The first efforts with the 924 rally car involved a non-turbo version, the Monte Carlo Rally 924, of Jürgen Barth...
There were no rally cars, as such, during the sport’s first 50 years or so, just the bog standard daily...
Click here to read “Chargers Part 1—World Rallying 1957–1965 The CSI struck again in 1965, this time putting out a much more comprehensive 17 pages of regulations called Appendix J to better govern the sport. And that was the year a works Lancia team, later to become a mighty force...
Last year the SCCA marked the 50th anniversary of its inaugural Trans-American Sedan Championship event at Sebring, Florida, on March...
Sunoco was approached by Roger Penske, in the fall of 1965, to sponsor his newly formed racing team. After the...
1955 Aston Martin DB 2/4 Four days, four countries, more than 1,000 kilometers, in cars that are the envy of every petrolhead. From historic streets and piazzas to snowy mountain passes, the third edition of the Coppa delle Alpi rolled through Italy, Switzerland, Germany, and Austria. 1957 MG A 1962...
Mike Costin (left) and Keith Duckworth. A single-seater Brabham arrives in Singapore for the 1969 Singapore Grand Prix. On the...
Photo: Hal Crocker It is with a great deal of sadness that I write about Dan Gurney, who died on...
To Salute Dan Gurney’s selection as Featured Guest for the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, we asked the All American Racer to make a tough call It’s like tasking a parent to choose between children. Each is dearest for different reasons. Nonetheless, we believed it not inappropriate to ask Dan Gurney...
In many circles, the term airhead applies to someone who is silly or lacking in intelligence. However, it is also...
On New Year’s Day of 1967 the South African Champion, John Love, was pipped at the post in the season...
Hermann Paul Müller’s Auto Union heads into Schwantz Curve in 1938.Photo: Simon Lewis Donington devotee John Bailie is researching, designing and editing a book, planned for launch later this year, which focusses on the venue’s pre-war history and the dramatic progress it made in just a few full seasons of...
PRELIMINARIES The 2023 Daytona 24 hours was the 61st year of the event. It was once again a watershed year,...
Track map from the event program (inset) and an aerial view (main image) taken after several years of racing. The...
After years of research, Ed McDonough reveals the influences and pressures that drove Mexican racing hero Pedro Rodriguez to the pinnacle of motorsport…and an untimely death. July 11 marks 31 years since Pedro Rodriguez took part in what a number of writers subsequently called a “meaningless Interseries race” at the...
I always look forward to seeing the monthly “Market Guide” in “Vintage Racecar Journal.” Not that it gives me some...
Can it be? Well, yes it is! 50 years since Emerson Fittipaldi took his first F1 World Championship. At 25,...
In 1955 Denis Jenkinson wrote of the EMW sports racers: “By comparison, the well-known 300 SLR Mercedes-Benz sports cars have a poor air-flow over the bodywork with their numerous louvers, scoops and bulges.” Praise indeed! The prototype BMW 340-1 Sportswagen was produced in 1949 and intended for series production. For...
Dozens of books and thousands of articles have been written about Enzo Ferrari and the Scuderia he founded in 1929,...
For the first time in his career, Marvin Panch posed for a photo before an event. He would never do...
I stood back watching, as Monterey feted the Fangio marque. Fangio marque? Yes, Juan Manuel Fangio is the only person, to date, to be so honored by the Monterey Historics. A weekend packed with his cars, his victories, and a reenactment, as far as it was possible, of his glorious...
The 5th annual Sebring 12 Hour Grand Prix held in 1956 achieved international prominence when, for the first time, four...
What began as a study of Asian automobile advertising of the late 1950s has unearthed a rare tale of a...
Forghieri shares a humorous moment with Commendatore Ferrari during testing at Monza. The two first became acquainted when Forghieri was a boy. Photo: Giorgio Nada Motorland, Italy, is amazing. It really is just a couple of towns, one Maranello, with a population of just over 17,000, the other, Modena, with 186,000,...
Entering the 1974 season, a pair of fresh, new faces began exerting significant influence upon Ferrari, Luca Cordero di Montezemolo...
No other Grand Prix winner has ever sung Puccini, Verdi and Leoncavallo in public or been able to cook like...
Today we think of Fiat’s role in Grand Prix racing as the owner of Ferrari, but the Turin company was once a successful pacesetter in the sport in its own right. Using radical new designs, it transformed Grand Prix technology. Both spectacular and practical, the test track atop Fiat’s five-storey...
This year marks the 50th Anniversary of the race that began as the Daytona Continental in 1962 and evolved into...
Unleashing the rampant horsepower of its global ‘Total Performance’ campaign, Ford funded many racing stables but could never quite commit...
Alfa Romeo’s place at the heart of motor racing for more than 90 years has not just been down to their official factory participation but, very often, to the enthusiastic amateur or semi-supported effort, matching an Alfa Romeo engine to a different single-seater chassis. While some were clearly more successful...