Mercedes-Benz automobiles are long known as an obvious choice for enthusiasts that appreciate a high level of craftsmanship and demand...
Racing driver Paul O’Shea won his second title as the U.S. sports car champion in the 1956 season driving a Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Gullwing. When the season ended on 28 December 1956, he was champion in the category “D Production” and had scored the most points in the National Sports...
Mika Hakkinen Dario Franchitti Photo: Richard Dole 1 Mika Hakkinen wins the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka, and his first...
Mercedes W 196 Car: Mercedes W196 / Engine: 8-Cylinder In-line / Maker: Mercedes-Benz / Bore X Stroke: 76 mm X...
The 1937 Talbot-Lago T150-C “Goutte d’Eau” owned by Peter and Merle Mullin (above) has won the inaugural Peninsula Classics Best of the Best award, which was presented last night in Carmel, California. The prize, judged by a panel of nearly two dozen notable motoring experts, evaluated the Best of Show...
At the first Shelsley Walsh meeting after the war, only the weather was as predictable as the belief among spectators...
Touring car racing has usually been seen as the court jester to the serious stuff of single-seaters, but in a...
Niki Lauda came back into Grand Prix racing, because he could! It has been suggested that he needed the money, or was bored with retirement, but whatever the reasons he certainly believed that McLaren could do the job. Above all, he felt sure he could. I think the real story...
The Mille Miglia 2016 will take place from 19 to 22 May. The route for the reliability trial is based...
For the past 65 years, Formula One motor racing teams have relentlessly chased the dream of perfection that concludes with...
Mercedes-Benz has long represented a great choice for enthusiasts that want a beautiful, well-engineered automobile that will actually crank on a cold morning. As the world’s oldest automaker, the brand’s history is littered with numerous important open and sporting cars like the famed White Knights, the dominating Silver Arrows, the...
New findings make it possible for the Mercedes-Benz 190 SL to take part in the modern-day Mille Miglia. The right...
John GrantPhoto: Kary Jiggle John Grant is the current Chairman of the British Racing Drivers Club, and since taking on...
As I write these notes, the 2015 season is coming to an end with just a few more Formula One races. There may still be a surprise winner of the Championship…at least one competitor hopes! From the start of 2015 many people seemed to write off the chances of everyone...
The Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, Germany is expanding into sales of classic cars from all periods under the name All...
The Targa Florio was the decisive contest in the 1955 World Sports Car Championship. Under tremendous pressure to succeed at...
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+...
Staged every year in August, the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance is a superlative meeting of the finest automobiles from all...
The 2015 Goodwood Festival of Speed celebrated the most successful racing sports car of the 1955 motor sport season, the...
Four competition cars from Mercedes-Benz will be the feature attractions at this year’s Lime Rock Historic Festival 33, scheduled for this coming Labor Day weekend, September 3-7. Keeping with the Mercedes-Benz theme, Festival 33’s Honored Guests will be Sir Stirling Moss himself and the M-B Classic Center’s house driver, former...
Mercedes F1 W05 Hybrid Car: Mercedes F1 W05 Hybrid / Engine: 1.6 L Mercedes-Benz PU106A Hybrid V6 turbocharged engine, limited...
On 31 May 1915, Ralph DePalma won the 500-mile race in Indianapolis driving a Mercedes Grand Prix car. A major...
Elio de AngelisPhoto: Maureen Magee Colin ChapmanPhoto: Maureen Magee 2 Johnny Rutherford, driving a McLaren-Offenhauser, wins the USAC Indycar race at Trenton, New Jersey (1976). 3 The Mercedes-Benz W194 “Gullwing” makes its race debut in the Mille Miglia (1952). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (&...
The Bonhams Mercedes-Benz 2015 auction was held 28 March at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, Germany, resulting in total sales...
Mike Lawrence There is a minor industry in new James Bond novels and if we include Young James Bond and...
Gigi Villoresi. Jean-Marie Balestre.Photo: Ercole Colombo 1 Willi Kauhsen, driving the Bosch-sponsored Porsche 917/10, wins both heats of the Interserie race on the Nürburgring in West Germany (1973). 3 Vern Schuppan and Naohiro Fujita drive the Nova Engineering Porsche 956 to victory in the 500-kilometer Japanese Sports Car Championship race...
The second annual Benedict Castle Concours D’Elegance was held in Riverside, Calif. on March 28. An eclectic mix of more than...
The historic Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR that Stirling Moss and Denis Jenkinson piloted to victory in the 1955 Mille Miglia will...
While it is true that this January’s onslaught of annual auctions held in Scottsdale, Arizona, set a new combined record total of $292.8 million (compared to last year’s $248.6 million), this new combined record was made possible due to Barrett-Jackson’s special consignment of the Ron Pratte Collection which tacked an...
