A.J. Foyt Peter Gregg 4 Six-time IMSA Camel GT champion and two-time SCCA Trans-Am champion Peter Gregg is born in...
The Historic Sports Car Club is targeting the 1600-cc Formula 3 cars of the early 1970s for a revival in...
Here is Maria Teresa de Filippis at the Gasometer turn, at the end of the main straight along the harbor, during practice for the 1959 Monaco GP. She was trying to qualify the Behra-Porsche, an F2 car built from 550RS components with a chassis constructed in Modena. It was one...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was created by the Federation Internationale...
I was born in Capetown, South Africa, a very long way from the epicenter of motor racing, Central Europe. Motorsport,...
“At Monaco you get everything that you meet on a public road lampposts, trees, nightclubs, houses, hotels, curbs, gutters, you know it’s a proper road race in the true meaning of the word.” -Graham Hill, five-time winner Photo: Roger Dixon The 1968 running of the Monaco Grand Prix was my...
Last weekend’s Monaco auction by RM Sotheby’s, alongside the Grand Prix Historique, sold more than $30 million worth of...
Peter Arundell showed promise right from the start of his career, finishing 2nd with his MG TC at a BARC event at Goodwood in 1957. His second year of racing was filled with success competing in many events in a Lotus 11, a marque that would play a pivotal part...
Monte Carlo, Monaco January 26–February 1, 2006 The team of Craff/Wibaux corner their Alpine 1600S on the Col de Pertuis.Photo:...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula or Formula One was formed by the FIA (Federation...
June 2008 I’ll Show You a Drift Dear Editor, Good grief and you called me pedantic! 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 most ads, lets you enjoy unlimited access to...
Alan Stammers grew up with the sight and sound of motor racing, the family farm bordering the Snetterton circuit in...
Electric vehicles are suddenly all the rage. Showing one’s “green” credentials is very popular in this low or zero emission...
BMW has long followed a policy of racing cars and engines derived from production vehicles. Until BMW entered Formula One with Williams using its V10 unit in 2000, every single engine raced by BMW had been derived from a production unit. As the company celebrates its centenary, it seems appropriate...
Shot by the Gestapo, executed at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, killed on a death march from Sachsenhausen. All of those...
The 1970 Monaco Grand Prix had a dramatic ending when leader Jack Brabham made a mistake at the last corner—the...
Raymond Mays demonstrates the BRM V16 during an “Ancien Pilotes” demonstration race in the late 1960s. Photo: J Pearson Archive Aspiration and reality are often diametrically opposed. Dreams, however, do come true every time an amateur driver clambers aboard, or wriggles into, a Grand Prix car once raced by a sporting...
Known simply as “Prof” to many in the motor racing community and Sid to his near friends, Professor Watkins may...
Chopard Grand Prix de Monaco Historique Chronograph Produced in honor of the prestigious Historic Grand Prix of Monaco, this 42.4-mm...
Di Spires Photo: Mike Jiggle For me, motor racing became like a drug—the more I attended Grand Prix events in the UK and Europe the more I wanted to get onto the “inside.” At first, I’d go motor racing with my brother, later I met Stuart, my husband. We’d travel...
From the very beginning of the automobile man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These...
I first raced at Monaco in 1955, a famous year for the Grand Prix, when Ascari went into the water....
Monte Carlo, Monaco January 25–31, 2007 Choc’s BMW 2002 Tii.Photo: Peter Collins 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 most ads, lets you enjoy unlimited access to all our premium content, and offers...
1991 Toyota Eagle MKIII GTP It’s amazing how one hair-brained idea can change the course of history. Such was the...
Mark Donohue Jean-Pierre Beltoise 2 Juan Pablo Montoya wins the CART Bosch Spark Plug Grand Prix at Nazareth Speedway in...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These 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 racing...
Al Unser Photo: Mike Thomsen Mario Andretti Photo: BRDC 1 Willi Kauhsen drives a Porsche 917/10 to victory in the...
Waiting the two years before the Monaco Historique rolls around is always worth it. There is always a sensational array...
Emerson Fittipaldi, with the Fittipaldi FD04 entered by his older brother Wilson, runs through the Swimming Pool complex on his way to finishing in sixth place. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION PMB 219 – 65 High Ridge Road, Stamford, CT 06905-3814 USA., Tel: (203) 461-9804 • Fax: (203) 968-2970...