Spencer Martin first came to prominence in Australia when racing a variety of cars, including his early model Holden sedan....
October 2010 At the sports car races in Palm Springs on the first weekend of December, 1955, Tony Parravano (third from left) looks at Carroll Shelby who’s seated in Parravano’s Ferrari 375 Plus before a practice session. Parravano was known as “Saturday Night Tony” because he often wouldn’t bother to...
Tazio Nuvolari James Hunt Photo: Dennis Gray 1 Dick Johnson and John Bowe drive a Ford Sierra to victory in...
The Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal rejoined the FIA’s World Championship for Formula One calendar this year after a one-year hiatus, and among the events supporting the featured contest on Le Circuit Gilles Villeneuve was an appearance by the cars and drivers of Historic Grand Prix. HGP’s members present cars...
The Alfa Romeo museum at Arese, on the outskirts of Milan, Italy, has been placed under official supervision, the first...
Jaguar’s regal record in the world’s most prestigious sports car race was assembled over many years We may not automatically...
The steering feel; that’s what I remember best. The pinion perfectly meshing with its rack was a tactile delight in my fingers, giving a sense of well-bedded and properly oiled Olde English machinery cheery in its work. Second impression: the way that long, lazy-seeming six awakened at 3000 rpm and...
Zagato and the heritage of Italian design will be featured by the 2010 Fall Ferrari Festival in Saratoga Springs, New...
In a move aimed at the many fans who flock to visit the Galleria Ferrari in Maranello every day, the...
1962 Porsche 804 Dan Gurney was about as versatile as a racecar driver could ever be. He pretty much skipped the junior grades of motor racing and went in at what we could safely call the “deep end.” He drove sports cars in America, then in Europe, moved to Grand...
Dan Gurney’s motor racing career as a driver, car constructor and team owner is just about as star-spangled as his...
Dan Gurney Biography He drove in the last great era of Grand Prix racing before the advent of tobacco advertising...
This Uli Ehret painting displays the Eau Rouge corner at Spa-Francorchamps back in 1967. The setting is exactly as it appeared in that year, when Dan Gurney won that year’s Belgian Grand Prix with his Gurney-Weslake-powered Eagle against the mighty opposition of Jim Clark and the other F1 stars of...
Peter Revson Alan Jones Photo: Pete Austin 2 Sports car racer Louis Krages, aka “John Winter,” born (1949). 3 Ronnie...
August 2010 Formula III Racing In North America By Harry Reynolds This is the book a small band of believers...
A rare, “pontoon-fendered” Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa will headline RM Auctions’s 25th Anniversary Sports and Classics of Monterey event during Auto Week this August. The Scaglietti-designed TR is one of the most prized Ferraris ever, with only 21 built during a two-year run in 1957-’58. This car, chassis number 0738...
Story and photos by Stephen Mitchell Once upon a time, I received a call from an acquaintance Mario Tosi. He...
The Ferrari 458 Challenge made its world premiere debut in Maranello during their annual dealer meeting, a traditional event that...
The Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance 2010 will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Ferrari 250 GT Short Wheelbase Berlinetta by displaying eight SWBs on the 18th fairway of the Pebble Beach Golf Links in California. Racing great Sir Stirling Moss, who serves among the Honorary Judges at the Pebble Beach...
Ferrari 312B Car: Ferrari 312B / Engine: 1800 12-Cylinder Boxer / Maker: Ferrari / Bore X Stroke: 80 mm X 49.6 mm...
Gooding & Company announced five Italian consignments for its August 14th & 15th Pebble Beach Auctions 2010. Spanning two important...
1976 March 76B I have a confession to make. When I was but a pubescent young man, I used to lie in bed at night and fantasize…that I was Gilles Villeneuve. In an era before in-car cameras, I could close my eyes and visualize a complete lap of the U.S....
Alfa Romeo had gone from zero to hero and beyond from the 1911 Targa Florio to the 1936 Mille Miglia....
Keke Rosberg was a kind of motor racing Cinderella Man. He went from the drudgery of retiring or not even...
The 1970 Le Mans 24 hours is immortalized in the the Steve McQueen film Le Mans, with much of the film’s footage taken from that race. Rain fell heavily throughout the night, and this was the first time the traditional “Le Mans start,” in which drivers ran across the track...
Like all heroes, Brett Lunger denies being one. To him, running into fire broiling from Niki Lauda’s crashed Ferrari, its...
Here’s yet another source for rare, hand-held video of the old days as shot by those who were there. Courtesy...
Former Formula One driver of the 1970s, Loris Kessel, has succumbed to his long-term battle with leukemia. Kessel’s early dream was to emulate the driving abilities of fellow Swiss Grand Prix driver, Jo Siffert. His early racing experiences were with an Alfa Romeo Spyder and later a Fiat 128. In...
