Here is Maria Teresa de Filippis at the Gasometer turn, at the end of the main straight along the harbor,...
For the first time in his career, Marvin Panch posed for a photo before an event. He would never do so again. It could have all ended so differently, this confluence of seemingly random events that culminated that cold Valentine’s Day in 1963 at Daytona International Speedway, were it not...
Luigi Fagioli Dan GurneyPhoto: Roger Dixon 1 Mario Andretti and Bruce McLaren drive a Ford GT40 MkIV to victory in...
My story of Formula One came into being after I’d driven my GT40 and got all that out of 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...
Laury, Lucy O’Reilly and Harry Schell were father, mother and son. They were all larger than life characters who made...
The prize money for winning the 1972 Formula One “Race of Champions” at Brands Hatch in a BRM P160 allowed...
The Crosslé Car Company Limited, the UK’s oldest constructor of racing cars, has undergone a change in ownership and management that entails exciting plans for its future. Last November, Arnie Black handed the company over to long-time Crosslé customer and enthusiast Paul McMorran, who brings 32 years experience as an...
The Chubb Insurance Concours d’Elégance judging day at Salon Privé London marked the close of the Luxury Super Car Show,...
Known simply as “Prof” to many in the motor racing community and Sid to his near friends, Professor Watkins may...
Howden Ganley stopped by our vendor booth at the recent Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, where one of the old photos we showed him started a discussion so interesting that I’m keen to share it with you. The picture was made by Art Evans at Palm Springs in November, 1956. It...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with his passion for speed and technology. These innovators are in an elite club, their place in automotive history guaranteed as the creators of true classic sports cars, genuine thoroughbreds. The development of the racing sports car can...
The third annual Donington Historic Festival, scheduled for May 4-5, 2013, will celebrate the career of three-time Formula One World...
• It’s always nice when the CEO of a major automaker shows an interest in motor sport, and an excellent...
Fluent in six languages, tall, with regular features set off by an immaculately clipped goatee beard and moustache, Jo Bonnier crammed a lot into his 42 years. He was an accomplished Formula One and sports car racer, president of the Grand Prix Drivers Association and proprietor of his own art...
Chopard Grand Prix de Monaco Historique Chronograph Produced in honor of the prestigious Historic Grand Prix of Monaco, this 42.4-mm...
When we presented the first part of our continuing interview with F1 design legend John Barnard last March, VR Contributing Editor...
Karl Kling was born too late to join Rudolf Caracciola, Manfred Von Brauchitsch and Hermann Lang in their rampage through Grand Prix motor racing of the Thirties, and too early to give Juan Manuel Fangio, Stirling Moss and Hans Herrmann any real competition in the W196 of 1954 and 1955....
May 11–12, 2012 Monte Carlo, Monaco Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More)...
When Jack Brabham was demobbed from the Royal Australian Air Force in 1947, even he did not realize he was about to establish an Australian motor racing dynasty, but that is exactly what he did. Jack would win no fewer than three Formula One World Championships, the last in 1966...
Di Spires Photo: Mike Jiggle For me, motor racing became like a drug—the more I attended Grand Prix events in...
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Nelson Piquet once memorably described driving a Grand Prix car around Monaco as akin to trying to ride a bicycle around your bedroom and certainly, while it is not too difficult to drive a racing car around the circuit, it becomes a totally different animal when it comes to wringing...
Les Leston was born in 1920 named Alfred Lazarus Fingleston. He worked in the motor accessory business and was an...
Stirling Moss and Juan Manual Fangio were partners at Mercedes-Benz in 1955. They later became rivals, Fangio at Ferrari with...
BBC TV’s Top Gear is seen in 170 countries. There is now an insipid American version, which remakes original programs in a cozy way. The American presenters have had personality bypasses and have yet to look up irony in a dictionary. A while back, Top Gear challenged viewers to nominate...
