“Prelude – anticipating 7:22, May 1, 1955. Jenkinson and Moss reflect the tension before the start of an all-out, record-setting...
Robert Newman examines the men and machines that made the Mille Miglia one of the world’s greatest races. The Mille...
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Boss or Big Open Single-Seaters is set to stir the passions of European motorsports fans in 2000 with the sounds...
One of the greatest fears in racing is to have some type of catastrophic suspension or steering failure. The best...
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For over 70 years the month of May has been synonymous with two of the most historic and challenging motor...
Historic Sportscar Racing, Ltd. and the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association, two of the East Coast’s largest vintage and historic racing...
Here’s a sure bet: a lot of what you know about the Mille Miglia, and most of how you feel about it, came through the writings of a short, towering genius of a journalist named Denis Jenkinson. Can there be any racing fan who has not thrilled to the epic...
John Fitch is a genuine American hero, and a survivor. If they made a movie about his life, Jimmy Stewart...
Clemente Biondetti Describing Clemente Biondetti as colorful is like saying the Sears Tower in Chicago is tall. Unpredictable, imaginative, irascible,...
Enzo Ferrari, Aymo Maggi, Piero Taruffi, Clemente Biondetti, Tazio Nuvolari, Giovanni Canestrini, Juan Manuel Fangio, Antonio Brivio, Stirling Moss, Giuseppe Morandi, Alberto Ascari, Federico Fellini Some of the great names of the Mille Miglia. They include the man who came up with the idea for the race, drivers who won...
Sam Posey Alberto Ascari 1 The gates at Indianapolis Motor Speedway open for practice for the first Indy 500 (1911)....
Have you ever sat in front of the television watching a beautifully filmed documentary about the archaeological wonders of Egypt,...
The original Morgan factory built by H.F.S. Morgan in 1905 is due to be demolished if a Malvern garage gains approval to redevelop the site. Following the success of the prototype three-wheeler in 1910, the garage business was scaled down and the building adapted to produce the “Runabout”. After WWI,...
Cinco de Mayo, “Fifth of May,” 2000, will be the 50th anniversary of the inaugural Mexican Road Race. To commemorate...
May 2000 Mille Miglia Race: The Postwar Years By Giorgio Nada Editore As chronicled throughout this special issue of VRJ,...
The Collier Automotive Museum in Naples, FL was the recent site of a 4-day symposium on the collection and restoration of sports cars. Entitled “Connoisseurship of the Sporting Car,” the event was sponsored by the Collier Museum and Christie’s Auction House to benefit several underprivileged children’s foundations in Southwest Florida....
Stirling Moss This new site is devoted to Britain’s living racing legend, Sir Stirling Moss. Features of this site include,...
With flashing precision, my memory recaptures exactly the milli-second that motor racing entered my life. It was reading a three-month-old...
On June 9-11, 2000, the Vintage Drivers Club of America will hold “The Gold Cup Historic Races” as part of Virginia International Raceway’s official reopening. An active road racing circuit in the ’50s ’60s & ’70s, VIR fell into disuse until vintage racer and developer Harvey Seigel acquired the property...