Like most German industrial companies, World War II left much of Mercedes-Benz’s Stuttgart factory in ruins. However, with time Mercedes...
It may be irrelevant to ascribe beauty to a racing car designed expressly for its function. But the 1938 W154...
July 3, 1938; French Grand Prix; Reims-Gueux Hermann Lang, in the Mercedes-Benz W154, at full speed across the fields of Eastern France. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION PO Box 8204, Stamford, CT 06905 USA., Tel: (203) 461-9804 • Fax: (203) 968-2970 E-mail: info@klemcoll.com • Web site: www.klemcoll.com...
Fed up with seeing their major races won by the Germans in the 1930s, the Italians allowed only 1½-liter entries...
All American Racers’ DGF Formula Ford has its first track test at Willow Springs Raceway (1977). 1 – Jean-Pierre Jabouille drives...
Hermann Lang Bernd Rosemeyer 2 Louis de Palma drives a Benz to victory in the Vanderbilt Cup race in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (1912). 3 George Follmer wins the SCCA Trans-Am race at Riverside, California in an AMC Javelin (1971). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
Contracted to race as a senior driver for Mercedes-Benz in 1937, Lang validated his selection with victories in the Tripoli...
Luigi Fagioli Dan GurneyPhoto: Roger Dixon 1 Mario Andretti and Bruce McLaren drive a Ford GT40 MkIV to victory in...
In remembering and memorializing John Fitch upon the occasion of his death, Vintage Racecar has produced this brief photographic summary of his racing career. John FitchPhoto: Mercedes-Benz Before, after and during that career, however, John Fitch was much more than a racing driver. He served as pilot of both Light...
Audi has recently reacquired an extremely rare Auto Union Silver Arrow racing car consisting largely of original parts. It is...
Pavel Kasik recently bid farewell to his beloved Tatra T77 only days after completing its 20-year restoration. The Tatra started...
Karl Kling was born too late to join Rudolf Caracciola, Manfred Von Brauchitsch and Hermann Lang in their rampage through Grand Prix motor racing of the Thirties, and too early to give Juan Manuel Fangio, Stirling Moss and Hans Herrmann any real competition in the W196 of 1954 and 1955....
Following their conquest of Mexico’s Pan-American Road Race in November of 1952, Mercedes-Benz factory drivers Karl Kling and Hermann Lang...
Whether you are a fan of Formula One or not, it was hard to not read about the recent Bahrain Grand Prix. Due to the spreading “Arab Spring,” which has swept through many Middle Eastern countries as a backlash to oppressive or dictatorial governments, the Bahrain Grand Prix became a...
“Among my drivers, Giovanni Bracco was, perhaps, the one who scored the most spectacular success,” Enzo Ferrari once said about...
Cale Yarborough Juan Manuel Fangio 1 Jo Siffert and Brian Redman, sharing a Porsche 908 Spyder, win the 1000-kilometer sports...
You wouldn’t need all the fingers of one hand to count the number of men who could beat Juan Manuel Fangio around the daunting Nordschleife of the Nürburgring, but one of them was certainly a suave German named Rudolf Uhlenhaut. Strangely, he wasn’t a racing driver at all but a...
Mark Donohue Giuseppe Campari 3 Manfred von Brauchitsch drives a Mercedes-Benz W25 to its first victory when he wins the...
Hermann Lang Biography Born in 1909, Lang’s career started like many other drivers, on motorcycles. While the majority of the...
Tim Mayer Photo: autopics.com.au A.J. Foyt Photo: Jim Hatfield 2 Hermann Lang drives a Mercedes-Benz to victory in the Grand Prix race run in Pau, France (1939). 3 Battista “Pinin” Farina, auto racer and coach builder, dies (1966). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
Peter Revson Alan Jones Photo: Pete Austin 2 Sports car racer Louis Krages, aka “John Winter,” born (1949). 3 Ronnie...
May 2009 At the Donington Grand Prix in England on October 22, 1938, Silver Arrows pilot Dick Seaman applies the power to his Mercedes-Benz W154—along with a touch of opposite lock. He would finish 3rd, a lap behind Auto Union’s victorious Tazio Nuvolari and teammate Hermann Lang. Photo courtesy of: ...
One was born in Shelbyville, Indiana, in 1902 and the other in a cramped workshop in Bologna, northern Italy, 35...
Lyn St. James Alex Zanardi 3 F1 and sports car racer Andrea de Adamich is born (1941). 3 Two-time CART...
Wilbur Shaw Denny Hulme 1 Jim Clark wins his third straight USGP at Watkins Glen, this time driving a Lotus-Ford (1967). 2 Louis de Palma drives a Benz to victory in the Vanderbilt Cup race in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (1912). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (&...
