1957 Aston Martin DBR1 Aston Martin’s relationship with the 24 Hours of Le Mans goes all the way back to...
Aston Martin entered the1959 sports car season targeting just a single race, Le Mans, but walked away the deserving winner...
One of a baker’s dozen of American citizens to have won the 24 Hours of Le Mans overall, Carroll Shelby accomplished the feat 50 years ago this month, driving an Aston Martin DBR1 in company with Roy Salvadori. Shelby had begun racing back in his native Texas shortly after returning...
This month marks the 50th anniversary of Aston Martin’s one and only victory at Le Mans. With such a major...
Tall, handsome, and charming, Roy Salvadori was everything Hollywood ever wanted a racing driver to be. He was a ’50s–’60s...
My racing Astons started in 1953, and although the first year brought some results, there wasn’t a win until 1955, and 1954 had been pretty awful. The year 1955 was much better, and I did Le Mans that year with Peter Walker, though we retired. In fact, I retired or...
My brief motor racing career started somewhat by accident. In 1954 I purchase a secondhand Aston Martin DB2/4 from Brooklands...
During the fifties, Aston Martin produced sports cars with the designation, DB, which, of course, stands for David Brown. In...
I became interested in motor racing during the one brief period when Aston Martin was really something special. There was the DBR1, the DB4, especially when fitted with the glorious Zagato body and, of course, there was James Bond’s car in Goldfinger. Somehow it was easy to overlook the fact...
The International Tourist Trophy was first awarded by the Royal Automobile Club (RAC) in 1905 and continues to be awarded...
June 2009 Spewing flame on a downshift, Carroll Shelby presses onward with the Aston Martin DBR1 at Goodwood’s six-hour Tourist...
Racer or wannabe, everyone knows Watkins Glen’s full course is one of the world’s truly elite tracks. Besides its storied past, it’s got terrific elevation changes, great turn variety, long straights and, of course, the “blue bushes” (the blue guardrails at every point around the track). It was at the...
Vince di Pierro knows what he likes. So much so that four years ago he sank more than $100,000 into...
Patrick Head James Hunt Photo: Dennis Gray 1 Arturo Merzario and Jacques Laffite drive an Alfa Romeo T33TT12 to victory in the 1,000-km sports car race on the Nürburgring in Germany (1975). 5 Patrick Head, cofounder and Technical Director of Williams Grand Prix Engineering, is born (1946). Become a Member...
Over 2-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever changing regulations of International Motorsports;...
Le Mans champion Roy Salvadori once wrote in a UK magazine, decades ago, about driving his winning Aston Martin DBR1...
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Sebring International Raceway, Sebring, FL March 5–8, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
Auto Club Speedway, Fontana, California March 6-8, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
Oran Park Raceway, Sydney, AU January 24-25, 2009 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 all our premium content, and offers you awesome discounts on...
Phoenix International Raceway, Phoenix, AZ February 6-8, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
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June 2009 FREIK—the Private Life of the Freikaiserwagen By Rob and Hugh Dunsterville Freik was most definitely not a freak. Freik was a perfect example of that peculiarly British fashion of building racing cars out of any bits and pieces that happened to be available at the time of construction....
This official site for Aston Martin Racing offers an insider’s view of the marque’s competition efforts over the years. Most...
When the greats of historic motoring racing reappear at Silverstone in July for the Silverstone Classic, many fans will have...
The 24th running of the Elkhart Lake Vintage Festival will be held at Road America on the weekend of September 11–13, with Stock Cars as this year’s featured category. Road America’s long straights and fast sweeping turns make it an ideal place for the ground-pounding stockers to stretch their legs....
One of South Africa’s most recognizable motor sports personalities, Jackie Pretorius, died March 30, succumbing to injuries received during a...
The Fairfield County Concours d’Elegance will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of Alfa Romeo with a broad array...
Peter Bryant, best known in motor racing circles as the creator of the Titanium-chassied Ti22 Can-Am car, died of a heart attack at his home in Las Vegas, Nevada, March 31, 2009, four days short of his 72nd birthday. He had just spent the previous weekend participating in the Legends...
