Vincenzo Florio David DonohuePhoto: Chuck Andersen 1 F1 racer and six-time Le Mans winner Jackie Ickx born in Brussels, Belgium...
The FIA sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations...
The annual support race at the 24 Hours of Le Mans is one of the most important events in all of historic motorsport. On Saturday morning June 22, 2013, the Le Mans Legend will return once again to Le Circuit de la Sarthe with a sensational grid of 61 Le...
Sam Posey was presented with the Spirit of Competition award at a gala dinner at the Simeone Automotive Museum in...
John Fitch lived a life filled with adventure and invention that is difficult to capture in a brief such as...
Pete Lyons Partway through an evening of kind words, warm recollections and congratulations, the moderator came on the mic and said: “George, we’ve had several speakers here; I’m surprised the term ‘anger management’ hasn’t been used yet!” Poor George Follmer could only join the laughter filling the Petersen Museum’s banquet...
1962 Tojeiro-Buick Photo: Pete Austin “Just turn the key and it will start,” I was told, as the door of the...
Photo: David Gooley One glance at a late 1937, ‘38 or ‘39 Darl’mat 402 Special Sport tells you it’s classic...
Damon Graham Devereux Hill is the only son of a Formula 1 World Champion to have also won the title. His father, Graham, won the 1962 and 1968 championships and Damon the 1996. The 1994 Grand Prix season outlook seemed bright for Williams with Senna coming aboard to partner Hill...
Ecurie Ecosse is a private racing organization based in Scotland that’s probably best known for having twice won Le Mans...
The 18th Annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance will honor racing driver Sam Posey as its special guest and celebrate the...
The 1950s and ’60s were to many involved in Australian historic motor sport, the halcyon years. It was the time of the Australian Special, the racing of early model Holdens and the Tasman Series. Many names came and went, but quite a few remained and are still well known today...
Five of these cars were built for racing in 1938—one uniquely for Le Mans—essentially derived from a road-going version of...
Quit Scraping the Paint! Photo: Roger Dixon Dear Editor, I would like to point out one quibble and one major...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with his passion for speed and technology. These innovators are in an elite club, their place in automotive history guaranteed as the creators of true classic sports cars, genuine thoroughbreds. The development of the racing sports car can...
Le Circuit de la Sarthe, Le Mans, France July 7–8, 2012 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This...
French racing driver Henri Greder, who focused his career around the 24 Hours of Le Mans, has died at the...
Photo: RM Auctions During this year’s Classic Car Week in Monterey, 53 cars were sold at auction for prices above $1 million. Incredibly, 22 of those were cars built specifically for racing, and this group was led by a Gulf/Mirage Lightweight version of a 1968 Ford GT40 (P/1074) that set a...
• It’s always nice when the CEO of a major automaker shows an interest in motor sport, and an excellent...
Pete Lyons Got paper and pen at hand? Or simple fingers will do: Try coming up with a list of...
Fluent in six languages, tall, with regular features set off by an immaculately clipped goatee beard and moustache, Jo Bonnier crammed a lot into his 42 years. He was an accomplished Formula One and sports car racer, president of the Grand Prix Drivers Association and proprietor of his own art...
July 7, 2012 Le Mans, France Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More)...
Dan Gurney shared this 4.7-liter Cobra Daytona Coupe with Bob Bondurant for the 1964 running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans. They finished 4th overall and won the GT category, and as none of the GT40s finished that year, were the highest placed Ford. Gurney’s drive is featured in...
In honor of the 60th anniversary of Chevrolet’s Corvette, the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion has selected “America’s sports car” as...
Inclement weather had battered and bruised England during the early summer months, leaving people wondering how Goodwood’s Festival of Speed...
The story of the production model 300 SL really picks up where our story about the W194 Le Mans racecar ends. After a highly successful 1952 racing season where the W194 “Gullwing” won the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the Carrera Panamericana, the entire sports car program was closed,...
Mention the words “Rudi” and “Mercedes” and what comes to mind? Chances are good it will be images of famed...
As you’ll see, throughout both sides of the magazine, this month we recognize and celebrate the 60th anniversary of Mercedes-Benz’s...
My personal record with the Mercedes 300 SLR was six starts, three wins, two 2nd places and one “withdrawn when leading”…under protest. That was at Le Mans after the big crash when one of our cars was involved and the Mercedes board in Stuttgart decided to withdraw the other cars....
