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August 2009 Porsche: Excellence Was Expected By Karl Ludvigsen As highlighted throughout this issue, the importance of Porsche to the past 70 years of automotive and motor sport history is significant. From the company’s founding in 1930, to the first 356 Gmünd coupes, to Le Mans victory in 1970, and...
Since there exists a convoluted historical precedent for such a move, let’s go Web surfing to Germany by way of...
Charlie Kolb passed away June 15 at the age of age 85. The lanky Kolb, who played minor league baseball...
This fabulous-looking 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa was sold by RM-Sotheby’s “Ferrari Legend and Passion” auction at the famous Fiorano track in mid-May for a record 9 million euros (just over $12 million, depending on exchange rates). It went to an unidentified American buyer, with the money going to its...
Well-known vintage racing enthusiast and patron Ford Heacock III was suitably honored with the VIR Gold Cup at the annual...
No fewer than 20 4-cylinder Morgans—a potentially record turnout—have been invited to compete for the Morgan Techniques Trophy at the...
The oldest of only three Morgan SLRs returned to Silverstone after last racing there 34 years ago. Entered in the GTSCC race at the HSCC’s International Trophy meeting, new owner Simon Orebi-Gann and his teammate Richard Bourne qualified 2nd in class and 13th overall on the 44-car grid. In the...
A rare piece of automotive history will go on the block with no reserve as the 1936 Bugatti Type 57C...
Vintage Racecar is saddened to report the death of Tony Maggs. His drive in a Tojeiro-Jaguar at the 1959 North...
Three hundred kilometers south of Le Mans can be found another ancient French city with a lengthy motor sport history, Angoulême. There, on the third weekend in September, the 70th anniversary of the first race through the city streets will be celebrated. Instead of running through the scenic rural countryside...
A pair of historic Miller racing cars, an ex–Phil Hill Jaguar C-Type, and a rare Ferrari 225S headline the 24th...
The 2009 edition of Italy’s Mille Miglia Storica attracted its usual mixed bag of royalty, politicians, motor racing icons, and...
1958 Jaguar 3.4 Saloon An unused flying boat base from WWII provided the “test track” where our man Quinn tried out the big Cat’s capabilities.Photo: Steve Oom It has had an impressive competition career in anyone’s language. In simple number of wins it’s up there with some of the greatest...
Two events, one forever unforgettable, the other somewhat less memorable, shared the same Sunday, 40 years ago. Heading up the...
When you first meet Walt MacKay, you are struck by what a quiet, modest man he is. Currently, he runs...
No one reveres their heroes like the Brits (well, maybe the Italians). Whether it’s a perpetual race winner like Stirling Moss, an intrepid explorer like Ernest Shackleton, or a political icon like Winston Churchill, true British, full-frontal, hero-dom is a level of reverence bordering on the fanatical—or perhaps the divine....
Shot by the Gestapo, executed at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, killed on a death march from Sachsenhausen. All of those...
The Eagle Formula Ford that I won the SCCA Runoffs with in 1978 was a car I was involved with...
Frank Williams and Patrick Head are probably the best blokes I have ever driven for, so, it should come as no surprise that I chose one of the Williams cars as my greatest racecar. Indeed, too, selecting the Williams FW07 should be no surprise either. In the 1980 ‘B’ spec,...
Like many other sports during WWII, automobile racing experienced a hiatus. Soon thereafter, however, competition resumed. The Formula One World...
Two months before the end of WWII, an American P-51 Mustang was shot down over Germany. The pilot was Captain John Fitch and he spent the rest of the war as a POW. Ten years later, that same John Fitch teamed up with a German co-driver to drive a German...
Autosport Three Hours; Snetterton, 1963 At the Autosport Three Hours race held at Snetterton on September 28, 1963, South African driver...
I’ve always liked Blackhawk Farms Raceway, a track not everybody knows about. It’s in Illinois, right on the border with...
In my book Vintage American Road Racing Cars, I wrote, “Of all the Kurtis road racing cars, the 500X is shrouded in the most mystery regarding how many cars were constructed. By some accounts as many as 12 were built, but some believe six or even fewer cars were actually...
Fernando Alonso Jim Hall Photo: Keith Booker 1 Nineteen-year-old Vincenzo Lancia, in his first race, drives a Fiat to victory...
Formula Ford was a specification racing series created around the idea that the best drivers would win if all were racing identical cars. The idea for this low-budget Formula was created by an Englishman named Geoffrey Clarke, who had a drivers school called Motor Racing Stables based at the Brands...
