An Alfa Romeo car mechanic who rose to become one of the greatest endurance drivers of his generation, the man...
1959 Cooper T-51 and 1960 Cooper T-53 The two Formula 1 Coopers you see here represent one of the key...
Dark clouds begin to gather in my mind every spring as I park my car in Brescia and walk to scrutineering for the Mille Miglia Storica, to enjoy some of the most magnificent road racing cars in the world. All 375 of them are ready to set out on yet...
2 First South Africa Grand Prix to be held on the Kyalami track near Johannesburg is won by Pedro Rodriguez...
The historic racing scene has brought many excellent cars back to the circuits over recent years, although quite a lot...
August 2006 Stirling Moss Scrapbook 1961 By Stirling Moss and Philip Porter This book is the second in a series of scrapbooks that take a revealing look at one year in the life of Stirling Moss. As described here previously with the first edition, covering the year 1955, the 1961...
Four competition cars from Mercedes-Benz will be the feature attractions at this year’s Lime Rock Historic Festival 33, scheduled for...
Stirling Moss, in his Vanwall, during the 1957 British Grand Prix at Aintree, on July 20. Moss retired the car...
2 Jochen Rindt drives a Lotus 72-Ford to victory in the German Grand Prix at Hockenheim (1970). 3 Graham Hill drives a Maranello Concessionaires Ferrari 330LM to victory in the 133-mile Guards Trophy Race at Brand Hatch, England (1964). 4 Giuseppe Campari wins fifth Coppa Acerbo road race in an...
Those looking for vintage photographs frequently contact me. During the fifties, my partner, Dick Sherwin, and I published a short-lived...
Peter Bryant, best known in motor racing circles as the creator of the Titanium-chassied Ti22 Can-Am car, died of a...
The Glover Trophy; Goodwood, April 2, 1956. One of Klemantaski’s great shots: Stirling Moss in his private Maserati 250F really charging on the way to another win and a new lap record. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION PMB 219 – 65 High Ridge Road, Stamford, CT 06905-3814 USA., Tel:...
2 Walter Sobraske, machinist for Miller, Schofield, Offenhauser and Meyer & Drake (later shop forman), born in West Virginia (1901)....
November 2017 Great Cars no: 10 – Lotus 18, The Autobiography of Stirling Moss’s ‘912’ by Ian Wagstaff In a little...
1967 Brabham BT24-Repco Sometimes all your birthdays and Christmases come at once. Picture the scene: It is February 2006 and the Vintage Racecar team has gathered at the famous Phillip Island circuit south of Melbourne for one of the best historic racing festivals to be found. As you look south,...
MotorBinder: Classic Photographs from the golden age of motor racing By Roy Spencer Journey with us now down the dusty...
As expected, Alberto Ascari impressed everyone with his driving of the 340 hp Ferrari 375MM in the 1953 24 Hours...
Brian Redman has accepted the position of Grand Marshal for the 2nd Annual Bahamas Speed Week Revival, scheduled for this Nov. 24–Dec. 2. Redman, a multi-time racing champion in the U.S. and overseas, will join Patron Sir Stirling Moss and Event Ambassador Derek Bell, MBE, for the second running of...
Stirling Moss and Juan Manual Fangio were partners at Mercedes-Benz in 1955. They later became rivals, Fangio at Ferrari with...
As the ninth annual The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering had chosen to honor Ferrari’s limited edition, top-end America and Superamerica...
Aston Martin entered the1959 sports car season targeting just a single race, Le Mans, but walked away the deserving winner of an almost accidental Championship Half a century ago, the Circuit de la Sarthe wound its way through the French countryside just beyond the city limits of Le Mans on...
4 Jules Goux, driving a Ballot, wins the first Italian Grand Prix at Montichiari, near Brescia (1921). 5 Gilles Villeneuve...
The final lap has been run and the chequered flag has fallen on the life and time of a man...
1 • Glenn Seton drives a Nissan Skyline to victory in the Australian Touring Car race at Calder Park in...
2 Emerson Fittipaldi, driving a Penske PC-18, wins the CART Budweiser Cleveland Grand Prix at the Burke Lake Front Airport...
If ever an event deserved to be revived, it was the Nassau Speed Weeks. Originally held between 1954 and 1966, names like Hill, McLaren, Penske, Gurney and, of course, Stirling Moss feature on the trophies. It was a high-octane end of season “playoff” in the sun between the Americans and...
Unquestionably, one of the most dominating racing cars was the Mercedes W196, particularly with drivers such as Fangio and Moss...
2 Jacky Ickx and David Hobbs drive a Gulf Ford GT40 to victory in the Rand 9 Hour Race at Kyalami, South Africa (1968). 7 The Australian Grand Prix at Adelaide is Ayrton Senna’s last F1 win (1993). 8 At Phoenix, Arizona, Alan Kulwicki, driving a Ford Thunderbird, wins a...
