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Gregor Fisken to race legendary Ferrari 330 P3 at Paul Ricard
2008-05-28 00:00:00
Gregor Fisken will race an ex-works Ferrari 330 P3 at Paul Ricard this weekend having been invited to compete in the Ferrari Historic Challenge by the car?s owner. The Scottish-born racing driver, Managing Director of London?s leading historic automobile dealership Fiskens, has a long and illustrious past in historic racing and has also competed regularly in modern day sportscars, being one of only a select few drivers to have competed at the Le Mans 24 Hours in LMP1, LMP2, GT2 machinery and last year in GT1, in the Larbre run Aston Martin DBR9. Built in 1966, the second chassis of only three ever to be made, the P3 is an iconic racing car, with chassis number 0844 having won the Monza 1000kms in the hands of John Surtees and Mike Parkes and the Spa 1000kms with Parkes and Italian Ludovico Scarfiotti. The following year it finished third overall in the Daytona 24 Hours with Mexican Pedro Rodriguez and Frenchman Jean Guichet at the wheel. It has a 4-litre, V12 engine and was design...
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1960 Mercedes Benz 300SL Roadster for sale
2008-05-28 00:00:00
Click on the picture to enlarge Visit the Mercedes Benz 300SL Roadster pictures gallery This striking Mercedes Benz 300SL Roadster has been added to Symbolic Motor Car Company's inventory a few days ago. This is an all "Matching Numbers" example with both the Factory "Soft" and "Hard" top options. It is also fitted with a correct "Becker Europa" period radio. This car has been fully sorted and it is completely rust and accident free! This Mercedes is being offered at just $595,000 or approximately £300K - 375K Euros! It seems to be really perfect. I had the chance to drive one two years ago in Spain. And I'd like to say that's everything about this car is fantastic.
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Bonhams? First Motorcar Auction at Greenwich Concours d?Elegance
2008-05-28 00:00:00
Rare Racers from McLaren & Maserati, Grand Tourers from Bugatti & Rolls-Royce, 1950s & ?60s American Classics at Auction World-renowned auctioneers Bonhams have amassed an exceptional collection of rare motorcars to go on auction Sunday, June 8th, at 10:30 am, as part of its first offering at the annual Greenwich Concours d?Elegance. This important sale of motorcars features rare marques with impressive racing history, classically elegant Rolls-Royce and touring cars, and American classics such as a turquoise ?54 Buick Skylark, in addition to a notable array of automobilia. ?Bonhams is delighted to be working with Bruce and Genia Wennerstrom, organizers of the Greenwich Concours, and enhancing our US auction schedule with a presence at one of the foremost events in the country,? says Rupert Banner, Bonhams V.P. of Business Development. ?The quality of this offering is excellent,? Mark Osborne Motoring Department Director, from the San Francisco gallery expounded. ...

2008 Grand Prix de Pau Historique video
2008-05-28 00:00:00
We haven't found many videos of the 2008 Grand Prix de Pau Historique. Here is the best one we've found: First lap of Frédéric Clot - Team Yesterday Racing, driving a Triumph spitfire.
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The preparation of the 7th edition of SpaItalia is in good shape
2008-05-24 00:00:00
Click on the picture to enlarge Take the bull by the horns and register you without delay ! The preparation of the 7th edition of SpaItalia is in good shape. As you know, this year we will celebrate the marque of the bull. The last weekend of June, the very new circuit of Spa-Francorchamps will be used as the arena for this exceptional meeting of the most beautiful GT and racing cars of the brand founded by Ferrucio Lamborghini. But this is not all ! Our goal was always to promote the Italian car in all its forms and aspects. It is therefore not necessary to have a Lamborghini to take part in SpaItalia. This is why we are preparing others surprises and amongst them, the likely presence of the already mythic Alfa Romeo MiTo ! A fatal beauty, which will be surrounded by other emblematic innovations, underlining the stylistic rebirth of Alfa Romeo. We cannot say more for the moment but we know that the Alfisti will not be disappointed. Like each year, the other Italian marques wi...
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Classic cars at auction at Brooklands Tradition Sale.
