From 500-cc racing to a works ride with Cooper and later a British Hillclimb Championship, Mike MacDowel has had a...
La Leggenda di Bassano “Trofeo Giannino Marzotto,” a regularity race reserved exclusively for Sport-Barchetta cars produced until 1960, will take place this weekend, June 22-25, starting and finishing at Bassano del Grappa in the cosmopolitan city of Vicenza in northeastern Italy. All cars entered for the competition must have an...
Sir Stirling Moss scored the first of his three Monaco Grand Prix wins in 1956 with this Maserati 250F, nipping...
How will history remember Count Wolf-gang Alexander Albert Eduard Maximillian Reichsgraf Berghe von Trips? “Von Krash,” as the dim-witted sniggeringly called him? As a journeyman? Or as a true gentleman who all but won the Formula One World Championship for drivers? The latter, I believe, would be a fair entry...
1958 BRM P25 Chassis 258 It may come as a surprise to many people that Stirling Moss always regarded the...
Motor sport anniversaries and centenaries seem to have filled the calendar in the last few years, and as our sport...
When Lancia retired from racing in 1955, the team of Jano-designed D50s were handed over to Ferrari and formed the basis of the Scuderia’s F1 effort for the 1956 season. Drivers included team leader Juan Manuel Fangio, Luigi Musso and Peter Collins. Collins is depicted driving in the Belgian Grand...
A shooting star is an astronomical phenomenon which appears suddenly in the night sky, burns brightly for a few seconds...
Lyn St. James Jim Clark Photo: Trevor Taylor Collection 2 Rupert Manwaring, team manager and assistant team manager for several...
Vintage Racecar’s European Editor Ed McDonough and photographer Peter Collins, co-authors of the new Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 book, were presented with an award for the book on March 4 by Scuderia del Portello, the historic racing division of Alfa Romeo. At an awards ceremony at the Alfa Romeo Museum...
November 2009 During the German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring on August 4, 1957, Ferrari driver Luigi Musso brakes for...
Frank Williams started out like so many racers, with little more than his desire to go racing. Over nearly half...
Jim Hall, driving a Lister-Chevrolet, wins the sports car feature race at Hondo, Texas (1959). 1 • Dan Gurney, driving a Climax-powered Lotus 18, wins the USAC Road Racing Championship Formula Libre event at Hilltop Raceway in Bossier City, Louisiana (1962). 4 • Greg Weld, sprint and Indy car racer...
Luigi Musso acclimates himself to the cockpit of his Maserati 300S prior to the start of the 1955 Grand Prix...
Laury, Lucy O’Reilly and Harry Schell were father, mother and son. They were all larger than life characters who made...
Stirling Moss and Juan Manual Fangio were partners at Mercedes-Benz in 1955. They later became rivals, Fangio at Ferrari with the new Ferrari-Lancia D50 and Moss leader of the Maserati team with the 250F. Here, at the 1956 Monaco Grand Prix, Moss made an excellent start and led all the...
Peter Collins Sir Stirling Moss 2 Stirling Moss drives a Maserati 250F to victory in the Glover Trophy Race at...
Growing up as young lad near the metropolitan borough of Wolverhampton, a city in the West Midlands of England, I...
August 2009 Man vs. Machine Dear Editor, With respect to Pete Lyons’s column, “Man? Or Machine?” [VR, March ’09], I get the feeling that Pete Lyons and I must share some similar DNA. For many years, I couldn’t understand why I had gradually lost interest in the current modern racing scene....
The author puts his back into steering the Trimax through a left hander at Mallory Park.Photo: Andy Thorpe Was Alvin...
I suppose the first question one has to ask is how one defines greatness in a racing car. One of...
The Midland Automobile Club is planning to make their August 2008 Shelsley Walsh event The Peter Collins Celebration meeting. Peter, whose family ran Kidderminster Motors, started his career in a Cooper 500 and competed at Shelsley Walsh. His career then blossomed with works drives for HWM in Grands Prix and...
Photo Gallery from the VSCC’s June 16–17 Brooklands Double Twelve event. Subscribers click here for more photos from the Brooklands...
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...
ExCel Centre, London, UK February 18-21 Cars International and Williams showed Williams FW13B Ex-Mike D’Udy Porsche Carrera Six on Hall...
Stirling MossPhoto: Keith Booker I have had many co-drivers in my career…John Fitch, Juan Fangio, Peter Collins, Harry Schell, Tony...
1957 Aston Martin DBR1 Aston Martin’s relationship with the 24 Hours of Le Mans goes all the way back to 1928 when Jack Bezzant/Cyril Paul and “Bert” Bertelli/George Eyston launched the British company’s assault on the event with LM2 and LM1, Aston’s 1495-cc, 4-cylinder racer. Neither car made it to...