John BarnardPhoto: Mike Jiggle In the first two installments of our multi-part interview with John Barnard he discussed his early...
Ed McDonough, VR Editor at Large, has been awarded the Peugeot Motorsports Cup by the Guild of Motoring Writers. McDonough...
Nino Farina Jim HallPhoto: Keith Booker 1 Sports car racer Jim Pace born (1961). 2 Al Holbert, Derek Bell and Al Unser Jr. drive a Löwenbrau-sponsored Porsche 962 to victory in the 24 Hours of Daytona (1986). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
Cisitalia 202 was a ground-breaking post-war design that placed Pininfarina at the forefront of automotive design. The late 19th century...
It’s interesting how things evolve. While I have had no personal experience with the Invicta marque there has always been...
Dad was a part-time taxi driver and Mom a secretary, and five-year-old Mika plagued the life out of them to let him race a kart. They hired one for him, but he crashed it on the first lap of his first race, so kart racing was a no-no in the...
This year is the 50th anniversary of the 911. Its first public viewing was at the September 1963 Frankfurt Auto...
Photo: Peter Collins Cruise through Como on Saturday; line up for the Parma Poggio hillclimb on Sunday. Alfa Romeo: great...
De Palma, his riding mechanic alongside, guides his factory Vauxhall over the 37.631-km Circuit de Lyon during the 1914 French Grand Prix, a race run barely a month before the onset of WWI. One of the greatest, and nice with it—that was Ralph De Palma. He won well over 2,500...
The 1929 Lincoln Aero Phaeton, by LeBaron, was one of the earliest American vehicles to employ a tailfin. Priced at...
Patrick Watts in the Peugeot 406 at Donington in 1997.Photo: Pete Austin From my point of view, a great racecar...
Photo: BRDC My dream, like many racing drivers, was to get to the top of the sport Formula One. Some of us may be in the right place at the right time with a big, or a successful team. Others are just there to make up the numbers. Unfortunately, for...
The 11th annual La Jolla Concours d’Elegance enjoyed huge crowds under sunny skies last Sunday as it showcased more than...
Eddie Irvine has been a shrewd operator for most of his adult life. He carefully maneuvered himself into the second...
This past February, the fifth annual Leadfoot Festival was held at international rally champion Rod Millen’s ranch on the Coromandel Peninsula in New Zealand. Rod has semi-retired there after his championship-winning career, including toppling the Unser dynasty from Pikes Peak in the United States. Photo: Mark Dunstan What started five...
As dawn breaks this Sunday, November 6, London’s Hyde Park will be full of the sights, sounds and smells of...
Building upon the success of last year’s Les Grandes Heures Automobiles (LGHA), the dates for 2017’s third edition at the...
Being a driver for Scuderia Ferrari, I must say, is the most amazing job any driver can have. The opportunity to pull on the famous red overalls of Ferrari and climb into one of the team’s beautiful red cars is something I will never get bored of. It is an...
It’s not often that a Formula One driver can turn his hand to World Championship rallying. Look at 2007 F1...
The Royal Automobile Club has announced that the 2017 Bonhams London to Brighton Veteran Car Run, supported by Hiscox, will...
Louis Delage may have been born to a humble assistant station master and his wife in Cognac, France, in 1874, but he rose to become a dominator of world motor sport. Yet he died in poverty, in 1947, at the age of 73, bankrupt, swamped by mountainous debts and destitute....
August has again arrived, and the collector car auctions of Monterey Classic Car Week will soon be providing the industry...
The collection of one of America’s preeminent collectors and conservators of vintage automobiles, that of Lindley and Ann Bothwell, will...
Racecar designers are sometimes accused of copying others’ ideas, but are they really “copy cats,” or is it a case of “great minds think alike?” Something worth examining, albeit there is evidence on both sides of the argument. In any case, if a designer sees that one of his rivals...
The very first car to have been driven on Italian roads is one of the special entries in this year’s...
The third edition of the annual Les Grandes Heures Automobiles (LGHA), held last weekend, September 23-24, at the legendary banked...
The Bothwell Ranch is a self-contained 16-acre working citrus farm situated just over the hill from Los Angeles, ringed with towering palm trees and sprinkled with WWII-era ranch buildings. It’s an oasis of green and calm surrounded on every side by suburbs; a holdout from a half-century of rapid development...
Ask anyone who was the first American to win a Grand Prix and chances are they will say Phil Hill...
As you’ll read in this issue’s news, the much-revered Lyndley Bothwell collection was recently sold by Bonhams. Of particular interest...
The Andes adventure started in Antofagasta, on the coast of Northern Chile with 15 cars and teams from Belgium, Finland, the U.S., Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and France. In all there were three Mustangs, two Mercedes Pagoda, a Mercedes 280 SL, a 1937 Lagonda, a 1957 Bentley, two Porsches, two...