It may sound corny, but Dick Seaman’s short life really was the stuff of Hollywood movies. He was tall, handsome,...
January 2017 On July 10-11, 1949. Just two weeks after Le Mans, Luigi Chinetti teamed up with Jean Lucas to...
1925 Bugatti Type 39. Photo: Mike Jiggle There is something very special about a Bugatti, and this example is very special indeed. Highly original, this race winner from the 1925 season has lived nearly all of its life “down under” in Australia, and has only recently found its way to Britain,...
Watch this video featuring an Audi R8 GT3 LMS Ultra while being driven by Marcus von Oeynhausen during the Masters...
This year seems to be littered with 50-year celebrations of various marques, teams, and occasions in motor racing. The 50th...
April 2008 Carlo Demand In Motion and Color By Gary Doyle Due to the volume and prevalence of racing photography available over the years, it is easy to lose sight of the historical contribution made by automotive fine artists throughout the history of motor sport. From the dawn of the...
The 14th Grand Prix of 24 Hours of Belgium took place at Spa-Francorchamps on July 10-11, 1949. During the race,...
Enjoy the raw flat-12 sound coming from a Ferrari 512 BB LM as it roars around Spa-Francorchamps!...
There was never any doubt that Chris Amon was an exceptional talent. Mauro Forghieri, Ferrari’s chief designer for almost 20 years, put him in the same sparsely populated category as the legendary Jim Clark. But even though he was in Formula One for 14 years and a works Ferrari driver...
My story of Formula One came into being after I’d driven my GT40 and got all that out of the...
Cale Yarborough Juan Manuel Fangio 1 Jo Siffert and Brian Redman, sharing a Porsche 908 Spyder, win the 1000-kilometer sports car race on the Nürburgring in West Germany (1969). 2 Paul Tracy drives a Lola-Honda to victory in the CART Miller Lite 250 on the Milwaukee Mile in West Allis,...
April 2010 The 14th Grand Prix of 24 Hours of Belgium; Spa-Francorchamps, July 10–11, 1949. Just two weeks after Le...
René Dreyfus Biography The story begins in 1914 when René was nine years old. The middle of three children he speaks of his early life with fondness, growing up in Nice. He later joined the Moto Club de Nice, which was sort of a junior league Automobile Club de Nice....
Masters Historic Racing has announced an eight-race European schedule for next year, beginning with the Masters Festival at Zolder, Belgium,...
The Belgian Grand Prix; Spa-Francorchamps, June 22, 1952. Alberto Ascari tops the hill at Raidillon on his way to another...
August 2017 The Belgian Grand Prix; Spa-Francorchamps, June 18, 1967. Dan Gurney braking for La Source on his way to a historic win, the first (and still only) for an American driver in a car of his own construction. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION Become a Member & Get...
Compilation of some of the best near crashes caught on camera on Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps featuring legendary historic racing cars....
Onboard footage of a Panoz Esperante GTR-1 racing on Spa Francorchamps....
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...
Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium July 14–17, 2006 Christian Glasel’s beautiful Cobra Daytona Coupe finished 4th in the Masters GT and Endurance race.Photo:...
We haven’t sent you to YouTube for some time now, but feel that this clip, for those who may not...
Environment affects evolution. Case in point: racing sedans. European sedans, contending with high fuel costs and operating on winding and narrow roads, ended up looking different from their American counterparts, raised on cheap fuel in more open spaces. Racing venues also differed, with sedan racing in Europe dominated by road...
Six (possibly seven) DB2 chassis were sent to Graber, in Switzerland, for custom convertible bodies that featured fixed front fenders...
Quite simply, cars raced by Dick Seaman are few and far between. The British driver was active in our sport...
Masters Historic Racing has announced the latest addition to its event portfolio, the Masters Le Mans Legends, for all cars that were eligible to enter the 24 Hours of Le Mans between 1995 and 2011. With Le Mans-eligible racecars featuring at Europe’s premier venues, this is a unique new series...
Designed by Oreca & Reynard Motorsport in Europe, the Chrysler Viper GTS-R was a racing variant of the Dodge Viper...
To recognize the respect with which drivers would approach racing through the Masta Kink on the old Spa-Francorchamps Grand Prix circuit, Alex Wakefield created this oil on canvas painting of Brian Redman showing full commitment and no hesitation as he clips the Kink’s guardrail-marked apex with his factory Ferrari 312PB in...