Carlo Chiti Emerson Fittipaldi 1 Scuderia Ferrari is formed as the Alfa Romeo factory racing team (1929). 2 Peter Gethin...
Markku Alén is the person-ification of his favorite rallying expression: maximum attack. Words he lived by throughout his illustrious career,...
Bruce McLaren Scrapbook – A Pictorial Celebration of a Kiwi Legend By Jan McLaren and Richard Becht Bruce McLaren was the sporting, smiling and human face and founder of the team that has now morphed into that which competes in modern Formula One racing under the frosty corporate banner Vodafone...
May 11–12, 2012 Monte Carlo, Monaco Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More)...
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Les Leston was born in 1920 named Alfred Lazarus Fingleston. He worked in the motor accessory business and was an accomplished drummer in the Clay Pigeons jazz band that included Belgian racer Johnny Claes. Leston’s racing career began in the late 1940s driving a Jaguar SS100, but he soon turned...
For three short years, in the early 1960s, Christabel Carlisle, now Lady Watson, was the name on the lips of...
Delahaye, for those who recognize the name, conjures up a mixed vision of large and long French Grand Prix, sports...
We’re spectating on a rally special stage. The Monte Carlo, Britain’s RAC, the Acropolis in Greece. Anywhere, it doesn’t matter which. We’re halfway up a gentle roadside embankment stamping our almost numb feet and rubbing shoulders with dozens of other rally fans, waiting. It’s dark, cold, the bottle of whiskey...
René Dreyfus Biography The story begins in 1914 when René was nine years old. The middle of three children he...
My recollection of getting to know Archie was that my father went to Cambridge University and was a member of...
Paris, France February 1-5, 2012 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 you awesome discounts on partner products. Enjoy...
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Georges Lemaître actually finished 2nd in the 1894 Paris-Rouen Horseless Carriage Competition in this Peugeot 3hp, but was awarded victory...
We called it the “Bruce and Denny Show,” and it was total dominance of the Can-Am Championship by McLaren Cars from 1967 to 1971, during which they won 43 of the series’ 71 races, 23 of them consecutively. It was an astounding performance in which New Zealander Bruce McLaren won...
In Monte Carlo on May 10, 1964, Jackie Stewart made one of his early international drives in this Cooper Formula...
Exotic doesn’t cut it when it comes to describing this gutsy, fun-loving, vivacious show-off of a beauty who was born...
Monaco, Monte Carlo January 26–February 2, 2011 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 you awesome discounts on partner...
With a dad like Stan Jones it was hardly surprising that Alan became a motor racing nut when he was...
In my era as a race and rally driver, we were expected to assist in both the general and technical...
Two heroes and a heroine. What unites them? The Audi Quattro, rallying’s first four-wheel-drive, turbocharged car. Hannu and Stig each won a world drivers title with the German groundbreaker, and Michèle would have done the same if Walter Röhrl hadn’t got in her way. But she still beat 21 top...
Dan Gurney’s motor racing career as a driver, car constructor and team owner is just about as star-spangled as his...
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Say what you will about Bernie Ecclestone, but you cannot deny the fact that he has an eye for a good deal and the Midas touch when it comes to turning businesses around. With that preamble, I have to say that I wasn’t terribly surprised when I recently read the...
The Monaco Grand Prix; Monte Carlo, May 10, 1964. Peter Arundell in the second works Lotus leads Richie Ginther’s B.R.M....
Quadruple Monte Carlo Rallye winner Walter Röhrl dominated December’s FIA European Rally Championship for Historical Cars event in the Spanish...
Lancia. Ever heard of them? If not, it’s not surprising. Their cars are not exactly sold all over the world. Yet the Italian manufacturer has won no fewer than 19 motor sport world championships: well, 18½ really, but more of that later. The fact remains that theirs is a pedigree...
My time with the BMC competitions department saw me racing the big Austin Healeys, and later racing at Le Mans...
Once upon a time it was not unusual to find American constructors on Grand Prix entry lists… With February’s announcement of a new American constructor preparing to contest the Formula One World Championship in 2010 and subsequently landing a spot on the official FIA entry list, came a resurgence of...
