1964 World Champion Our Ed McDonough had the opportunity to interview John Surtees on a number of occasions, investigating how...
Photo: David Gooley, courtesy of the Don Murray Collection It is easy to examine an early Ferrari or a Maserati...
Luigi Bazzi Biography He was called the soul of Ferrari. He had been there from the beginning and Enzo Ferrari recalled his trusted friend as “the founding member of the old guard of collaborators. Working at Ferrari till he was over eighty when health finally forced him to leave Ferrari’s side. Due...
Today we think of Fiat’s role in Grand Prix racing as the owner of Ferrari, but the Turin company was...
Visitors to the 9th annual Put-in-Bay Road Races Reunion, scheduled for August 27-30, 2017, will discover a decidedly Italian flavor...
It’s not often that a Formula One driver can turn his hand to World Championship rallying. Look at 2007 F1 world champion Kimi Raikkonen. He cut his Grand Prix career short in 2010 to join Citroën, but could only turn in mediocre results, before returning in 2012 to what he...
1939 Balilla 1100 Fiat’s Step into the Future One of the problems with owning a car like none other is...
Much like the animal it was named for, the precise origin of the Unicorn H-Modified sports racer remains a mystery....
Denny HulmePhoto: Hal Crocker Jim ClarkPhoto: Trevor Taylor Collection 2 The TWR Jaguar XJR-6 is driven for the first time in a test session at Snetterton, England, by Martin Brundle (1985). 3 Michael Kranefuss, NASCAR team owner and one-time head of racing at Ford, born (1938). Become a Member &...
The Formula Junior category was introduced in Italy in 1958 by Count Giovanni Lurani, and in 1959 became an International...
Dozens of books and thousands of articles have been written about Enzo Ferrari and the Scuderia he founded in 1929,...
Hermann Lang Vittorio Jano 1 The first Ford GT40 is completed, 11 months after pencil was first put to paper (1964). 3 Peter Bryant, designer of the Ti22, Shadow MkII and Shadow MkIII Can-Am cars, born in London, England (1937). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article...
I love Italian sports cars, and if they were built in the 1950s or 1960s, even better. At the top...
Like his uncle Gianni Agnelli, Ludovico Scarfiotti was a suave, well-mannered gentleman who was no stranger to the privileges of...
Next Wednesday, October 21, 2015, The Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum in Philadelphia is presenting “90 Years of Italian Design Excellence,” a unique, live demonstration featuring some 20 excellent examples of Italian sports cars produced since 1925. Each car represents a landmark design embodying the evolution of Italian designers, and visitors...
Fiat Quickly Came Out of Nowhere to Win Racing Events. These Are The People Behind the Success. When one thinks...
Mike Lawrence Australia has decided to demote FF1600 and install Formula 4 as its national starter series. Formula 4 gives...
• Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) has announced that American racing legend Bobby Rahal has entered the second annual Classic 24 Hour at Daytona, presented by IMSA, November 12–15 at Daytona International Speedway. Rahal is a three-time Indycar National Champion and winner of the Indianapolis 500 as both a driver (1986)...
Mike Lawrence Recently, I was contacted by a chap in New Jersey who labored under the impression that I know...
Not even the falling snow that greeted competitors as they crested the famed Stelvio Pass—Italy’s highest—could dampen the spirit of...
Track map from the event program (inset) and an aerial view (main image) taken after several years of racing. The airport’s main runway has since been reconstructed parallel to Hollister, the street on the far left, so the track could no longer be run as it once was.Photo: Michael A....
Stirling Moss accepts congratulations upon winning the 1956 Grand Prix of Bari in his works Maserati 300S.Photo: Maserati Archive Maserati...
The 2013 Mille Miglia to Argentina. Where Juan Manuel Fangio was unable to succeed back in the ’50s, his countrymen Juan Tonconogy and Guillermo Berisso did so almost 60 years later. They won the much more sedate regularity commemorative event last May in their Bugatti T40, which was built the...
The late Gianni Agnelli’s favorite cars went on show at the Museum of the Automobile in Turin, Italy, on March...
Quite simply, cars raced by Dick Seaman are few and far between. The British driver was active in our sport...
It is interesting to note that the two most iconic constructors of Italian road-going sports cars—Ferrari and Maserati—only grudgingly began offering Grand Touring cars in the 1950s. For founders Enzo Ferrari and the Maserati brothers, racing was their focus and their passion. Yet, in a post-war world screaming for sports...
High-powered Italian automotive exotica has always had an attraction for a select number of prominent people of means. Today it’s...
As you’ll read in various sections of this month’s issue, the 2013 season got off to a surprisingly hot start...
Bugatti entered a team of four, 8-cylinder Type 30s for the 1922 French Grand Prix at Strasbourg. Clothed in an aerodynamic body, these new Bugattis quickly earned the nickname “Le Cigar.” It was a successful debut for the car, as from 18 starters only four cars finished the race with...
