February 2017 This is Rolf Stommelen at the Loew’s Hairpin during the Monaco Grand Prix on May 14,1972. He’s driving...
Lancia. Ever heard of them? If not, it’s not surprising. Their cars are not exactly sold all over the world....
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...
A one-of-a-kind BMW 328 will headline RM’s inaugural Sporting Classics of Monaco auction at the Grimaldi Forum in the Principality...
Les Leston was born in 1920 named Alfred Lazarus Fingleston. He worked in the motor accessory business and was an...
If you ever see a photograph of Philippe Etancelin in action, chances are you will never forget him. Because he’s the one who raced cars wearing his cap back to front. Phi Phi, as Etancelin was nicknamed, was one of those monied gentleman drivers, a wool merchant who loved to...
From the very beginning of the automobile, men built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These...
The Monaco Grand Prix; Monte Carlo, May 22, 1966. Jackie Stewart at the Loews Hairpin on his way to a...
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...
A Type 35B Bugatti, which competed in the first Monaco Grand Prix and later won the Targa Florio, has been...
Seen here at Monaco, Laffite scored two of his six Grand Prix wins in 1981, taking his favorite Talbot Ligier JS17-Matra...
Neville HayPhoto: Kary Jiggle As a small boy my love of cars and motor sport meant I went to every race meeting my late Father could afford to take me to. The books written by Prince Chula Chakrabongse made fascinating reading for a small boy and they covered his recollections...
“At Monaco you get everything that you meet on a public road lampposts, trees, nightclubs, houses, hotels, curbs, gutters, you...
I was born in Capetown, South Africa, a very long way from the epicenter of motor racing, Central Europe. Motorsport,...
I have admired Tazio Nuvolari all my life and so has just about every other motor racing enthusiast of my generation. My friend Murray Walker, the British television Formula One commentator, often likes to say he saw the Flying Mantuan race, but I was born too late to enjoy such...
We called it the “Bruce and Denny Show,” and it was total dominance of the Can-Am Championship by McLaren Cars...
There isn’t much Karl Kainhofer hasn’t done in over 50 years of involvement in motorsports, from motorcycle racing in Austria...
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...
I spent the greater part of my Formula One career with Alfa Romeo, joining them in 1979 and leaving at...
New race courses keep blinking onto our radar screens, which seems like a good thing until they turn up on...
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports; the World Sports Car Championship from 1953-1961, the Speedworld Challenge from 1962-1963, the International Championship of Makes from 1964-1971 and the World Championship of Makes from 1972-1981. There was even a...
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Jackie Stewart leads the way during the 1973 Monaco GP in the iconic Tyrrell 006, followed by his close friend...
Takuma Sato On the very rare occasion of two current Grand Prix drivers having their first taste of historic motor racing at the Monaco Historic Grand Prix, Jordan’s Takuma Sato and Minardi’s Alex Yoong agreed to provide a joint insight into the ex-works Lotus 49 and 72 they were respectively...
As I follow the recent political soap opera, which has become Formula One, I can’t help but think of the...
Not only did Rubens win 11 Grands Prix, competing in more of them than any other driver, came 2nd in...
For this special Porsche issue it was only right to interview the man who, in real terms, helped to put the Porsche name firmly in motor racing record books as a marque to be respected and feared. In 1970, together with Richard Attwood—some would say a most unlikely pairing—and from...
After a great fight between Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes W154 and the Delahaye 145 V12 of René Dreyfus in...
On May 29, 1960, Sir Stirling Moss drove his Lotus 18 for almost three hours of punishing racing, battling through...
Moss at His Best When it was announced in 1958 that the capacity limit for Formula One would change from 2.5 liters to 1.5 liters for the 1961 season, many constructors thought the changes would never be implemented and that the “lack of power” from smaller engines would not be...