November 2008 The Nürburgring 1000-km Race; Nürburgring, June 1, 1958. Phil Hill in the Ferrari 250TR which he drove with...
1960 Maserati Tipo 61 “Birdcage” Across the annals of automotive history, few families can lay claim to more engineering genius than that of Rudolfo and Carolina Maserati. Between 1880 and 1898, Carolina gave birth to no less than six sons, Carlo, Bindo, Alfieri, Mario, Ettore, and Ernesto. All but one...
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...
Karl Abarth was a magician. A waver of wands whose magic brought the exquisite pleasure of higher-performance motoring and motor racing to men and women of modest means. His speciality was conversion. And he turned the Fiat 500 and 600 low-powered tin boxes into teeth-gnashing, tire-smoking predators that won thousands...
I stood back watching, as Monterey feted the Fangio marque. Fangio marque? Yes, Juan Manuel Fangio is the only person,...
Ronnie Peterson Giuseppe Campari 1 James Hunt, driving a McLaren-Ford, wins the German Grand Prix on the Nürburgring. Niki Lauda...
The under 2-liter Grand Touring (GT) 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. This...
John Surtees, the only man yet to win World Championships on both two and four wheels, has been named an...
It may sound corny, but Dick Seaman’s short life really was the stuff of Hollywood movies. He was tall, handsome,...
While the postwar American sports car scene was inspired by European road racing, it was different in many respects. In America, particularly by the late fifties, we had more racetracks and more cars because we were a bigger country. Americans had more money but had no home-grown production sports cars—with...
The man at the wheel of the 2.8-liter, six-cylinder, Ford Sierra XR4i may have been a schoolmaster, but he certainly...
Over-2-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever changing regulations of International Motorsports; the...
I was a student at the University of Grenoble, when I became very friendly with the children of the organizer of the sports car races at Le Mans. This would be in July 1956. I was invited to go to the Le Mans 24 Hour race because I could speak...
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motor sports: the...
April 2008 Carlo Demand In Motion and Color By Gary Doyle Due to the volume and prevalence of racing photography...
The ex–Geoghegan 1960 Lotus Elite The ex–Chamberlain 1960 Lotus Elite The 1967 Lotus Elite Twin Cam No matter what year it is, there is always a celebration of something or other. Each month through Vintage Racecar’s Time Capsule page, we are reminded of significant events that have occurred throughout the...
Tazio Nuvolari always used to say that if your car burst into flame, jump out and save yourself before it...
March 2008 The Nürburgring 1000 km Race, June 1, 1958. Gino Munaron in the Karussell with the Ferrari 250TR/58, which...
Jimmy Stewart, elder brother of three-time F1 World Champion Sir Jackie Stewart, has passed away. He was 77 years old. Stewart started his motor racing career at the age of 19, competing in local Scottish hillclimb events. Early success saw him progress to circuit racing driving a Healey Silverstone, and...
During the fifties, everyone’s hero was Juan Manuel Fangio. He won the World Driving Championship five times, an achievement that...
The FIA sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations...
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...
As a young mechanic Tony Robinson answered an ad for work with London’s Ray Martin Motors. Little did he know...
There are many racing drivers, a lesser quantity of great racing drivers, and a very small number who transcend mere...
At the end of 1969, during the height of the Ferrari-Porsche World Sports Car Championship “wars,” Jo Siffert was wined and dined at Maranello by Enzo Ferrari, who offered him a deal for 1970. But it was not only the bravura of the Swiss in a racing car that interested...
The Nürburgring 1000 km Race; May 31, 1970. Airborne! A Dechent-team Porsche 908/2 driven by Rudi Lins and Willy Kauhsen...
David’s repeated defeats of Goliath this summer—American Le Mans Series victories by Porsche’s RS Spyder over Audi’s much bigger and stronger R10—takes us right back to the early days of Porsche, when it made its name as an upstart giant-killer. Pete Lyons It’s a natural human trait to root for...
