The name of Noel Macklin is writ large in the history of British sporting cars. Marques such as Eric-Campbell, Silver...
For the past 65 years, Formula One motor racing teams have relentlessly chased the dream of perfection that concludes with...
Cisitalia 202 was a ground-breaking post-war design that placed Pininfarina at the forefront of automotive design. The late 19th century was not a great time for the Farina family to be bringing up eleven children in rural Italy. The tenth was christened Battista, and with all these mouths to feed...
Motor racing surely can’t complain about the amount of coverage it now receives on television, but transmission of motor sport...
Neville HayPhoto: Kary Jiggle After a very successful year in 1935, Prince Chula Chakrabongse, who financed Prince Birabongse’s racing, decided...
Aficionados of the Riley marque, particularly devotees of the Riley Specials raced prior to World War II, will find a good deal of information here about the cars from the company that began trading as the Bonnick Cycle Company of Coventry, England, in the late 19th century. The site is...
After the First World War and into the ’20s, many car manufacturers throughout Europe became involved in Grand Prix racing....
Like most German industrial companies, World War II left much of Mercedes-Benz’s Stuttgart factory in ruins. However, with time Mercedes...
Mike Lawrence Recently, yet another attempt to revive the Allard name was announced. There have been three Allard revivals to my knowledge, but this one comes with the involvement of Sydney Allard’s son and grandson, and a new car is promised. Sydney Allard was a London garage owner (his business...
Audi has recently reacquired an extremely rare Auto Union Silver Arrow racing car consisting largely of original parts. It is...
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Like so many great automobiles of our time, the Mercedes-Benz SL series can trace its origins directly to the racetrack. With the rebuilding and recovery of Europe ongoing six years after the end of World War II, Mercedes competition boss Alfred Neubauer was told that the resources for a resumption...
The late 1960s brought a host of changes to the famed 24 Hours of Le Mans. The wave of “professionalism”...
It’s rather ironic that both the birth of the “Pony Car” movement in the mid-1960s, and its eventual death in...
Legendary team owner Frank Arciero has died from the aftereffects of an aneurysm. Arciero was a 14-year-old Italian immigrant when he arrived in America just prior to the outbreak of World War II, and despite speaking no English proceeded to craft a classic American Dream success story in three different...
1952 Lancia Aurelia B50Photo: Peter Collins On a rare sunny day in late spring, on empty roads in Wiltshire, this...
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