From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These...
September 2005 The Amazing Summer of ’55 By Eoin Young There is no logic why 1955 was destined to ring throughout the history of post-war motor racing. Of course if you’re turning the big 50 this year, 1955 was indeed significant but when it comes to motor racing it was...
In one of those aberrations of good taste not uncommon in Italy, a local authority has installed a permanent speed...
The Mille Miglia Storica becomes more unbelievable as each year passes. To begin with, its patrons now include the President...
I did 525 races. I had five wheels come off, I’ve had seven or eight brake failures, and I have had the steering shear twice…where I have been driving along and suddenly my arms crossed…that’s when you know something is wrong! The things you remember are the things that are...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These...
Millions of roadside spectators had cheered the 2004 Mille Miglia Storica and its 375 cars and crews from 30 different countries from Brescia to Rome on May 6 and 7 and for much of the following day during his last leg back to Brescia. But the race was abruptly halted...
Emerson Fittipaldi Peter GreggPhoto: Hal Crocker 1 American Motors Corporation hires Craig Breedlove to set long distance high-speed records with...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These...
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 a true classic sports car, a genuine thoroughbred. The development of the...
A unique gesture of love and devotion almost risked overshadowing the 21st Mille Miglia Storica and its 372 stunning cars...
At the end of May, I was in Italy following the Mille Miglia Retrospective. There was a time when I...
1936 Alfa Romeo 2900A Mille Miglia Photo: Peter Collins The Alfa cockpit has a number of refined details for a race- car including side bolsters for the legs, a clock, a cockpit light and even an upholstered grab handle for the passenger! Photo: Peter Collins For those of you who...
Harry Miller Tony Adamowicz 1 Stirling Moss and Denis Jenkinson win the Mille Miglia in just over 10 hours, a...
Colin Chapman Michele Alboreto 2 As a publicity stunt, Ford has professional racers drive Cortinas down the Cresta bobsled run...
Driving a 1937 BMW 328 Touring from the BMW museum in Munich, Bologna industrialist Giuliano Canè won this May’s Mille Miglia Storica for a record 7th time in 11 years. Canè and his navigator, wife Lucia, beat a field of 370 cars built between 1927 and 1957, many of them...
July 2002 Red Arrows—Ferraris at the Mille Miglia By Giannino Marzotto There are few races in the annals of motorsport...
The son of a wealthy textile manufacturer from Vercelli, near Milan, Italy, Marquis Antonio Brivio was one of the great...
Rick Mears Howden Ganley 2 As a publicity stunt, Ford has professional racers drive Cortinas down the Cresta bobsled run in Cortina d’Amprezzo, Italy. Best time is turned in by Jim Clark, with Colin Chapman as codriver (1964). 3 Indy 500 winner Rick Mears is born in Wichita, Kansas (1951)....
Spring is in the air and historic sports cars are being fettled for the Mille Miglia, except they’re not. They...
Jim Clark Robert Benoist 3 F1 World Championship debut for George Follmer and Shadow. Follmer brought his Shadow in sixth...
Alain Prost John Surtees 5 Sir Malcolm Campbell drives his Napier-Campbell to a World Land Speed Record of 256.086 mph (1931). 6 The Porsche 906 of Hermann/Linge wins its class in its first race at the 24-Hours of Daytona (1966). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article...
Have you ever sat in front of the television watching a beautifully filmed documentary about the archaeological wonders of Egypt,...
Robert Newman examines the men and machines that made the Mille Miglia one of the world’s greatest races. The Mille...
Clemente Biondetti Describing Clemente Biondetti as colorful is like saying the Sears Tower in Chicago is tall. Unpredictable, imaginative, irascible, gentle, gruff, fascinating, stubborn, generous, outspoken, he was all of those things. He was also the only man to win the Mille Miglia four times, an extraordinary feat of skill,...
Enzo Ferrari, Aymo Maggi, Piero Taruffi, Clemente Biondetti, Tazio Nuvolari, Giovanni Canestrini, Juan Manuel Fangio, Antonio Brivio, Stirling Moss, Giuseppe...
For over 70 years the month of May has been synonymous with two of the most historic and challenging motor...
With flashing precision, my memory recaptures exactly the milli-second that motor racing entered my life. It was reading a three-month-old account of the 1953 Mille Miglia in a copy of Motor Trend. In 1953, all the new Alfa Romeo 6C 3000 CMs had led the 1000-mile thrash round Italy, and...
