As a young American abroad, Indianapolis native John Fitch attended the last race held at Brooklands before WWII. After serving...
Vintage Racecar Features
June 22, 1934 was not only one of the most important days in the early corporate history of the Company...
Sports Car Digest recently toured the Mario Righini Collection, one of the more exceptional private car collections in Italy, if not the world. Located outside Modena in Castello di Panzano Castelfranco Emilia, the Righini Collection is remarkable for many reasons. To call the Righini Collection unique does not do it...
In 1937 the three surviving Maserati brothers sold out to the Orsi Group and after WW2 founded Officine Specializzate per...
Aston Martin Racing will run a trio of Gulf-liveried LMP1 cars at the 2009 24 Hours of Le Mans, which...
The 77th Le Mans 24 Hours marks a milestone in the history of Aston Martin as the iconic sports car manufacturer celebrates the 50th anniversary of its first win at Le Mans. As will be the case in 2009, Aston Martin entered three factory cars in the 1959 race: for...
Galleria Ferrari is the official museum dedicated to the famed Italian marque, located in Ferrari’s home town of Maranello, Italy,...
1957 Aston Martin DBR1 Aston Martin’s relationship with the 24 Hours of Le Mans goes all the way back to...
Aston Martin entered the1959 sports car season targeting just a single race, Le Mans, but walked away the deserving winner of an almost accidental Championship Away at the drop of the flag, Moss has already exited stage right to lead the early going, while the eventual winner (#5) can be seen...
One of a baker’s dozen of American citizens to have won the 24 Hours of Le Mans overall, Carroll Shelby...
Juan Manuel Fangio (1911 – 1995) was a race car driver from Argentina who dominated the first decade of Formula...
The ex-Alan Mann 1966 Ford GT40 Mk I that earned the most wins of any privateer GT40 will be sold at the Mecum Spring Classic Auction, held May 13-17, 2009 in Indianapolis. The most successful private partnership in GT40 history was that of London-based Australian Paul Hawkins and the ex-Alan...
The game machines in the arcades started it all—with a race seat and steering wheel in front of a big...
THE STORY OF MALAYA’S RACING SPECIALS The Malayan-built Special has always been an integral part of the racing movement in that part of the world, yet it is an aspect of the motoring scene that is least understood and often neglected. Initially, these Specials were simply “cobbled” together using bits...
Our South Pacific Editor, Patrick Quinn, recently caught up with ex-British Motor Corporation works driver John Sprinzel in Sydney, while...
Steve McQueen may have actually won the 1970 12 Hours of Sebring. By Louis Galanos The response to my story...
The 1964 Cooper Monaco King Cobra that won the 1964 Los Angeles Times Grand Prix will be sold at the Mecum Spring Classic Auction, held May 13-17, 2009 in Indianapolis. One of the great strengths of Carroll Shelby’s organization, Shelby American, was its flexibility and responsiveness in serving his goals....
The 2009 Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance featured more than 30 classes, including the Race Cars of 1963 to 1972. In...
By Cliff Reuter In 1946 Ilario Bandini began producing racing cars in Forli, Italy that featured tubular frames made from...
Maverick at Daytona – James Garner and American International Racers By Louis Galanos In 1968 I attended Daytona Beach Junior College on the GI Bill. Due to the proximity of the Daytona Speedway I became interested in attending the Sports Car Club...
The Porsche Museum is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the 914 model series with a rare special exhibit on display...
1954 Fiat 8V Zagato If you lived through the ’60s and ’70s, then Sunset Boulevard, in Southern California, likely holds...
The Lotus 19 took sports car racing to a whole new level upon its debut in 1960, rendering rivals such as the Cooper Monaco and Maserati Birdcage obsolete overnight and leading photojournalist Pete Biro to label it the “Birdcage Cleaner.” A real “wolf in sheep’s clothing,” it was essentially a...
A primer on in-car video systems for the historic racer. Humans are such visual animals that even when our eyes...
Bill Milliken has had an interesting life. As an engineer in both the aviation industry and later consultant to the...
The 14th annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance highlighted the career of racing driver and SPEED TV racing analyst David Hobbs. Very few drivers possess as varied a resume as Hobbs. In a worldwide career that spanned nearly 30 years, the versatile U.K. native drove in all of the top...
The Porsche 906 or Carrera 6 was the last street-legal racing car from Porsche. A total of 65 were produced in 1966, allowing the model...
American racing great Lloyd Ruby passed away Monday, March 23rd at the age of 81 in his hometown of Wichita...
Porsche continued its winning ways last year at the 12 Hours of Sebring, taking the overall victory with the RS Spyder sports prototype. Following tradition, the name of the overall winner was added to the front of the pit structure at the Sebring International Raceway before this year’s race....
