From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These...
David Hobbs Jacky Ickx Ayrton Senna “Wally” Willmott 1 Greg Moore wins the Miller 200 at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for his...
Alfa Romeo will be the featured marque for a weekend of vintage racing on April 9-11, 2010 at Infineon Raceway, Sears Point, Sonoma CA, organized by CSRG (the Classic Sports Racing Group.) In addition to a full slate of CSRG race groups the weekend will include two, all-Alfa Romeo feature...
1931 Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Due to Jano’s suspension modifications over the ’31-’32 season, the 8C enjoys surprisingly flat handling...
Last weekend’s 20th annual Goodwood Revival once again celebrated motor racing history with its usual full slate of races despite...
An Alfa Romeo car mechanic who rose to become one of the greatest endurance drivers of his generation, the man responsible for establishing Ferrari in the United States and patron of his own highly successful motor racing team. Almost too much to be rolled into one man, but that, in...
The Baxter Auto Parts Portland Historic Races will celebrate the 100th anniversary of Italian car manufacturer Alfa Romeo at the...
Photo: Peter Collins Cruise through Como on Saturday; line up for the Parma Poggio hillclimb on Sunday. Alfa Romeo: great looks and high performance. What combination could be more natural? Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is...
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Pete Lyons News that Formula One is so financially distressed… Wait! Let us savor this! Become a Member & Get...
For such a clean and beautiful design, the 1963-1977 Alfa Romeo GT is confusingly burdened with many different names. Officially, the Alfa Romeo 105/115 series coupe, they are often referred to as Giulia Sprint GT, GT Veloce, GTV, GT Junior, GTV 2000 and sometimes generically as GTs. I’ve generally referred...
For the Alfa Romeo Centenary celebrations, the Italian Alfa Romeo Register (RIAR) is organising an international rally for all Alfa...
The FIA sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations...
The name Alfetta is still one that makes any red-blooded Italian motor sport fan throw out his chest with pride. It is the name of a series of 1500 cc, 8-cylinder, supercharged Alfa Romeo 158 and 159 racing cars that dominated the sport from the late ‘30s until the end...
After some fifty years of automotive racing, the Grand Prix Formula or Formula One was formed by the FIA (Federation...
European Editor Ed McDonough recently had the exclusive opportunity to sit down and talk with Antony Sheriff, Vice President of...
There is no doubt in my mind that the Grand Prix Alfetta is the greatest racing car of all time. Just look at the facts for a moment. The 158 was a pre-war chassis, a voiturette, which managed to race for eight seasons over a span of fourteen years, with...
My father, Tom Bamford, first got involved in motor sport in his late teens when he bought an Ariel motorcycle...
The Grand Prix formula changed at the end of 1937 limiting engines to 3-liters (supercharged) or 4.5-liter (unblown) so the...
The hunt for interesting automobiles to profile often leads to some very unusual vehicles. One-off vehicles do not lend themselves to the standard profile format, but they are much too interesting to ignore. The subjects of this article are three of those unusual automobiles. In each case, they are one-off...
The 33rd annual Concorso Italiano, arguably the world’s largest and most prestigious exotic and luxury Italian car show, announced that a...
Lancia. Ever heard of them? If not, it’s not surprising. Their cars are not exactly sold all over the world....
The Fairfield County Concours d’Elegance will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of Alfa Romeo with a broad array of the famed Italian cars in Westport, Connecticut, on the weekend of September 12–13. Headlining the show will be a trio of classic Alfas, an original, unrestored 1938 8C 2900...
The remarkable Alfa Romeo Sprint Speciale must be counted as among the most beautiful sports car designs of the twentieth...
For the 2011 edition of the historic Mille Miglia tribute, the Alfa Romeo Historic Motoring team will be lining up three official Museum vehicles which, in accordance with the regulations, took part in the Mille Miglia race, held from 1927 to 1957, and which saw Alfa vehicles triumph some eleven...
Three apparently unconnected things seemed to me to have a synergy. One is the supposed 75th anniversary of Jaguar, a...
April 2018 The Bertone Collection By Gautam Sen & Michael Robinson Many of the iconic vehicles of the second half...
The 2013 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance will host a special gathering of Alfa Romeo 8C automobiles–predicted to be the largest recorded gathering of these iconic sports cars–before they head off on a challenging 1,000-mile tour of the Rocky Mountains. Of the original 230 Alfa Romeo 8Cs built between 1931 and...
