In my time as a racing driver I have had the opportunity of driving many types of racing car. I...
The Car that Made McLaren McLaren In these modern days of disposable everything (or so it seems), one can quickly...
The Formula Junior category was introduced in Italy in 1958 by Count Giovanni Lurani, and in 1959 became an International Formula. Shortly thereafter, in 1960, the British began to take a serious interest in the category, beginning the rivalry between British and Italian cars. The original FIA Formula Junior regulations...
Monte Carlo, Monaco January 29–February 3, 2010 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
A one-of-a-kind BMW 328 will headline RM’s inaugural Sporting Classics of Monaco auction at the Grimaldi Forum in the Principality...
Jochen Rindt Henri Pescarolo 2 Guy Moll wins the Monaco Grand Prix in an Alfa Romeo (1934). 3 Ronnie Peterson drives a March 722 to victory in the European F2 Championship race at Thruxton, England (1972). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More)...
Hans Stuck first met Adolf Hitler in 1925, when a mutual friend brought the budding Führer to the racing driver’s...
I spent the greater part of my Formula One career with Alfa Romeo, joining them in 1979 and leaving at...
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was created by the Federation Internationale de L’Automobile (FIA) in 1950, with its first race being the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. It began as a World Championship for drivers, but since it also featured the...
The Monaco Grand Prix; Monte Carlo, May 10, 1964. Peter Arundell in the second works Lotus leads Richie Ginther’s B.R.M....
Lancia. Ever heard of them? If not, it’s not surprising. Their cars are not exactly sold all over the world....
This painting depicts Graham Hill and the BRM 261, which he drove to victory in the 1964 U.S. Grand Prix at Watkins Glen. This win was the second of his three straight U.S. GP wins. Among his many other accomplishments on the track were five Monaco G.P. wins, victories in...
By 1963, Cobras were doing very well in Sports Car Club of America races. Cars driven by Shelby American drivers...
New race courses keep blinking onto our radar screens, which seems like a good thing until they turn up on...
Many car enthusiasts appreciate and collect fine watches. This should not be surprising as it mirrors their passion for both finer things and mechanical pieces. I have noticed this trend over the last 19 years as a purveyor of fine automotive memorabilia in Toronto. I cannot tell you how many...
Following my initial foray into motor racing, I soon found I needed money, money, and more money. There were many...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete born of his passion for speed and technology....
Bruce Kessler had a meteoric motorsports career, which started with drag racing his mother’s Jaguar XK120, progressed to practicing for the 1958 Monaco Grand Prix, and ended with a horrific crash in a sports car race at Pomona in 1959, and it all happened in the span of six short...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man pursued his passion for speed and technology by building cars for competition....
1952 Ferrari 225 S While the history of the Ferrari you see here will forever associate it with the great...
As I follow the recent political soap opera, which has become Formula One, I can’t help but think of the famous quote by George Bernard Shaw, “We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.” In case you’ve missed it (or more likely, lost interest in caring), Formula One...
Sir Stirling Moss scored the first of his three Monaco Grand Prix wins in 1956 with this Maserati 250F, nipping...
September 2009 Mark Donohue: Technical Excellence at Speed By Michael Argetsinger The difficulty in chronicling a career as diverse as...
The Automobile Club de Monaco has announced that the seventh Grand Prix Monaco Historique has been scheduled for May 8–9, 2010. The event will precede the 68th Grand Prix de Monaco by two weeks in order to allow both groups ample time to access the paddock area of the circuit...
Peter Arundell showed promise right from the start of his career, finishing 2nd with his MG TC at a BARC...
For this special Porsche issue it was only right to interview the man who, in real terms, helped to put...
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...
The 1970 Monaco Grand Prix had a dramatic ending when leader Jack Brabham made a mistake at the last corner—the...
Mark Donohue Jean-Pierre Beltoise 2 Juan Pablo Montoya wins the CART Bosch Spark Plug Grand Prix at Nazareth Speedway in...
The Formula Junior category was introduced in Italy in 1958 by Count Giovanni Lurani, and in 1959, it became an International Formula. Shortly thereafter, in 1960, the British began to take a serious interest in the category, commencing the rivalry between British and Italian cars. The original FIA Formula Junior...
