Gilles Villeneuve Jean-Pierre Wimille 1 Sports car racer James “Hap” Sharp is born (1928). 11 American John Walter Christie, free-lance...
Richie Ginther Sir Stirling Moss 3 Dario Resta dies in a crash during a speed record attempt at Brooklands, England...
Robert Benoist Björn Waldegård 3 First race held at Monza, Italy, a Grand Prix Voiturette race, is won by Pietro Bordino in a Fiat 804-403 (1922). 3 Sir Malcolm Campbell sets a One-Mile Speed Record of 301.13 mph in his Bluebird Special on the Bonneville Salt Flats (1935). Become a...
Walter Hayes Paddy Hopkirk 1 Count Eliot Zborowski is killed in an accident during La Turbie Hillclimb at Nice, France...
Gilles Villeneuve Carroll Shelby 2 The first South Africa Grand Prix, held on the Kyalami track near Johannesburg, is won...
Jim Clark Peter Bryant 2 Four-time 500-cc Motorcycle Grand Prix World Champion and auto-racer Mike “The Bike” Hailwood is born in Birmingham, England (1940). 3 Carrol Shelby drives a Birdcage Maserati to victory in the Los Angeles Examiner Herald—Express International Grand Prix at Riverside, California (1960). Become a Member &...
This son of a German garage owner had never raced a car until May 26, 1935, at the superfast Avus...
Dark clouds begin to gather in my mind every spring as I park my car in Brescia and walk to...
Louis Chiron Biography Born in August 1899, the son of a French hotelier in Monaco he became that principalities most famous sportsman. Holding dual citizenship Chiron joined the French army prior to his 18th birthday, serving as an artilleryman during World War I. He later became the personal driver to...
One was born in Shelbyville, Indiana, in 1902 and the other in a cramped workshop in Bologna, northern Italy, 35...
Opening in 1921, AVUS (Automobil-Verkehrs-und Übungs-Straße) was devised by the AvD as a motorsport venue and test track for the...
It took time for me to become enthusiastic about anything German. I have been hit by the blast of a V1 flying bomb. My mother had just risen from a chair with my baby brother and a dagger of glass pierced the back of the chair. Hollywood explosions are all...
Peter Collins Sir Stirling Moss 2 Stirling Moss drives a Maserati 250F to victory in the Glover Trophy Race at...
John Zeitler Nigel Mansell Photo: Maureen Magee 2 Emerson Fittipaldi, driving a Penske PC-18, wins the CART Budweiser Cleveland Grand...
Shot by the Gestapo, executed at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, killed on a death march from Sachsenhausen. All of those horrific things are said to have happened to Captain Charles Frederick William Grover-Williams, Grand Prix winner, member of the wartime ultra-secret French section of Britain’s Special Operations Executive and French...
Hans Stuck first met Adolf Hitler in 1925, when a mutual friend brought the budding Führer to the racing driver’s...
Keke Rosberg was a kind of motor racing Cinderella Man. He went from the drudgery of retiring or not even...
Silver Arrows Grand Prix Drivers The Silver Arrows of Mercedes and Auto Union were formidable to say the least. The drivers were equally legendary. On this page we take you through all the drivers that made their mark driving for the Silver Arrows team. …Youthful impetuousness and courage are not...
1935 Tripoli Grand Prix – The Victory Report By Rudolf Caracciola We stood by the cars and waited. Music drifting...
Louis Stanley Rudolf Caracciola 2 First South Africa Grand Prix to be held on the Kyalami track near Johannesburg is...
Montjuic translates from medieval Catalan as “Hill of the Jews,” or an alternative derivation may be from the Latin Mons Jovicus “Hill of Jupiter.” Whatever the origin of its name, this hill that overlooks Barcelona’s harbor has been known as Montjuic for more than a thousand years. Now using the...
Mercedes W125 Car: Mercedes W125 / Engine: 8-Cylinder In-line Supercharged / Maker: Daimler-Benz / Bore X Stroke: 94 mm X...
René Dreyfus Biography The story begins in 1914 when René was nine years old. The middle of three children he...
Niki Lauda Richard Petty 1 Willy Grover, better known as “W. Williams,” wins the ACF Grand Prix for sports cars driving a Bugatti (1928). 3 Jean-Pierre Beltoise and Jean-Pierre Jarier drive a Matra M670 to victory in the 6-hour endurance race at Watkins Glen, New York (1974). Become a Member &...
“Among my drivers, Giovanni Bracco was, perhaps, the one who scored the most spectacular success,” Enzo Ferrari once said about...
Karl Kling was born too late to join Rudolf Caracciola, Manfred Von Brauchitsch and Hermann Lang in their rampage through...
Mention the words “Rudi” and “Mercedes” and what comes to mind? Chances are good it will be images of famed driver Rudolf Caracciola wheeling a giant prewar SSK or W154 “Silver Arrow” around some exotic circuit, like the Nürburgring or Tripoli. Yet, there was another Rudi at Mercedes-Benz who arguably...
Pavel Kasik recently bid farewell to his beloved Tatra T77 only days after completing its 20-year restoration. The Tatra started...
Audi has recently reacquired an extremely rare Auto Union Silver Arrow racing car consisting largely of original parts. It is...