Ever since my VRJ colleague, Pete Lyons, reminisced about his early trips to and ‘round the Nurburgring in the March...
Two liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever changing regulations of international motorsports;...
Uwe Meissner’s Modena Motorsport will celebrate its 20th anniversary this year, and to honor the occasion, he will be opening up his exclusive Nürburgring Track Days event to all Ferrari owners. For the past ten years, Modena Motorsport’s Track Days have become a much sought-after invitational event featuring copious track...
The over 2 liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever changing regulations...
Rene Arnoux Achille Varzi 1 Kazuyoshi Hoshino, who participated in two F1 races in the 1970s, is born in Japan...
Uwe Meissner, of Germany’s Modena Motorsport, held his annual Ferrari Driving Days at the Nürburgring on June 23–24 and more than 100 Ferraris and a large number of superb classics from other marques took part in the two-day festivities. The highlight of the event was the participation of more than...
The FIA sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations...
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsport: the World...
Walter Hayes Paddy Hopkirk 1 Count Eliot Zborowski is killed in an accident during La Turbie Hillclimb at Nice, France (1903). 4 Andre de Adamich and Henri Pescarolo drive an Alfa Romeo T33/3 to victory in the 1,000 km sports car race at Brands Hatch, England (1971). Become a Member...
The over two-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever changing regulations of international...
The FIA sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations...
Alfa Romeo Tipo 33/3 It’s a bit of a euphemism to say that cars have personalities… of course they don’t. Inanimate objects—and some politicians—have no human qualities at all. But some cars have a way of affecting the individual that opens a door to seeing a “personality” in there. All...
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports; the World...
The over 2-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of International Motorsports;...
A shortish, miserable-looking man with a square moustache strutted into the room, his face non-committal, his uniform vaguely operatic. He had come to see what he had got for his money. He stopped in front of the silver racing car and scowled. A man in a business suit described the...
1970 Porsche 908/3 The author puts the 908/3 through its paces on Pierre Bardinon’s private Mas Du Clos circuit in...
August 2005 Kings of the Nürburgring By Chris Nixon Of all the world’s motor racing circuits, Germany’s Nürburgring is perhaps...
Racing transcends venue. I’ve done my time at grungy old bullrings, squalid street courses, insipid parking lots, sterile speedways, a forlorn airstrip whose primary enterprise seemed to be the drying of turkey manure—I’ve been to some really ugly race tracks and seen gorgeous racing regardless. Pete Lyons Yet how much...
The FIA (Federation International Automobile) sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed...
The French Grand Prix; Charade (Clermont-Ferrand), June 27, 1965. The great driver Jim Clark drifting the works Lotus on this...
Two-liter sports racing 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. There was even a European...
The Nürburgring 1,000 km. Race; Nürburgring, May 22, 1960. Giorgio Scarlatti chases a Ferrari 250TR with his Ferrari V-6 246...
The over two-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever changing regulations of International...
1971 Alfa Romeo GTAm There is a slight inclination here to refer you to Tony Adriaensen’s remarkable tome Alleggerita and let myself off a complex historical hook. Explaining the evolution of Alfa Romeo’s competition models is challenging at best and maddening most of the time. After about 25 years working...
The under 2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international...
When I attend race meetings, I am often sought by those collecting autographs. I think I must be on the...
1969 Chevron B8-BMW In my book, 2006 was a good year. Got my pensioner’s bus pass, had two cataract operations, made my Le Mans debut…not necessarily in that order! I can only now reveal that it is possible to race at Le Mans with one eye! This may come as...
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports: the World...
Sexual debauchery, a regime’s imminent downfall and a kidnapping fit for a gentleman were some of the highlights of the...
This son of a German garage owner had never raced a car until May 26, 1935, at the superfast Avus circuit near Berlin. But by the end of 1936, he was the king of all he surveyed—the 1936 European Champion, with six Grand Prix victories to his credit. All scored...