Although he was first afflicted with the racing “bug” when his father took him to Reims as a child, Alliot did...
Vintage Racecar Features
With over 50 years in motorsports – as a driver and team owner – American A. J. Foyt’s remarkable career...
The Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona 2012 was held January 28-29 on the 12-turn, 3.56-mile Daytona International Speedway, a combined track made up of portions of the NASCAR tri-oval and an infield road course. With the minutes ticking down on the Rolex clock in Pit Row, there was an epic...
By Csaba Kiss If one has the occasion to visit Yvan Mahe’s Equipe Europe workshop in Ozouer Le Voulgis, France,...
Report and photos (unless noted) by Peter Helbach The Louwman Museum was opened by HRH Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands...
1967 24 Hours of Daytona – The Revenge of “Il Commendatore” By Louis Galanos | Photos as credited The year 1966 was not a good year for Enzo Ferrari. Ford beat Ferrari with a humiliating 1-2-3 finish at both Daytona and Sebring and for the first time in six years...
By Kevin Triplett | Photos by Dennis Gray One of the oldest open-wheel racing cars competing at the 2011 CSRG...
By Bob Harmeyer Daytona International Speedway in 2012 is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the track’s first road race, a...
By Louis Galanos | Photos as credited January 2012 marks the Golden Anniversary (50th) of sports car endurance racing at the Daytona International Speedway (DIS) in Daytona Beach, Florida. DIS was opened in 1959 by NASCAR founder, Bill France, Sr., after years of driving in and promoting stock car racing...
On 8 March 1911, just three years after Ford’s ‘Universal Car’, the Model T, was unveiled in Britain, Ford Motor...
Interview and photos by Greg Wing Bob Ensign of Ensign Restoration Services of Latham, New York, has been in business...
This year marks the 50th Anniversary of the race that began as the Daytona Continental in 1962 and evolved into today’s Rolex 24 at Daytona, but not all of those races were run for a full 24 hours. The first two runnings had a three-hour duration, while the next two...
Starting his career in the early ’60s behind the wheel of a Mini, John Fitzpatrick quickly worked his way to...
The foundation of a corporate archive in 1936 was a necessary step for the then Daimler-Benz AG. The timing was...
By Leigh Dorrington The Mercedes-Benz Museum at the company’s headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany is a depository of the history of the automobile, motorsport, commercial transportation and the Twentieth Century altogether, presented in one of the most modern museums in the world. Two names, Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz, stand above...
By Edward Lenahan This 1961 Chevrolet Corvette factory race car, soon to be auctioned at Mecum’s January 24-29, 2012 Kissimmee...
Montjuic translates from medieval Catalan as “Hill of the Jews,” or an alternative derivation may be from the Latin Mons...
The name Robin Donovan may not mean much to most, but this man has quietly gone about his business and played a significant part in Le Mans history. He raced there for 14 consecutive years. From his point of view it is a “dream come true” story of a little...
Jim Rathmann, winner of both the 1960 Indianapolis 500 and the international 500-mile “Race of Two Worlds” in 1958 at...
The Vanderbilt Cup, America’s First International Series By Art Evans The first Vanderbilt Cup Race, held in 1904, amounted to...
Noted Ferrari coachbuilder Sergio Scaglietti passed away November 20, 2011 at 91 years of age. Scaglietti gained Enzo Ferrari’s trust and respect both through his bodywork and design skills and for providing a retreat for Dino Ferrari as a youth. Scaglietti is credited with the “headrest” bump present on most...
Report by Art Evans and photos as noted On the night of November 10, 2011 a Tribute to Phil Hill...
Math Problems By Edward Lenahan “The most exciting thing about piloting an old vehicle,” I said to my wife Marguerite,...
Half a century ago, if your perfectly good sports car were damaged in an accident, you had options. One such option, available starting in the late 1950s, was rather than repairing the body, you could replace it with a completely different body that was made out of a relatively new...
Last month we ran the first half of the tale of Hal Crocker’s relationship with Peter Gregg, encompassing the early...
Derek Bell celebrated his 70th birthday on 31 October 2011. Born in Pinner, Middlesex, Great Britain in 1941, Bell is considered to be one of the most versatile and popular racing drivers of his time. Derek Bell began his racing career with Lotus in 1964. In Formula 1 he then...
By Art Evans The series we now know as Formula One traces its roots back to 1906. Before the term,...
By Tim Scott My infatuation with the Ferrari marque goes back to the 1970s, and my ‘formative’ years. As a...
The original idea for this “special” feature had been to do a test on Porsche’s famed Moby Dick…the 935/78 long-tail beast from 1978, the company’s first racecar with water-cooled cylinder heads. However, that particular machine was on tour in China and not due back at the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart...
