Vittorio Brambilla, affectionately know as the “Monza Gorilla” died from a sudden heart attack at his home in Italy on...
The Historic Formula Super Vee Register is calling for all air-cooled and water-cooled Super Vees and Super Vee Alumni to...
This year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, to be held July 6-8 in Chichester, England, will feature over 90 years of Indianapolis 500 history. Among the Indy champions planning on taking part in the prestigious hillclimb are Bobby Unser, Danny Sullivan and Bobby Rahal. “This is going to be a great...
Dan Gurney once tried to show me how to wring the neck of a recalcitrant racecar to squeeze out that...
Spring is in the air and historic sports cars are being fettled for the Mille Miglia, except they’re not. They...
Many enthusiasts are aware of Ettore Bugatti’s marvelous sports cars and exemplary GP cars. However, not many people know that in the late 1930s, Bugatti planned on building record-braking airplanes, as well. Therein hangs a tale. Ettore Bugatti departed from his usual creation of advanced racecars and hired Louis de...
Frazer Nash Le Mans Replica Sebring is a favorite race for underdogs. Who can forget Jim Hall’s Chaparral swimming down...
Friends and owners of the Allard are being invited to take part in a special weekend of activities to be held in conjunction with this year’s Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix. This year’s event will be held July 20-22 and will feature several Allard-only events including parade laps, a dedicated display...
Whatever the French might say, an American named James Gordon Bennett, Jr. is the great granddaddy of the modern Grand...
The late, great automotive writer and author Dean Batchelor would be proud. Named as winner of the Motor Press Guild’s...
My colleague Tim Considine cordially feels I was unfair in my recent column about Cooper’s development of mid-engined race cars. Not for anything I wrote about Cooper; he protested my saying the mid-engined Auto Unions of the 1930s won races through “occasional good luck.” A meticulous and caring historian (vide...
Dan Gurney Ronnie Bucknum 2 Motorcycle and F1 racer Mike “The Bike” Hailwood is born (1940). 2 Guy Moll drives...
Aston Martin was one of the cars and teams I had a relationship with for quite a long part of...
What else could it have been called? Born out of an established American idea, it probably didn’t take a long brainstorming session to come up with the title of Atlantic for 1971’s newest UK single-seater formula. After all – after nurturing in the UK – it was then exported back...
It’s probably to the good that Innes Ireland, Duncan Hamilton and Augie Pabst were never at a party together –...
Alan Jones Tazio Nuvolari 1 Dutch F1 privateer Carol de Beaufort is fatally injured in a practice crash for the...
The VSCC and the Historic Grand Prix Car Association joined forces with Donington Park to savor the return of Auto Union Grand Prix cars to the Derbyshire circuit for the first time since before World War II. Audi sent a 1936 V-16 C-Type, 1938 V-12 D-Type, a host of racing...
The Vintage Sports Car Club (VSCC) of Great Britain has recently announced that Audi will be sending prewar C and...
Like any racing driver who has competed seriously, I am often asked what were my favorite cars, or the quickest,...
Lotus 30 The Lotus 30 was built for all the wrong reasons. Colin Chapman designed it basically to get even with Eric Broadley for “stealing” the Ford prototype program. Even the premise – light weight and low frontal area at any cost – proved to be fatally flawed. Instead of...
The man on the other end of the phone seemed quite adamant, “You really can’t fully appreciate the complete history...
Bentley shined on center stage as this year’s featured marque at the Monterey Historic Automobile Races on August 17-19. According...
It remains beyond my sight whether the story of life has a happy ending, but I do see that some of us have the knack of living happily. One of the secrets, I think, is to create good that lives on. My friend Bill Devin – I feel that way...
1929 Bentley Blower 1929 Bentley Blower. This Profile may be forced to veer somewhat from our usual format since the...
Works Sunbeam Rapier As a 1960 Sunbeam Rapier drifted through long fast bends on the top of the Downs above...
I went to the Salt Flats at Bonneville in Utah for the first time in 1957. John Thornley from MG invited me to come and make an attempt on the International Class F record. MG had been there in 1954 when one of the MGA prototypes had been fitted with...
Michael Andretti slides the all-conquering Ralt RT-5 Super Vee to victory at Riverside Raceway in 1981. Andretti was just one...
West Palm Beach, FL Feb. 26 Joe Mundy’s Porsche 908. Photo: Art Eastman Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access...
To write this column I am taking time off from completing my contribution to a book. I need to take time off because I am facing one of the words I dread most – it is “Brooklands.” Brooklands haunts me. As an Englishman, I am supposed to know about cricket....