2015 F5000 Revival Race Series By Checkered Flag Films Let’s get this over with right away. You need not read...
The Palm Beach Cavallino Classic 25 took place in Palm Beach, Florida, on the weekend of January 20-24, celebrating automotive...
Gooding and Company apparently saved the best for last when announcing the 1961 Ferrari 250 GT SWB California Spider as a headline offering for the 2016 Amelia Island auction, to be held Friday, March 11 at the Omni Amelia Island Plantation Resort in Florida. “We are thrilled to present this...
A 1957 Ferrari 335 S Spider Scaglietti (chassis 0674) sold for $35,711,359 (€32,075,200, £24,693,782) at the Artcurial Retromobile 2016 auction,...
Artcurial Motorcars has claimed to have broken the all-time record for an automobile sold at auction (based on Euros or...
“Bellissima! The Italian Automotive Renaissance, 1945–1975,” will celebrate the visual dynamism and spirit of innovation embodied by Italian coachbuilt cars, concept cars and motorcycles produced during the post–World War II economic revival. Set for Nashville, Tennessee’s Frist Center from May 27 through October 9, 2016, “Bellissima!” boasts powerful and extraordinary...
Eddie Irvine has been a shrewd operator for most of his adult life. He carefully maneuvered himself into the second...
After the First World War and into the ’20s, many car manufacturers throughout Europe became involved in Grand Prix racing....
Niki Lauda M. von Brauchitsch 1 Richard Petty drives a Ford Torino to victory in the NASCAR Grand National race at Riverside. California (1969). 2 The Corvette GTP (a Chevy-powered Lola T711) makes its race debut in the 24 Hours of Daytona (1985). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access...
The two-time British National Hillclimb Champion who also gave five-time Le Mans winner Derek Bell his initial international opportunity to...
The Historic Motor Sports Association (HMSA) and Bonhams have announced a new series for under-two-liter sports racing cars built between...
Included on the Queen’s New Year Honors List this time around is the name of John Surtees, who has been made a Commander of the British Empire for his services to motor racing. The 81-year-old Surtees remains, of course, the only man to win World Championships on both two wheels...
Auction Editor Rick Carey reported from dozens of auctions in 2015, starting with the Scottsdale and Kissimmee sales, moving quickly...
Mecum Kissimmee 2016, the world’s largest collector-car and Road Art auction, scheduled for January 15-24 at Osceola Heritage Park in...
The Morgan Motor Company With no thoughts of cars in mind, I first visited Malvern in the high summer of 1962, arriving by train after a three-hour journey from London on an oven-like day in June. It all seemed like the poem Adlestrop, as nothing stirred. Little did I know...
If he lasted long enough—that is, if he didn’t get killed in the process—canny observers thought this young South African...
To recognize the respect with which drivers would approach racing through the Masta Kink on the old Spa-Francorchamps Grand Prix...
Roberto Moreno Photo: Pete Austin Mike Hawthorne Photo: BRDC Archive 1 F1 race winner and six-time Le Mans victor Jacky Ickx is born in Brussels, Belgium (1945). 4 Graeme Lawrence drives a Ferrari Dino 246 to victory in Tasman Cup race at Levin, New Zealand (1970). Become a Member &...
The FIA sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations...
Ford GT: How Ford Silenced the critics, Humbled Ferrari and Conquered Le Mans By Preston Lerner and Dave Friedman The...
A 1957 Ferrari 335 S Spider will headline the 2016 Artcurial Retromobile auction, scheduled for 5-6 February at the Retromobile Show in Paris. Artcurial’s 2016 Retromobile sale will present approximately 130 automobiles over two days. The Ferrari 335 S, chassis 0674, left the workshops at the start of 1957, fitted...
A dozen cars topped $1 million at RM Sotheby’s Driven to Disruption sale in New York City last week. Leading...
A rare, late-production Ferrari 330 GT 2+2 originally owned by Texan John Mecom is scheduled to roll across the auction...
At the 2016 edition of Salon Retromobile in Paris next February 5-6, Artcurial Motorcars will offer a handful of significant Ferraris, led by a 1957 Ferrari 335 S Spider Scaglietti, chassis 0674, from the Pierre Bardinon collection (above and video below). During that 1957 season 0674 was raced by a...
The late 1960s brought a host of changes to the famed 24 Hours of Le Mans. The wave of “professionalism”...
John GrantPhoto: Kary Jiggle John Grant is the current Chairman of the British Racing Drivers Club, and since taking on...
Born to a Paris butcher and his wife in April 1937, the late Jean-Pierre Beltoise had won the incredible number of 11 French national motorcycle racing championships, in three years, by the time he was 28. After that, he made a profession out of being a champion of many forms...
John Greenwood Rick Mears 1 John Greenwood drives a Greenwood Corvette to victory in the IMSA sports car race at...
The Canadian-American Challenge Cup was an “unlimited” racing series co-sanctioned by the SCCA in America and the CASC in Canada....
First Principles: The Official Biography of Keith Duckworth By Norman Burr While we’ve had to wait a little longer than anticipated, hats off to technical journalist Norman Burr for writing this excellent book about the man who changed the face of Grand Prix racing with the Cosworth Double Four Valve...
