Delahaye, for those who recognize the name, conjures up a mixed vision of large and long French Grand Prix, sports...
Martin Swig is a former multi-franchise new-car dealer based in the San Francisco Bay area who is an avid vintage...
BBC TV’s Top Gear is seen in 170 countries. There is now an insipid American version, which remakes original programs in a cozy way. The American presenters have had personality bypasses and have yet to look up irony in a dictionary. A while back, Top Gear challenged viewers to nominate...
The Ferrari Tribute to Mille Miglia 2012 took place May 16-20, starting and ending in Brescia, Italy. After three days...
The Mille Miglia Storica 2012 was staged May 16-20 on the scenic roads of Italy. This year’s route traveled clockwise...
Report and photos by Dirk de Jager La Mille Miglia, or the 1000 Miles, has become an Italian institution on the classic car calendar. Originally a full-on, flat-out race starting in Brescia and heading down to Rome and back in one go, the Mille Miglia was started in 1927 and...
Report by Dennis Gray | Photos by author and Bob Ross The 2012 running of the California Mille was held...
Riverside has at last completely disappeared, wholly obliterated under new development. No longer can you find your way to the last remaining section of the old International Raceway and pluck out a souvenir chunk of asphalt, as I wrote about doing in the VR of September 1999. Pete Lyons By...
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Pete Lyons Something is missing. Look around the race tracks, the city streets, the holiday hotspots … see what isn’t...
After an aborted late summer start, the inaugural Mille Miglia North America Tribute finally put rubber to the road from October 25–28, 2011 with fewer cars than originally envisioned but enthusiastic participation from those present. While the car count may have been small, the event’s quality was bolstered by a...
The inaugural Mille Miglia North America Tribute was held October 25-29, 2011, starting and ending in Santa Barbara, California. Event...
By Martin Swig On October 25-29, 2011 the Santa Barbara, California Stratus Media Group showed us their interpretation of a...
Adrian CamposPhoto: Pete Austin 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...
From the very beginning of the automobile man built cars to compete, with a passion for speed and technology. These...
Pete Lyons Come with me to Italy, if you’ve got a minute, I want to show you something neat. We’re...
Lotus Bashing? Photo: Pete Austin Dear Editor, OK, we get it, Mike Lawrence doesn’t like Colin Chapman. Like all critics, Lawrence is quite content mutilating the achievements of his betters while never having done anything worthwhile himself. Had he ever accomplished anything of note he would know that creating things, particularly big...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These...
The design department at Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft (DMG) – which had not yet merged with Benz & Cie – began developing Mercedes...
“Wow, I could have had an 8V!” Can you imagine if Fiat had hired actor Ronald Reagan in 1952 to promote its brand-new sports car with that mostly familiar slogan? Had Fiat done that, is there any doubt that thousands of units would have been sold? Instead, in 1975 Campbell’s...
A.J. Foyt Giuseppi Campari 1 A.J. Foyt, driving a Coyote-Foyt, wins the USAC Championship race at Texas World Speedway in...
Big changes are in store for the inaugural Mille Miglia North America Tribute. The 1,000 mile rally shifted the date...
The Mille Miglia 2012 will be staged 17-20 May along the historic route from Brescia to Rome and back to Brescia. “We have an ambitious goal,” said Alessandro Casali, President of the Mille Miglia Organising Committee, “and that is to beat the record success of the 2011 edition. The organising...
By Will Silk James Fontana’s new book The 1000 Mile Dream is a fictional piece that parallels the actual running...
The Mille Miglia 2011 took place 11-14 May in Italy on the historic roads from Brescia to Rome and back...
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 Ferrari Tribute to Mille Miglia 2011 took place May 11-14, starting and ending in Brescia, Italy. After three days...
The Mille Miglia Storica 2011 was conducted May 11-14, starting and ending in Brescia, Italy. Along the historic route from...
In April 1931, Rudolf Caracciola became the first non-Italian to win the Mille Miglia road race. Alongside his co-driver Wilhelm Sebastian, the Mercedes-Benz works team driver won the 1,635km race, which took place from 12 to 13 April 1931, in a Mercedes-Benz SSKL racing car. Caracciola achieved an average speed...