The FIA sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations...
The Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance 2010 paid tribute to all that is Alfa Romeo, celebrating the centennial of the Italian...
1971 Alfa Romeo GTV Trans-Am If you ask any pre-teenage boy what a transformer is, he’ll tell you it is either a hugely successful toy, or more specifically, an ordinary car that “transforms” into a larger-than-life fighting machine. In the case of this month’s featured profile car, both definitions would...
Although it has nearly been forgotten now, in the late 1950s and early 1960s there was a professional road racing...
By honoring 45 years of Carroll Shelby’s Mustangs and a full century of Alfa Romeos, The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering,...
Warren Olson arrived in Southern California fresh out of South Dakota in the late 1940s, just in time to take part in the motor racing revolution there that changed motor sport forever in the USA. The list of people and projects he worked with would fill a book. He initially...
In the 1920s and 1930s, British schoolboys devoured every word they could find about their favorite comic book heroes, like...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These early innovators are in an elite club, with their place in automotive history guaranteed as the creators of true classic sports cars, genuine thoroughbreds. The development of the racing sports...
The Alfa Romeo museum at Arese, on the outskirts of Milan, Italy, has been placed under official supervision, the first...
Viva Veloce! was an apt slogan for the 18th Goodwood Festival of Speed on the first weekend of July as...
Jaguar’s regal record in the world’s most prestigious sports car race was assembled over many years We may not automatically think “Jaguar” upon hearing the words “Le Mans,” but the reverse linkage is more likely to be true. Although it had enjoyed prior racing success, Jaguar truly rose to international...
A huge cortege of 3,000 Alfa Romeos from 54 different countries came home to Milan at the end of June....
Although Alfa Romeo has to date created more than 70 models in its rich 100 year history, it all came...
The under 2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports; the World Sports Car Championship from 1953–1961, the Speedworld Challenge from 1962–1963, the International Championship of Makes from 1964–1971 and the World Championship of Makes from 1972–1981. This included...
The 1947 Italian Championship-winning 1933 Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Monza and a 1995 McLaren F1 have been consigned to Gooding...
Alfa Romeo had gone from zero to hero and beyond from the 1911 Targa Florio to the 1936 Mille Miglia....
Fundamentally, the development of the Brabham “fan car” was due to the introduction of the Lotus 79, and in a sense the latter part of the Lotus 78. Both of those cars were essentially ground-effect cars with sliding skirts. The initial concept of the Brabham BT46 was to have surface-cooling...
July 2010 During the Spa-Francorchamps 750km Race on May 4, 1975, Henri Pescarolo extracts full speed from his Alfa Romeo...
Mario Andretti Photo: Pete Austin Jim Hall Photo: Keith Booker 2 Achille Varzi is killed when his Alfa Romeo 158...
The Baxter Auto Parts Portland Historic Races will celebrate the 100th anniversary of Italian car manufacturer Alfa Romeo at the 2010 running of the event. The 34th annual Portland Historic Races will take place July 9 through 11 at Portland International Raceway, 1940 N Victory Blvd., and will host a...
July 2010 Lister Jaguar– Brian Lister and the Cars from Cambridge By Paul Skilleter In my humble opinion, this is...
Former Formula One driver of the 1970s, Loris Kessel, has succumbed to his long-term battle with leukemia. Kessel’s early dream...
For the Alfa Romeo Centenary celebrations, the Italian Alfa Romeo Register (RIAR) is organising an international rally for all Alfa Romeo enthusiasts worldwide. Collectors, club members or simply owners of current models are invited. The event, supported by Alfa Romeo, will be taking place on Saturday 26 and Sunday 27...
Alfa Romeo will be 100 years old on June 24 and its motor sport pedigree almost 99—one of only a...
June 2010 Le Mans, France, June 16–17, 1939. Shown here rounding Tetre Rouge, this Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 SS Special...
Charles Randolph “Chuck” McCain, whose Alfa Romeo “Keenan Wynn Special” was featured on the cover of VR’s October 2009 issue, was shot and killed by an employee of his Tucson, Arizona, business on April 2. Mr. McCain was 61. Curtis Bunton, the 67-year-old live-in caretaker of the property on which...
Sixty years ago today (13th May), Alfa Romeo completed an historic 1-2-3 finish at the first ever Formula One European...
Soon after motor vehicles were invented they were raced. Initially the contests were held on open roads, often from city...
Alfa Romeo will be playing a major part in the Mille Miglia 2010, both as a sponsor and as an entrant. The “most beautiful road race in the world” – as it was famously dubbed by Enzo Ferrari – will be starting from Brescia on 6 May and finishing there...
