As “Historic Racing Magazine of the Mille Miglia”, VRJ begins its coverage of the May 2000 event with a look...
Enzo Ferrari, Aymo Maggi, Piero Taruffi, Clemente Biondetti, Tazio Nuvolari, Giovanni Canestrini, Juan Manuel Fangio, Antonio Brivio, Stirling Moss, Giuseppe...
Clemente Biondetti Describing Clemente Biondetti as colorful is like saying the Sears Tower in Chicago is tall. Unpredictable, imaginative, irascible, gentle, gruff, fascinating, stubborn, generous, outspoken, he was all of those things. He was also the only man to win the Mille Miglia four times, an extraordinary feat of skill,...
Robert Newman examines the men and machines that made the Mille Miglia one of the world’s greatest races. The Mille...
The strange story of Enzo Ferrari and his date with a firing squad has recently surfaced in Italy. Clearing out...
World championship rallying is a tough sport. Its drivers seldom compete on nice, smooth asphalt circuits where the worst that can happen – at least weather-wise – is that it rains. In rallying, the driver and co-driver navigate their car from one closed special stage to another. When they get...
Nearly 10 million people lined the streets of Italy to watch the first Mille Miglia Storica of the new millennium...
On May 25, Giulio Alfieri, one of the giants of 20th century motorsport, strode through the scrutineering paddock of the...
Mercedes-Benz’ incredibly successful first half of the 20th century was going to be a really tough act to follow. Ritter von Stern immediately set the Stuttgart firm on the road to untold glory in 1900 by winning the touring car class of a race at Semmering, Austria, in a 28...
Cisitalia’s back, and we’re not kidding. The prestigious marque, whose cars so nearly won the Mille Miglia at its first...
No one was exactly thrilled when word reached Maranello, Modena, Arese and points north that the automobile club of an...
The City of Parma, Italy, honored one of its famous sons on April 21, when it dedicated the day to Gino Munaron, Ferrari works driver of the ’50s and ’60s and well-known road racer, endurance driver and Formula One competitor. Heart of the celebrations was an exhibition of some of...
Another historic group has been formed to organize and run a Targa Florio Retrospective. The new group is made up...
As first reported in VRJ in October 2000, the legendary Cisitalia has moved a little closer to making its comeback. Now Italo and Massimo Dusio, sons of the company’s founder and racing driver Piero, have signed a letter of intent to build a new factory in the Santa Fe province...
Whatever the French might say, an American named James Gordon Bennett, Jr. is the great granddaddy of the modern Grand...
It seems almost unthinkable today, but for decades the only thing between Grand Prix pit workers and destiny was a...
The son of a wealthy textile manufacturer from Vercelli, near Milan, Italy, Marquis Antonio Brivio was one of the great Italian prewar racers: a gentleman driver every bit as professional as his main rivals, Tazio Nuvolari and Achille Varzi. He, like his two more famous contemporaries, was a tough and...
In the first of a two-part series, Robert Newman explores the amazing life and career of “The Flying Mantuan” –...
In the last of a two-part series, Robert Newman explores the amazing life and career of “The Flying Mantuan” –...
On March 14, 1957, promising Ferrari driver and 1956 Mille Miglia winner Eugenio Castellotti was killed while testing a Ferrari F1 single-seater at the Modena Autodrome. On March 14, 2002 – 45 years to the day after his fatal accident – a bust of Castellotti was unveiled at the entrance...
Tall, quiet-spoken and modest Giulio Alfieri, one of the greatest motor racing engineers of the 20th century, died on March...
Ninety-six years after it was first run, the great Targa Florio road race is to have its own museum. After...
Driving a 1937 BMW 328 Touring from the BMW museum in Munich, Bologna industrialist Giuliano Canè won this May’s Mille Miglia Storica for a record 7th time in 11 years. Canè and his navigator, wife Lucia, beat a field of 370 cars built between 1927 and 1957, many of them...
Eugenio Castellotti was deeply concerned about his best friend and mentor. Four days earlier, Alberto Ascari plunged his Lancia D50...
Tazio Nuvolari, undoubtedly one of the five top race car drivers of all time, died of tuberculosis in his own...
A unique gesture of love and devotion almost risked overshadowing the 21st Mille Miglia Storica and its 372 stunning cars in May. The ashes of the late Harry Newton, ex-editor of the magazine European Car, were scattered at the top of the race’s Raticosa Pass by his journalist son, Brian....
Hollywood actors play them—Luigi Fagioli was one. Built like Rocky Marciano with wide shoulders, muscular arms, thick neck and a...
Known more for his mercurial temper than his victories over the likes of Carraciola and Nuvolari, prewar Italian driving star...
