During the 1978 season, Mario Andretti and Ronnie Peterson dominated the FIA’s Formula One World Championship. From its introduction at...
I don’t think there has ever been a car that has captured the public’s imagination more than the Jaguar E-Type....
Cisitalia 202 was a ground-breaking post-war design that placed Pininfarina at the forefront of automotive design. The late 19th century was not a great time for the Farina family to be bringing up eleven children in rural Italy. The tenth was christened Battista, and with all these mouths to feed...
Laury, Lucy O’Reilly and Harry Schell were father, mother and son. They were all larger than life characters who made...
The Jaguar D-Type made its public debut at the 1954 24 Hours of Le Mans, where four cars were entered by the factory, including this one for Stirling Moss and Peter Walker. After harrassing the ultimately victorious Ferrari of Froilan Gonzales and Maurice Trintignant in the early going, however, the...
So what do you do if you’re a leading pulmonologist, at a National Cancer Research hospital, and you can’t find...
Dam Problems Dear Editor Pete Lyons article (Fast Lines, Dec. 2012) was interesting because I was involved with both Jim...
Nino Farina Jim HallPhoto: Keith Booker 1 Sports car racer Jim Pace born (1961). 2 Al Holbert, Derek Bell and Al Unser Jr. drive a Löwenbrau-sponsored Porsche 962 to victory in the 24 Hours of Daytona (1986). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
Motor Racing at Thruxton – in the 1980s By Bruce Grant-Braham The latest volume in publisher Veloce’s “Those were the...
Situated on the edge of the Lincolnshire Fens, the sleepy market town streets of Bourne came alive to the sound...
• Coys rounded off a successful year with their final auction of 2012, “True Greats”, on December 4th, at Westminster, London, with sale results now nearing £4 million, and many new record auction prices achieved for the year in the UK. Among the many cars sold was a BMW 328...
Pete Lyons Stirling Moss deliberately steering his Lotus into rain puddles around the Nürburgring—reading about that may have been the...
At the Paris Auto Show in 1959, Ferrari closed out the decade right by unveiling their most wonderful GT to...
Restoration and certification work has resumed in the recently renovated Ferrari Classiche department which now boasts a packed workshop of 24 cars with some of the most significant and valuable classic Ferraris ever seen under one roof. The Classiche department is working on no fewer than five of the 36...
The author rides the iconically liveried Mirage up onto the curb while negotiating a left-hander at Silverstone. Photo: Pete Austin The...
In remembering and memorializing John Fitch upon the occasion of his death, Vintage Racecar has produced this brief photographic summary...
John BarnardPhoto: Mike Jiggle In the first two installments of our multi-part interview with John Barnard he discussed his early years with Lola and McLaren, how he developed his design philosophy and then looked at his experiences in Indycar racing and, back in Formula One, with McLaren and Ferrari. In...
It’s hard to believe it is already January 2013! With the coming of the New Year comes renewed attention and...
Indian Wells, California October 10-14, 2012 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More)...
Would you trade a front-engine 12-cylinder Ferrari for a Devin SS in boxes? That’s what Harold Pace did—are you with him on that? When the name Devin comes up in conversation, too many in the hobby instantly think of kit bodies. Although important, that in no way describes the Devin...
Vincenzo Florio David DonohuePhoto: Chuck Andersen 1 F1 racer and six-time Le Mans winner Jackie Ickx born in Brussels, Belgium...
The FIA sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations...
This site is a tribute to specialist car builder Bill Devin, and is indeed labeled his “Home Page.” Its opening image is almost minimalist, but when you go exploring, clicking on the various tabs and links, the site comes alive. VUnder the first of these tabs, “The Man” you’ll find...
Two major exhibitions opened recently in “Motorland,” as the locals often call Modena, the unofficial home of Italy’s high-performance racers...
The annual support race at the 24 Hours of Le Mans is one of the most important events in all...
Sicily. Discuss. Well, it’s an island, it has, shall we say, a fearsome reputation and it was once home to probably the greatest race in the world. After four days of covering the Eco Targa Florio, or Targa Classic, organized ably by MAC, the same people who now run the...
John Fitch lived a life filled with adventure and invention that is difficult to capture in a brief such as...
The 22nd Annual Palm Beach Cavallino Classic will be presented in Palm Beach, Florida, on January 22 to 27, 2013....
• RM Auctions announced that its annual London Battersea sale generated £14,266,030 ($23,039,638) in sales with 84 percent of total lots sold. The top performer of the sale was a 1959 Ferrari 250 GT LWB Berlinetta “Tour de France”, which sold for a strong £1,960,000. Second highest lot sold was...
