Lance Reventlow Enzo Ferrari 1 Mark Donohue and Chuck Parsons drive their Penske-prepared Lola T70 coupe to victory in the...
This painting actually depicts the start of the Nürburgring 1000 Kms in 1960. However, everyone familiar with this unique type...
Sigmund Freud and his disciples have had a lot of fun with Shakespeare’s plays, especially the character of Hamlet. The Oedipus Complex has loomed large, but Oedipus himself did not have a complex…he actually did kill his father and sleep with mother—the scamp. Mike Lawrence My Ph.D. is in Shakespeare...
Peter Westbury The first circuit I ever went to was Brands Hatch, in the ’50s, when I was still at...
As I laid the magazine back down on my desk, I looked across the room and had to laugh. I...
Last month, European Editor Ed McDonough spoke with Vic Elford about his first Formula One encounters, and his Ford and Porsche days in rallying. This month the story continues, and Elford talks about the legendary Porsche 917 which he drove at Le Mans and Sebring, where he won in 1971....
Hollywood actors play them—Luigi Fagioli was one. Built like Rocky Marciano with wide shoulders, muscular arms, thick neck and a...
The Grand Prix Alfa Romeo: Alfetta 158/159 Alfa Romeo Alfetta 158/159. Photo: Peter Collins As a long-term Alfa “person,” I...
Racecars will headline the H&H auction to be held Feb. 21st in conjunction with the first annual International Historic Motorsport Show in Stoneleigh, England. Some of the many historic racecars to be offered include an ex-Mika Hakkinen Lotus Type 107 F1, an ex-works 1959 Sunbeam Rapier MkII Saloon that competed...
Many special events are being planned to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the introduction of the Alfa Romeo Giulietta in...
Denise McCluggage, the renowned automotive journalist and pioneer female auto racer, has been named Grand Marshal for the 2004 Gold...
Monoposto Racing, North America’s premiere open-wheel vintage racing series, recently crowned two new champions for the 2003 season—Bobby Brown in Formula 70 (F70) and Bob Goeldner in Formula Classic. Champions are named based upon their best results in six races of the Monoposto series and within one of two categories:...
American road racing pioneer John von Neumann died on Christmas night, 2003. Born December 16, 1921, he had just turned...
Founded in 1911 by a Japanese engineer trained in the United States, the Datsun Motor Car Company ranks as one...
March 2004 Maserati: A Racing History By Anthony Pritchard This new book, by noted author and historian Anthony Pritchard, chronicles the design, development and competition history of one of the most venerable names in motorsport history—Maserati. Starting with the brothers Maserati’s first racing entry in the 1926 Targa Florio road...
The other evening I watched a panel of motorsport reporters on a TV show name their “driver of the year.”...
After some fifty years of automotive racing, the Grand Prix Formula or Formula One was formed by the FIA (Federation Internationale de L’Automobile) in 1950 with its first race, the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. This was to be the first world driver’s championship, in the world’s most technically advanced...
Mike Hailwood Lucien Bianchi 3 Future Indianapolis car racer Joe Leonard wins the Daytona 200 motorcycle race on the beach...
Although all paintings are unique, periodically an artist is given the opportunity to work on a special project. When the...
Manufacturers are falling over them- selves to put supercars on the market. Not those wimpy things restricted to 155 mph, but full-blooded vehicles which you can only drive hard on some German autobahnen and in downtown Naples. I was once driving a 1954 Swallow Doretti at 60 mph on a...
It was a very difficult decision at the time to go to Audi, which seems strange now. But then I...
Just before the holidays, I had the good fortune of attending a special tribute dinner at Southern California’s Petersen Automotive...
This month we speak with one of the great behind-the-scenes players in open wheel racing cars, Ron Tauranac. If the name doesn’t mean much to you, the cars certainly will. Ron Tauranac is the “T” in all the Brabham BT racing cars, as well as the first and last initials...
Known more for his mercurial temper than his victories over the likes of Carraciola and Nuvolari, prewar Italian driving star...
1971 Datsun 240Z Photo: Peter Collins The aristocratically named Giuliano Musumeci rather boxy machines called the Cedric, believing these would...
After nearly 40 years since its last appearance in an International sports car race, Maserati has recently unveiled its new purpose-built racecar that will contest the FIA International GT Championship. Called the MCC (short for Maserati Corse Competizione), this new racecar is based on sibling Ferrari’s Enzo street car and...
The Historic Formula Super Vee Register will hold its 2004 Reunion Event at the June 25–27 International Vintage Racing Festival...
Sebring International Raceway’s Hall of Fame Selection Committee has announced its 2004 inductees, which include Sir Stirling Moss; Mario Andretti;...
On January 16, writer, former BRM chairman and Formula One safety advocate Louis Stanley passed away at the age of 92. Stanley came to Formula One through his wife, Jean Stanley, who was the sister of Lord Alfred Owen of the Owen Organization—owners of the BRM Formula One team. When...
