Born to a Paris butcher and his wife in April 1937, the late Jean-Pierre Beltoise had won the incredible number...
Over 2-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever changing regulations of International Motorsports;...
Carroll Shelby has just driven Alan Guiberson’s Ferrari 375MM to victory in the Sports Car Races at Torrey Pines, California, in July of 1955, his first appearance in California. That’s Alan with the checkered flag. With this same car, Alberto Ascari and Nino Farina had won the 1953 Nürburgring 1000km,...
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The author’s primary impression of the car is of the need to keep the revs up so that the boost,...
I have just marked my half-century of being a motor racing enthusiast. On February 1, 1957, I bought a copy of Motor Sport. Many years later, I was chatting with James Weaver at Silverstone, who said, “Bloody Denis Jenkinson, it’s thanks to him I’m in my current mess.” In 1957,...
Damon Graham Devereux Hill is the only son of a Formula 1 World Champion to have also won the title....
The notion of a halo conjures images of angelic cherubs and enlightened bliss in nearly everyone…except, apparently, for Formula One...
In April 1964, a new Gran Turismo racer 40-inches high rolled out of the Ford Advanced Vehicles factory in Slough, England, and in an inspired moment, Ford decided to call it the GT40. This whole project had been brought about by Ford’s failure to buy Ferrari in 1963, so it...
Hans Stuck first met Adolf Hitler in 1925, when a mutual friend brought the budding Führer to the racing driver’s...
The German Grand Prix; Nürburgring, August 2, 1953. World Champion Alberto Ascari sits in his Ferrari 500/F2 in front of...
John Surtees, the only man yet to win World Championships on both two and four wheels, has been named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) on Queen Elizabeth II’s latest birthday honors list. The son of a sidecar racer from Surrey, Surtees originally raced motorcycles for...
Thanks to our South Pacific Editor Patrick Quinn for discovering this one, a(nother) lap (or two) of Germany’s notorious Nordschleife...
Privateer Bruce Halford took part in the epic 1957 German Grand Prix, finishing 11th in his Maserati 250F. It was one of my duties to convey Bruce’s Maserati around the Continent in a converted Royal Blue AEC coach. This particular saga began at the Maserati factory in Modena, where I...
During my mid-teens a particular photograph in Motor Sport caught my eye. It was of an old Aston Martin racing...
Suixtil Sebring Suede Bomber Jacket Made of the softest genuine suede, in a deep chestnut-brown, the Sebring is a faithful...
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...
Tazio Nuvolari always used to say that if your car burst into flame, jump out and save yourself before it...
There isn’t much Karl Kainhofer hasn’t done in over 50 years of involvement in motorsports, from motorcycle racing in Austria...
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...
On July 12, 1959, the Maserati Tipo 60 “Birdcage”, with 30-year old Stirling Moss at the wheel, made its race...
1972 Eifelland Type 21 The 2016 Formula One season found the World Championship taken by a German team, Mercedes, and...
Starting his career in the early ’60s behind the wheel of a Mini, John Fitzpatrick quickly worked his way to the top echelons of the endurance racing world. From winning the British Saloon Car Championship, Fitzpatrick went on to factory rides with Ford and BMW, as well as notching up...
“One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring to bring them all and in the...
November 2009 During the German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring on August 4, 1957, Ferrari driver Luigi Musso brakes for...
Stirling MossPhoto: Keith Booker I have had many co-drivers in my career…John Fitch, Juan Fangio, Peter Collins, Harry Schell, Tony Brooks…but Dan Gurney was the best co-driver I ever had, along with Fangio. There was no question that he was a superb driver. I only did a very few races...
Quit Scraping the Paint! Photo: Roger Dixon Dear Editor, I would like to point out one quibble and one major...
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The man at the wheel of the 2.8-liter, six-cylinder, Ford Sierra XR4i may have been a schoolmaster, but he certainly did not drive like one. In fact, beads of sweat were breaking out on my forehead as he stylishly doorhandled the winged Ford along the narrow roads of the Targa...