2008-05-23 00:00:00
Click on the picture to enlarge 1.00pm Thursday, 5th June 2008. Brooklands Motor Museum, Surrey BCA?s annual Brooklands Tradition sale takes place at the Brooklands Motor Museum, Surrey on Thursday 5th June. The historic setting will provide a fantastic backdrop for a wide range of vehicles, spanning almost a century of motoring. With estimates ranging from around £1,200 for a 1937 Austin Ruby to just under £40,000 for a 1971 Porsche Carrera RS Replica, the sale will have something for everyone. ?The appeal of the Classic has widened enormously in the last few years? confirmed Robin Lawton, Head of Classics from BCA. ?And this year?s sale at the historic Brooklands Motoring Museum will offer a good variety of vehicles, from the vintage era to modern thoroughbreds.? BCA has seen a growing interest in cars from yesteryear ? and not just cars from the turn of the 20th Century, Twenties and Thirties, but also in more modern classics from the Seventies and Eighties. Arguably the...
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Lewis Hamilton confirmed for the 2008 Goodwood Festival of Speed
2008-05-23 00:00:00
After much anticipation, British Formula One sensation Lewis Hamilton has now confirmed his attendance at the 2008 Goodwood Festival of Speed , being held in Goodwood Park from 11-13 July. In 2007 Lewis made his UK British F1 debut in action on UK soil to the huge delight of the assembled 50,000 Festival goers. For 2008, Lewis will once again scream up the challenging 1.16-mile Goodwood hillclimb in his F1 McLaren on Sunday 13 July. The presence of Lewis at the Goodwood Festival of Speed harmoniously ties in with the 2008 theme of ?Hawthorn to Hamilton ? Britain?s Love Affair with World Motor Sport?. Both Hawthorn and Hamilton have played a role in Goodwood?s 60 years of motor sport, which is being celebrated this year at the Festival and the Revival in September. Like Hamilton, Hawthorn won an F1 race in his year of works F1 racing in 1954, having burst onto the motor sport scene with a bang at the Goodwood Easter Monday meeting in 1952. Equally, Britain has also long played a ...

Steve McQueen's Le Mans Porsche to be auctioned by Bonhams
2008-05-22 00:00:00
It?s that time of year again when the automotive world gears up for the mother of all U.S. motoring events: the Monterey Peninsula Car Week held each August. One of the foremost celebrations of automotive design and performance that week is the Quail Motorsports Gathering, and with that, the seminal Bonhams & Butterfields auction of important collectors? cars. This year, Bonhams will attempt to make history once again by offering what is perhaps one of the most important cars to ever straddle both the competitive and popular culture worlds ? Steve McQueen?s 1969 Porsche raced at Sebring and used in the movie Le Mans . It is expected to fetch $1,500,000-2,000,000. Steve McQueen's Porsche The ex-Solar Productions Steve McQueen/Peter Revson race car is a 1969-70 Porsche 908/2 Pflunder, 3-litre air-cooled flat-8 Spyder in which McQueen and Revson finished second overall in the 1970 Sebring 12-Hours just behind Mario Andretti. It was raced later that same year at Le Mans mounted...

1961 Ferrari 250 GT SWB California Spyder sold by RM Auctions
2008-05-22 00:00:00
Click on the picture to enlarge Leading international auction house, RM Auctions , in association with Sotheby?s, made a triumphant return to Maranello, Italy this past weekend, setting a new world record for the most expensive motor car ever to be sold in auction history. Taking this prestigious honor was the stunning 1961 Ferrari 250 GT SWB California Spyder, formerly owned by Oscar winning actor, James Coburn, which sold for $10,894,400 (?7,040,000 , £5,598,208). Other top sellers included a grand prix winning 1964 Ferrari 250 LM; an ultra-desirable 1958 Ferrari 250 GT LWB California Spyder; and a rare 1971 Ferrari 512M. RM Auctions, in association with Sotheby?s, has continued its record-breaking European sales run with another highly successful auction event held at the famous Pista di Fiorano in Maranello, Italy over the weekend. Coming just 12 months after RM Auctions? inaugural European event, the second Ferrari Leggenda e Passione auction stole the attention of the inte...
