Unlike Vintage Racecar’s editors I don’t spend my working life thrashing the pants off other people’s rare and priceless racing...
1961 Ferrari 250GT SWB “Comp/61” Inevitably, when the name Ferrari is brought up in conjunction with racing, the first thing that...
That was Mario Andretti’s comment after the drive of his life…an impossible dream. He said so after he had just won the 1970 12 Hours of Sebring for Ferrari in the most incredible nail-biter of a race, which had more than 57,000 spectators exploding with excitement, especially during the last...
His nickname was always “Tony A-to-Z,” in part because his last name was Adamowicz, but in larger part because his...
Arguably, one of the core tenets of vintage and historic racing is the notion of the rolling time frame, that...
It’s not often that a Formula One driver can turn his hand to World Championship rallying. Look at 2007 F1 world champion Kimi Raikkonen. He cut his Grand Prix career short in 2010 to join Citroën, but could only turn in mediocre results, before returning in 2012 to what he...
The possibility of working with Ferrari surfaced in mid-1996. Michael told me at the end of 1995 that he was...
Being a driver for Scuderia Ferrari, I must say, is the most amazing job any driver can have. The opportunity...
Some people do; some people don’t. Some people enjoy it; some people don’t. Driving in the rain, that is. Apart from being the title of two wonderful books—the real racing one by John Horsman, (Racing in the Rain) and the other (The Art of Racing in the Rain) “written” by...
This painting depicts a cockpit study of the ex-Peter Collins Ferrari Dino 246S as seen at the Goodwood Revival meeting....
January 2017 On July 10-11, 1949. Just two weeks after Le Mans, Luigi Chinetti teamed up with Jean Lucas to...
There is a warehouse in Houston, Texas, that is the automotive equivalent of Willie Wonka’s Chocolate Factory. There are no rivers of the liquid-brown confection and you won’t find even a single Everlasting-Gobstopper. There are sales people and mechanics and detailers, but sadly not-a-one Oompa Loompa. By comparison the place...
1 Paul Frere drives an Ecurie Belge Cooper T51-Climax to victory in the 80-lap Formula Libre South African Grand Prix...
The FIA sports prototypes were some of the most exciting purpose-built racing cars ever designed. They competed under the regulations set forth by the FIA (Federation International Automobile) in the International Championship of Makes from 1964-1971, and the World Championship of Makes from 1972-1981. The regulations changed somewhat as the...
Sears Point, Sonoma, CA September 30-October 2, 2016...
Linas-Montlhéry Autodrome, Montlhéry, France September 24-25, 2016...
Virginia Int’l. Raceway, Alton, VA September 22-25, 2016...
Brands Hatch, Kent, UK September 17, 2016...
NAS North Island, San Diego, CA September 16-19, 2016...
January 2017 Can-Am 50th Anniversary By George Levy and Pete Biro Can it really be 50 years since the Canadian-American Challenge Cup series burst onto the North American motorsport landscape? Apparently so, as this book so eloquently reminds us. It is subtitled: “Flat out with America’s Greatest Race Series,” which...
