Ralph DePalma John Surtees 1 Sportscar racer Jim Pace born (1961). 2 Al Holbert, Derek Bell and Al Unser Jr....
Pete Lyons Something is missing. Look around the race tracks, the city streets, the holiday hotspots … see what isn’t...
Sergio Scaglietti, who died at the age of 91 on November 20, was the son of a carpenter who became Ferrari’s body stylist par excellence. Today, the cars he fashioned by hand in the ’50s and ’60s are worth tens of millions of dollars each. Scaglietti was a painfully modest...
After an aborted late summer start, the inaugural Mille Miglia North America Tribute finally put rubber to the road from...
A Ferrari 330 GTO will be among the featured entrants at the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance 2012, scheduled for March...
A museum dedicated to Enzo Ferrari and motorsport will open March 10, 2012 in Modena, Italy. The Enzo Ferrari House Museum will open its doors to the public with an exhibition titled, “The Origins of the Myth” that will explore the story of Enzo Ferrari the man, the driver and...
This year marks the 50th Anniversary of the race that began as the Daytona Continental in 1962 and evolved into...
The Daytona Continental (3 Hours) Race; Daytona, February 17, 1963. Pedro Rodriguez in the N.A.R.T.-entered Ferrari 250 GTO leads Skip Hudson’s...
A.J. Foyt Pedro Rodriguez 2 Walter Sobraske, machinist for Miller, Schofield, Offenhauser and Meyer & Drake (later shop forman), born in West Virginia (1901). 3 Dave MacDonald wins the USRRC race at Augusta, Georgia, driving a King Cobra (1964). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (&...
The FIA sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations...
A 1959 Ferrari 250 GT LWB California Spider from the Jean-Claude Bajol Collection will headline the 2012 Artcurial Motorcars Retromobile...
Montjuic translates from medieval Catalan as “Hill of the Jews,” or an alternative derivation may be from the Latin Mons Jovicus “Hill of Jupiter.” Whatever the origin of its name, this hill that overlooks Barcelona’s harbor has been known as Montjuic for more than a thousand years. Now using the...
The 1971 season saw the arrival of the BRM P160. It won the Austrian and Italian Grands Prix in the...
The Canadian American Challenge Cup was co-sanctioned by the SCCA and CASC—it was a series nicknamed the “unlimited” series. Although...
That’s a question I found occupying (the few) idle moments of my mind during October’s Porsche Rennsport Reunion IV at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. That will happen if you spend four days cooped up in a 400-sq-ft tent lined with racing photos on display and notice that some seem to...
As the ninth annual The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering had chosen to honor Ferrari’s limited edition, top-end America and Superamerica...
If you arrived at Goodwood just after the gates opened on any of the three days (September 16-18) there’s every...
Top seller at RM’s Monterey Auction was this exquisite 1937 Mercedes-Benz 540 K Spezial Roadster that drew a winning bid of $9.68m.Photo: Courtesy of RM Auctions Thirty-one cars sold for more than a million dollars and several new world records were established last August during Monterey’s annual Classic Car Week. This...
By Edward Lenahan Among the many reasons to read Michael Cannell’s newest novel “The Limit,” which accurately reanimates the 1961...
Last month we ran the first half of the tale of Hal Crocker’s relationship with Peter Gregg, encompassing the early...
Helmets Make the Man Dear Editor I read Mike Lawrence’s “Helmets” column with great interest. I did my own helmet design, using horizontal red stripes, which were meant to evoke the stripes on the American flag. The idea was to have the design be visible from any angle, and also...
Gaston Chevrolet Peter Revson 1 Mika Hakkinen wins the Japanese GP and his first Formula One World Title at Suzuka...
The 50th anniversary of Ferrari’s landmark 250 GTO will be celebrated with a special GTO class at the 17th annual...
Phil Hill, who became America’s first F1 World Champion 50 years ago, is the subject of a special exhibit at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. Scheduled to run from early September through Thanksgiving weekend, the exhibit, Phil Hill: The Life of a Legend, includes photos, trophies and memorabilia...
By Tim Scott My infatuation with the Ferrari marque goes back to the 1970s, and my ‘formative’ years. As a...
The original idea for this “special” feature had been to do a test on Porsche’s famed Moby Dick…the 935/78 long-tail...
“Gregg, Peter (FA),” was filed between “Greenwood, John” and “Gregory, Masten.” The file, dog-eared and stained with the outline of a coffee cup, showed its age; it dated back to 1970. I recognized the handwriting, it was mine; the (FA) did not stand for Formula Atlantic. This brought a smile...
As you’ll read throughout this issue, in honor of this month’s Porsche Rennsport Reunion IV, we’re paying our own tribute...
This original water color painting by Uli Ehret shows the IMSA GTX class Porsche 911 RSR driven by Larry Perkins,...
Jack Brabham Francois Cevert 2 Frank Griswold drives an Alfa Romeo 8C 2900 to victory in the Junior Prix, the first road race through the streets of Watkins Glen, New York (1948). 3 Brian Redman drives a BRM-Chevrolet to victory in the Interserie race at Hockenheim, West Germany (1971). Become...
