The Ferrari Tribute to Mille Miglia 2011 took place May 11-14, starting and ending in Brescia, Italy. After three days...
The Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance 2011 will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Ferrari 250 GTO with more than twenty...
1990 Penske PC19-Ilmor Chevrolet I first saw Roger Penske racing a Maserati Birdcage at Lime Rock Park in Connecticut. He won a superb battle with Peter Ryan’s Lotus 19. Penske was smooth…in every way. He was young, good-looking and very determined. My interest was also sparked by the fact that...
By now you will likely be aware that this month marks the 100th anniversary of that most hallowed of American...
The noise and spectacle of the Can-Am Challenge Cup sees a rebirth in 2011. The revival of this iconic series...
The 1948 Ferrari 166 MM is the definitive 1950s sports car configuration, with its smooth envelope, long flowing hood and short tail. Named for the Mille Miglia race, it was created by Carrozzeria Touring in Milan, and compared to the 125S, from which it was developed, the Barchetta (“little boat”)...
F1-67 “NONDA” Think back, if you can, to the 1950s, ’60s, ’70s and possibly even the ’80s. Did you ever...
Tim Mayer Photo: autopics.com.au A.J. Foyt Photo: Jim Hatfield 2 Hermann Lang drives a Mercedes-Benz to victory in the Grand...
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motor sports: the...
The outrageous Group B cars from the World Rally Championship of the 1980s have been added to the Donington Historic Festival scheduled for the weekend of April 29–May 1. Ultimately banned from the sport for being too fast, the Group B cars were truly wicked machines that showcased what could...
The Ferrari Club of America’s Southwest Region (FCA SW) will host the Concorso Ferrari 2011 in Pasadena, California on May...
1965 JWF Valano GT It was the classic case of three schoolmates with like interests that eventually evolved into a profitable...
Roberto Moreno enjoyed a productive career in the upper levels of professional motor sport even though his accomplishments may not have matched his talent or his promise. Like a number of young South Americans of his generation, Moreno realized that if he were to make a go of his racing...
The Targa Florio; Sicily, April 30, 1961. Olivier Gendebien goes airbone over a rise in the Ferrari Dino 246SP with...
After some fifty years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was formed by the FIA (Federation...
The Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance will mark another major automotive milestone next March when its 2012 show celebrates the 50th anniversary of the legendary Ferrari 250 GTO. Built between 1962 and 1964, the GTO is universally considered the most desirable of all Ferraris. Always wrapped into a seminar format, Amelia...
A celebration of the 125th anniversary of the creation of the automobile will be the central theme of the 61st...
1964 Lotus 30 During his test drive at Silverstone, the author found that most of what he’d heard about the...
Frank Williams started out like so many racers, with little more than his desire to go racing. Over nearly half a century, however, he built that desire into a multiple World Championship-winning entity that employs several hundred people, and to honor those accomplishments, in 1999 he was knighted by Queen...
With a dad like Stan Jones it was hardly surprising that Alan became a motor racing nut when he was...
Wandering through that great Goodwood paddock of my mind, I delight in thousands of historic racing machines at every hand....
For a baker’s dozen of years in the late 1950s and early ’60s, Nassau in the Bahamas Islands hosted a week-long, end-of-year party disguised as a race meeting. It was an event that virtually everyone looked forward to and the cast of characters that wrote its history was truly world...
The Ferrari Challenge returns to Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca on May 21-22, 2011, headlined by the F1 Corse Clienti program...
Ferrari revealed the first photographs and information about the new FF, the company’s most powerful, versatile four-seater ever, as well...
Story by Stephen Mitchell The first time I saw a Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta Lusso was at Riverside Raceway where I was attending the Times Grand Prix. The Mecom team–which earlier had campaigned a GTO I would later acquire–was there with a one-off special named the Hussein for A.J. Foyt...
The Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the legendary Ferrari 250 GTO at its 2012 event....
We concluded last month’s opening segment of John Zimmermann’s interview with David Hobbs as he was preparing to turn his...
Recently, I was judging at a racecar concours in Southern California, when I ran into an old friend named Dave Wolin. Dave was showing an interesting creation that he had put together—it was a fiberglass Mercedes Gullwing body, nicely adapted to enclose a NASCAR Sportsman tubeframe chassis and running gear....
