The Formula Junior Racing Association has a full calendar of events planned for its 2000 season. In addition to the...
The illustrious racing history of Jaguar will be featured at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed June 23-25 in Chicester,...
Racecar Exchange This site is one of several new sites devoted to the buying and selling of racecars, parts and accessories. Cars for sale are broken down by category – vintage, Formula, purpose-built, karts and exotics. In addition to racecars, this site also offers a host of accessories, including supplies,...
April 2000 Porsche 917 By Peter Morgan When racers and enthusiasts are asked to name the greatest racing car of...
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Ronnie Bucknum Jim Clark 2 Mike Hailwood is born (1940). 3 Mario Andretti becomes the first American to win a US Grand Prix when he drives his Lotus to victory in the USGP-West in Long Beach, California. First win for the Lotus 78 (1977). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free...
It’s a dirty job being an automotive and racing writer but, you know, somebody’s got to do it. A couple...
I have an old friend that works in law enforcement. I’m not talking about the local PD. Serious law enforcement,...
Did you ever see the cult movie classic, Mad Max? Ah, it’s great. In a post-apocalyptic future, good guys and bad roam the roads in lightning-fast, cobbled-together junkyard contraptions that would make Rube Goldberg swoon with delight. Fantastic science fiction, you say? I thought so too, until I recently test...
MG-N Monoposto Back in late 1934, a rather proud and reasonably affluent father decided his son should have something special...
The original Morgan factory built by H.F.S. Morgan in 1905 is due to be demolished if a Malvern garage gains...
Boss or Big Open Single-Seaters is set to stir the passions of European motorsports fans in 2000 with the sounds of screaming V10s, thundering V8s, popping turbos and the howling V12s. 2000 is the second full RAC Championship year for these exciting unlimited single-seaters. Cars now have to be built...
Stirling Moss This new site is devoted to Britain’s living racing legend, Sir Stirling Moss. Features of this site include,...
May 2000 Mille Miglia Race: The Postwar Years By Giorgio Nada Editore As chronicled throughout this special issue of VRJ,...
Best of the 1999 Mille Miglia Storica Photo: Peter Collins 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...
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Sam Posey Alberto Ascari 1 The gates at Indianapolis Motor Speedway open for practice for the first Indy 500 (1911)....
One of the greatest fears in racing is to have some type of catastrophic suspension or steering failure. The best way to avoid this dangerous (and potentially costly!) situation is regular inspection and crack testing of critical steering and suspension parts. What follows is a brief synopsis of the different...
Here’s a sure bet: a lot of what you know about the Mille Miglia, and most of how you feel...
“Prelude – anticipating 7:22, May 1, 1955. Jenkinson and Moss reflect the tension before the start of an all-out, record-setting...
With flashing precision, my memory recaptures exactly the milli-second that motor racing entered my life. It was reading a three-month-old account of the 1953 Mille Miglia in a copy of Motor Trend. In 1953, all the new Alfa Romeo 6C 3000 CMs had led the 1000-mile thrash round Italy, and...
For over 70 years the month of May has been synonymous with two of the most historic and challenging motor...
Enzo Ferrari, Aymo Maggi, Piero Taruffi, Clemente Biondetti, Tazio Nuvolari, Giovanni Canestrini, Juan Manuel Fangio, Antonio Brivio, Stirling Moss, Giuseppe...
Clemente Biondetti Describing Clemente Biondetti as colorful is like saying the Sears Tower in Chicago is tall. Unpredictable, imaginative, irascible, gentle, gruff, fascinating, stubborn, generous, outspoken, he was all of those things. He was also the only man to win the Mille Miglia four times, an extraordinary feat of skill,...
Robert Newman examines the men and machines that made the Mille Miglia one of the world’s greatest races. The Mille...
Have you ever sat in front of the television watching a beautifully filmed documentary about the archaeological wonders of Egypt,...
The strange story of Enzo Ferrari and his date with a firing squad has recently surfaced in Italy. Clearing out papers from an old Italian Communist Party headquarters, unnamed sources, found a Second World War diary of Doctor Giuseppe Zanarini. Zanarini was a physician and well-known wartime partisan, whose code...
Phil Hill Created by the same organization which brought you last month’s Stirling Moss-featured web site, the site devoted to...
June 2000 Strictly Off The Record By Louis T. Stanley Louis Stanley has taken a lifetime of privileged access in...
Silverstone, England Mar. 25 Nick Mason and his 1959 Maserati Tipo 61 “Bircage.” Photo: Classic Images 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...
