Auto Union (Audi) history at a glance (left to right): 1938 Horch 830 B; 1953 DKW3=6F91; 1959 NSU Prinz 30; 1937...
In the early going of the 1934 Coppa Acerbo, in Pescara, Italy, Hans Stuck’s Auto Union Type A led Achille Varzi’s Alfa Romeo P3, but in the end the race produced victory for the Mercedes-Benz, driven by Luigi Fagioli. The Enzo Ferrari-run Alfa Romeos, hitherto almost invincible, met with a...
1966 Eagle-Weslake It is a privilege to update and run my test of the Eagle-Weslake. At Vintage Racecar we were...
1 Pedro and Ricardo Rodriguez drive a NART Ferrari 250 GTO to victory in the 1000K sports car race at...
In 1936, Stuck returned to Shelsley Walsh. It was a very wet meeting and Raymond Mays’ Zoller supercharged, 2-liter R4B (not C or D as it became in 1938) managed a time of 41.6. The German driver, Walter Baumer, in the little 750-cc Austin and A.F.P. Fane’s Frazer Nash single-seater...
At the first Shelsley Walsh meeting after the war, only the weather was as predictable as the belief among spectators...
Donington’s recent Historic Festival hosted a Nuvolari Trophy race, that made me wonder: what was it that made him so...
Two fascinating characters from the early days of motor racing will be honored at this year’s Donington Historic Festival, set for April 30-May 2 on the grounds of England’s Castle Donington. Tazio Nuvolari will be celebrated with the HGPCA’s Nuvolari Trophy race for pre-1950 Grand Prix cars, while daredevil aviator...
Eighty years after his father contested the Shelsley Walsh Hill Climb, Hans-Joachim Stuck will do the same, driving a replica...
After the First World War and into the ’20s, many car manufacturers throughout Europe became involved in Grand Prix racing....
South Africa has a rich motor racing history, and during the 1930s a number of International Grands Prix were held at major centers around the country. Whitney Straight won the first South African Grand Prix in 1934, and later visitors included the Auto Union team with such greats as Bernd...
Few would argue with the notion that Tazio Nuvolari was one of the five greatest racing drivers of all time;...
4 Jules Goux, driving a Ballot, wins the first Italian Grand Prix at Montichiari, near Brescia (1921). 5 Gilles Villeneuve...
Mystery GT40 Dear Editor, While perusing Roadcar, on Page 49 (May 2013) I saw a picture of a white GT40 GT 108. I was wondering what, if any, relationship there is between that car and the two attached scans. They were taken at the October, 1965 Times GP with Chris...
It was my father, Reg Parnell, who first went to Donington Park in 1934. Living near Derby it wasn’t too...
The decade of the ’30s was a time of incredible creativity among automobile designers and coachbuilders, especially in Europe. But...
Laury, Lucy O’Reilly and Harry Schell were father, mother and son. They were all larger than life characters who made their very distinct contribution to the colorful playboy image that some aspects of motor racing projected before the Second World War and immediately after it. At first, the main culprit...
U.S. Presidential election fever hit Goodwood, and the Revival candidate was none other than Dan Gurney. Posters, pin badges and...
The concept of streamlining and streamliners has been around for countless decades, though it is difficult to find two people...
German racer Paul Pietsch, the last surviving driver of the prewar Silver Arrows era and the oldest living Grand Prix racer, has died at the age of 100. His family confirmed his May 31 passing, just three weeks short of his 101st birthday. The former Auto Union works driver was...
Whether you are a fan of Formula One or not, it was hard to not read about the recent Bahrain...
The ashtrays were a collector’s delight. Shaped like Bugatti radiators and advertising the Le Chanteclair Restaurant and Bar at 18...
Montjuic translates from medieval Catalan as “Hill of the Jews,” or an alternative derivation may be from the Latin Mons Jovicus “Hill of Jupiter.” Whatever the origin of its name, this hill that overlooks Barcelona’s harbor has been known as Montjuic for more than a thousand years. Now using the...
This large, domineering man invented the job of motor racing team manager and in doing so changed the way the...
Donington Park in the English Midlands, the historic site of 1930s Grands Prix, has once again echoed to the sound...
1 Dick Johnson and John Bowe drive a Ford Sierra to victory in the Toohey’s 1000 at Mount Panorama in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia (1989). 2 Bernd Rosemeyer, driving an Auto Union, wins the last race of the 750kg racing formula, the British Grand Prix at Donington (1937). 3...
Alfa Romeo had gone from zero to hero and beyond from the 1911 Targa Florio to the 1936 Mille Miglia....
2 Achille Varzi is killed when his Alfa Romeo 158 crashes in heavy rain during practice for the Swiss Grand...
Motor racing was banned in Switzerland in the aftermath of the 1955 Le Mans disaster, one of the most catastrophic in the sport’s history. The lifting of the ban has been discussed on a number of occasions by the Swiss authorities, but ultimately to no avail. It was, therefore, very...
