 2013 California Mille was held April 28th to...
It is unlikely that readers of this publication would not be familiar with the Mille Miglia (aka 1000 Miglia), but some might like a refresher on the history of this famous race. Here is the link to the first of our 3-part history of this most historic race https://sportscardigest.com//life-and-times-of-the-mille-miglia/. On...
“Who do you think you are? Stirling Moss?” This, so the story goes, is what a policeman asked the legendary...
Sicily. Discuss. Well, it’s an island, it has, shall we say, a fearsome reputation and it was once home to...
Ferdinando Minoia Biography Ferdinando Minoia was born in Milan on June 2, 1884. Known by his friends as Nando, he started racing in 1904 and his first major race was the 1907 Targa Florio. That year he won the Coppa Florio held near Brescia in Italy in an Isotta-Fraschini. In...
By Martin Swig On October 25-29, 2011 the Santa Barbara, California Stratus Media Group showed us their interpretation of a...
The son of a wealthy textile manufacturer from Vercelli, near Milan, Italy, Marquis Antonio Brivio was one of the great...
The Mille Miglia 2011 will take place Wednesday, May 11th (optional), to Sunday, May 15th, running clockwise from Brescia to Rome and back, on the fabled Mille Miglia roads crossing seven regions: Lombardy, Veneto, Emilia Romagna, the Marches, Umbria and Lazio on the way down, adding Tuscany on the way...
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For the 2011 edition of the historic Mille Miglia tribute, the Alfa Romeo Historic Motoring team will be lining up...
The 1949 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1949 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: April 24-25, 1949 / Winner: Biondetti – Salani / Winning Speed: 82.16 mph / Starters: 303/ Finishers: 182 The 16th running of the Mille Miglia proved to be it’s most popular to date with over three hundred official...