In this month’s feature article, we pay tribute to one of Britain’s oldest racing circuits, Donington Park. Founded in 1931...
Ayrton Senna Biography Ayrton Senna was born on 21 March 1960, the second child of Milton da Silva, a successful...
Mike Lawrence We are seeing some quite extraordinary prices paid for certain cars, and some people have recalled the late 1980s when prices shot through the roof. Then the bubble burst and, in its wake, so did bankruptcies, court cases and at least one suicide. This time, however, I think...
The late Gianni Agnelli’s favorite cars went on show at the Museum of the Automobile in Turin, Italy, on March...
RM Auctions, the official auction house of the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance, continued its run of fantastic 2013 results, on...
The Royal Automobile Club has awarded the historic Segrave Trophy to John Surtees OBE. Speaking at the award ceremony, RAC chairman Tom Purves said: “John is one of the most accomplished and versatile sportsmen of all time, winning seven motorcycle World Championships and then victory in the 1964 Formula One...
A selection of Ferrari supercars are the latest offerings for the 2013 RM Auctions Villa d’Este sale, scheduled for the...
It is interesting to note that the two most iconic constructors of Italian road-going sports cars—Ferrari and Maserati—only grudgingly began...
For the first time in his career, Marvin Panch posed for a photo before an event. He would never do so again. It could have all ended so differently, this confluence of seemingly random events that culminated that cold Valentine’s Day in 1963 at Daytona International Speedway, were it not...
High-powered Italian automotive exotica has always had an attraction for a select number of prominent people of means. Today it’s...
British expat, John Amette, is responsible for all Ferrari Classiche submissions for Ferrari of Newport Beach, Ferrari of San Diego...
As you’ll read in various sections of this month’s issue, the 2013 season got off to a surprisingly hot start with the annual orgy of collecting that is the Scottsdale auctions. While I want to come back around to what the overall market seems to be doing and where it...
Mike Lawrence Vintage Racecar recently published a letter from John Wright who is a nine of racing anecdotes. John told...
Kiwi Stephen Bell relocated to Colorado when he was 18 to find snow-skiing glory. Along the way, however, he also...
Luigi Fagioli Dan GurneyPhoto: Roger Dixon 1 Mario Andretti and Bruce McLaren drive a Ford GT40 MkIV to victory in the 12 Hours of Sebring endurance race (1967). 2 Hermann Lang drives a Mercedes W154 to victory in the Grand Prix in Pau, France (1939). Become a Member & Get...
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motor sports: the...
Palm Beach International Raceway, West Palm Beach, FL January 24–25, 2013 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This...
RM Auctions has announced the consignment of one of history’s most important racing Ferraris, the 1953 340/375 MM Pinin Farina Berlinetta Competizione, chassis 0320AM, which will be offered for sale at RM’s exclusive evening auction during the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este weekend on the shores of Lake Como in Cernobbio,...
Pete Brock, stylist for the Corvette Sting Ray, designer of the Cobra Daytona Coupe, founder of BRE and a multi-disciplined...
It’s all change for the Mille Miglia Commemoration and the Coppa d’Oro delle Dolomiti. The Mille Miglia has been brought...
MG’s fabled Competitions Department enjoyed near constant success on the international racing stage. With victories in road racing, rallying, trials and Land Speed Record attempts, the postwar competition and special tuning department in Abingdon, England, was synonymous with “Giant Killing” performance right up through 1967. However, the late ’60s brought...
It’s wrong to call Baconin Borzacchini the “eternal second,” as some motor sport historians do. Sure, he came 2nd in...
Founded originally in Massachusetts in the 1980s, SLR Automotive Restorations started out specializing in Mercedes-Benz. In particular, their work with...
Devin in the Details Photo: Jeff Mach Dear Casey, I would like to add a few things to my friend Mark Brinker’s article in your January 2013 edition. I have been associated with Bill Devin since 1954. We were good friends for his lifetime. At the insistence of his widow,...
Michael Andretti Al UnserPhoto: Jim Hatfield 1 Jody Scheckter drives a Ford-powered Tyrrell 007 to victory in the South African...
After some fifty years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was formed by the FIA (Federation...
Alpine and Renault – the Sports Prototypes Vols. 1 & 2 By Roy Smith Originally published in 2010, the story of Alpine and Renault is a culmination of a Sherlock Homes style of research, study and investigative interviews with those luminaries who designed, built, tested, raced and had “hands on”...
The 50th anniversary of the mid-engined Ferrari 250 LM will be celebrated at the 2013 Goodwood Revival, scheduled for 13-15...
A 1953 Ferrari 340/375 MM Pinin Farina Berlinetta Competizione will be featured at the 2013 RM Auctions Villa d’Este Auction, scheduled for May 25th in Cernobbio, Italy as part of the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este weekend. One of three works cars produced in 1953, the 1953 Ferrari 340/375 MM, chassis...
