All images: © Porter Press International If there is one manufacturer that has dominated the endurance racing landscape over the...
Team Audi Sport has optimized the pioneering rally car prototype that has an electric drivetrain, a high-voltage battery and an...
Watch this video featuring an Audi R8 GT3 LMS Ultra while being driven by Marcus von Oeynhausen during the Masters Endurance Legends at the Spa Six Hours 2021 & 2022 event. This is the same car that secured a 3rd place finish in the 2013 24 Hours of Spa with...
An updated version of the Audi Sport Quattro – given the ‘S1’ moniker – was introduced at the end of...
In the recent decades, Audi has established itself as a household name both in motorsports and on the luxury car...
Audi will be releasing a new family of concept vehicles and recently, they’ve just unveiled the first and newest member, a breathtaking roadster. Dubbed the Audi skysphere concept, it is an electric-powered two-door convertible roadster that is related to the Audi design of tomorrow. The car is a representation of...
The game-changing Audi quattro made its UK debut, in London, in 1980. Here, five former members of the Audi UK...
Auto Union (Audi) history at a glance (left to right): 1938 Horch 830 B; 1953 DKW3=6F91; 1959 NSU Prinz 30; 1937...
WSC Giants: Audi R8 By Ian Wagstaff In recent years, German carmaker Audi has dominated the 24 Hours of Le Mans, banking 10 victories from 13 attempts since first appearing there in 1999. Half of those wins were registered by the R8, and even though it’s since been superseded by...
Walter Röhrl, the two-time World Rally Champion driver who was voted Rally Driver of the Millennium and called “a genius...
The Mecum Chicago 2017 collector-car auction held this past weekend, October 5-7, at the Schaumburg Convention Center in suburban Chicago achieved $12.6 million in overall sales with 72 percent of the 795 vehicles offered hammering sold. Top sales at the Chicago 2017 auction included several Corvettes from the Mercurio Collection,...
August has again arrived, and the collector car auctions of Monterey Classic Car Week will soon be providing the industry...
Nine-time 24 Hours of Le Mans winner, six-time 24 Hours of Sebring winner and 2013 FIA World Endurance champion Tom...
Electric vehicles are suddenly all the rage. Showing one’s “green” credentials is very popular in this low or zero emission age, and in my neighborhood I often see a Tesla with “Zero Emissions” as its license plate, which does give out the message to some of us fossil fuel engine...
Johnny of the ready smile and blonde hair was a motor racing shooting star who might have aspired to becoming...
Saying someone is/was the world’s greatest racing driver is a mug’s game. So many circumstances —not least of all technology—change...
Vaso Bill Vukovich Sr. John Cobb 1 John Greenwood drives a Greenwood Corvette to victory in the IMSA sports car race at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida, (1974). 2 Land Speed Record setter John Cobb is born in Esher, Surrey, England (1899). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free...
This past February, the fifth annual Leadfoot Festival was held at international rally champion Rod Millen’s ranch on the Coromandel...
When John Sanderson, a pupil of the famous English landscape architect Lancelot “Capability” Brown, initially laid out the Claydon...
The inaugural Cars in the Claydons will take place Saturday September 3 at The Claydon Estate in Buckinghamshire, featuring a large collection of historic and vintage cars sited within the stunning private gardens surrounding Claydon House — an English country house that has been home to the Verney family since...
Cars in the Claydons, the UK’s major new motoring and motorsport festival, will take place for the first time this...
Touring car racing has usually been seen as the court jester to the serious stuff of single-seaters, but in a...
Brian RedmanPhoto: Mike Jiggle Jacques Villeneuve.Photo: Michael Casey-DiPleco 2 Gilles Villeneuve wins the South African Grand Prix at Kyalami in a Ferrari 312T4 (1979). 3 Jimmy Vasser drives his Reynard-Honda to victory in the CART race in Homestead, Florida. First CART win for Vasser and first CART race at Homestead...
A.J. Foyt Mike Costin 1 A.J. Foyt drives a Coyote-Foyt to victory in the USAC Championship race at Pocono, Pennsylvania,...
Nanni Galli Jo BonnierPhoto: Porsche 1 Jean-Pierre Wimille drives a Simca-Gordini to victory in the Coupe Robert Benoist on a...
Toyota’s first car, the AA, was a close copy of the DeSoto Airflow with essentially a 1933 Chevrolet engine. Photo: Toyota Motor Sales, U.S. Archives The decade of the ’30s was a time of incredible creativity among automobile designers and coachbuilders, especially in Europe. But it was also a decade of...
Michael Andretti Al UnserPhoto: Jim Hatfield 1 Jody Scheckter drives a Ford-powered Tyrrell 007 to victory in the South African...
Carlo Chiti Emerson Fittipaldi 1 Scuderia Ferrari is formed as the Alfa Romeo factory racing team (1929). 2 Peter Gethin...
Pete Lyons Got paper and pen at hand? Or simple fingers will do: Try coming up with a list of the long-distance sports racing cars you’ve seen or learned of over the years, and that you still hold in reverence. Cunninghams, Jaguars, Ferraris, Fords, Porsches, classic enduro racers that you...
