The Monaco Grand Prix; Monte Carlo, May 22, 1955. The start of a dramatic race. Juan Manuel Fangio and Stirling...
In my time as a racing driver I have had the opportunity of driving many types of racing car. I...
Waiting the two years before the Monaco Historique rolls around is always worth it. There is always a sensational array of cars, there are great added attractions, it’s full of interesting people and it’s…Monaco. This year’s event, held May 20–21, was again well-organized and very entertaining. Denis Welch achieved his...
The Automobile Club de Monaco has announced that the seventh Grand Prix Monaco Historique has been scheduled for May 8–9,...
Monaco is one of those rare race courses where the names of the corners on the circuit are as iconic...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula or Formula One was formed by the FIA (Federation Internationale de L’Automobile) in 1950 with its first race, the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. This was to be the first World Driver’s Championship, in the world’s most technically advanced...
Monaco Jan. 25-30 The Plymouth Barracuda “S” of Canadian Tom Jones and American Ralph Beckman at Lachamp Rafael.Photo: Ed McDonough...
Tight bends, steep slopes and narrow street canyons. No race in the Grand Prix circus arouses as much passion among drivers and motorsport fans as the Monaco Grand Prix. Since 1929, racing drivers have been speeding through the tight streets of this approximately 3.3-kilometer-long circuit and steering their cars through...
When the starter’s flag lowers on the Monaco Grand Prix this weekend, it will mark the 90th anniversary of the Monaco...
Jochen Rindt (right) and Lotus boss Colin Chapman celebrate the Austrian’s 1970 British Grand Prix victory. Photo: Maureen Magee The poet Robert Browning wrote “how sad and bad and mad it was—but then, how it was sweet.” In today’s world, preserving the past for future generations is something that has a...
Monte Carlo, Monaco January 29–February 3, 2010 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
Monte Carlo, Monaco January 29–February 4, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
Monte Carlo, Monaco May 27-28 The 1963 Lotus 27 of Tony Thompson is chased through La Rascasse by the 1963 Lola Mk5A of Robin Longdon in the Formula Junior race. Photo: Steve Snyder Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the...
If you’re a fan of yachting, as well as racecars, then your interest may have recently been piqued with the...
I first became interested in Formula One when my husband took me to the Monaco Grand Prix in 1982—the race...
I spent the greater part of my Formula One career with Alfa Romeo, joining them in 1979 and leaving at the end of 1982. In 1978 I did five Grands Prix for McLaren in a third car. I don’t remember exactly how Alfa Romeo contacted me, but they wanted to...
1990 Leyton House CG901/3Photo: Mike Jiggle Examining the Leyton House CG901 it is as much about the man who designed...
Dan Gurney, as American as we make ’em, was once proposed to be President, and I still think our conflicted...
1962 Porsche 804 Dan Gurney was about as versatile as a racecar driver could ever be. He pretty much skipped the junior grades of motor racing and went in at what we could safely call the “deep end.” He drove sports cars in America, then in Europe, moved to Grand...
Alan Stammers grew up with the sight and sound of motor racing, the family farm bordering the Snetterton circuit in...
My story of Formula One came into being after I’d driven my GT40 and got all that out of the...
Luigi Fagioli Dan GurneyPhoto: Roger Dixon 1 Mario Andretti and Bruce McLaren drive a Ford GT40 MkIV to victory in the 12 Hours of Sebring endurance race (1967). 2 Hermann Lang drives a Mercedes W154 to victory in the Grand Prix in Pau, France (1939). Become a Member & Get...
Hermann Lang Vittorio Jano 1 The first Ford GT40 is completed, 11 months after pencil was first put to paper...
John Cannon Jean Pierre Jabouille 2 Jochen Rindt, at the wheel of a Roy Winkelmann Racing Brabham BT23, wins the...
Jochen Rindt Henri Pescarolo 2 Guy Moll wins the Monaco Grand Prix in an Alfa Romeo (1934). 3 Ronnie Peterson drives a March 722 to victory in the European F2 Championship race at Thruxton, England (1972). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More)...
Jim Clark Peter Bryant 2 Four-time 500-cc Motorcycle Grand Prix World Champion and auto-racer Mike “The Bike” Hailwood is born...
Walter Hayes Jim Clark 3 Carroll Shelby drives a Birdcage Maserati to victory in the Los Angeles Examiner Herald-Express International...
Walter Hayes Paddy Hopkirk 1 Count Eliot Zborowski is killed in an accident during La Turbie Hillclimb at Nice, France (1903). 4 Andre de Adamich and Henri Pescarolo drive an Alfa Romeo T33/3 to victory in the 1,000 km sports car race at Brands Hatch, England (1971). Become a Member...