Porsche by Mailander By Karl Ludvigsen Rodolfo Mailander was a German photographer whose work had already achieved a degree of...
The Ferrari Owners Club of Great Britain held their 2011 National Meet and Concours on 10-11 September at Heythorp Park...
Ferrari 500 Car: Ferrari 500 / Engine: 4-Cylinder In-Line / Maker: Ferrari / Bore X Stroke: 98 X 76 mm / Year: 1952 / Capacity: 1,984.85 cc / Class: Formula 2 / Power: 185 bhp at 7,500 rpm / Wheelbase: 2650 mm After the excitement of a new World Championship. Formula 1...
The Ferrari GTO will be featured at the 2012 Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance, scheduled for March 9-11 on the 10th...
Nigel Mansell Stirling MossPhoto: Pete Austin 1 Pietro Laureati wins Italy’s Tolentino Colle Paterno hillclimb driving an Alfa Romeo T33 Stradale...
Pete Lyons Do you remember the moment when enthusiasm for motorsports exploded inside you? Or at least started to smolder? Some of us may have been born burning, in terms of our passion for racing, but probably most needed the right mixture of circumstance and spark. Become a Member & Get...
In 1951 Froilan Gonzalez raced to victory at Silverstone to win the British Grand Prix. It was the first Grand...
The Ferrari 250 GTO class was a featured race at the 2011 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, held August 19-21 at...
Heavy Duty Lightweights 1961 Jaguar XKE “Coombs Lightweight” & 1963 Jaguar XKE “Qvale Lightweight” Photo: Pete Austin The year 2011 marks 50 years of the E-Type Jaguar or, as some of you know it better, the XKE. It’s a bit unsettling to find myself being unphased by remembering things that happened 50...
A million clichés come to mind. Giant killer is probably the worst, pummelled to death by a thousand newspaper hacks,...
During my mid-teens a particular photograph in Motor Sport caught my eye. It was of an old Aston Martin racing...
Pete Lyons Have you ever crushed an aluminum can, then found yourself wondering, “Could I straighten it back out, like new?” Of course you couldn’t … unless you’re a metalsmithing sorcerer like those at Classic Motor Cars Ltd. (CMC), one of those fabled restoration shops in the dear old UK,...
By Stephen Mitchell A friend once asked me what was the fastest I’d ever driven a car. My answer was...
Gooding & Company announced that the 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa Prototype (s/n 0666 TR) and the 1963 Shelby Cobra...
Alberto Ascari was a man in a hurry. In a relatively short Grand Prix career between 1948 and 1955, he became Formula One World Champion in 1952 and 1953, winning nine consecutive races on his way to the 1952 title. Ascari also finished second in Mexico’s La Carrera Panamericana in...
Gooding & Company will feature five coachbuilt Ferraris at its 2011 Pebble Beach Auctions, scheduled for August 20-21 in Pebble...
1956 Lycoming Special The immediate post World War Two years were best described as austere times for many countries, even...
Debutante’s Ball On a list of the greatest Grand Prix races will be the names of several which will strike a chord for all racing enthusiasts: the German Grand Prix 1957, Monaco 1955, France 1979, Spa 1998. The year 1961 could account for three races on that list…Monaco, Nürburgring and...
The BRM Years Tony Southgate Photo: Pete Austin Last November we began an ongoing series of interviews with Tony Southgate, the...
I started to race not very, very, young like today as I didn’t have the permission of my father to...
Pete Lyons Hail the “Mod Scot!” Such a thought must have flickered through many minds as 27 Group 7 machines rumbled around Mosport toward the first starting flag of the sixth season of the fabulous but faltering Can-Am series. Jackie Stewart, flop-haired superstar of F1, was on pole in his...
Arizona Highways near Tempe, AZ April 9–13, 2011 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
To supplement this month’s feature story on the 1961 French Grand Prix we offer this nearly 20-minute clip in summary...
In celebration of its 50th birthday, more than 20 examples of the Ferrari 250 GTO, considered by many to be the greatest Ferrari ever, are expected to be displayed at the 2011 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance on Sunday, August 21. Only 36 250 GTOs were originally produced, along with two...
Well-known America racing driver Pete Lovely has died at the age of 85 from complications of Alzheimer’s Disease. Lovely’s career...
Star consignments for the RM Auctions Monterey 2011 sale are beginning to surface, headlined by the matching-numbers 1955 Ferrari 750...
I was blessed with car-friendly parents and grandparents. My mother, who took part in several rallying events as a driver, was an only child and had been influenced very much by my grandfather’s love of motoring. I remember one day my grandfather arrived driving a wonderful Ferrari 365 GT 2+2....
Mark Donohue Giuseppe Campari 3 Manfred von Brauchitsch drives a Mercedes-Benz W25 to its first victory when he wins the...
Over 2-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever changing regulations of International Motorsports;...
Photos by Dennis Gray and Bob Ross The second race of the 2011 North American Ferrari Challenge Series was held May 21-22 at the 11-turn, 2.238-mile Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca road course in Salinas, California. The Ferrari Racing Days Series offers Ferrari owners the opportunity to compete against each other...
