For the 1924 French Grand Prix at Lyon, Count Zborowski raced an American MIller 122 (#6), but completed only 16...
Austrian Berger scored four of his 10 Formula One Grand Prix victories while wearing the fabled Italian Racing Red livery...
Surtees qualified his Ferrari 158 5th for the 1964 British Grand Prix at Brands Hatch and drove up to finish 3rd behind Jim Clark and Graham Hill. How do you get to be the only man to have won both the motorcycle and Formula One World Championships in a single...
Jacky Ickx and the smoky Martini Porsche 936 just made it to the end to claim the win for himself,...
March 8 is International Women’s Day, and to mark the occasion, Maserati is honoring the achievements of Maria Teresa de Filippis,...
Quiet, thoughtful, modest, Tony Brooks was all of those things, which is probably why his name isn’t exactly on the tip of everyone’s tongue when reminiscing about post-war motor racing heroes. But this unpretentious young man was the strong, determined driver who lit up fast circuits like Spa and Monza...
A rule change intended to draw more European entries to the third annual Indy 500 in 1913 opened the door...
Duntov at the wheel of the Chevrolet Experimental Research Vehicle, CERV 1, a single-seater that he designed and constructed as...
The two 3165-cc Alfa Romeo V8 engines in the one car had to be a handful, but that did not prevent Tazio Nuvolari from setting a new Class B (5001-8000-cc) international speed record for the flying kilometer in this Alfa Bimotore. He covered the measured distance in 17.93 seconds at...
Contracted to race as a senior driver for Mercedes-Benz in 1937, Lang validated his selection with victories in the Tripoli...
De Palma, his riding mechanic alongside, guides his factory Vauxhall over the 37.631-km Circuit de Lyon during the 1914 French...
Ayrton Senna Biography Ayrton Senna was born on 21 March 1960, the second child of Milton da Silva, a successful businessman and landowner. The family lived in Santana, a well-to-do neighborhood of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Growing up Ayrton was an awkward child and was later diagnosed as having a motor...
Dad was a part-time taxi driver and Mom a secretary, and five-year-old Mika plagued the life out of them to...
It’s wrong to call Baconin Borzacchini the “eternal second,” as some motor sport historians do. Sure, he came 2nd in...
Laury, Lucy O’Reilly and Harry Schell were father, mother and son. They were all larger than life characters who made their very distinct contribution to the colorful playboy image that some aspects of motor racing projected before the Second World War and immediately after it. For the 1958 British Grand...
King George V thought it was very funny. “You’re late, my boy,” he guffawed. The world’s fastest human being had...
Damon Graham Devereux Hill is the only son of a Formula 1 World Champion to have also won the title....
Markku Alén is the person-ification of his favorite rallying expression: maximum attack. Words he lived by throughout his illustrious career, firmly establishing himself as one of the world’s greatest rally drivers. Markku was World Champion in 1978, the last year of the FIA Cup, and ruled the rally world again...
Fluent in six languages, tall, with regular features set off by an immaculately clipped goatee beard and moustache, Jo Bonnier...
Karl Kling was born too late to join Rudolf Caracciola, Manfred Von Brauchitsch and Hermann Lang in their rampage through...
When Jack Brabham was demobbed from the Royal Australian Air Force in 1947, even he did not realize he was about to establish an Australian motor racing dynasty, but that is exactly what he did. Jack would win no fewer than three Formula One World Championships, the last in 1966...
“Among my drivers, Giovanni Bracco was, perhaps, the one who scored the most spectacular success,” Enzo Ferrari once said about...
We’re spectating on a rally special stage. The Monte Carlo, Britain’s RAC, the Acropolis in Greece. Anywhere, it doesn’t matter...
Felice Nazzaro had brains as well as a heavy right foot and he used them well to work his way up from the shop floor to motor racing stardom in a career that spanned three decades. His favorite technique was to hang back and let the leaders burn themselves or...
René Dreyfus Biography The story begins in 1914 when René was nine years old. The middle of three children he...
Woolf Barnato is the man with a perfect score. He entered the 24 Hours of Le Mans three times and...
Donald Campbell was a hero, like his famous father. But that is where the resemblance ended. Sir Malcolm, who broke no fewer than nine Land Speed Records and four on water, was an arrogant, domineering father. He ridiculed his son and actively tried to dissuade Donald from following in his...
Alessandro Zanardi is an inspiration to us all. Here is a double CART champion who lost both his legs in...
We called it the “Bruce and Denny Show,” and it was total dominance of the Can-Am Championship by McLaren Cars...
Now here is a man of his word—and it cost him dearly. In 1961, Innes agreed to drive for Formula One team UDT-Laystall run by Ken Gregory and Alfred Moss, respectively Stirling’s manager and father. Literally a day later, Ireland was asked to become Graham Hill’s teammate at BRM but...
