The Toad Hall Racing Porsche 911 S/T as driven by Jürgen Barth and Michael Keyser at the 1972 1000km Nürburgring...
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The son of a wealthy Tennessee family, Pete Kreis had grown up during the time that European manufacturers dominated automobile...
The British Sports Car Hal of Fame (BSCHoF) has just released its newest list of inductees for 2023. BSCHoF President Gary Kincel said, “Once again, this years’ selections for induction into the British Sports Car Hall of Fame have all made significant contributions to the history and legacy of the...
This past weekend my younger daughter turned 21 and during a brief lull between morning Mimosas and evening Margaritas, she...
Recently, my family and I had to venture back to Scotland for a funeral, which was sad, but we decided...
The Hillsborough Concours d’Elegance-–the world’s longest continually running concours–has announced it will pay a special tribute to the collector car world’s most exceptional sports cars during festivities on June 25 at Crystal Springs Golf Course in Burlingame. “Given the profound impact that sports cars have had on the automotive landscape and...
1 Danny Ongais drives a Porsche 934 to victory in the 100-mile IMSA sports car race at Laguna Seca Raceway...
On May 9th, 1992, Roberto Guerrero earned the pole position for the 76th running of the Indianapolis 500-mile race. Piloting...
1966 24 Hours of Le Mans The iconic finish of the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans – Ford crosses the finish line and takes the chequered flag. The number 2 Shelby American Ford GT40 Mk II driven by Bruce McLaren and Chris Amon, and the number 1 Shelby American...
This Hustler is not an unsavory men’s magazine, nor is it Jackie Gleason playing a pool shark, nor a con...
The lightest and most powerful series-production McLaren, the new V8-engined, rear-wheel drive 750S – which is available in coupe and...
The car hobby has many tropes, but one of the more common — and perhaps most accurate — is that our favored pastime is a disease, an incurable affliction. And as a corollary to that disease, we often further describe it as a “madness”. But perhaps nowhere is this description...
The Sebring 12 Hours; Sebring, Florida; April 1, 1967 On the grid before the start is one of two factory...
This past weekend I made the annual pilgrimage to the Long Beach Grand Prix. This year was the event’s 48th...
When the Bugatti Bolide was first revealed as a thought experiment in late 2020, it presented a vision of a lightweight, track-only hyper sports car delivering incomparable performance, built around the iconic W16 engine. That ambitious dream is being transformed into reality, as the Bolide prototype begins its next phase...
Goodwood has announced that this year’s Revival will host an all-synthetic fuel race – the first of its kind. Taking place...
Zagato 100 1930 Alfa Romeo 6C 1500 GS Zagato and 1963 Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ1 Zagato. Andrea and Marella Rivolta...
The Ford Motor Company recently announced its entrance into a technical partnership with defending Formula One World Champions Red Bull Racing, opening what the company’s executive chairman William Ford termed “an exciting new chapter” in the firm’s long and illustrious motorsports history. New FIA engine regulations for Formula 1 are...
1 Mario Andretti, driving a Newman Haas Lola-Ford, wins the first CART Long Beach Grand Prix (1984). 2 Tommy Milton...
If you’ve been reading the editorials written by Casey Annis for a long time, you might already know of me....
I was pleasantly surprised to receive so many positive emails supporting my premise last week that the Ferrari 365 GTC/4 is one of the great, unsung, Enzo-era V-12s. In fact, I wrote back to one kind reader, all the way in Tasmania, to thank him and made the joke that...
Goodwood has announced that this year’s Goodwood Revival (Sept. 8–10, 2023) will celebrate Lotus’ 75th anniversary. Welcoming a fleet of...
Travelling to the capital of Lapland, right on the Arctic Circle, specially prepared classic Porsche 911s have taken part in...
I think I’ve well established, in this space, my bona fides as an old school Ferrari snob. I grew up around the Ferrari Owner’s Club in the 1970s, so I have a reasonably warped sense of what a Ferrari is and isn’t. Part of my “warpage”, if you will, was...
1 Dr. Wunibald Kamm arrives in Florida to consult with the Cunningham race team on the design of their C-4RK...
If you’re an automotive enthusiast, and you spent any kind of time in Southern California from 2006 to 2014, then...
Well, I don’t know that any of us saw that coming! If you watched the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix then you witnessed one of the truly great, virtuoso driving performances. No, not the race winner’s, I’m referring to the elder statesman of Formula One, Fernando Alonso. First off, in what...
We tend to make a lot out of automotive anniversaries, which is why I’ve been surprised that last month’s 60thanniversary...
The 2012 European Grand Prix at the forgotten, abandoned Valencia Street Circuit. Image via Planet F1 Formula One, by its...
ZR1 The 2019 Corvette C7 ZR1 coupe in its unveiling Sebring Orange color. Its 6.2L V8 engine produces 755 hp (765 PS; 563 kW) at 6,300 rpm – 85″ x 55″ Mixed Media original stretched on canvas and black American frame. ______________________________ Nicolas does private commissions and can be reached at: Web Site...