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The legendary sports-racing prototype that shaped Jaguar?s future at auctio
2008-05-22 00:00:00
The unique and celebrated prototype Jaguar ?E2A? as driven by no fewer than four of the world?s greatest racing drivers is to be offered for the first time at auction, headlining Bonhams & Butterfields? annual Quail Lodge sale, in California, on 15 August 2008. It is expected to fetch in excess of $7-million. Presented in wonderfully original and unspoiled ex-works condition, this unique and immensely important British sports-racing legend has been lovingly preserved in just one family ownership for over 40 years and ? extraordinarily - it is in effect a one-owner car ex-works. By 1960 Jaguar had won the world?s most prestigious motor race, the Le Mans 24-Hours, no fewer than five times; twice with its original competition-tailored C-Type and three times with the tail-finned D-Type. Jaguar had withdrawn from fully-focused works team competition after 1956, but had continued to maintain a racing presence through such customer teams as Briggs Cunningham?s in America, and Ecurie...
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Dunlop/Gambia MSA British Historic Rally Championship round three
2008-05-22 00:00:00
The third round of the 2008 Dunlop/Gambia MSA British Historic Rally Championship will take crews to Wales for the first time this year for some classic mid-Wales stages during the Severn Valley Historic Rally (Saturday 31 May). With two very long stages making up the meat of the 45 stage miles, it's going to be a challenging event for another excellent BHRC field. Category 1 As usual, the oldest cars in category one (pre '68) will run first on the road and a double victory on the Robin Hood and Pirelli rallies has been the perfect start to the year for Patrick Watts and Elgan Davies in their Sunbeam Tiger. They'll be going all out for a hat-trick in Wales and will start as clear favourites. Heading the Porsche challenge to the rumbling Tiger will be Dessie Nutt and Geraldine McBride in their familiar Porsche 911, but the long fast straights in Radnor should give the Tiger crew a flying start to the rally. However, as well as chasing the Tiger, Nutt/McBride will be working har...
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48 HOUR Cyprus Charity Rally
2008-05-21 00:00:00
Click on the picture to enlarge The Cyprus Federation of Classic Vehicles and the Bank of Cyprus, in cooperation with the Cyprus Anticancer Society are organising for the 6th consecutive year the Classic Car Rally 48 Hour Cyprus between the 30th of May and the 1st of June 2008. The rally will take place as part of the charity events ?Christodoula March?, organised every year by the Bank of Cyprus for the Anticancer Society. The rally was first organised in 2003 by the Mercedes-Benz Club Cyprus and the Bank of Cyprus, as part of the ?Chain of Life? events organised by the Bank of Cyprus for the Anticancer Society. The Cyprus Federation of Classic Vehicles was formed in 2004 by Mercedes-Benz Club Cyprus, FIPA Cyprus, LEPAL (the Limassol Classic Car Club and SIPAK (Cyprus Association of Historic and Classic Vehicles). The 48 Hour Cyprus Rally is since then being organised by the Federation Events Committee. This year, apart from the members of the above 4 Clubs, we have the entrie...
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UK team to put original Subaru to ultimate test
2008-05-21 00:00:00
Click on the picture to enlarge Four UK Subaru fans are to put the manufacturer?s original model, the 360cc microcar, to the ultimate test - a 2,000-mile rally through some of Europe?s toughest terrain including Italy?s Stelvio and Gavia Passes. And not only does the ?Liege-Brescia-Liege? rally commemorate the 50th anniversary of the original but also the 50th anniversary of the launch of Subaru of Japan?s first passenger car. It is the world?s only International rally for sub-500cc cars and has attracted over 75 entrants, some of whom will successfully travel through Belgium, Germany, Austria, Italy and Slovenia. The others ? like the original 1958 entrants ? will perish on the way. However, unlike 50 years ago, the July 11-20 event will cover 10 days instead of the non-stop three of the original, traffic congestion and posterior protection being to blame. The UK?s fearless Subaru foursome are classic car restorer and seasoned historic rally driver, James Ewing and his Designe...
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Mobil 1 headline sponsor of Brooklands Motoring Festival
2008-05-21 00:00:00
Premium oil brand Mobil 1 is celebrating its near-century long relationship with Mercedes-Benz as headline sponsor of the prestigious Brooklands Motoring Festival : the Double Twelve, on the 28 and 29 June at Mercedes-Benz World in Weybridge, Surrey. The Festival, which is named in honour of the Double Twelve meetings of the 1930s, will welcome famous faces of today and yesteryear. Britain?s Formula 1? driver Lewis Hamilton and teammate Heikki Kovalainen will each be taking time out of their busy race schedule to attend the festival and thrill the crowds in their Vodafone McLaren Mercedes Formula 1? car. Racing legend Sir Stirling Moss will also be making a star driving appearance to add to the festival line up. During the weekend celebration, Mercedes-Benz World will become home to a dizzying array of vintage and classic cars ? each of which will be judged under the exacting criteria of a Concours d?Elegance. In turn, the drivers will be scrutinised over a series of driving tests ...
