The 5th annual Sebring 12 Hour Grand Prix held in 1956 achieved international prominence when, for the first time, four...
While 2020 marks Formula One’s milestone 70th anniversary, April has also featured an historic 70 years since Maserati not only...
Now available on Netflix is “A Life of Speed: The Juan Manuel Fangio Story.” The 92-minute movie originates in Argentina and so it is no surprise that it is more fanzine tribute than balanced assessment. Air-brushed out is Argentina’s dictator Juan Peron who, directly and indirectly, influenced Fangio’s career. So...
The name Alfetta is still one that makes any red-blooded Italian motor sport fan throw out his chest with pride....
When he competed in his first Formula One race, Eddie Cheever was even more baby-faced than when I got to...
Is it possible to see genius ? Yes, you can see it in the trail of genius that Fangio left behind while winning his fifth World Championship at the “Green Hell”, Nürburgring (170 curves spread along 22 kilometers), in 1957. He achieved what is considered by many to be his...
Tucked away in a little potato-farming town, 250 miles south east of Buenos Aires, is one of the most important...
Five times World Champion Juan Manuel Fangio competed in the 1948 Grand Prix of South America, and it was 70...
RM Sotheby’s has announced the addition of a 1956 Ferrari 290 MM with a significant motorsport pedigree, for its Petersen Automotive Museum Auction on December 8. Campaigned by Scuderia Ferrari for the 1956 and 1957 seasons, the fully matching-numbers, Ferrari Classiche-certified racer was piloted by an amazing assortment of factory...
As the calendar year moves into its second half, we come to what motor racing calls its “Silly Season,” when...
April 2018 Whatever Happened to the Gold Cup? by Mike Allen Once retirement is upon us, whether forced by age...
It is with a great deal of sadness that I write about Dan Gurney, who died on January 15. We were close friends and our times together go back to 1955 when he raced at Torrey Pines. A number of those among us stood head and shoulders above all the...
Have you ever stopped to add up all of the different driver nationalities in motor racing and perhaps spotted a...
Over the course of nearly seven decades of Formula One history, only three men have ever won a World Championship...
1 • Colin Chapman and Michael Allen form Lotus Engineering Company (1952). 3 • Sprint car builder and Indy 500 crew chief Wally Meskowski dies at the age of 64 (1980). 4 • Denny Hulme, driving a Brabham BT4, wins the first Tasman Series race, held at Levin, New Zealand...
“Mirror, mirror, on the wall; Who is the fastest of them all?” Many are the racing drivers, fast and slow,...
One of the remarkable things about Juan Manuel Fangio is that he only competed in 51 Grands Prix, yet won...
Last weekend’s 20th annual Goodwood Revival once again celebrated motor racing history with its usual full slate of races despite weather conditions ranging from sunshine to heavy rain. While the list of race winners for the September 8-10 meeting can be found below, we will attempt to recap a few...
Over the coming months we will have a series of three interviews with former BRM mechanics who worked with the...
1 Richard Petty wins the NASCAR Winston Cup Talledega 500 in a Dodge Charger (1976). 2 Jochen Rindt drives a Lotus 72-Ford to victory in the German Grand Prix at Hockenheim (1970). 3 Jean Behra, driving a Porsche RSK, wins the six-lap sports car race on the Nürburgring in West...
Ed Leavens’ career in racing could be compared to an iceberg where 9/10ths of the details of his career lie...
1 Kazuyoshi Hoshino, who participated in two F1 races in the 1970s, born in Japan (1947). 2 Briggs Cunningham, racer,...
They say that, from 1933, not a single racing engine left the Ferrari factory without Luigi Bazzi designing it or contributing to its development—and that goes for about 160 of them. His CV as a motorista reads like a substantial slice of Italian motor sport history, for he also had...
1 Jody Scheckter drives a Ford-powered Tyrrell 007 to victory in the South African Grand Prix (1975). 3 Nobuhiko Kawamoto,...
Donington’s recent Historic Festival hosted a Nuvolari Trophy race, that made me wonder: what was it that made him so special? I don’t care who says Caracciola was the best driver, or believes Rosemeyer was, because great though they were, to me, only Fangio, Moss and Nuvolari had that special...
Charlie Kemp was born in Mississippi, and his inimitable southern drawl once led Carroll Shelby to say that had Charlie...
It took a racing department of 240 people and a huge budget to put Michael Schumacher on top of the...
1 Mercedes-Benz publishes a press release officially describing its W25 Grand Prix racecars as “Silver Arrows” (1934). 3 Dave MacDonald drives a Shelby King Cobra to victory in the USRRC race at Augusta, Georgia (1964). 5 Rally driver Erik Carlsson is born in Trollhättan, Sweden (1929). 6 John Bowe drives...
