With 400 vintage cars, thirty less than last year, in order to ensure greater safety and quality of service to...
The Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum in Philadelphia has been holding a series of “Demonstration Days,” at noon on the fourth...
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, a genuine thoroughbred. The development of the racing...
Eugenio Castellotti Biography Eugenio Castellotti was born in Milan but grew up in Lodi. When he was still only 20...
Clemente Biondetti Biography Born in Buddusò, Sardinia, into a working class family with Tuscan father and Venetian mother who found...
Horribly Beautiful The story of the Mille Miglia begins in 1921 when the Auto Club di Brescia organized the first Italian Grand Prix. Seeing the success of this race the much larger Automobile Club of Milan built the Autodromo Nazionale Monza and had the 1922 Italian Grand Prix held on...
Shock waves reverberated through the Italian vintage motor racing world at the end of May, after the surprise announcement that...
BMW has a long and distinguished history at the Mille Miglia, culminating in 1940 when Fritz Huschke von Hanstein and...
1973 Porsche Carrera RS This could be an opera in several parts. It might have been written by Verdi or Wagner. It has a number of stars. For the purpose of this tale, the car–a 1973 Porsche Carrera RS—is one star, and for history another star is the late, lamented...
In remembering and memorializing John Fitch upon the occasion of his death, Vintage Racecar has produced this brief photographic summary...
Adrian CamposPhoto: Pete Austin Today, Spanish motor racing spectators have much to cheer for. Fernando Alonso wins many Grand Prix...
Photo: Peter Collins Cruise through Como on Saturday; line up for the Parma Poggio hillclimb on Sunday. Alfa Romeo: great looks and high performance. What combination could be more natural? Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is...
It is official: The Mille Miglia Storica now has new organizers. For the next five years, until 2012, the great...
Foretelling the future is impossible, yet that is what executives in car companies have to do. When I was a...
1934 MG K3 Magnette It was one of those little stories that stays with you. The first all-historic motor racing meeting in Australia was held during January 1976—mid-summer in this part of the world. I am fortunate to say that I was there, but the first Amaroo Historics was a bit...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These...
1955 Aston Martin DB 2/4 Four days, four countries, more than 1,000 kilometers, in cars that are the envy of...
The Mille Miglia 2018 was held 16-19 May over 1,000 miles (1,600 km) of Italy’s most beautiful regions. Now in its 36th year, the retrospective of the Mille Miglia saw a great field of 450 historical automobiles commemorate the legendary endurance road race. From 1927 to 1957, the Mille Miglia...
In an era of modern museums—the Guggenheim and Getty in America, Tate Modern in London, and the Pompidou Center in...
Motor Racing History – The Big 12 Cylinders & The Arrival of Sponsorships, Advanced Safety and Aerodynamics Checkbook Racing The...
The son of a wealthy textile manufacturer from Vercelli, near Milan, Italy, Marquis Antonio Brivio was one of the great Italian prewar racers: a gentleman driver every bit as professional as his main rivals, Tazio Nuvolari and Achille Varzi. He, like his two more famous contemporaries, was a tough and...
Every year, the 1000 Miglia has some surprises in store. The passage through Genoa, with a view of the port...
The Maserati A6GCS driven by Emilio Giletti and navigator Guerino Bertocchi at the 1953 Mille Miglia. They finished in 6th...
The Mille Miglia 2015 took place 14-17 May in Italy on the historic roads from Brescia to Rome and back to Brescia. This year’s 1000 Miglia featured a wonderful selection of 438 entrants built between 1927 and 1957 challenging each other and themselves in the modern revival. Far more than...
Karl Kling was born too late to join Rudolf Caracciola, Manfred Von Brauchitsch and Hermann Lang in their rampage through...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These...
June 2010 Ode to Briggs Dear Editor, Vintage Racecar’s April article celebrating the 60th anniversary of Briggs Cunningham’s Le Mans effort was excellent! Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to paid subscribers only. Our membership removes...
Colin Chapman Michele Alboreto 2 As a publicity stunt, Ford has professional racers drive Cortinas down the Cresta bobsled run...
The Mille Miglia 2016 will take place from 19 to 22 May. The route for the reliability trial is based...
Here’s a sure bet: a lot of what you know about the Mille Miglia, and most of how you feel about it, came through the writings of a short, towering genius of a journalist named Denis Jenkinson. Can there be any racing fan who has not thrilled to the epic...