Long known for his car-oriented European tours, event organizer Steve Austin has introduced a special, new tour this year, “The...
MG’s fabled Competitions Department enjoyed near constant success on the international racing stage. With victories in road racing, rallying, trials...
It’s interesting how things evolve. While I have had no personal experience with the Invicta marque there has always been an interest. Little did I know how deep the story of Invicta was intertwined with the undertakings of one man. While disparate at first glance, the names of Eric-Campbell, Silver...
In remembering and memorializing John Fitch upon the occasion of his death, Vintage Racecar has produced this brief photographic summary...
Sicily, Italy October 10-14, 2012 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access...
Vincenzo Florio David DonohuePhoto: Chuck Andersen 1 F1 racer and six-time Le Mans winner Jackie Ickx born in Brussels, Belgium (1945). 2 First South Africa Grand Prix to be held on the Kayalami track near Johannesburg is won by Pedro Rodriguez at the wheel of a Cooper-Maserati. First F1 win...
The FIA sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations...
John Fitch lived a life filled with adventure and invention that is difficult to capture in a brief such as...
The Chubb Insurance Concours d’Elégance judging day at Salon Privé London marked the close of the Luxury Super Car Show, with a fabulous line up of 111 cars and bikes shortlisted down to 39 Concours prize winners for 2012. Leading the winners with the coveted “Best of Show” prize was...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with his passion for speed and technology. These...
Fluent in six languages, tall, with regular features set off by an immaculately clipped goatee beard and moustache, Jo Bonnier...
My personal record with the Mercedes 300 SLR was six starts, three wins, two 2nd places and one “withdrawn when leading”…under protest.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....
Tazio Nuvolari Biography Tazio Nuvolari a legend in his own lifetime, was known as Il Montavano Volante, the Flying Mantuan. He...
The 1962 24 Hours of Le Mans did not look as though it would be a walkover for Phil Hill,...
The under 2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports; the World Sports Car Championship from 1953–1961, the Speedworld Challenge from 1962–1963, the International Championship of Makes from 1964–1971 and the World Championship of Makes from 1972–1981. This included...
Over 2-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports: the...
Felice Nazzaro had brains as well as a heavy right foot and he used them well to work his way...
Alain ProstPhoto: Maureen Magee Mike SpencePhoto: John Fenning Collection 1 Ivor Bueb wins the 1500-cc sports car race at Brands Hatch, England, driving a Copper-Climax (1955). 3 Brian Redman drives a Chevrolet-powered Lola T-600 to victory in the 100-mile IMSA sports car race at Laguna Seca, California (1981) Become a...
John Cannon Jean Pierre Jabouille 2 Jochen Rindt, at the wheel of a Roy Winkelmann Racing Brabham BT23, wins the...
The FIA sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations set forth by the FIA (Federation International Automobile) in the International Championship of Makes from 1964–1971, and the World Championship of Makes from 1972–1981. The regulations changed somewhat as the...
That’s a question I found occupying (the few) idle moments of my mind during October’s Porsche Rennsport Reunion IV at...
From the very beginning of the automobile man built cars to compete, with a passion for speed and technology. These...
It was 11 in the morning. A 25-year-old German pastry cook was sleeping after a hard night’s baking. Until the phone squealed. He decided to ignore it, turn over and go back to sleep, but it was no good, the phone just rang and rang. So he answered it. At...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These...
Its svelte silhouette has been a fixture of our sport for—take a breath—practically half a century. Incredibly, the lines and...
You wouldn’t need all the fingers of one hand to count the number of men who could beat Juan Manuel Fangio around the daunting Nordschleife of the Nürburgring, but one of them was certainly a suave German named Rudolf Uhlenhaut. Strangely, he wasn’t a racing driver at all but a...
The under 2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international...
Over 2-liter Grand Touring cars have always had a place to compete within the ever changing regulations of International Motorsports;...
May 2011 Collage – Jackie Stewart’s Grand Prix Album Sir Jackie Stewart The wives and girlfriends of racing drivers of the 1960s and 1970s, in most cases, were enthusiastic members of the team. They played an active part in the pit and paddock at race meetings, usually seen sitting on...
