This son of a German garage owner had never raced a car until May 26, 1935, at the superfast Avus...
Bob Wollek was a champion many times over before he even got into motor racing. He won no fewer than...
The very first Porsche spanned the Second World War like a bridge over troubled waters, from peacetime to peacetime. It was created by Dr. Ing. h.c. Ferdinand Porsche and a handful of his close associates in 1937-38 and, despite the hideous wartime destruction, is still alive and well today, a...
We called it the “Bruce and Denny Show,” and it was total dominance of the Can-Am Championship by McLaren Cars...
The Alfa Romeo 6C 1500 SS, in which Giuseppe Campari and Giulio Ramponi won the 1928 Mille Miglia, has done...
Nearly 10 million people lined the streets of Italy to watch the first Mille Miglia Storica of the new millennium from May 25-27, as 367 mechanical masterpieces built between 1927 and 1957 growled their way from Brescia to Ferrara to Rome and back. Though the route took its toll (96...
Carlo Pintacuda was one of the Florentine greats, a motor racing elite from the Tuscan city that also included Gastone...
It’s not often that a Formula One driver can turn his hand to World Championship rallying. Look at 2007 F1...
There were no rally cars, as such, during the sport’s first 50 years or so, just the bog standard daily transport people drove to work and back each day. Many car owners joined motor clubs, which organized boring regularity runs, manoeuvrability gymkhanas and navigational exercises. So for over 50 years,...
Click here to read “Chargers Part 1—World Rallying 1957–1965 The CSI struck again in 1965, this time putting out a...
There was never any doubt that Chris Amon was an exceptional talent. Mauro Forghieri, Ferrari’s chief designer for almost 20...
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...
The Tazio Nuvolari Museum in Mantua, Italy, has closed. It is supposed to open again at some time in the...
The vintage motor racing world of northern Italy mobilized itself impressively on June 11 to commemorate Enzo Ferrari’s last victory...
Carlos Reutemann, 63, winner of 12 Grands Prix—five of them with Ferrari from 1976 to 1978—has been made a Commendatore in the New Year Honors list of Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi. “Lole,” as he was known, now holds the same rank as his late ’70s employer at Maranello, Commendatore...
Count Giannino Marzotto, winner of the Mille Miglia in 1950 and 1953, died in Padua Hospital in July after a...
Forget about Dick Van Dyke driving old bangers through the sky sitting next to the delectable Sally Ann Howes. That...
Damon Graham Devereux Hill is the only son of a Formula 1 World Champion to have also won the title. His father, Graham, won the 1962 and 1968 championships and Damon the 1996. Never has a World Champion’s biography been more aptly entitled, however, than Damon’s From Zero to Hero....
Dan Gurney’s motor racing career as a driver, car constructor and team owner is just about as star-spangled as his...
So we have lost Dan Gurney, a few months shy of his 87th birthday. Dan was one of the sport’s...
That’s some ride from West Lothian, Scotland to winning the great Indianapolis 500 three times, not to mention four IndyCar Series Championships. It’s a ride Dario Franchitti took from 1996 until 2013. On the way Dario, born in Bathgate, West Lothian on May 19, 1973, and whose family has profound...
Dario Resta competed in the first race ever held on Britain’s hallowed Brooklands circuit on July 6, 1907, and died...
Ask anyone who was the first American to win a Grand Prix and chances are they will say Phil Hill...
David Purley was a hero you have probably never even heard of, but a hero he most certainly was. If you remember him at all, it will be for his one-man attempt to rescue his friend and fellow F1 driver, Roger Williamson, from a burning car during the 1973 Grand...
The legendary Mario Colucci has died at the age of 78. He was the man who converted most of the...
Denny Hulme was one of the most reserved men in motor racing. He seldom showed his emotions, which he camouflaged...
What kind of racing driver is it who forgets how many times he’s won? One of the most successful, of course. Too many victories to remember. That’s Britain’s Derek Bell, “Mr. Nice Guy” as he is known among most of his contemporaries. Which is remarkable in itself. Not too many...
Derek is the epitome of the driver who should have won the Formula One World Championship, but was just about...
It may sound corny, but Dick Seaman’s short life really was the stuff of Hollywood movies. He was tall, handsome,...
Donald Campbell was a hero, like his famous father. But that is where the resemblance ended. Sir Malcolm, who broke no fewer than nine Land Speed Records and four on water, was an arrogant, domineering father. He ridiculed his son and actively tried to dissuade Donald from following in his...
