For this special Porsche issue it was only right to interview the man who, in real terms, helped to put...
I guess genius rather than hero is the correct way to describe Ferdinand Porsche, whose cars mobilized humanity and provided...
Shot by the Gestapo, executed at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, killed on a death march from Sachsenhausen. All of those horrific things are said to have happened to Captain Charles Frederick William Grover-Williams, Grand Prix winner, member of the wartime ultra-secret French section of Britain’s Special Operations Executive and French...
Two months before the end of WWII, an American P-51 Mustang was shot down over Germany. The pilot was Captain...
Fernando Alonso Jim Hall Photo: Keith Booker 1 Nineteen-year-old Vincenzo Lancia, in his first race, drives a Fiat to victory...
With no fewer than 32 world championship victories to his credit, Jochen Mass is one of the most successful sports...
May 2009 At the Donington Grand Prix in England on October 22, 1938, Silver Arrows pilot Dick Seaman applies the...
A brand-new, purpose-built racing facility on the western edge of the Great Plains, an hour east of Denver, is scheduled to open its gates in late March with an appreciation event for those who have helped get the track up and running. High Plains Raceway represents the reaction of a...
Mercedes-Benz once again provided the star feature for September’s second running of the Weekend de L’Excellence Automobile de Reims, only...
Rodger Ward Jim Hurtubise Photo: IMS 1 Jim Clark wins the South African Grand Prix driving a Ford Cosworth-powered Lotus...
There were a number of outstanding road-race weekends during the fifties. Phil Hill’s win at the first Pebble Beach comes to mind as well as Carroll Shelby’s at the last. In Southern California, one of the best-loved venues was Palm Springs. It had everything: a famous resort, wonderful winter weather,...
December 2008 La Carrera Panamericana By Johnny Tipler Among the many over-the-road races that spread or rekindled enthusiasm for auto...
I have included a few remembrances about Lance in some previous Vintage Racecar columns, but because he was such a...
I was intrigued by the letter from Rob Connearney in the August issue of Vintage Racecar. Crosley Hot Shots were, indeed, fitted with Goodyear-Hawley “spot” disc brakes for a spell, but these were prone to bind and were replaced by Bendix drum brakes. Crosley was the first, but the system...
Mercedes-Benz rocked Donington Park with its mighty “Silver Arrow” confrontation with Auto Union in 1937 and 1938. Back then, the...
I stood back watching, as Monterey feted the Fangio marque. Fangio marque? Yes, Juan Manuel Fangio is the only person,...
This year’s Monterey Historic Automobile Races marks the 35th running of this classic event. As shown schematically in the Laguna Seca track map to the right, over the course of those 35 years, a wide variety of significant automotive marques have been honored with the distinction of “featured marque.” Interestingly,...
On June 7–8, 1958, the Texas Region of the SCCA hosted a weekend of sports car racing 10 miles north...
It may sound corny, but Dick Seaman’s short life really was the stuff of Hollywood movies. He was tall, handsome,...
1969 Mercedes 300 SEL 6.8 AMG 1969 Mercedes 300 SEL 6.8 AMG. Photo: Mercedes-AMG It seems hard to believe that most of the past 50 years of Mercedes-Benz motor sport history is, in large part, due to a small German company that, until recently, was not Mercedes-Benz. The little company...
Over the years, Vintage Racecar has been fortunate to have been able to include the work of talented cutaway artist...
On August 4, 2007, an icon of American racing and my dear friend, John Fitch, turned 90 years old! In...
It took time for me to become enthusiastic about anything German. I have been hit by the blast of a V1 flying bomb. My mother had just risen from a chair with my baby brother and a dagger of glass pierced the back of the chair. Hollywood explosions are all...
Antonio Brivio Mario Andretti 1 A.J. Foyt wins the USAC Championship race on the dirt track at Sacramento, California (1967)....
Opening in 1921, AVUS (Automobil-Verkehrs-und Übungs-Straße) was devised by the AvD as a motorsport venue and test track for the...
One was born in Shelbyville, Indiana, in 1902 and the other in a cramped workshop in Bologna, northern Italy, 35 years later. Yet, when the two came together, they astounded the world by winning the Indianapolis 500 twice, in 1939 and 1940. Wilbur Shaw built his first car when he...
One of the most enjoyable—at least for me—of fifties events was the Pebble Beach Sports Car Road Races. The last...
1976 Holden Torana L34 A month or so back, Vintage Racecar interviewed Leo Geoghegan, a true icon of Australian motorsport. While Leo may have started his racing career in an early model Holden, he later became a household name from his successes with a series of Lotus open-wheelers. While this...
