Nearly 50 years ago I stood on the bank at Mulsanne Corner and watched the bright French sun flash on...
Today, I believe, drivers are arriving in Formula One far too early in their racing career. The top echelon of...
August 2017 Datsun vs. Ferrari Dear Editor, Read with some amusement your comment on the similarities between the Daytona and the 240Z. Couldn’t help thinking about Rhod Gainer a character from the New Zealand comedy, Small Poppies. He spent five years turning his 240Z into a 275 GTB/4. Become a...
You could have been forgiven if you thought the racing world were coming to an end on April 12th. That...
Ayrton Senna started 13th on the grid and thrived in the wet conditions, making it all the way up to...
Al Unser Photo: Mike Thomsen Mario Andretti Photo: BRDC 1 Willi Kauhsen drives a Porsche 917/10 to victory in the...
The boys from Brazil just keep on coming: Emerson Fittipaldi, Nelson Piquet, Ayrton Senna and, since 2002, Felipe Massa. The...
Electric vehicles are suddenly all the rage. Showing one’s “green” credentials is very popular in this low or zero emission age, and in my neighborhood I often see a Tesla with “Zero Emissions” as its license plate, which does give out the message to some of us fossil fuel engine...
If you’re a fan of yachting, as well as racecars, then your interest may have recently been piqued with the...
February 2017 This is Rolf Stommelen at the Loew’s Hairpin during the Monaco Grand Prix on May 14,1972. He’s driving...
It’s not often that a Formula One driver can turn his hand to World Championship rallying. Look at 2007 F1 world champion Kimi Raikkonen. He cut his Grand Prix career short in 2010 to join Citroën, but could only turn in mediocre results, before returning in 2012 to what he...
The possibility of working with Ferrari surfaced in mid-1996. Michael told me at the end of 1995 that he was...
1977 LEC CRP1 Month by month, Vintage Racecar tries hard to bring readers some of the world’s finest competition cars—some with...
I am very pleased to be able to announce that starting with this issue, racing legend and long-time friend of the magazine Howden Ganley, will be sharing his many experiences and insights with us every month in our “Last Lap” column. While most of our readers will know that Howden...
Fifty years is quite a long time, in politics or any other activity. In motor racing, though, 50-year anniversaries seem...
From the very beginning of the automobile, men 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, their place in automotive history guaranteed as the creators of a true classic sports car, a genuine thoroughbred. The development of the racing...
“At Monaco you get everything that you meet on a public road lampposts, trees, nightclubs, houses, hotels, curbs, gutters, you...
Not only did Rubens win 11 Grands Prix, competing in more of them than any other driver, came 2nd in...
This offering from the Spanish artist Fernando Hoyos is an original painting later printed in limited edition, signed and numbered. It depicts the four-cylinder Bugatti T37A of Francisco Torres in the 1928 San Sebastian Grand Prix at the Lasarte Circuit. Painted red and yellow (then the national racing colors of...
BMW has long followed a policy of racing cars and engines derived from production vehicles. Until BMW entered Formula One...
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Last weekend’s Monaco auction by RM Sotheby’s, alongside the Grand Prix Historique, sold more than $30 million worth of classic collector cars, topped by the $8,226,400 brought in by a 1951 Ferrari 340 America Touring Barchetta, chassis no. 116/A (above, Tim Scott Photo courtesy of RM Sotheby’s), a car...
RM Sotheby’s will offer the “last of the line” Ferrari 275 GTS/4 NART Spider at its May 14 Monaco sale,...
For the past 65 years, Formula One motor racing teams have relentlessly chased the dream of perfection that concludes with...
Jackie Stewart leads the way during the 1973 Monaco GP in the iconic Tyrrell 006, followed by his close friend and teammate François Cevert. Stewart went on to win by 1.5 seconds from Emerson Fittipaldi; Cevert finished 4th after suffering a puncture on lap two. This was Stewart’s 25th career...
During the Monaco Grand Prix, in Monte Carlo, on May 10, 1970, Pedro Rodriquez looks for the apex before turning his...
Der Safety Wagen Dear Editor Just a note to say I enjoyed the article on the Herbert Linge Safety Wagon....
Hermann Lang Vittorio Jano 1 The first Ford GT40 is completed, 11 months after pencil was first put to paper (1964). 3 Peter Bryant, designer of the Ti22, Shadow MkII and Shadow MkIII Can-Am cars, born in London, England (1937). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article...