BMW has long followed a policy of racing cars and engines derived from production vehicles. Until BMW entered Formula One...
Bob Holden For anyone involved in motor sport within Australia, the name of Bob Holden has been a prominent one for many years. After starting out during the 1950s in a Holden (no relation) sedan Bob tackled a variety of events in both racing and rallying with a number of...
1940 BMW 328 MM “Berlin-Rome” Touring Roadster The author puts the 328 MM Roadster through its paces at BMW’s Spartanburg,...
When asked by my good friend Rick Roso to write a piece on how “to do” one of my favorite turns, my immediate reaction was to describe the awesome Eau Rouge at Spa Francorchamps in Belgium. However, that story has been done many times before, so my thoughts instead wandered...
It’s not often that a Formula One driver can turn his hand to World Championship rallying. Look at 2007 F1...
By 1963, Cobras were doing very well in Sports Car Club of America races. Cars driven by Shelby American drivers...
One of three cars built by Yorkshire’s Billy Needham in the early 1970s to contest international sports car races, this Coldwell C14 has now re-emerged in historic racing, powered by one of the new, remanufactured Cosworth FVC engines from David Gathercole. This particular Coldwell was the first to be built...
Pete Lyons Stirling Moss deliberately steering his Lotus into rain puddles around the Nürburgring—reading about that may have been the...
Damon Graham Devereux Hill is the only son of a Formula 1 World Champion to have also won the title....
David Wishart Hobbs was born into an Australian immigrant family in the British West Midlands city of Leamington Spa, five days after the Nazis invaded Poland to ignite World War II. His father Howard had invented the Mechamatic gearbox that not only provided his family with sustenance, but ultimately determined...
It may sound corny, but Dick Seaman’s short life really was the stuff of Hollywood movies. He was tall, handsome,...
Stirling MossPhoto: Keith Booker I have had many co-drivers in my career…John Fitch, Juan Fangio, Peter Collins, Harry Schell, Tony...
Ted Cutting, the man who designed the Aston Martin DBR1 that took Carroll Shelby and Roy Salvadori to victory at Le Mans over 50 years ago, has died. It is little known, but due to a fact-finding visit to Maserati, initiated by John Wyer, he didn’t see his cars cross...
No way did Elisabeth Junek look like a racing driver. She was, well, a woman to begin with, and there...
I stood back watching, as Monterey feted the Fangio marque. Fangio marque? Yes, Juan Manuel Fangio is the only person,...
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...
November 2009 During the German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring on August 4, 1957, Ferrari driver Luigi Musso brakes for...
August 2009 The German Grand Prix; Nürburgring, August 1, 1954. A field of Porsche 356s approach the South Curve complex...
November 2008 The Nürburgring 1000-km Race; Nürburgring, June 1, 1958. Phil Hill in the Ferrari 250TR which he drove with Luigi Musso to 5th place. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article...
December 2017 When Colin Chapman was investigating four-wheel drive for his Lotus Formula One cars, he designed the Type 63,...
March 2008 The Nürburgring 1000 km Race, June 1, 1958. Gino Munaron in the Karussell with the Ferrari 250TR/58, which...
April 2018 Jackie Oliver prepares to take the Gulf Mirage M2-Ford out for practice prior to the 1969 running of the 1000 Kilometers of the Nürburgring, as co-driver Jacky Ickx looks on at left. They retired in the early laps of the race with suspension problems. Photo courtesy of: THE...
The Nürburgring 1000-km Race; Nürburgring, June 7, 1959. Jean Behra (right) has just leaped out of his Ferrari 250TR/59 as...
Carroll Shelby has just driven Alan Guiberson’s Ferrari 375MM to victory in the Sports Car Races at Torrey Pines, California,...
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The French Grand Prix; Charade (Clermont-Ferrand), June 27, 1965. The great Jim Clark guiding the works Lotus 25 around this...
A 296 GTB managed to officially lap around Nürburgring in less than 7 minutes, making it the first production car...
RM Sotheby’s has announced that its third New York sale, entitled ICONS, set for December 6 at Sotheby’s Manhattan headquarters, will present a pair of Le Mans racing legends from two of the world’s most revered marques: a 1959 Ferrari 250 GT LWB California Spider Competizione and a 1952 Jaguar...