On the heels of last month’s news that a Ferrari 250 GTO broke the all-time record for the most expensive...
Just 35 miles away from the fabled Brooklands race circuit where eight decades ago this single-seat racing Bentley astonished spectators...
Rudolf Uhlenhaut was born in London, during his father’s term as head of the London branch of the Deutsche Bank in July 1906. He trained as an engineer and became an excutive for Mercedes-Benz. He had a long association with the Mercedes-Benz racing program in both the ’30s and the...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seat racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
The World Championship for Makes was one of the several names the FIA adopted for its global sportscar championship through the years, and one of the more accurately descriptive—along with World Sportscar Championship. It was a championship that embraced the manufacturers’ envelope-advancing prototypes as well as the production-based Grand Touring...
Streets of Pau, France May 5–6, 2012 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
Sir Jackie Stewart Alain Prost Photo: Maureen Magee 4 Al Rogers drives a Coniff-Offy to victory in the Pikes Peak...
Kessler Cooper? Dear Sir, I just saw part of your article on Bruce Kessler [VR, Oct. & Nov. 2009] that sparked my memory and was curious about Bruce’s Formula 3 racing. Back in the 1980s, I purchased a Cooper Norton Mk9 from a man in Connecticut who had acquired it,...
Winton Raceway, Benalla, Australia May 26–27, 2012 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
AutoArt Mercedes-Benz 190SL As discussed in this month’s “Roadcar Profile,” in 1954, when Mercedes-Benz was laying the groundwork for a...
Just days after his 1959 Le Mans-winning teammate, Carroll Shelby, and a matter of weeks since Ted Cutting, designer of the DBR1, both died, Roy Salvadori passed away. Despite his Italian surname and parentage, Roy Salvadori was born in the small seaside town of Dovercourt, Essex, England, and always looked...
Count Giannino Marzotto, winner of the Mille Miglia in 1950 and 1953, died in Padua Hospital in July after a...
Pavel Kasik recently bid farewell to his beloved Tatra T77 only days after completing its 20-year restoration. The Tatra started...
Following their conquest of Mexico’s Pan-American Road Race in November of 1952, Mercedes-Benz factory drivers Karl Kling and Hermann Lang stand next to the pair of 300SLs that carried them to their one-two finish. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article...
How many of you would journey 500 miles across country to race a freshly built car whose engine had never...
Photo: Mathieu Heurtault / Courtesy of Gooding & Company Four magnificent motorsport legends will return to the public eye at Gooding...
Step through this time portal and journey into the past for another look at the oft-examined history of Mercedes-Benz. The home page opens with seven rotating segments including (at press time) Goodwood Festival of Speed, Motorsports in Close-up, In a Thousand Miles, Hollywood Love Affair, Timeless—The SL and its Legendary...
When we presented the first part of our continuing interview with F1 design legend John Barnard last March, VR Contributing Editor...
Sixty years ago was when—for me—the world became modern. Many people will laugh at that; some will understand but have...
Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Indianapolis, IN May 25, 2012 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...
Silverstone Circuit, Northants, UK May 19–20, 2012 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
A coveted pair of GT40s, including a 1968 Ford GT40 Gulf/Mirage Lightweight (chassis P/1074), and a strikingly authentic, unrestored 1967...
My personal record with the Mercedes 300 SLR was six starts, three wins, two 2nd places and one “withdrawn when leading”…under protest. That was at Le Mans after the big crash when one of our cars was involved and the Mercedes board in Stuttgart decided to withdraw the other cars....
Sears Point Raceway, Sonoma, CA June 2–3, 2012 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
Watkins Glen International, Watkins Glen, NY June 7–10, 2012 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (&...
Mention the words “Rudi” and “Mercedes” and what comes to mind? Chances are good it will be images of famed driver Rudolf Caracciola wheeling a giant prewar SSK or W154 “Silver Arrow” around some exotic circuit, like the Nürburgring or Tripoli. Yet, there was another Rudi at Mercedes-Benz who arguably...
Without doubt, I have to say my greatest racecar is the Jaguar XJR-9 LM that took me, Jan Lammers and...
The Historic Grand Prix Association has been selected to support the return of Formula One Grand Prix racing to the...
Karl Kling was born too late to join Rudolf Caracciola, Manfred Von Brauchitsch and Hermann Lang in their rampage through Grand Prix motor racing of the Thirties, and too early to give Juan Manuel Fangio, Stirling Moss and Hans Herrmann any real competition in the W196 of 1954 and 1955....