The 2009 edition of Italy’s Mille Miglia Storica attracted its usual mixed bag of royalty, politicians, motor racing icons, and...
Monte Carlo, Monaco January 29–February 4, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
St. Chamond in the Loire Valley of France was once known as a production center of ribbon and rayon, as well as its railway works. Now, it is best known as the birthplace of the little man who beat the world four times. For Alain Marie Pascal Prost, who was...
The Fairfield County Concours d’Elegance will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of Alfa Romeo with a broad array...
The 14th annual Concours d’Elegance at Amelia Island drew an estimated 20,000 onlookers to the fairways of the Ritz Carlton...
Dan Gurney, as American as we make ’em, was once proposed to be President, and I still think our conflicted country would have been the better for it. But Big Dan did achieve immortality as the first American to create an American F1 car. Wonderfully, he called it the Eagle,...
Building on the success of the 40th anniversary races in 2008, the Formula 5000 Drivers Association has announced an expanded...
Silverstone Circuit, Northants, England May 30, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
Mario Andretti was presented with the first annual Spirit of Competition Award at dedication ceremonies for the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum in Philadelphia on November 12. The dedication ceremony was presided over by Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter, and Andretti’s award was presented by former Philadelphia Eagles head coach Dick Vermeil,...
I remember that the Reader’s Digest used to have a series of articles titled some-thing like “The Most Unforgettable Character...
Englishman Andy Wallace is one of only eight drivers ever to post at least one victory in each of endurance...
Carlos Sainz Al Unser Jr. 2 Three-time Formula One World Champion Jack Brabham is born (1926). 3 Pierro Taruffi drives a Ferrari Tipo 118 to victory in the 671-mile Tour of Sicily (1955). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the...
Arthur Francis Riley, endurance-race driver, and owner of Art Riley Motors in Port Washington, N.Y., for a quarter of a...
Le Mans champion Roy Salvadori once wrote in a UK magazine, decades ago, about driving his winning Aston Martin DBR1...
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...
This month marks the 50th anniversary of Aston Martin’s one and only victory at Le Mans. With such a major...
Jerry Titus Frank Biela Photo: Stefan Warter 1 George Follmer drives a Ford-powered Lotus 70 to victory in the L&M...
Albert Park, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia March 28-29, 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...
National Event Centre, Birmingham, U.K. January 8-11, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
As everyone knows, after the 1960 racing season, Carroll Shelby retired as a driver and became even better known for creating Cobras and Shelby Mustangs. But perhaps fewer know that he ventured into car creation somewhat before. During the fifties, Shelby, Jim Hall, and Jim’s brother, Richard, had a dealership...
Glorious weather blessed the 60th Anniversary Bentley Drivers Club weekend at Silverstone on August 8-9, a meeting first held in...
Bill Milliken has had an interesting life. As an engineer in both the aviation industry and later consultant to the...
I’ve always liked Blackhawk Farms Raceway, a track not everybody knows about. It’s in Illinois, right on the border with Wisconsin, just outside a town called South Beloit. Blackhawk is not a high-speed track in the manner of Road America, but it’s very technical, with complex corners that really make...
To celebrate the rich heritage of BMW, the Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix Association and the Allegheny Chapter of the BMW...
For the past quarter century, Bob Carlson was the face of Porsche public relations in North America, a friend and...
Brescia-Rome-Brescia, Italy May 13–17, 2009 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access...
For two consecutive years—1969 and 1970—Porsche won the World Manufacturers Championship. Brian Redman was an important part of the teams,...
The very first Porsche spanned the Second World War like a bridge over troubled waters, from peacetime to peacetime. It was created by Dr. Ing. h.c. Ferdinand Porsche and a handful of his close associates in 1937-38 and, despite the hideous wartime destruction, is still alive and well today, a...