The German Grand Prix; Nürburgring, August 2, 1953. World Champion Alberto Ascari sits in his Ferrari 500/F2 in front of...
The inspiration behind the concepts and designs of Lister cars came from the pre-war Mercedes racing cars that would today...
The Nürburgring 1,000 km. Race; Nürburgring, May 22, 1960. Giorgio Scarlatti chases a Ferrari 250TR with his Ferrari V-6 246 sport, but retired after a huge refueling fire in the pits in which he was actually saved by Stirling Moss who had just stepped out of his Maserati in the...
The French Grand Prix; Charade (Clermont-Ferrand), June 27, 1965. The great driver Jim Clark drifting the works Lotus on this...
A special era in the history of the Porsche 917 stems from a private conversation held between Porsche team manager...
The Nürburgring 1000 km Race; May 31, 1970. Airborne! A Dechent-team Porsche 908/2 driven by Rudi Lins and Willy Kauhsen takes off at Flugplatz. They finished 6th overall behind two factory Porsche 908/3s, two Ferrari 512S spiders and the other 908/2 from the Dechent team. Photo by Yves Debraine. Photo...
I have been asked, a number of times, which branch of motor sport I enjoyed the most: driving, management, or...
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motor sports: the...
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motor sports: 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. There was even a...
At the start of a month which has been heralded as the greatest month in endurance racing history, all eyes...
On May 28th, Maserati celebrated a significant anniversary; exactly 60 years ago, the Tipo 61 achieved an amazing victory at...
1938 German Grand Prix It had been 15 years since a British driver had won a full-scale Grand Prix race before Richard Seaman, with a Mercedes-Benz, defeated the cream of Europe’s drivers to take the laurels in the German Grand Prix, on July 24, at the Nürburgring. Seaman, famous for...
The late 1960s brought a host of changes to the famed 24 Hours of Le Mans. The wave of “professionalism”...
Jochen Rindt (right) and Lotus boss Colin Chapman celebrate the Austrian’s 1970 British Grand Prix victory. Photo: Maureen Magee The poet...
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...
During my mid-teens a particular photograph in Motor Sport caught my eye. It was of an old Aston Martin racing...
1962 Porsche 804 Dan Gurney was about as versatile as a racecar driver could ever be. He pretty much skipped...
My story of Formula One came into being after I’d driven my GT40 and got all that out of the way. I thought I could become a decent single-seater driver in the various club events that existed at the time. I was studying Autosport one day in late 1968 and...
Walter Hayes Paddy Hopkirk 1 Count Eliot Zborowski is killed in an accident during La Turbie Hillclimb at Nice, France...
Ronnie Peterson Giuseppe Campari 1 James Hunt, driving a McLaren-Ford, wins the German Grand Prix on the Nürburgring. Niki Lauda...
The Expert’s Guide to Collecting FUNDAMENTALS OF MOTORSPORT BOOK COLLECTING by Chris Knapman Book collecting is a very personal pastime, but don’t just buy every motor-racing book you see that’s cheap. First establish a theme that reflects your particular interests: endurance racing, Formula One, road cars or the works of...
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Englishman Vic Elford, along with teammate Frenchman Gérard Larrousse, on their famous win of the 1971 ADAC Nürburgring 1000 km race driving the MARTINI Racing Team Porsche 908-3. Acrylic on 12”x 10” (30.48cm x 25.4cm) canvas Original painting available. For more from the artist: Paul Chenard Automobiliart.com [email protected] 1 902...
It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. I think someone already used that as an...
This son of a German garage owner had never raced a car until May 26, 1935, at the superfast Avus...
Another of racing’s good guys left us on December 7, when Bill Scott lost his battle with cancer. The man who one observer called “a damn good driver and a better human being,” essentially ignored his doctorate in geophysics from Yale to let his passion for racing cars dominate his...
I drove the Birdcage Maserati for Lucky Casner’s Camoradi Team on three occasions in 1960, beginning with the 1,000 kilometers...
CAMORADI—an acronym for Casner Motor Racing Division—was formed by Lloyd “Lucky” Casner in late 1959. The intention was to win...
BMW’s rich history in motorsports competition began prior to World War II. The 328 (1936–’48) driven by Ernst Henne won in its 1936 Nürburgring debut, setting the standard for the 2-liter sports car class. BMW 328 Brescia open roadsters took 3rd, 5th and 6th place during the1940 Il Gran Premio...