Unlike Vintage Racecar’s editors I don’t spend my working life thrashing the pants off other people’s rare and priceless racing...
The under 2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international...
The under 2-liter Grand Touring (GT) 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. This included...
Lots of car buffs have fantasized about designing and/or building their own four-wheeler at one time or another. Fewer have...
Michele Alboreto Photo: Maureen Magee Emerson Fittipaldi Photo: Keith Booker 1 Scuderia Ferrari is formed (1929). 3 Wendell Scott, the...
Dad was a part-time taxi driver and Mom a secretary, and five-year-old Mika plagued the life out of them to let him race a kart. They hired one for him, but he crashed it on the first lap of his first race, so kart racing was a no-no in the...
Photo Gallery form the Sept. 20–22, 2019, Peter Auto Monza Historic, at Monza, Italy....
Former Formula One driver of the 1970s, Loris Kessel, has succumbed to his long-term battle with leukemia. Kessel’s early dream...
It is always amazing when I get a chance to drive some of the cars I raced many years ago. This year at the Goodwood Festival I was back in the John Player Special Lotus 72 that I drove many times. Everytime I get in that car I go back...
More than 80 years ago, two fabulously wealthy young American brothers, accompanied by their butler, flew a primitive plywood-based biplane...
The under 2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international...
December 2008 Birdcage Buzz Dear Editor, Your magazines arrived today and they certainly look like a lot of fun. Incidentally, Stirling [Moss] drove that Camoradi Maser Birdcage at the 1960 Sebring where I drove Donald Healey’s little Falcon-bodied Sprite. He lapped me about every seven laps, with a cheerful wave...
John Greenwood Rick Mears 1 John Greenwood drives a Greenwood Corvette to victory in the IMSA sports car race at...
A huge cortege of 3,000 Alfa Romeos from 54 different countries came home to Milan at the end of June....
John Michael “Mike” Hawthorn won the Formula One World Championship in 1958, and in doing so became the first British driver ever to win it. He first appeared at Goodwood in 1952 as a comparatively unknown and amazed everyone by driving this very, very quick Cooper-Bristol, and became a star...
The FIA (Federation International Automobile) sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed...
Today almost exclusively remembered as the genius behind the competition cars named for a road-running bird in the southwest, Jim...
His signature sky blue helmet firmly strapped to his head, Alberto Ascari poses for a Pirelli publicity picture before the 1952 Italian GP at Monza. Photo Pirelli One spring day in 1961, two boys gazed enraptured through a light post-and-rail fence at a fantastic motor race that was going on...
We concluded last month’s opening segment of John Zimmermann’s interview with David Hobbs as he was preparing to turn his...
April 2017 Pit and Paddock – Behind the scenes at UK and European circuits in the ’60s and ’70s By...
Karl Kling David Brown 1 Ferdinando Minoia drives an Isotta-Fraschini to victory in the Coppa Florio race in Italy (1907). 2 Sports car and F1 racer Willy Mairesse commits suicide in his hotel room in Ostend, Belgium (1969). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
At Monza on the weekend of June 3–5, the HGPCA will hold three 20-minute heat races, with the third race...
Over 2-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever changing regulations of International Motorsports;...
Bob McKee had chutzpah. He believed he could build racecars that were as good as anyone else’s and build them safer. Not only did he build racecars, he also built components like early transaxles, which many people in the early days of mid-engined racecars sought out from him. However, a...
Although my passion and love of motor racing was born in Italy—at Monza during the 1969 Italian GP—my first real...
The noise and spectacle of the Can-Am Challenge Cup sees a rebirth in 2011. The revival of this iconic series...
It seems almost unthinkable today, but for decades the only thing between Grand Prix pit workers and destiny was a white line painted on the ground. That was one of the facts that was brought home with the recent start of a $25 million, two-year reconstruction program on the facilities...
Mario Andretti I had three different seasons in Alfa Romeo sports cars. People remember that I drove for them in...
Talking with famed Indianapolis chassis builder A. J. Watson, the question arises about the front, twin air inlets—the signature of the Watson Roadster. The first four Watson Roadsters, of 1956–1958, had a single air inlet and chrome grille, so why the change? Surely it had some advantage. Was it the...