Lloyd Ruby was best known as an excellent Indy car driver who nearly won two Indianapolis 500s, but in truth,...
The glorious sunshine and exceptional calibre of racing stars brought motorsport enthusiasts out in their thousands to visit Race Retro...
This year’s 12th annual Quail Lodge Classic Auto Auction, to be organized by Bonhams & Butterfields in Carmel, California, on August 12, will feature a 1939 Auto Union Grand Prix car last driven by the legendary Austrian Hans Stuck. The machine in question is D-Type chassis 19, and is hailed...
Peter Bryant, best known in motor racing circles as the creator of the Titanium-chassied Ti22 Can-Am car, died of a...
The Fairfield County Concours d’Elegance will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of Alfa Romeo with a broad array...
One of South Africa’s most recognizable motor sports personalities, Jackie Pretorius, died March 30, succumbing to injuries received during a home-invasion robbery. That incident was a virtual repeat of a similar break-in five years ago that took the life of Jackie’s wife, Shirley, and is thought to have been committed...
The 24th running of the Elkhart Lake Vintage Festival will be held at Road America on the weekend of September...
When the greats of historic motoring racing reappear at Silverstone in July for the Silverstone Classic, many fans will have...
This official site for Aston Martin Racing offers an insider’s view of the marque’s competition efforts over the years. Most of the emphasis is, as you might expect, on the current crop of coupes and prototypes that are contesting the FIA GT Championship and Le Mans Series in Europe—as well...
June 2009 FREIK—the Private Life of the Freikaiserwagen By Rob and Hugh Dunsterville Freik was most definitely not a freak....
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Oran Park Raceway, Sydney, AU January 24-25, 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...
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Le Mans champion Roy Salvadori once wrote in a UK magazine, decades ago, about driving his winning Aston Martin DBR1...
Over 2-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever changing regulations of International Motorsports; the World Sports Car Championship from 1953–1961, the Speedworld Challenge of 1962–1963, and the International Championship of Makes from 1972–1981. This included racing in the great endurance contests such as...
Patrick Head James Hunt Photo: Dennis Gray 1 Arturo Merzario and Jacques Laffite drive an Alfa Romeo T33TT12 to victory...
Vince di Pierro knows what he likes. So much so that four years ago he sank more than $100,000 into a car he spotted at an auction; a car he knew absolutely nothing about. According to Di Pierro, “I used to go to these auctions run by the state of...
Racer or wannabe, everyone knows Watkins Glen’s full course is one of the world’s truly elite tracks. Besides its storied...
June 2009 Spewing flame on a downshift, Carroll Shelby presses onward with the Aston Martin DBR1 at Goodwood’s six-hour Tourist...
The International Tourist Trophy was first awarded by the Royal Automobile Club (RAC) in 1905 and continues to be awarded today, making it the longest lasting trophy in motorsport. For the 1961 TT Race at Goodwood, John Ogier entered three Aston Martins, two of them DB4GT Zagato cars. Roy Salvadori...
I became interested in motor racing during the one brief period when Aston Martin was really something special. There was...
During the fifties, Aston Martin produced sports cars with the designation, DB, which, of course, stands for David Brown. In...
My brief motor racing career started somewhat by accident. In 1954 I purchase a secondhand Aston Martin DB2/4 from Brooklands of Bond Street; the car came with a one-year membership to the Aston Martin Owner’s Club. Reading the AMOC booklet I noticed there was a race meeting at Snetterton in...
My racing Astons started in 1953, and although the first year brought some results, there wasn’t a win until 1955,...
Tall, handsome, and charming, Roy Salvadori was everything Hollywood ever wanted a racing driver to be. He was a ’50s–’60s...
This month marks the 50th anniversary of Aston Martin’s one and only victory at Le Mans. With such a major milestone for the Newport Pagnell manufacturer, we were very honored when they approached us about producing a special issue devoted to this win, as well as their rich racing history....