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Record Breaking £1 million for DB4 GT at the 2008 Bonhams Aston Martin Auct
2008-05-21 00:00:00
Click on the picture to enlarge Newport Pagnell, May 20th 2008 ? On Saturday 17th May, Aston Martin Works Service hosted its ninth and most successful Bonhams? Auction of Aston Martin motor cars and related automobilia. This year?s sale generated a record £4.7 million with bids taken from enthusiasts from around the world including Latvia, Japan, Australia and the United States. Since the first auction in 2000, the specialist auctioneer Bonhams has sold more than £14m worth of Aston Martins and related automobilia often at record-breaking levels. This year?s sale was no exception with lot 345, a 1961 Aston Martin DB4 GT coupé, selling for £1,079,500 ? a new record at auction for this model. One of only 75 built, the DB4 GT is arguably the most sought after of the David Brown Aston Martin road cars. ?We?ve hosted the event at Newport Pagnell for the past eight years with a growing number of owners and enthusiasts from around the world joining us. The record prices achieved at th...
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Great Race New York to Paris event is rescheduled for April 2009
2008-05-21 00:00:00
Great Race Sports has announced that the New York to Paris has been rescheduled for April 25, 2009 after being postponed from its original starting date this May. The commemorative re-run of the 1908 New York-to-Paris ?Great Race? is widely considered to be one of the most remarkable automotive adventures of the 20th century, an automobile race from New York to Paris before the advent of today?s modern highways and gas stations. The Great Race 2008: New York to Paris and related events was originally scheduled to begin on May 30, 2008 in New York City but was postponed after the Chinese government revoked travel permits for foreigners traveling throughout the country following demonstrations in Tibet and surrounding the Olympic Torch Run. The 2009 dates are part of a complete Schedule of Event s released by Great Race. In addition to the new dates for the New York to Paris Great Race, some new events have been added to schedule, including a driving tour through in California this f...
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1961 Ferrari California Spyder set record at Ferrari Legend and Passion
2008-05-21 00:00:00
Click on the picture to enlarge Maranello, May 18th 2008 ? One of the cars at the RM Auctions/Sotheby?s Ferrari Legend and Passion auction, held today at the Fiorano Circuit, was a stunning 1961 Ferrari California Spyder which once belonged to actor James Coburn. The car achieved an astonishing Euro 7,040,00 million, which is an all-time record for this model. This fantastic car, an evolution of the 250 GT Tour de France, is one of the best-loved 12- cylinders ever built: it has a total displacement of 2953 cc, punches out 280 hp and features 3 carburettors. It was styled by Pininfarina, who also designed the latest addition to the Ferrari range, which was revealed online just a few days ago and has been named the California in honour of this special car. The new Ferrari California, which will be officially unveiled at the Paris Show, is a 4,300 cc 8- cylinder model. Despite having been revealed online just a few days ago, it has also set a record of its own: the dedicated www.fe...
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Wine Country Classic Historic Car Races Return to Infineon Raceway
2008-05-21 00:00:00
Nearly 300 historic cars, ranging from the early 1900s to the mid 1980s, some dating as far back as 1915, will grace Infineon Raceway for a weekend of racing at the 22nd annual Wine Country Classic Historic Car Races. This vintage racing event will take place at Infineon Raceway from May 31 to June 1st. Nearly 300 race and sports cars will compete in 10 race groups. Formula 5000 cars will be the featured machine during the race weekend. These historic racecars celebrate their 40th anniversary in 2008, and will roar around the 12-turn road course. Sports-car legend Elliott Forbes-Robinson will be among the drivers hitting the track. The series ran in the United States from 1968-1976, featuring manufacturers like McLaren, Lola, Lotus and Chevron. Some local drivers and their historic race cars are Jeff Abramson (1954 Ferrari 500MD, Danville); Tom Byrnes (1962 Cooper T-62 F-1, Ross); Fred Cziska (1974 Shadow DN4, Petaluma); Robert Davis (1953 Siata 208S, Sa...
