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250 GTO
Sixty years ago, a car regarded by many as the greatest road racer of all time was launched. And this…
Sixty years ago, a car regarded by many as the greatest road racer of all time was launched. And this…
Amongst all the world’s greatest classic cars there can be no doubt that, in general perception, the confined group of…
Denis Jenkinson read the situation perfectly. In early 1962, as the dust settled following the ‘Palace Revolt’ in which a…
"I don’t know,” answers Charles Leclerc to the question of whether he is a tiger or tactician, a Villeneuve or…
Jim Weeks The very basis of Ferrari’s reputation is competition. Indeed, Enzo Ferrari himself famously only built road-going examples of…
The front wings curve and curl ahead of you, the monstrous V12 bellows and barks behind you. The revs keep…
Whatever the 1923 Italian term was for, ‘On your bike, son,’ 25-year-old Enzo Ferrari surely uttered it as the carabiniere…
Anyone who lives beyond man’s natural span of “three score years and 10” has to be respected, and to live…
While the British teams gnashed their teeth over the regulation change, Ferrari made hay with Carlo Chiti’s V6 that had…
On May 13, 1950 Giuseppe Farina took the chequered flag at Silverstone, and thus by definition won a world championship…
I have spent the last few years travelling the world and driving as many Ferrari Sports-racers as I could. At…
For today’s Formula 1 drivers, the glare of the media spotlight is relentless. TV cameras haunt every corner of the…
Forty years. Who knows where the time goes? In the midst of one of grand prix racing’s most unpredictable seasons,…
There’s a distant whine of electronics, followed by a whip crack of starter motor… then all hell breaks loose. The…
He won the Targa Florio twice, raced for Scuderia Ferrari, had his own grand prix team, created a car that…
On the 16th of December last the Scuderia Ferrari celebrated its annual banquet, and talk naturally turned to the problem…
Mauro Forghieri – for 27 years the chief engineer of Ferrari’s racing operation – was on fine form. Ten days…
I’ll give you the same tip I gave to Jacky Ickx in 1973 when he was driving the Targa for…
Starts to races don’t always live up to the hype, especially when you have title rivals heading towards Turn 1 with a race up for grabs, but Mexico didn’t disappoint.…
This week has been all about James and Darren. James and Darren are carpenters. Their task this week has been to give our kitchen what I believe is known as…
A familiar name is launching an all-electric car, and this one promises to be a little different What does a new automotive start-up have in common with a 50-year-old racing…
The MP4/4 debate which has rumbled on for over three decades has heated up once again, with former McLaren designers strongly refuting claims from Gordon Murray that he alone was the car's architect