Spring is in the air and historic sports cars are being fettled for the Mille Miglia, except they’re not. They...
“Among my drivers, Giovanni Bracco was, perhaps, the one who scored the most spectacular success,” Enzo Ferrari once said about the fun-loving, booze-loving winner of the 1952 Mille Miglia. Bracco won other races, but he will always be remembered for his climb from nowhere to victory, chain-smoking and swigging red...
Details have been released for the 40th running of the 1000 Miglia, June 15–18, 2022, with entry applications now being...
The year 2015 marked the 60th anniversary of Stirling Moss and Denis Jenkinson’s victory in the 1955 Mille Miglia, racing...
Today, Franco Cortese is, perhaps, one of motor sport’s forgotten stars and he shouldn’t be. He was the driver who put Ferrari on the map in a career that spanned 156 races, 20 victories and top placings as long as your arm. During more than four decades, from 1926 to...
Central Coast, California October 25–29, 2011...
Photo Gallery from the May 15–19, 2019 running of the Mille Miglia from Brescia to Rome and back to Brescia,...
[Click here to read the first installment] Poland, Denmark and Norway had fallen to Nazi Germany and the blitzkrieg up through France, Holland and Belgium was just months away by the time the 1940 so-called Mille Miglia took place. Hardly a time to be thinking of pleasant pastimes like motor...
Brescia-Rome-Brescia, Italy May 13–17, 2009...
La Festa Mille Miglia 2018, held in Japan, is now in its 21st year. As you can probably guess from the...
Few would argue with the notion that Tazio Nuvolari was one of the five greatest racing drivers of all time; some would even say the greatest. But as the years pass, the number of people who saw him race diminishes, so how can we really know? It is easy to...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These...
1973 Porsche Carrera RS This could be an opera in several parts. It might have been written by Verdi or...
Today, Spanish motor racing spectators have much to cheer for. Fernando Alonso wins many Grand Prix races and is number one Ferrari driver. Jamie Alguersuari is a great driver with the F1 Torro Rosso team. It was not so easy for me, so many years ago in the 1980s. In...
1952 Ferrari 225 S While the history of the Ferrari you see here will forever associate it with the great...
RM Sotheby’s has announced the addition of a 1956 Ferrari 290 MM with a significant motorsport pedigree, for its Petersen...
1934 MG Q-type The story of how, in 1923, the first MG—under the guidance of Cecil Kimber—grew from the Bullnose Morris car is well known. The secret of success for MG was that it was able to supply light, open cars at highly competitive prices. Known as the M.G. Super...
Alfa Romeo will be 100 years old on June 24 and its motor sport pedigree almost 99—one of only a...
My personal record with the Mercedes 300 SLR was six starts, three wins, two 2nd places and one “withdrawn when...
The 39th edition of the 1000 Miglia was officially presented as an online event, from the Mille Miglia Museum, on the day on which it was originally scheduled to start, before being postponed by five weeks as a precautionary measure. On Wednesday, June 16, the 375 cars allowed to take...
VR: How did you get your start in automobiles? MS: Well, you know, I was thinking about this and maybe...
The Mille Miglia is spreading its wings. The usual Brescia-Rome-Brescia regularity race will take place between May 12–15 in Italy, but for the first time a Mille Miglia Tribute to North America is to be held August 14–17, ahead of the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance and Monterey Motorsports Reunion vintage...
The flying man from Mantua On April 13, 1930, just after 5:00 am, the silent shadows beside Lake Garda are...
Just about everything there is to write has been written about American racing legend Mario Andretti, but we would be...
I did 525 races. I had five wheels come off, I’ve had seven or eight brake failures, and I have had the steering shear twice…where I have been driving along and suddenly my arms crossed…that’s when you know something is wrong! The things you remember are the things that are...
There is a brand-new look to the 80-year-old Mille Miglia. The 2008 retrospective was announced in Brescia at the end...
Rome-Brescia-Rome, Italy May 15–18,2008...
When I first talked with Vintage Racecar editor Casey Annis in 2005, the conversation revolved around the subject of me writing about the fifties, the fabulous fifties as it were. After all, this was what I was known for. I had written seven books about the decade. One of my...
