Mantua, Italy, has a new Tazio Nuvolari Museum. After being evicted from its previous location by the town council in...
It’s wrong to call Baconin Borzacchini the “eternal second,” as some motor sport historians do. Sure, he came 2nd in...
Audi has recently reacquired an extremely rare Auto Union Silver Arrow racing car consisting largely of original parts. It is the Auto Union twin-supercharger Type D dating from 1939, one of the two legendary “Karassik cars.” Audi AG now owns three of the five Auto Union racing cars that can...
Just days after his 1959 Le Mans-winning teammate, Carroll Shelby, and a matter of weeks since Ted Cutting, designer of...
Tazio Nuvolari Biography Tazio Nuvolari a legend in his own lifetime, was known as Il Montavano Volante, the Flying Mantuan. He...
German racer Paul Pietsch, the last surviving driver of the prewar Silver Arrows era and the oldest living Grand Prix racer, has died at the age of 100. His family confirmed his May 31 passing, just three weeks short of his 101st birthday. The former Auto Union works driver was...
There was a flurry of events in Italy to mark the 30th anniversary of Gilles Villeneuve’s death in a crash...
Alain ProstPhoto: Maureen Magee Mike SpencePhoto: John Fenning Collection 1 Ivor Bueb wins the 1500-cc sports car race at Brands...
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....
Gilles Villeneuve Mark Donohue 1 Al Unser Jr. wins the CRA sprint car main event at Imperial, California (1981). 2...
Montjuic translates from medieval Catalan as “Hill of the Jews,” or an alternative derivation may be from the Latin Mons...
Enzo Ferrari was always a sucker for fighters who would never give up, like Tazio Nuvolari, Guy Moll and Gilles Villeneuve. In fact, he thought Moll could become the anti-Nuvolari, so talented was the little Algerian. But Guy’s brief yet spectacular career came to a sudden end on August 15,...
Tazio Nuvolari has found a new home, or at least his museum has. The museum devoted to him and his...
January 2011 Mark Donohue: His Life in Photographs By Michael Argetsinger In our review of Argetsinger’s previous book, Mark Donohue:...
Donington Park in the English Midlands, the historic site of 1930s Grands Prix, has once again echoed to the sound of vintage motor racing. The circuit closed last year for major landscaping work instigated by new leaseholders whose ambitious plan to extend and re-profile the facility and wrest the British...
Silver Arrows Grand Prix Drivers The Silver Arrows of Mercedes and Auto Union were formidable to say the least. The...
Alfa Romeo had gone from zero to hero and beyond from the 1911 Targa Florio to the 1936 Mille Miglia....
Paul Tracy James Hunt Photo: Maureen Magee 1 Ronnie Peterson drives a Tecno to victory in the F3 race on the Keimola Ring in Finland (1969). 2 Johnny Thomson wins the USAC Champ Car race on the one-mile dirt track at Langhorne, Pennsylvania (1957). No Subscription? You’re missing out Get...
Jim Clark Peter Revson 1 Mercedes-Benz publishes a press release officially describing their W25 Grand Prix race cars as “Silver...
Billing itself as “the largest selection of vintage racing photos on the Internet,” Dale LaFollette’s Vintage Motorphoto is a resource...
When you’re weighed down with a name like Prince Birabongse Bhanutej Bhanubandh, you’ve got to do something about it if you want to go motor racing, so this Siamese tongue twister became B. Bira. That was the pseudonym under which a small, doll-like grandson of King Mongkut, played by Yul...
In 2003, 50 years after Tazio Nuvolari’s death, Arrigo Granola, an employee of the Banca Agricola of Mantua, Italy, tore...
May 2009 At the Donington Grand Prix in England on October 22, 1938, Silver Arrows pilot Dick Seaman applies the...
The Tazio Nuvolari Museum in Mantua, Italy, has closed. It is supposed to open again at some time in the future in a deconsecrated 8th-century church a short walk from Tazio’s villa in the city, which is now a convent. But there are mumblings that it will never reopen, although...
In 1938, Tazio Nuvolari left Alfa Romeo after narrowly avoiding serious injury when the uncompetitive car he was driving burst...
Not for the first time, one of motor sport’s most successful cars was a huge flop when it made its debut. In this case, it was the Bugatti Tipo 35, six of which were driven on the public roads from Molsheim to Lyons in late July 1924, to compete in...
To celebrate the 80th anniversary of the first TT race on the Newtonards Circuit in 1928, a long-awaited memorial stone...
Karl Abarth was a magician. A waver of wands whose magic brought the exquisite pleasure of higher-performance motoring and motor...
Jerry Marshall Tazio Nuvolari 1 Ferdinando Minoia drives an Isotta-Fraschini to victory in the Coppa Florio race in Italy (1907). 2 Peter Gethin drives a Chevron B9B to victory in the F3 race at Brands Hatch, England (1968). No Subscription? You’re missing out Get immediate ad-free access to all our...
