Jim Hall, creator of the legendary Chaparrals and the man who gave Gil de Ferran his first Indycar drive, was...
The 12th Goodwood Revival was a huge and complex event. Fifteen races for historic cars and motorcycles were just a...
The first shake-down has been held at Fiorano of a very special one-off, the P540 Superfast Aperta, built for an American client. The car, the second in a new Special Projects programme created by Ferrari to meet requests from the most discerning clients and collectors to create truly unique models,...
There is strong competition to be among the 120 Ferraris built between 1958 and the present that will precede the...
Story and photos by Leigh Dorrington The recent Saratoga Wine & Food and Fall Ferrari Festival honoring Luigi Chinetti’s North...
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The Ferrari F40 Reunion Group has announced their intention to join Concorso Italiano in 2010 to celebrate 20 Years of...
Michele Alboreto Photo: Maureen Magee Emerson Fittipaldi Photo: Keith Booker 1 Scuderia Ferrari is formed (1929). 3 Wendell Scott, the...
The Canadian-American Challenge Cup was a series nicknamed the “unlimited” series co-sanctioned by the Sports Car Club of America and the Canadian Automobile Sport Clubs. Although there was a basic set of rules—the cars had to be two-seaters with bodywork covering the wheels, have doors, a windscreen, brake lights, and...
December 2009 Ferrari 312P & 312PB By Ed McDonough and Peter Collins Billed as “the story of a great car...
The 1965 Le Mans-winning NART Ferrari 250LM driven by Jochen Rindt and Masten Gregory and currently owned by the Indianapolis...
Even before the start, the pole-setting car was out of the race. In qualifying for the September 5th Woodcote Trophy race at Donington, Spencer Marsh’s Jaguar D-type would have taken pole position by one-hundredth of a second from Tony Dron in Ben Eastick’s D-type, were it not for an expensive...
Motor racing was banned in Switzerland in the aftermath of the 1955 Le Mans disaster, one of the most catastrophic...
Jean Sage, who headed up Renault’s original factory effort in Formula One, has died at the age of 68 at...
Dr. Elio Zagato passed away in Milan, Italy, on September 15. The son of Ugo Zagato, founder of the famed Milanese coachbuilder, Elio played a significant role in both automotive design and the Gran Turismo racing scene in the post-war era. Having first raced in 1947 with a rebodied Fiat...
The 2010 Mille Miglia will be held May 6-9, starting and ending in Brescia, Italy. After the success of this...
Today almost exclusively remembered as the genius behind the competition cars named for a road-running bird in the southwest, Jim...
Many car enthusiasts appreciate and collect fine watches. This should not be surprising as it mirrors their passion for both finer things and mechanical pieces. I have noticed this trend over the last 19 years as a purveyor of fine automotive memorabilia in Toronto. I cannot tell you how many...
Part II We concluded last month’s opening segment of John Wright’s interview with Bruce Kessler as he was preparing to...
I’ve been fairly fortunate in that I have been able to part with various cars in my life, with a...
This exquisitely done painting depicts Juan Manuel Fangio, the five-time Formula One World Champion, finishing 5th in the 1956 Mille Miglia with the factory Ferrari 290MM. During the race he was delayed by carburetion problems, and further exasperated by the cold and persistent rain, all of which made the event...
November 2009 During the German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring on August 4, 1957, Ferrari driver Luigi Musso brakes for...
Peter Collins Jacques Lafitte Photo: Mike Jiggle 5 Grand Prix and Le Mans winner Louis Rosier is born in Chapdes-Beaufort,...
The latest incarnation of the Silverstone Classic took place around the full Grand Prix circuit on the weekend of July 24–26, 2009. This event was once the leading historic motor sport gathering in Europe, and in recent years a succession of promoters have made brave attempts to revive former glories....
Story by Leigh Dorrington and photos by Tom Sullivan The inaugural Saratoga Wine & Food and Fall Festival in Saratoga...
Bruce Kessler had a meteoric motorsports career, which started with drag racing his mother’s Jaguar XK120, progressed to practicing for...
Enzo Ferrari telephoned his driver Peter Collins before the 1956 Grand Prix of Italy for one of “those” conversations. The Great Man said he would not ask Peter to give up his chance of winning the year’s Formula One World Championship in favor of Fangio, but he wanted to know...
My father, Tom Bamford, first got involved in motor sport in his late teens when he bought an Ariel motorcycle...
As everyone knows, after the 1960 racing season, Carroll Shelby retired as a driver and became even better known for...
Losing a child is one of the harshest agonies of life, and even people who don’t personally know John and Jane Surtees have expressed true heartache about the shocking death of young Henry Surtees. Their 18-year-old son, a very promising driver, died July 19th in a freak racing accident. A...
