Ralph DePalma Enzo Ferrari Charlie Whiting Jackie Oliver 1 The Prest-O-Lite smokestack outside of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway is torn...
August 2018 Danny Sullivan “Big Daddy” Don Garlits W.O. Bentley Frank Nichols 1 – “Big Daddy” Don Garlits becomes the...
Only three of the world’s oldest motor races still take place. The most senior of them is the 500 Miles of Indianapolis, which was first run in 1911 and is still going strong. Next comes the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the first of which was in 1923. And the...
Giuseppe Campari Riddelle Gregory 3 The ISRS race at Zolder, Holland, is won by Didier Theys and Freddy Lienhard, driving...
Dozens of books and thousands of articles have been written about Enzo Ferrari and the Scuderia he founded in 1929,...
Photo: Peter Collins Cruise through Como on Saturday; line up for the Parma Poggio hillclimb on Sunday. Alfa Romeo: great looks and high performance. What combination could be more natural? Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is...
King George V thought it was very funny. “You’re late, my boy,” he guffawed. The world’s fastest human being had...
Exotic doesn’t cut it when it comes to describing this gutsy, fun-loving, vivacious show-off of a beauty who was born...
Mark Donohue Giuseppe Campari 3 Manfred von Brauchitsch drives a Mercedes-Benz W25 to its first victory when he wins the Eifel Race on the Nürburgring in Germany (1934). 4 The first organized midget race, sanctioned by the newly formed Midget Racing Association, is held in Sacramento, California (1933). Become a...
Giuseppe Campari Biography Born Cavaliere Giuseppe Campari near the city of Lodi southwest of Milan, as a teenager he went...
Peter Revson Alan Jones Photo: Pete Austin 2 Sports car racer Louis Krages, aka “John Winter,” born (1949). 3 Ronnie...
Alfa Romeo will be 100 years old on June 24 and its motor sport pedigree almost 99—one of only a handful of companies that can trace their motor racing heritage back to the start of the 20th century. But Alfa’s is a kind of pear-shaped pedigree, in which the Italian...
No way did Elisabeth Junek look like a racing driver. She was, well, a woman to begin with, and there...
Ronnie Peterson Giuseppe Campari 1 James Hunt, driving a McLaren-Ford, wins the German Grand Prix on the Nürburgring. Niki Lauda...
It may sound corny, but Dick Seaman’s short life really was the stuff of Hollywood movies. He was tall, handsome, Britain’s top racing driver, married to a BMW heiress, needed Adolf Hitler’s personal approval to join the Mercedes-Benz motor racing team, and then poked the Nazis in the eye by...
Achille Varzi was the opposite of his capricious nemesis Tazio Nuvolari, who was steeped in instinctive talent. Varzi was a...
No other Grand Prix winner has ever sung Puccini, Verdi and Leoncavallo in public or been able to cook like...
