Motor Racing History – Early Racecourse Development Racing on public roads was illegal in England and British drivers had to...
Motor Racing History – The Pre-War Grand Prix Period Formula Libre Grand Prix racing in accordance with a strict formula...
Motor Racing History – Formula One And A World Championship For Drivers In 1946, following World War II, only four races of Grand Prix calibre were held. Rules for a Grand Prix World Championship had been laid out before World War II, but it took several years afterward until 1947...
Motor Racing History – New British Teams & The Rear-Engined Revolution The Rise of British Racing Green Green cars began...
Motor Racing History – The Big 12 Cylinders & The Arrival of Sponsorships, Advanced Safety and Aerodynamics Checkbook Racing The...
Motor Racing History – Radical Technical Innovations & The Era of Ground-Effects The Birth of Ground-Effects Two major developments occurred during 1977, the Renault turbo made its debut at the British Grand Prix while the Lotus-Ford 78 debuted in Argentina. Both would effect racing for years to come. The Lotus...
Motor Racing History – The Monsters F1 Turbo Engines The Turbo Years The war between FISA and FOCA continued into...
Motor Racing History – 3.5-litre Naturally-Aspirated Engines, Active Suspension and Electronic Driver Aids 1989 was another McLaren year but this...
Notable American Grand Prix Drivers Michael Andretti The son of a racing legend, Michael Andretti was the Indy Car Champion in 1991 and making quite a name for himself. Having listened to his father’s recollections of his Formula One career the younger Andretti attempted to follow in his dad’s footsteps....
City-to-City Race Car Drivers The great city-to-city races were the origin of motor-racing. Attempts had been made to organize an...
Harold LeMay’s Humble Beginnings We’re all familiar with the expression “One person’s trash is another one’s treasure.” In the case...
Rolls-Royce has always offered countless opportunities to push boundaries, challenge the norm, and to redefine what’s possible. The desire for self-expression is one of the primary reasons that clients keep coming back to the marque. The Rolls-Royce Black Badge series of motor cars brings this to a whole new level....
Sports car manufacturers can only go so far when tweaking the performance of their street-legal vehicles. Countless regulatory guidelines and...
You take the train southwest out of Warsaw, Poland. 45 minutes later, you get off at the Otrębusy station and...
You sense the elements of Italian style long before you see the first machine in the museum. Even the entrance to the Museo Storico Alfa Romeo (“Alfa Romeo Historical Museum”) is elegant. Inside the distinctive display area, the cars are arranged chronologically from oldest to newest since the beginning of...
In an era of modern museums—the Guggenheim and Getty in America, Tate Modern in London, and the Pompidou Center in...
A few days ago, Bugatti celebrated Jean Bugatti’s birthday. The renowned automobile designer and Ettore Bugatti’s son was born on...
Artcurial Motorcars is currently preparing for the much awaited Rétromobile 2022 which will be held on March 18 to 20, 2022, and one of the highlights of the sale is a 1968 Porsche 907 Ex-works with a rich racing history. May 19, 1968. The Nürburgring 1000 Km. The sixth round...
The 60s was truly the greatest decade for automobile design, racing, and car enthusiasts. The decade opened with the Stingray...
If you’re searching for an American racetrack with a unique history, look no further than WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca on...
With the sale of 5R002 at the Mecum Auction in Florida in January of 2022—at a record breaking price for any Mustang of $4 Million dollars—it is altogether proper to offer a short history of 5R002 and its sister car, 5S003, both of which went from restorations to Concours winners....
Whether we like it or not, Gen Z might be the last generation that’ll be buying and responsibly running classic...
Rae and Ted Segerstrom cast long shadows in Orange County, California. They are big game real estate developers and investors,...
On March 9, 1972, the Maserati Boomerang was first introduced at the Geneva Motor Show. It demanded attention. It was futuristic and extreme, illogical but stunning. It was the embodiment of the dream car we never knew we wanted. It was a concept car borne from Giorgetto Giugiaro’s expertise and...
Today a global leader, Japan was a late bloomer when it came to the automotive industry. Still, thanks to its...
It’s a common consensus that America is the land of motor cars and a cradle of modern automobiles. When it...
When you are a young person, How do you choose what altar to worship at? There are so many to choose from, and all have their pluses and minuses. At that time in your life, you can be swayed by so many factors. Parents, peer pressure, a guru. It’s an...
From the creation of the first automobile to this very day, the German industry’s commitment to technical perfection gave birth...
Car collector Corrado Lopresto has assembled the finest field of Italian automobiles in all of Italy (and possibly in the...
All photos by Matt Stone Most people might believe that Japan’s automotive history dates to sometime in the 1960s, because that’s when Datsuns and Toyota Coronas began showing up in those small “Imported Car Dealerships” in nearly every city in the US. Of course, this isn’t true, as the history...
