The 100th Running of the Indianapolis 500 justifiably received more hype, pomp and circumstance than any of the 99 editions that...
Photo Gallery from the July 19–22, 2018, running of the Silverstone Classic....
RM Sotheby’s has announced additional Ferrari highlights to join the 1962 250 GTO in the company’s most historic Monterey lineup to date. Latest prancing horse entries are led by a 1-of-31 1953 Ferrari 250 MM Berlinetta with extensive period racing history, as well as a beautifully restored, Classiche-certified 1960 Ferrari...
Englishman Vic Elford, along with teammate Frenchman Gérard Larrousse, on their famous win of the 1971 ADAC Nürburgring 1000 km...
By the early 1960s, Ford had carved a very specific niche for itself in the UK. Having built low cost,...
Get beneath the skin of a Formula One racing car, uncover the history of Aston Martin and hear motorcycle racers and motorsport engineers in conversation as part of the autumn program of lectures at the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu. At “F1 Cars: An Engineering Challenge”on Saturday September 15join Steve Fenwick,...
Three-time Formula One World champion and chairman of the Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team Niki Lauda is recovering in an Austrian...
Photo Gallery from the July 7–8, 2018 running of the Chateau Impney Hill Climb in Worcestershire, England....
The Porsche 550 Spyder left an indelible imprint on the motorsports world during the 1950s. It was Porsche’s first purpose-built racecar, and it immediately made its presence known on the international stage by winning its class at Le Mans in 1955 and taking first overall at the 1956 Targa Florio....
Lamborghini Polo Storico has completed restoration of one of the most famous Miuras ever built: the Miura SVR. On the...
[Click here to read the second installment] Sure enough, the more liberal formula of the 1949 Mille Miglia attracted a...
Howden Ganley For the Historic Formula Junior Diamond Jubilee World Tour (quite some title) it really was the “last lap” of this three-year long series, when they held the final races as part of the 2018 Silverstone Classic. I apologize for returning to the Formula Junior theme again (so soon?)...
The last time a car featured in my Heroes column was months back, when I wrote about the 1935 Alfa...
Formula Ford was a specification racing series created on the idea that the best drivers would win if they were...
Silver was the name of the game at Goodwood, July 12–15, when the Festival of Speed celebrated 25 years since its inception and the chosen feature marque was Porsche celebrating its 70th birthday. Under a blazing—for England—sun the weekend sizzled to the sound of high powered engines and spinning tires as...
July 2018 Bobby Rahal Rene Panhard Donald Mitchell Healey Louis Chiron 1 – A.J. Foyt drives a Coyote-Foyt to victory...
In what is shaping up to be its most historic lineup to date, RM Sotheby’s has announced the addition of the 1963 Aston Martin DP215 Grand Touring Competition Prototype to its flagship Monterey sale, set for August 24-25, at the Monterey Conference Center in California. The Aston Martin joins the...
Jacky Ickx, sitting in the experimental Ferrari 312B2/F1 “Spazzaneve” (snowplow) at Monza, in August 1972. Mauro Forghieri tried this bodywork...
Over 200 cars took part in this year’s Silver Flag Hill Climb, staged in the stunning Italian Province of Piacenza,...
The sport of automobile racing is arguably about 130-years old, assuming you subscribe to the notion that the first organized race, using gasoline-powered internal combustion engines, occurred in France in 1887. But looking back across this 130-year history, there are a number of significant events that stand out from the...
This biennial event, an exceptional mega-sized retrospective of the history of the iconic 24-Hours race, jointly organized by Peter Auto...
Photo Gallery coverage from the July 6-8 running of the Le Mans Classic....
Take a ride aboard a Maserati Birdcage during practice for the 2018 Le Mans Classic. ...
Gabriele Guidetti paints an evocative picture of the aluminum–bodied Porsche 356 that Schlutter and Polensky drove to victory in the...
Photo Gallery from the VSCC’s June 16–17 Brooklands Double Twelve event. Subscribers click here for more photos from the Brooklands...
We push Pete Thelander’s 1934 MG NE Magnette out into the sunlight. Its red paintwork gleams and dazzles. The car is bright red because it was built for none other than Tazio Nuvolari— who some would say was the greatest race driver of all time— to drive in the Ulster...
Nick Padmore, Michael Gans and Andy Wolfe all climbed the top step of the podium twice during the Masters’ Most...
Bugatti had won the Targa Florio three consecutive years from 1925 – 1927 by the time their new recruit, Albert Divo, was flagged away from the Cerda start of the 1928 Sicilian classic. And he didn’t disappoint: Divo not only won the island epic that year, he made it two...
