This past February, the fifth annual Leadfoot Festival was held at international rally champion Rod Millen’s ranch on the Coromandel...
Clive Chapman, son of famed Lotus founder Colin Chapman and the guiding light at Classic Team Lotus, revealed an interesting...
I grew up on a farm in Northern Ireland, far removed from motor sport, and my parents strongly disapproved of my even being interested in the sport. As my mother one day said to me, “It’s not as if you’ll ever take part.” How wrong she was! From the glamor...
October 2016 From the British Grand Prix at Aintree on July 18, 1959, we see Carroll Shelby trying hard with...
Jo Siffert Peter Revson 1 Pedro and Ricardo Rodriguez drive a NART Ferrari 250 GTO to victory in the 1000K...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These early innovators are in an elite club, their place in automotive history guaranteed as the creators of a true classic sports car, a genuine thoroughbred. The development of the racing...
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“At Monaco you get everything that you meet on a public road lampposts, trees, nightclubs, houses, hotels, curbs, gutters, you know it’s a proper road race in the true meaning of the word.” -Graham Hill, five-time winner Photo: Roger Dixon The 1968 running of the Monaco Grand Prix was my...
Initially, Jean-Pierre Jabouille made his mark in France’s national Formula Three racing in 1968. Not only did he race, but...
Not only did Rubens win 11 Grands Prix, competing in more of them than any other driver, came 2nd in...
One of the highlights of my many years of racing has to do with the 1966 Trans-Am Mustang that Jerry Titus (1928-1970) drove to victory for Ford and Shelby. Ford was tied up at the end of the series with Dodge, and as a result Shelby built this special, one-off...
This offering from the Spanish artist Fernando Hoyos is an original painting later printed in limited edition, signed and numbered....
September 2016 Into the first corner of the 1980 South African Grand Prix at Kyalami, Jean-Pierre Jabouille’s Renault RE20 leads...
Karl Kling David Brown 1 Ferdinando Minoia drives an Isotta-Fraschini to victory in the Coppa Florio race in Italy (1907). 2 Sports car and F1 racer Willy Mairesse commits suicide in his hotel room in Ostend, Belgium (1969). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
BMW has long followed a policy of racing cars and engines derived from production vehicles. Until BMW entered Formula One...
When he was a kid in Clermont-Ferrand, France, Patrick Depailler’s idol was French motorcycle champion and racing driver Jean Behra....
Oscar Wilde wrote, “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” This sounds a lot like the car hobby to me. In April, I received a series of emails from Jeffrey Turner of Melbourne, Australia, regarding a racecar he acquired in 2005. Turner wrote, “Having read many ‘Hidden Treasures’ columns...
Giuseppe Campari Riddelle Gregory 3 The ISRS race at Zolder, Holland, is won by Didier Theys and Freddy Lienhard, driving...
Streets of Pau, Pau, France May 20-22, 2016 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
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Formula 1: All the Races, 1950-2015 By Roger Smith With the Formula One World Championship celebrating its 65th year and...
• Watkins Glen International has announced that Jaguar Cars North America will sponsor the United States Vintage Grand Prix weekend,...
Despite the weather, the IROC Camaro proved capable on both the oval track at Rockingham and Silverstone’s club circuit. Photo: Pete Austin Since the dawn of motor racing there have been those who continually ask the question, “Who is the best driver?” Some give very qualified opinions, others are dogmatic that the...
Touring car racing has usually been seen as the court jester to the serious stuff of single-seaters, but in a...
Tom Kendall may be best remembered for his dominant 1997 championship season in the SCCA’s Trans-Am series when he set...
The world of Formula One enjoyed a jolt of much needed excitement during the recent Spanish Grand Prix, when young Max Verstappen became the youngest driver to ever win a Grand Prix—at the tender age of 18. Verstappen can now add this F1 landmark to another he earned last year...
Women drivers in Formula One are rare indeed. Since the start of the F1 World Championship in 1950, only five...
When I was young, growing up in Spain was very difficult for lovers of motor racing. The Spanish were then...
Tazio Nuvolari Biography Tazio Nuvolari a legend in his own lifetime, was known as Il Montavano Volante, the Flying Mantuan. He epitomized courage and daring and for 30 years he amazed the racing world with his exploits on both two and four wheels. He was born November 18, 1892, in Casteldrio...
