Best of the 1999 Mille Miglia Storica Photo: Peter Collins Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article...
The 1954 Carrera Panamericana developed immediately into a fight between two Ferraris: the year-old 375MM of Phil Hill and Richie...
A First-Hand Look at the 1954 Carrera Panamericana Photos and Story By Boyd Harnell A white Jaguar convertible hurtled out of a turn I was approaching near the southern Mexican town of Tehuantepec; before the sports car shot past, the passenger and driver waved at me, and in seconds the...
1958 Lola Mk1 The Broadley cousins were racing enthusiasts from an early age. Both built and raced Austin specials before...
The Conclusion of Boyd Harnell’s First-Hand Look at the 1954 Carrera Panamericana Mexico City-Leon, Leon-Durango: November 21, 1954 The carnage...
I am often asked what was my “greatest race,” and that is not an easy question. The Mille Miglia in 1955 was a great one because of the endurance it required, and there have been some races that I didn’t finish which had some of the qualities that make an...
1929 Bentley Blower 1929 Bentley Blower. This Profile may be forced to veer somewhat from our usual format since the...
1961 Ferrari 156 F1 Ricardo Rodriguez at the wheel of the Ferrari 156, during the 1962 Dutch Grand Prix at...
1971 Ferrari 312P Photo: Peter Collins Sports car enthusiasts with an historical bent argue three great periods of sports car racing: 1) the 1950s, when early production sports cars starting turning into prototypes (Jaguar C and D Types, Ferrari Testa Rossa, Porsche RSK); 2) The late 1960s and early 1970s,...
The Lola T70 certainly had a rich and storied racing career. This ex-Foyt T70 is seen here doing battle during...
Stock car icon Dale Earnhardt, two-time Indy 500 champion Gordon Johncock, sports car and F5000 legend Brian Redman and pioneering...
Nothing is quite as dramatic as the sight of an endurance racecar prancing on during the night portion of an endurance race. Pedro Rodriguez is pictured here putting his Gulf-liveried Porsche 917 through its paces. The dreamy quality of this image is in sharp contrast to the barking song that...
It was June 1970, and I was en route from Los Angeles to Paris, France… this was a dream come...
1971 Tyrrell 002 His friends and racing opponents in F3 called him “Chopper,” not because of his on-track driving style...
Ex-Scuderia Filipinetti 1968 L-88 Corvette As the only sports car model to be in continuous production for more than 50 years, the Chevrolet Corvette holds a very special place in world, as well as American, automotive history. Like the story of so many classic sports cars, a significant portion of...
1964 ALFA ROMEO GIULIA Ti SUPER Not too long ago, I had the chance to take part in one of...
1967 Lola T70 Spyder 1967 Lola T70 Spyder. Photo: Casey Annis The names Roger Penske and Mark Donohue are almost...
1910 LANCIA TIPO DA CORSA CHASSIS 307 A little earlier this year (VRJ, Sept. 2002), we had the exceptionally rare pleasure of not only testing but competing in the iconic Lancia D50 Grand Prix car. Clearly, it was one of those once-in-a-lifetime affairs. Such is the keen enthusiasm of some Lancia...
1964 Porsche Bergspyder In the current era of Grand Prix and sports car racing, there is virtually no such thing...
One sunny spring day in Spain, twenty-three Grand Prix drivers shut themselves into a van in a race paddock, refusing...
1936 Alfa Romeo 2900A Mille Miglia Photo: Peter Collins The Alfa cockpit has a number of refined details for a race- car including side bolsters for the legs, a clock, a cockpit light and even an upholstered grab handle for the passenger! Photo: Peter Collins For those of you who...
1975 Eagle 755 F5000 Photo: Casey Annis In 1967, the SCCA began a fledgling “professional” category for open-wheel formula cars...
1968 Fiat-Abarth 1000 TCR Variations on a theme – that’s the one-liner which always comes to mind when encountering an...
April 26-27, 2003 Hershey, PA The 1959 Porsche 356A of Tobey Ross. Photo: Jay Texter 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...
Ex-Essex Wire 1965 Ford GT40 #1010 One hundred years of Ford! Where do you start? There are far too many...
Jaguar had entered three XK120s for the 1950 Le Mans race and while two cars finished 12th, and 15th respectively, the third, which retired with clutch failure, had been running as high as 2nd at one point. These results encouraged a purpose-built car for the following year, the C-type. Using...
1968 Lotus 49 – Cosworth DFV Chassis 49/R4 There are few racing cars which have the reputation of scaring the...
1958 Devin D Porsche Across the southern hills of the Dolomite Mountains of Italy, north of a line drawn between...
1984 Lancia LC2 Twenty years ago, when Group C sports car racing was in its heyday, the focus of attention was on the moment. As a result there weren’t many people thinking about Group C machines becoming “historic.” When Group C faded, many of us thought we would never see...
