Photo: Pirelli Eugenio Castellotti was deeply concerned about his best friend and mentor. Four days earlier, Alberto Ascari plunged his...
Vintage Racecar Features
Among the guests of honor at the recent opening of a new Motor Sports Gallery at the National Motor Museum...
Ex-Scuderia Filipinetti 1968 L-88 Corvette As the only sports car model to be in continuous production for more than 50 years, the Chevrolet Corvette holds a very special place in world, as well as American, automotive history. Like the story of so many classic sports cars, a significant portion of...
The late ’60s were a time where Hollywood seemed to rediscover auto racing. Movie stars and celebrities like Paul Newman,...
From humble beginnings behind the wheel of a MG TC, Frank Matich, over a 21-year period, rose to become a...
1971 Tyrrell 002 His friends and racing opponents in F3 called him “Chopper,” not because of his on-track driving style but because of the axe painted on the side of his cars – a symbol representing his occupation as a lumber merchant. However, to racing historians he was known as...
After years of research, Ed McDonough reveals the influences and pressures that drove Mexican racing hero Pedro Rodriguez to the...
Horst Kroll started off his involvement with automobiles as an apprentice in the Porsche factory in Stuttgart. Porsche sent him...
1970 SCCA Porsche 914-6 For better, and sometimes for worse, corporate culture and business strategy have historically played a significant role in motorsport. Over the years, racecars and racing programs have been created and eliminated for no other reason than to satisfy marketing strategies and brand positioning. While many of...
You’ve just signed super-rookie Mario Andretti as your driver for the 1965 season, and you need a chassis. Everybody’s going...
Jim Stokes is a boyish-looking 49 and has spent the better part of his life among some of the finest...
Cooper Mk IX 500-cc Stirling Moss, Peter Collins, Stuart Lewis-Evans, Graham Hill, Trevor Taylor, Les Leston, John Cooper – these are just a few of the men who started their serious racing careers in Cooper 500 cc cars in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Several went on to become...
In the last of a two-part series, Robert Newman explores the amazing life and career of “The Flying Mantuan” –...
Few racing personalities have been involved in as many capacities as Lew Spencer. From herding Cobras around Sebring to managing...
1959 Abarth Allemano Spyder The Abarth Allemano Spyder is about as curiously 1950s Italian as you can get. Carlo Abarth, of course, made his name and his fortune by taking vast numbers of Fiats and turning them into race or high performance road cars. He was so good at this,...
In the first of a two-part series, Robert Newman explores the amazing life and career of “The Flying Mantuan” –...
Paddy Hopkirk’s name is almost synonymous with the rise of the rallying Mini Cooper. His win in the Monte Carlo...
Vanwall VW14 Vanwall is best remembered for becoming the first British racing car manufacturer to win a World Championship Grand Prix. The first wins came back in 1957 when Tony Brooks and Stirling Moss shared the winning car at the British Grand Prix at Aintree. Moss won again at Pescara...
While the Northern Hemisphere battens down against winter, we here in Australia and New Zealand are reaching for our suntan...
The son of a wealthy textile manufacturer from Vercelli, near Milan, Italy, Marquis Antonio Brivio was one of the great...
Formula Junior was very much as it sounds, a junior category dreamed up by the Italian driver and race administrator Count Giovanni Lurani, who saw it as primarily an Italian formula to provide a single-seater training ground for Italian drivers. In the UK, the 500 cc Formula 3 category had...
Eventual winner, Harrison Evans, in a Ferrari Monza, chases the Jaguar D-Type of Bill Krause on Paramount Ranch’s opening weekend...
To the rest of the world he’s Paul Newman the renowned actor. In the world of racing, he’s Paul Newman,...
1971 Ferrari 312P Photo: Peter Collins Sports car enthusiasts with an historical bent argue three great periods of sports car racing: 1) the 1950s, when early production sports cars starting turning into prototypes (Jaguar C and D Types, Ferrari Testa Rossa, Porsche RSK); 2) The late 1960s and early 1970s,...
Brian Redman is well-known as one of the most successful and versatile sports car drivers of the late ’60s and...
Hamilton/Rolt Jaguar C-Type Sit down with a pen and a piece of paper – write out a list of your 10 all-time favorite sports racing cars. Then do the same with road cars. After you have done that little task, pick the top three in each category and the one...
Whatever the French might say, an American named James Gordon Bennett, Jr. is the great granddaddy of the modern Grand...
While best known in current racing circles as the Director of CART’s Indy Lights Series, Roger Bailey has had a...
Harris-Costin Protos F2 Many of the drivers who progressed through the standard single-seater stages of racing in Europe in the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s recall Formula 2 as the most enjoyable part of their racing careers. The cars were fast, they brought out the best in the drivers, and the...
