The most famous race on earth may have a checkered past as part of the World Championship, but foreign flavor...
Some time ago, Vintage Racecar published ”Absent Friends,” my story of astonishing heroism of another kind. It involved three motor...
Linas-Montlhéry Autodrome, Montlhéry, France September 24-25, 2016 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...
The original idea for this “special” feature had been to do a test on Porsche’s famed Moby Dick…the 935/78 long-tail...
Montlhéry Autodrome, Paris, France March 13–15, 2015 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
Montlhéry, France March 8, 2003 The Bugatti T35B of Jean Novo. Photo: Thierry Lesparre 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...
Carlos Sainz Al Unser Jr. 2 Three-time Formula One World Champion Jack Brabham is born (1926). 3 Pierro Taruffi drives...
1969 Mirage M2-BRM The Mirage profiled here is no optical illusion, although it is certainly as beautiful as some optical...
Rodger Ward Louis Chiron 1 Louis Chiron leads an Alfa Romeo 1-2-3 finish in the French Grand Prix at Montlhéry (1934). 2 In the German “Silver Arrows” only American appearance, Bernd Rosemeyer drives an Auto Union to victory in the Vanderbilt Cup race in New York (1937). Become a Member...
Montlhéry, France June 22-23 An Austin Healey and its period correct transporter.Photo: Thierry Lesparre Become a Member & Get Ad-Free...
Today we think of Fiat’s role in Grand Prix racing as the owner of Ferrari, but the Turin company was...
René Dreyfus Biography The story begins in 1914 when René was nine years old. The middle of three children he speaks of his early life with fondness, growing up in Nice. He later joined the Moto Club de Nice, which was sort of a junior league Automobile Club de Nice....
1952 Ferrari 225 S While the history of the Ferrari you see here will forever associate it with the great...
A Rogue, an XK120 and the World Record that Took 5 Years and Stirling Moss to Break. It was a...
During my mid-teens a particular photograph in Motor Sport caught my eye. It was of an old Aston Martin racing at Silverstone, and there was something about it that somehow encapsulated the excitement of motor racing and what it could be about. Peter SutcliffePhoto: Mike Jiggle Upon leaving school I...
Jack Brabham Francois Cevert 2 Frank Griswold drives an Alfa Romeo 8C 2900 to victory in the Junior Prix, the...
The one and only factory-built low-drag E-Type Jaguar, chassis no: S850662, known as the “Lindner Nocker,” which crashed at the...
John Cannon Jean Pierre Jabouille 2 Jochen Rindt, at the wheel of a Roy Winkelmann Racing Brabham BT23, wins the Pau Grand Prix Formula 2 race in Pau, France (1967). 3 Leo Kinnunen drives a Porsche 917/10 to victory in the 300-kilometer Interserie race on the Nürburgring in West Germany...
A special tribute to British racer David Piper will take place at the 2017 Les Grandes Heures Automobiles (LGHA) set...
Following in the tracks of last year’s successful inaugural event, the second edition of Les Grandes Heures Automobiles will be...
Louis Chiron Biography Born in August 1899, the son of a French hotelier in Monaco he became that principalities most famous sportsman. Holding dual citizenship Chiron joined the French army prior to his 18th birthday, serving as an artilleryman during World War I. He later became the personal driver to...
Fluent in six languages, tall, with regular features set off by an immaculately clipped goatee beard and moustache, Jo Bonnier...
1925 Bugatti Type 39. Photo: Mike Jiggle There is something very special about a Bugatti, and this example is very special...
Louis Delage may have been born to a humble assistant station master and his wife in Cognac, France, in 1874, but he rose to become a dominator of world motor sport. Yet he died in poverty, in 1947, at the age of 73, bankrupt, swamped by mountainous debts and destitute....
1960 Kieft Formula Junior The history of British motorsport is rife with postwar racecar manufacturers that saw their genesis in...
My very first experiences in a racing car were in a Lotus Seven. In fact, prior to purchasing the Lotus...
François Cevert Eddie Rickenbacker 1 Helene Delange, who raced between the world wars under the name of Hele Nice, dies in Nice, France, at age 83 (1984). 2 Bernd Rosemeyer, driving an Auto Union, wins the British Grand Prix at Donington, the last race of the 750kg racing formula (1937)....
Montlhéry, France March 9 The Gordini T16 (s/n 31) of Marc Val Vekens receives some service in Montlhéry’s historic pit...
The author rides the iconically liveried Mirage up onto the curb while negotiating a left-hander at Silverstone. Photo: Pete Austin The...
June 2007 Postcards from Detroit: Remembering Formula 1 in the Motor City By Roger Hart From 1982 to 1988 the United States Grand Prix played itself out on the streets of Motor City—Detroit, Michigan. Featuring the glass and steel Renaissance Center as its backdrop, the Detroit Grand Prix played host...