From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These...
Nearly 50 years ago I stood on the bank at Mulsanne Corner and watched the bright French sun flash on...
Today, I believe, drivers are arriving in Formula One far too early in their racing career. The top echelon of our sport is something they should aspire to, not arrive at due to the amount of money they can give a Formula One team, or by spending one year in...
You could have been forgiven if you thought the racing world were coming to an end on April 12th. That...
Ayrton Senna started 13th on the grid and thrived in the wet conditions, making it all the way up to 2nd place by lap 19. As the rain began to fall more heavily, he was reeling in leader Alain Prost by three seconds per lap. The race was stopped at...
Al Unser Photo: Mike Thomsen Mario Andretti Photo: BRDC 1 Willi Kauhsen drives a Porsche 917/10 to victory in the...
The boys from Brazil just keep on coming: Emerson Fittipaldi, Nelson Piquet, Ayrton Senna and, since 2002, Felipe Massa. The others won eight Formula One World Championships between them, but even with 11 GP victories to his credit, Felipe hasn’t made it yet. He almost did in a 2008 mind...
Electric vehicles are suddenly all the rage. Showing one’s “green” credentials is very popular in this low or zero emission...
If you’re a fan of yachting, as well as racecars, then your interest may have recently been piqued with the...
February 2017 This is Rolf Stommelen at the Loew’s Hairpin during the Monaco Grand Prix on May 14,1972. He’s driving the Eifelland, which was in reality a somewhat modified March 721. Stommelen qualified last of the allowed 25 starters, and was even then fortunate to make the field because the...
It’s not often that a Formula One driver can turn his hand to World Championship rallying. Look at 2007 F1...
The possibility of working with Ferrari surfaced in mid-1996. Michael told me at the end of 1995 that he was...
1977 LEC CRP1 Month by month, Vintage Racecar tries hard to bring readers some of the world’s finest competition cars—some with impeccable racing pedigrees, or others that have an interesting history. This month, our profile of the 1977 LEC CRP1 F1 car is more about the determination of racing driver David...
I am very pleased to be able to announce that starting with this issue, racing legend and long-time friend of...
Fifty years is quite a long time, in politics or any other activity. In motor racing, though, 50-year anniversaries seem...
From the very beginning of the automobile, men built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These innovators are in an elite club with their place in automotive history guaranteed as the creators of a true classic sports car, a genuine thoroughbred. The development of the racing...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These...
“At Monaco you get everything that you meet on a public road lampposts, trees, nightclubs, houses, hotels, curbs, gutters, you...
Not only did Rubens win 11 Grands Prix, competing in more of them than any other driver, came 2nd in the 2002 and 2004 Formula One World Championships and win a couple of national and world titles, he also beat The Stig. Who, you might ask, is that? Well, he’s...
This offering from the Spanish artist Fernando Hoyos is an original painting later printed in limited edition, signed and numbered....
BMW has long followed a policy of racing cars and engines derived from production vehicles. Until BMW entered Formula One...
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Last weekend’s Monaco auction by RM Sotheby’s, alongside the Grand Prix Historique, sold more than $30 million worth of...
RM Sotheby’s will offer the “last of the line” Ferrari 275 GTS/4 NART Spider at its May 14 Monaco sale,...
For the past 65 years, Formula One motor racing teams have relentlessly chased the dream of perfection that concludes with them winning a World Championship. In the early years of the modern Grand Prix series it was the Italian Alfa Romeo, Maserati and Ferrari teams—with occasional intrusions by the German...
Jackie Stewart leads the way during the 1973 Monaco GP in the iconic Tyrrell 006, followed by his close friend...
During the Monaco Grand Prix, in Monte Carlo, on May 10, 1970, Pedro Rodriquez looks for the apex before turning his...
Der Safety Wagen Dear Editor Just a note to say I enjoyed the article on the Herbert Linge Safety Wagon. It’s a good solution for the big courses they have in Europe, especially the Nürburgring. John Fitch and I worked with Professor Sid Watkins, or at least tried to. He...
