At the start of a month which has been heralded as the greatest month in endurance racing history, all eyes...
Despite already being 76 years old, Walter Röhrl still managed to complete a remarkable lap around the Nürburgring. During the...
Deep in the Eifel mountains, a sparsely populated wild region in north-western Germany, often cited as being one of Germany’s best-kept secrets, a range of now-extinct volcanoes had sculpted the landscape into a symphony of cratered lakes, wooded hillside and mountain pastures. It is here, far from the hustle and...
Experience exhilarating lightweight racing excitement on the combined Nürburgring GP track and Nordschleife with the Porsche 914/6 GT....
Driven by Porsche factory driver Jörg Bergmeister, the GT4 RS MR completed the Nordschleife in an impressive time of 7:03.21...
A 296 GTB managed to officially lap around Nürburgring in less than 7 minutes, making it the first production car from Ferrari to do so. This amazing feat was accomplished by Christian Gebhardt from Sport Auto which you can watch in the video below....
Witness the sheer power and precision of the Porsche 911 GT3 RS (992) as it conquers the challenging twists and...
Filmed at the 2017 Nürburgring Classic, this onboard footage features a 1929 Bentley Speed Six being driven around the challenging...
There have seldom been races which have been held under such atrocious conditions that they remained in the imagination of many. Such one was the 1968 Grand Prix of Germany on the 14.2-mile long Nürburgring. With its 1000 feet of elevation change and 160 bends, Jackie Stewart, who would have...
On May 28th, Maserati celebrated a significant anniversary; exactly 60 years ago, the Tipo 61 achieved an amazing victory at...
On July 12, 1959, the Maserati Tipo 60 “Birdcage”, with 30-year old Stirling Moss at the wheel, made its race...
Is it possible to see genius ? Yes, you can see it in the trail of genius that Fangio left behind while winning his fifth World Championship at the “Green Hell”, Nürburgring (170 curves spread along 22 kilometers), in 1957. He achieved what is considered by many to be his...
It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. I think someone already used that as an...
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Howden Ganley A recent visit to the famous Donington circuit in England, for the launch of a wonderful book about the history of the place, got me to thinking of many other great circuits of yesteryear and what has become of them. Donington, which was Britain’s first road racing circuit,...
Englishman Vic Elford, along with teammate Frenchman Gérard Larrousse, on their famous win of the 1971 ADAC Nürburgring 1000 km...
All American Racers’ DGF Formula Ford has its first track test at Willow Springs Raceway (1977). 1 – Jean-Pierre Jabouille drives...
1969 Mirage M2-BRM The Mirage profiled here is no optical illusion, although it is certainly as beautiful as some optical illusions can be. Only three Mirage M2s were ever built. They showed potential in the World Sports Car series, but their development was cut short when Porsche came knocking at...
April 2018 Jackie Oliver prepares to take the Gulf Mirage M2-Ford out for practice prior to the 1969 running of...
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports; the World...
Heinz Melkus was born in 1928, in Dresden, and from an early age developed a passion for cars. Heinz was to become a racing driver of considerable skill and an ingenious designer/constructor of a range of very competitive and innovative machinery that included sports and racing cars. Heinz Melkus Sadly,...
Growing up as young lad near the metropolitan borough of Wolverhampton, a city in the West Midlands of England, I...
1938 German Grand Prix It had been 15 years since a British driver had won a full-scale Grand Prix race...
Over the course of nearly seven decades of Formula One history, only three men have ever won a World Championship Grand Prix race in a car of their own construction. Of course, none of them actually designed or built their cars all by themselves, they simply conceived, established, directed, managed...
Phil Bachman has been collecting Ferraris at a rate of about one a year since he got his first one...
The FIA sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations set forth by the FIA (Federation International Automobile) in the International Championship of Makes from 1964-1971, and the World Championship of Makes from 1972-1981. The regulations changed somewhat as the...
The Formula Junior Historic Racing Association has released its schedule of events for the third year of its Golden Jubilee...
December 2017 When Colin Chapman was investigating four-wheel drive for his Lotus Formula One cars, he designed the Type 63, which Mario Andretti qualified 12th for the 1969 German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring. Andretti crashed out almost immediately in the race, however, losing control when the heavy car bottomed...
