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...
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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...
John Fitch is a genuine American hero, and a survivor. If they made a movie about his life, Jimmy Stewart would have played him. You know, a handsome, lanky six-footer, thoughtful, modest, brave and true in the face of a challenge or worthy cause. Truth is, Fitch has been accepting...
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 heart-stopping Can-Am cars made by McLaren will take center stage at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, June 23-25 in Chichester, England. As a tribute to the two Can-Am championships won by Bruce McLaren and Denny Hulme, a collection of McLaren cars will be gathered that traces the lineage...
Classic Sports Racing Group (CSRG) will host the Elva Reunion celebrating 45 years since the founding of Elva cars by...
Lee Petty, NASCAR’s first three-time champion and patriarch of the Petty racing dynasty, passed away on April 5th in Greensboro,...
The supercharged 1936 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900A “Botticella,” which Carlo Pintacuda raced in the 1936 Mille Miglia and won the Sao Paulo Grand Prix with, will go on the auction block at the Brooks’ Monterey Auction, Aug. 19, 2000. This car’s virtually uninterrupted history should make it a very desirsable...
The strange story of Enzo Ferrari and his date with a firing squad has recently surfaced in Italy. Clearing out...
American racing legend (and all-around nice guy) Dan Gurney was recently honored during the Wine Country Classic vintage race weekend...
Phil Hill Created by the same organization which brought you last month’s Stirling Moss-featured web site, the site devoted to America’s Champion Phil Hill is organized in much the same way. Features of this site include an extensive biography of Hill’s life from his early days racing sports cars on...
June 2000 Strictly Off The Record By Louis T. Stanley Louis Stanley has taken a lifetime of privileged access in...
Sonoma, CA Mar. 17-19 The 1973 Lola T-294 of Jamey Mazzota leads the 1974 Lola T-294 of Brad Krause. Photo:...
Roebling Road, GA Mar. 31- Apr. 2 Michael Scott, in his 1953 Allard J2X, fends off Ceasar Cone in his 1959 Devin Ermini.Photo: Walt & Louiseann Pietrowicz Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to paid...
Silverstone, England Mar. 25 Nick Mason and his 1959 Maserati Tipo 61 “Bircage.” Photo: Classic Images Become a Member &...
Laguna Seca, CA Apr. 1- 2 Charles Shalvoy hustles his 1926 Bugatti T39A through the famous corkscrew. Photo: Casey Annis...
The rain came down cold, heavy, unrelenting, and my lightweight sweater was instantly drenched through. By half distance I was shivering. Yet that Monaco Grand Prix of 1972 was one of the best days I’ve ever spent watching a race. It was a real race, and it was in the...
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Jackie Stewart Skip Hudson 1 Indy car driver Tom Sneva is born (1948). 2 F1 and endurance racer Jan Lammers...
It is race day, and the racing machine is sorted out and in a highly competitive state of tune. What else is left to do? A driver who invests a few minutes in “tuning up” his or her central nervous system just before a race will give themselves a measurable...