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1960 Jaguar E2A to star in Bonhams & Butterfields Quail Lodge sail
2008-05-19 00:00:00
The legendary sports-racing prototype that shaped Jaguar ?s future Bids in excess of $7-million expected The unique and celebrated prototype Jaguar ?E2A? as driven by no fewer than four of the world?s greatest racing drivers is to be offered for the first time at auction, headlining Bonhams & Butterfields? annual Quail Lodge sale, in California, on 15 August 2008. It is expected to fetch in excess of $7-million. Presented in wonderfully original and unspoiled ex-works condition, this unique and immensely important British sports-racing legend has been lovingly preserved in just one family ownership for over 40 years and ? extraordinarily - it is in effect a one-owner car ex-works. By 1960 Jaguar had won the world?s most prestigious motor race, the Le Mans 24-Hours, no fewer than five times; twice with its original competition-tailored C-Type and three times with the tail-finned D-Type. Jaguar had withdrawn from fully-focused works team competition after 1956, but had conti...
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The 7th Historic Rally Acropolis: Like the old times
2008-05-19 00:00:00
The 7th Historic Rally Acropolis it?s already part of the history. After 4 days full of adventure in the Greek mountains, all of us had a lot to remember. Younger people had a great chance to learn more about the pas and for older it? was a chance to mind great moments of the past. Today?s prize giving ceremony was full of memories. All the winners were present and they received their awards in Filopapou, in front of Acropolis. The flags of Italy and Cyprus were in the highest spot, because of the winners in the Sporting Category, Marco Biancini ? Emanuele Baldaccini, and the Regularity, Stelios Vanezos-George Kodjamani. In the In the Prize Giving ceremony, which emits tradition and culture and gives special character in the rally, attended and participated, almost all the competitors. The Winners and the losers. The atmosphere became very emotion in the prize giving of the category C2. Bia Polikrati, wife of Spiros Polikratis, who just before the start of the Rally, had give the ...
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World auction records tumble at onhams' best ever Aston Martin sale
2008-05-19 00:00:00
Bonhams? ninth annual Aston Martin sale at the Works Service facility in Newport Pagnell on Saturday (17 May 2008) was the best ever, realising a record £4.7-million - double last year?s total. Crowds packed into the saleroom to witness an unprecedented 97% of all lots sell with many new world auction records achieved for rare and sought after models. Collectors and enthusiasts travelled from around the world to attend the sale, and bids were taken from as far a field as Japan, Australia, the US and many European countries including Latvia. James Knight, International Head of Bonhams? motor car department and auctioneer on the day, expertly juggled the extraordinary level of interest, managing multiple bidding in the room and on the telephone alongside absentee bids left prior to the sale. Star of the auction was the 1961 Aston Martin DB4 GT Coupe which sold for £1,079,500 - a new world auction record for the model. One of only 75 built, the DB4 GT is arguably the most sought aft...
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RM Auctions second annual Ferrari Leggenda e Passione auction
2008-05-19 00:00:00
Click on the picture to enlarge Maranello, Italy (May 18th, 2008) Car enthusiasts and Ferrari collectors from across the globe descended on Maranello, Italy this past weekend for RM Auction s? second annual ?Ferrari Leggenda e Passione ? auction event to witness a new auction record established for a 1961 Ferrari California Spyder formerlly owned by actor James Coburn. The rare car exceeeded all expectations by selling for a world record auction price for a vintage car at auction in the amount of $10,894,900 U.S., surpassing the previous record set at Sotheby's Monaco in 1990 for a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO at $10,756,000 U.S. The annual RM Ferrari auction held in association with Sotheby?s, put under the hammer an unrivalled collection of historic Ferraris at the legendary home of Ferrari in Maranello, Italy. Among the attendees was one extremely well known Ferrari enthusiast, and British television and radio personality Chris Evans. Chris, accompanied by his wife, golf pro and writ...
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In the tire tracks of a Legend: BMW 328 at the Milla Miglia
2008-05-18 00:00:00
Click on the picture to enlarge Munich/Brescia. It was 70 years ago that BMW first entered its 328 model in the Mille Miglia. For this year's anniversary appearance, BMW will be following the historic example by deploying four of these legendary roadsters in the event. Joining them will be the BMW 328 Berlin-Rom racing variant from 1941 as well as a BMW 327 Convertible and a 327/28 Coupé. With nine private teams entering, a total of 16 BMW cars will be lining up in Brescia for the start of the 2008 Mille Miglia. For the first time this year, BMW's heritage division will be debuting under its new designation BMW Classic. "Taking part in such a tradition-rich event with our new name is very special for us," said the Director of BMW Classic, Karl Baumer. "And the fact that we will be on the road exactly 70 years after the first BMW 328 lends extra appeal to the race," he added. But the achievements of those historic forerunners are unlikely to be surpassed: 70 years ago the teams ...
