Famed Italian carrozzeria Bertone has announced the opening of a new workshop, Bertone Classic, which will now offer restoration work...
From March 10–13, Florida’s Amelia Island played host to what, over the past 10 years, has become perhaps the East...
The American Alfa Romeo Owners Club (AROC) will be holding its annual national convention in Seattle, Washington this year, from July 27–31. Hosted at the Double Tree Hotel in Bellevue, this year’s convention will feature five days of festivities for the Alfisti, including time trials at Pacific Raceway, an autocross...
Long-time British saloon and sports car driver Gerry Marshall died at Silverstone on April 21 of a heart attack, while...
Nico Rosberg, son of World Champion Keke Rosberg, took a major step in his father’s footsteps in early May when...
America’s highest-altitude road racing course, Aspen Raceway, has announced the creation of The Aspen Racing & Sports Car Club. This new “country club”-style organization is now offering memberships that include the unlimited use of its 1.1-mile road course and clubhouse. Located in Woody Creek, Colorado, Aspen Raceway is 7,500 feet...
Russo and Steele Collector Automobile Auctions will offer another historically important Shelby factory Cobra racecar at its August 20 auction...
Gooding and Company will be offering the first 275 GTS/4 Ferrari built during its August 21 auction following the Pebble...
Exactly 37 years to the month after Jim Clark was tragically killed in an F2 car at Hockenheim, the FIA TGP Championship made the pilgrimage to the Black Forest circuit to star as the feature race of the Jim Clark Memorial event. This was the first such historic meeting at...
On April 16, the Fabulous Fifties Association staged a reunion of cars and participants that competed at Southern California’s Paramount...
July 2005 The Cruel Sport by Robert Daley Two years ago, I received this e-mail from Robert Daley: “I am trying to get The Cruel Sport republished 40 years after the fact. It would mean a lot to me. When I made that book I imagined that I would never...
Hockenheim, Germany April 22–24, 2005 Christian Glasel’s Brabham BT49 leads Richard Eyre’s Williams into the first turn. Photo: Jim Houlgrave...
Pocono, Pennsylvania April 16–17, 2005 The rare 1948 Veritas RS of John Grella. Photo: Walter Pietrowicz Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to paid subscribers only. Our membership removes most ads, lets you enjoy unlimited access to...
Amelia Island, Florida March 10–13, 2005 This year a record breaking crowd of cars and aficionados filled the greens and...
Silverstone, England April 23, 2005 Alexander Boswell in his Ferrari 625, the car that won the 1955 Monaco Grand Prix....
As someone whose own hands have all the finesse of lead knock-off hammers, I’ve always admired those deft artisans of racing, the gifted mechanics whose fingers appear as instruments of divine grace, crafting beauty with effortless gestures. Besides, they’re really the people who make the sport happen. Schumacher is a...
Formula Ford was a specification racing series created on the idea that the best drivers would win if they were...
Pedro Rodriguez Peter Ryan 2 Twenty-two year old Peter Ryan dies from injuries suffered the day before in a crash...
The ACF Grand Prix held in Lyon in 1914 was one of the last races before the outbreak of the Great War, and saw a pitched battle between the Peugeot of Boillot and the Mercedes of Lautenschlager, Wagner and Otto Salzer (pictured). Ultimately the Peugeot failed, in the dying laps...
Porsche called me and asked if I’d drive a factory car—a cheater 924 Turbo—at Le Mans in 1982. I said,...
I’ve actually started watching Formula One races again—that is, now that results no longer seem to be predetermined. While the finishers on the podium have refreshingly changed, I’ve quickly learned that much of the commentary really hasn’t. As Mike Lawrence insightfully pointed out in his column a couple of months...
Racing legend Jim Russell, at 85, is as active and upbeat as ever. Though “pretty much” retired, he certainly doesn’t...
Alfa Romeo’s place at the heart of motor racing for more than 90 years has not just been down to...
1970 Porsche 908/3 The author puts the 908/3 through its paces on Pierre Bardinon’s private Mas Du Clos circuit in central France.Photo: Peter Collins In the early 1980s, Andrea de Cesaris was taking journalists around Silverstone in a turbocharged Group C Lancia, asking if you wanted a “medium or fast”...