June 22, 1934 was not only one of the most important days in the early corporate history of the Company...
Vintage Racecar Features
Sports Car Digest recently toured the Mario Righini Collection, one of the more exceptional private car collections in Italy, if...
In 1937 the three surviving Maserati brothers sold out to the Orsi Group and after WW2 founded Officine Specializzate per la Costruzione Automobili Fratelli Maserati – OSCA for short – to build limited edition competition cars. One of the reasons for the Maserati brothers’ departure was that they did not...
Aston Martin Racing will run a trio of Gulf-liveried LMP1 cars at the 2009 24 Hours of Le Mans, which...
The 77th Le Mans 24 Hours marks a milestone in the history of Aston Martin as the iconic sports car...
Galleria Ferrari is the official museum dedicated to the famed Italian marque, located in Ferrari’s home town of Maranello, Italy, seconds from the factory. The exhibits are mostly a combination of Ferrari road and competition cars, with many of more iconic cars from throughout its history present....
1957 Aston Martin DBR1 Aston Martin’s relationship with the 24 Hours of Le Mans goes all the way back to...
Aston Martin entered the1959 sports car season targeting just a single race, Le Mans, but walked away the deserving winner...
One of a baker’s dozen of American citizens to have won the 24 Hours of Le Mans overall, Carroll Shelby accomplished the feat 50 years ago this month, driving an Aston Martin DBR1 in company with Roy Salvadori. Shelby had begun racing back in his native Texas shortly after returning...
Juan Manuel Fangio (1911 – 1995) was a race car driver from Argentina who dominated the first decade of Formula...
The ex-Alan Mann 1966 Ford GT40 Mk I that earned the most wins of any privateer GT40 will be sold...
The game machines in the arcades started it all—with a race seat and steering wheel in front of a big...
THE STORY OF MALAYA’S RACING SPECIALS The Malayan-built Special has always been an integral part of the racing movement in...
Our South Pacific Editor, Patrick Quinn, recently caught up with ex-British Motor Corporation works driver John Sprinzel in Sydney, while John was on a brief visit to Australia. John Sprinzel What brings you to Australia, John? Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More)...
Steve McQueen may have actually won the 1970 12 Hours of Sebring. By Louis Galanos The response to my story...
The 1964 Cooper Monaco King Cobra that won the 1964 Los Angeles Times Grand Prix will be sold at the...
The 2009 Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance featured more than 30 classes, including the Race Cars of 1963 to 1972. In a class that included many incredible race cars, our highlighted cars – 1971 Porsche 911 STR and 1972 Datsun 240Z – stood out from the class...
By Cliff Reuter In 1946 Ilario Bandini began producing racing cars in Forli, Italy that featured tubular frames made from...
Maverick at Daytona – James Garner and American International Racers By Louis Galanos In 1968 I attended Daytona Beach Junior...
The Porsche Museum is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the 914 model series with a rare special exhibit on display from April 9 – May 10, 2009: the Porsche 914-8 with its 300-bhp eight-cylinder racing engine once owned by Ferry Porsche himself. With only two of these cars ever being...
1954 Fiat 8V Zagato If you lived through the ’60s and ’70s, then Sunset Boulevard, in Southern California, likely holds...
The Lotus 19 took sports car racing to a whole new level upon its debut in 1960, rendering rivals such...
A primer on in-car video systems for the historic racer. Humans are such visual animals that even when our eyes are closed, some form of imagery usually plays across the big screen of our consciousness as we remember, imagine, or dream of things both real and not. This reality has...
Bill Milliken has had an interesting life. As an engineer in both the aviation industry and later consultant to the...
The 14th annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance highlighted the career of racing driver and SPEED TV racing analyst David Hobbs....
The Porsche 906 or Carrera 6 was the last street-legal racing car from Porsche. A total of 65 were produced in 1966, allowing the model to be homologated for FIA’s new Group 4 Sports Car category although the 906 would also compete in modified form in the Group 6 Sports Prototype class. A successor to the Porsche 904,...
American racing great Lloyd Ruby passed away Monday, March 23rd at the age of 81 in his hometown of Wichita...
Porsche continued its winning ways last year at the 12 Hours of Sebring, taking the overall victory with the RS...
The American Le Mans Series starts their season on Saturday, March 21st with the 57th running of America’s premier sports car endurance race, the 12 Hours of Sebring. Expectations are high for the race, as Acura, Audi, Lola and Peugeot will all battle for overall victory around Sebring’s grueling 3.7...
