After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was created by the FIA (Federation...
The 23rd annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance will take place on the grounds of the Golf Club of Amelia Island...
Mecum’s Los Angeles 2018 collector-car auction, held this past weekend at the L.A. County Fairplex in Pomona, California, achieved $9 million in overall sales, with the top 10 highest sellers heavily populated by modern supercars and a handful of classic beauties. A 2006 Ford GT in white with blue racing...
With snow falling on the streets of Paris, collectors and enthusiasts arrived for the annual Retromobile Salon’s official auction, Retromobile...
RM Sotheby’s recorded a sale total of €23,745,225 ($29,562,805) at its fifth annual Paris sale on February 7, with an...
Leake Auction Company will kick off its 2018 auction season at Oklahoma City’s Bennett Event Center February 23–24 with a two-day event featuring 400 vehicles from decades of automotive history. Included in the offerings will be a 1912 Ford Model T, a 1919 Cadillac Model 57 (above, photo courtesy of...
lfredo Ferrari (Dino) was Enzo Ferrari’s first son, born January 19, 1932. At the time, Enzo was still racing for...
When I was a college student, some friends told me about a woman who ran a hair salon in her...
February 2018 Remembering Bob Photo: Bob Tronolone Dear Editor, Many thanks for bringing up the heartbreaking story on photographer Bob Tronolone in your December editorial. Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to paid subscribers only....
Last weekend’s combined auctions in Scottsdale, Arizona, were marked by high sell-through rates, world record prices and combined sales from...
Mecum Auctions’ annual collector-car auction in Kissimmee, Florida, has long held the title of “world’s largest,” and this year’s auction...
A 1953 Ferrari 166 MM Spider, chassis no. 0272 M, that contested the 1953 and 1954 Mille Miglia races before being featured in the 1955 Kirk Douglas film The Racers, has been added to the docket for RM Sotheby’s Retromobile sale in Paris on February 7. The fifth of 13...
A trio of rare classic sports cars will be among the many desirable cars crossing the block at RM Sotheby’s...
Phil Bachman has been collecting Ferraris at a rate of about one a year since he got his first one in 1984. He prefers yellow, and nearly all of his Fer- raris are that color. Thanks to a mutual friend, Larry Benson, Vintage Road- car had the privilege of visiting...
A.J. Foyt Donald Mitchell Healey 1 • Colin Chapman and Michael Allen form Lotus Engineering Company (1952). 3 • Sprint...
The FIA sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations...
January 2018 Ferrari: Gli anni d’oro – The Golden Years By Leonardo Acerbi In his introduction, author Acerbi notes that this book in celebration of the 70th anniversary of Ferrari is not a continuation of the marque compendium as represented in two previous tomes his publisher issued on the marque’s...
The annual Arizona auto auction festival will take center stage in Phoenix and Scottsdale in mid-January, when most of America’s...
Eight distinguished automobiles have been selected as finalists for the 3rd annual Peninsula Classics Best of the Best Award, with...
RM Sotheby’s third Manhattan sale, entitled ICONS, produced $45.5 million worth of sales last Wednesday night, December 6, at Sotheby’s York Ave headquarters, with 84 percent of all lots sold. Eleven cars posted individual million-dollar-plus results, with strong prices evident for exceptional historic racecars and high-performance models of the 1990s,...
Forty years ago, in 1977 and ’78, Mario Andretti was the man to beat in Grand Prix racing aboard Colin...
Peter Bourassa is the Publisher of the weekly MMR Community Newsletter and the online Motorsports Marketing Resources Directory (www.MMRsite.com) a...
An Alfa Romeo car mechanic who rose to become one of the greatest endurance drivers of his generation, the man responsible for establishing Ferrari in the United States and patron of his own highly successful motor racing team. Almost too much to be rolled into one man, but that, in...
Alfonso de Portago Michael Schumacher Photo: Mercedes-Benz 1 Canadian open-wheel racer Claude Bourbonnaise born (1966). 2 Charlie Kolb wins the...
The Canadian American Challenge Cup was co-sanctioned by the SCCA and the CASC; it was a series nicknamed the “unlimited”...
A 1925 Bugatti Type 35 Grand Prix car will cross the auction block with No Reserve at RM Sotheby’s upcoming Paris sale, set for February 7 at Place Vauban during Retromobile week. Offered from long-term French ownership, the T35, chassis no. 4394, was delivered new to marquis Georges Cholmondeley in...
The Design Museum in London opened Ferrari: Under the Skin, an exhibition exploring the history and design of Ferrari. The...
The Ferrari F2001 Grand Prix car that Michael Schumacher drove to victory in the 2001 Grands Prix at Monaco and...
RM Sotheby’s has announced that its third New York sale, entitled ICONS, set for December 6 at Sotheby’s Manhattan headquarters, will present a pair of Le Mans racing legends from two of the world’s most revered marques: a 1959 Ferrari 250 GT LWB California Spider Competizione and a 1952 Jaguar...
