1971 Datsun 240Z Photo: Peter Collins The aristocratically named Giuliano Musumeci rather boxy machines called the Cedric, believing these would...
Known more for his mercurial temper than his victories over the likes of Carraciola and Nuvolari, prewar Italian driving star...
This month we speak with one of the great behind-the-scenes players in open wheel racing cars, Ron Tauranac. If the name doesn’t mean much to you, the cars certainly will. Ron Tauranac is the “T” in all the Brabham BT racing cars, as well as the first and last initials...
Just before the holidays, I had the good fortune of attending a special tribute dinner at Southern California’s Petersen Automotive...
It was a very difficult decision at the time to go to Audi, which seems strange now. But then I...
Manufacturers are falling over them- selves to put supercars on the market. Not those wimpy things restricted to 155 mph, but full-blooded vehicles which you can only drive hard on some German autobahnen and in downtown Naples. I was once driving a 1954 Swallow Doretti at 60 mph on a...
Although all paintings are unique, periodically an artist is given the opportunity to work on a special project. When the...
Mike Hailwood Lucien Bianchi 3 Future Indianapolis car racer Joe Leonard wins the Daytona 200 motorcycle race on the beach...
After some fifty years of automotive racing, the Grand Prix Formula or Formula One was formed by the FIA (Federation Internationale de L’Automobile) in 1950 with its first race, the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. This was to be the first world driver’s championship, in the world’s most technically advanced...
The other evening I watched a panel of motorsport reporters on a TV show name their “driver of the year.”...
March 2004 Maserati: A Racing History By Anthony Pritchard This new book, by noted author and historian Anthony Pritchard, chronicles the design, development and competition history of one of the most venerable names in motorsport history—Maserati. Starting with the brothers Maserati’s first racing entry in the 1926 Targa Florio road...
Founded in 1911 by a Japanese engineer trained in the United States, the Datsun Motor Car Company ranks as one...
American road racing pioneer John von Neumann died on Christmas night, 2003. Born December 16, 1921, he had just turned...
Monoposto Racing, North America’s premiere open-wheel vintage racing series, recently crowned two new champions for the 2003 season—Bobby Brown in Formula 70 (F70) and Bob Goeldner in Formula Classic. Champions are named based upon their best results in six races of the Monoposto series and within one of two categories:...
Denise McCluggage, the renowned automotive journalist and pioneer female auto racer, has been named Grand Marshal for the 2004 Gold...
Many special events are being planned to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the introduction of the Alfa Romeo Giulietta in...
Racecars will headline the H&H auction to be held Feb. 21st in conjunction with the first annual International Historic Motorsport Show in Stoneleigh, England. Some of the many historic racecars to be offered include an ex-Mika Hakkinen Lotus Type 107 F1, an ex-works 1959 Sunbeam Rapier MkII Saloon that competed...
