Racecars will headline the H&H auction to be held Feb. 21st in conjunction with the first annual International Historic Motorsport...
Many special events are being planned to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the introduction of the Alfa Romeo Giulietta in...
Denise McCluggage, the renowned automotive journalist and pioneer female auto racer, has been named Grand Marshal for the 2004 Gold Cup Historic Races at VIRginia International Raceway, scheduled for the weekend of June 11–13. The 2004 Gold Cup Historic Races will feature Women in Racing, and all female racers are...
Monoposto Racing, North America’s premiere open-wheel vintage racing series, recently crowned two new champions for the 2003 season—Bobby Brown in...
American road racing pioneer John von Neumann died on Christmas night, 2003. Born December 16, 1921, he had just turned...
Founded in 1911 by a Japanese engineer trained in the United States, the Datsun Motor Car Company ranks as one of Japan’s oldest automobile manufacturers. Not only has Datsun been producing automobiles almost as long as the Ford Motor Company, but it also enjoys a rich racing heritage dating back...
March 2004 Maserati: A Racing History By Anthony Pritchard This new book, by noted author and historian Anthony Pritchard, chronicles...
The other evening I watched a panel of motorsport reporters on a TV show name their “driver of the year.” It was an interesting discussion, and I learned a lot. It also made me realize—once again—how much racing has changed in the past few decades. Pete Lyons For one thing,...
After some fifty years of automotive racing, the Grand Prix Formula or Formula One was formed by the FIA (Federation...
Mike Hailwood Lucien Bianchi 3 Future Indianapolis car racer Joe Leonard wins the Daytona 200 motorcycle race on the beach...
Although all paintings are unique, periodically an artist is given the opportunity to work on a special project. When the owner of this 1960 Maserati Tipo 60 consulted with me about creating a paint- ing of his car, I knew this was just such an occasion. The piece we discussed...
It was a very difficult decision at the time to go to Audi, which seems strange now. But then I...
Just before the holidays, I had the good fortune of attending a special tribute dinner at Southern California’s Petersen Automotive Museum. The museum holds several of these dinners each year to honor a different facet of automotive or racing history. In the last year or two there have been racing...
This month we speak with one of the great behind-the-scenes players in open wheel racing cars, Ron Tauranac. If the...
Known more for his mercurial temper than his victories over the likes of Carraciola and Nuvolari, prewar Italian driving star...
1971 Datsun 240Z Photo: Peter Collins The aristocratically named Giuliano Musumeci rather boxy machines called the Cedric, believing these would Greco is the president of Nissan Italia, and for five sun-filled days, he and Nissan Italia’s general manager, Alessandro Cacciotti, guided the Datsun 240Z rally car round the coast of...