It may be irrelevant to ascribe beauty to a racing car designed expressly for its function. But the 1938 W154...
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]t Monaco, the first significant race of the 1933 season, a new Grand Prix team made its debut: Scuderia CC,...
Fed up with seeing their major races won by the Germans in the 1930s, the Italians allowed only 1½-liter entries in their 1939 races to eliminate their opposition. They reckoned without the astonishing skills of the Daimler-Benz Racing Department. The most glamorous Grand Prix race of the 1930s was not...
“Mirror, mirror, on the wall; Who is the fastest of them all?” Many are the racing drivers, fast and slow,...
After the First World War and into the ’20s, many car manufacturers throughout Europe became involved in Grand Prix racing....
After a great fight between Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes W154 and the Delahaye 145 V12 of René Dreyfus in the early going of the 1938 Pau Grand Prix, Caracciola began experiencing pain from an old leg injury suffered at Monaco five years before, and made a pit stop on...
Donington devotee John Bailie is researching, designing and editing a book, planned for launch later this year, which focusses on...
Like most German industrial companies, World War II left much of Mercedes-Benz’s Stuttgart factory in ruins. However, with time Mercedes...
The concept of streamlining and streamliners has been around for countless decades, though it is difficult to find two people who agree on just what streamlining means. It has been used in reference to everything from small weapon-like implements to giant locomotives, aircraft and ships. The essential ingredient, however, has...
You wouldn’t need all the fingers of one hand to count the number of men who could beat Juan Manuel...
I guess genius rather than hero is the correct way to describe Ferdinand Porsche, whose cars mobilized humanity and provided...
