John Rice produced a series of a dozen watercolor paintings for a show celebrating memorable moments at Watkins Glen, with...
Sir Jackie Stewart, BRM P115, Grand Prix of Mexico 1967—his last year with the BRM team. Often I review my...
The 1970 Le Mans 24 hours is immortalized in the the Steve McQueen film Le Mans, with much of the film’s footage taken from that race. Rain fell heavily throughout the night, and this was the first time the traditional “Le Mans start,” in which drivers ran across the track...
This Uli Ehret painting displays the Eau Rouge corner at Spa-Francorchamps back in 1967. The setting is exactly as it...
Le Mans 1957 represented the high water mark for Jaguar’s iconic D-Type. Handicapped by the reduction of engine size to 3-liters...
Spencer Martin first came to prominence in Australia when racing a variety of cars, including his early model Holden sedan. His performances led to an invitation to join the Scuderia Veloce racing team, which was, at that time, the most professional outfit in the sport. While known for his victories...
The Scene: The #25 factory BMW CSL is well known for its rich racing history and many race wins. Epic...
Jim Clark, driving the John Ogier Aston Martin DB4 GT Zagato (0183/R), finished 4th in the Goodwood Tourist Trophy race on August 19, 1961. He’s shown here passing eventual winner Stirling Moss during a pit stop for the Rob Walker Ferrari 250GT SWB (2735GT). Moss won no fewer than seven Tourist...
Nestled in the Santa Monica Mountains above trendy Malibu, California, lies an artifact from the history of automobile racing in...
This acrylic on canvas painting depicts one of the most famous and iconic racing cars of all time. The JPS Lotus 98T chassis 004 was Ayrton Senna’s racecar for the latter part of the classic 1986 Formula 1 season. The car’s debut was at the last Grand Prix to be held...
The 1963 12 Hour Grand Prix of Endurance at Sebring marked Triumph’s first factory entry into North American competition. Competition...
In the 1950s, one means of gaining publicity for car factories was to try and beat a category record. Pegaso, a new firm that was showing some promise, did such a try in 1953. They chose as the place for it a well known flat straight on a Belgian highway...
The successor to Jaguar’s iconic E-Type was not scheduled to debut until the 1976 model year, and before this happened Jaguar...
It’s 1911 and the first Indianapolis 500 is being won by a Marmon Wasp driven by Ray Harroun. It is...
This original water color painting by Uli Ehret shows the IMSA GTX class Porsche 911 RSR driven by Larry Perkins, Gordon Spice and John Rulon-Miller, braking into Mulsanne Corner during the 1978 24 Hours of Le Mans. The Charles Ivey Engineering team Porsche finished 14th overall and 2nd in class....
Peter Gregg Dear Editor, I hope this note finds you well. Though I loved your magazine’s Hurley Haywood article, I’m even...
The 1971 season saw the arrival of the BRM P160. It won the Austrian and Italian Grands Prix in the hands of Siffert and Gethin respectively. Pedro Rodriguez drove the number 8 car seen here in the Dutch Grand Prix that year. The race was wet—very wet—and the track was...
The 1955 24-hour race at Le Mans was set to be an epic contest. Mercedes-Benz had entered the brilliant new...
Fabulous is one word used to describe Dexter Brown’s original painting of Graham Hill drifting the Maranello Concessionaires Ferrari 250...
With pencil and watercolor paints I have designed and colored this scene in which the mechanic and test driver Gurrino Bertocchi, also known as “The Prince,” has linked his name forever with the Maserati. He was the real soul of the company, from its origin (1926) until the end of...
Right from the company’s beginnings in 1924, Chrysler built powerful and advanced automobiles. The B70 was a 70-mph car with...
This painting shows the Talbot Lago driven by Louis Rosier being tended by a mechanic at the very first World...
The start of the Monaco Grand Prix remains one of motor racing’s true spectacles, and in this depiction of the opening moments of the 1971 contest through the streets of the Principality, we see the front row of Jackie Stewart’s Tyrrell (#11) and Jacky Ickx’s Ferrari (#4) lighting up their...
Stirling Moss and Juan Manual Fangio were partners at Mercedes-Benz in 1955. They later became rivals, Fangio at Ferrari with...
Rudolf Uhlenhaut was born in London, during his father’s term as head of the London branch of the Deutsche Bank in July 1906. He trained as an engineer and became an excutive for Mercedes-Benz. He had a long association with the Mercedes-Benz racing program in both the ’30s and the...