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Ex-Hulme M23 comes to Europe for Masters races
2008-05-17 00:00:00
A very famous McLaren M23 Grand Prix car is returning to Europe this summer to race in Grand Prix Masters events, starting on the Brands Hatch Grand Prix circuit on 25/26 May. Now owned and raced by New Zealander Phil Mauger, the M23 was raced in 18 Grands Prix by Denis Hulme and Mike Hailwood during 1973 and 1974 and Hulme took it to victory in the 1973 Swedish Grand Prix. Hulme, the 1967 World Champion, ended his Formula 1 career at the close of the 1974 season and was given the M23 as a gift from the McLaren team to mark the close of a decade of Grand Prix racing. In that time, he started 112 F1 races and won eight of them. The McLaren then remained in the ownership of the Hulme family after his death in 1992. More recently, it was acquired and totally rebuilt by New Zealander Mauger, and he has raced it a number of times in Australia and New Zealand over the last two seasons. The McLaren is not thought to have raced in Europe since the summer of 1974, but is now returning fo...
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Monaco 2008 Historic GP crash video
2008-05-17 00:00:00
A 1977 McLaren destroyed under Monaco Tunnel during 2008 Monaco Historic Grand Prix:
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Ickx Ferrari set for Masters Racing Series debut
2008-05-17 00:00:00
One of the most significant cars to return to racing in 2008, an ex-Jacky Ickx Ferrari 312B2, will make its debut in the Grand Prix Masters races on the Brands Hatch Grand Prix circuit next weekend (25/26 May). The Ferrari 312B2 that won the 1972 German Grand Prix in the hands of Ickx has not been raced since the 1970s, but is now due to return to racing in the skilled hands of James Hanson and is due on the grid at Brands after a long rebuild. After spending most of its life in private collections, the car was demonstrated by Ickx at the Monaco Historic Grand Prix in 2006, but has not raced for well over three decades. Ickx's 1972 victory at the Nurburgring was his last Grand Prix victory as the 312B2 struggled to compete with the Lotus 72 and Tyrrells. Now owned by James Hanson, the 1971 3-litre flat 12-engined Ferrari has been painstakingly rebuilt over the last 18 months. It was shown in public at Race Retro in March 2007 when it took pride of place on the Masters stand and ...
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Celibrity ched James Martin in his Maserati A6GCS at the Mille Miglia 2008
2008-05-16 00:00:00
Click on the picture to enlarge Celebrity chef and car aficionado James Martin has entered his latest addition to his car collection, a stunning Maserati A6GCS, in this year?s Mille Miglia race. James, who acquired and painstakingly restored his 1948 A6GCS (one of only 15 ever built) just a few months ago, headed off to Italy on Sunday in a new Maserati GranTurismo. He was accompanied by a TV crew who will be filming him and his co-driver Sarah Bennett-Baggs, herself a racing driver and team manager, for a one-off documentary which will be aired later this year. The Mille Miglia starts today at 19:30 from Brescia, Italy and will finish on Saturday at 22:30 again in Brescia. A total of 10 Maseratis, including James Martin?s A6GCS featuring race number 161, will be competing in the 2008 edition of the ?world?s greatest road race?. Continua leyendo "Celibrity ched James Martin in his Maserati A6GCS at the Mille Miglia 2008"

Historical Volvo P1800 visit to Sweden
2008-05-15 00:00:00
Click on the picture to enlarge 47 Volvo P1800 cars from German and Swiss Volvo Owner clubs visit Sweden and Volvo Car Corporation in connection with the clubs' 30 year anniversary. An impressive sight. The German Volvo P1800 IG and the Swiss Volvo-Sport Club P1800 are both celebrating their anniversary with a week's visit to Sweden. The group consists of 38 cars from Germany and 9 from Switzerland. The different Volvos are; 35 ES, 11 P/S/E and an Amazon GT, altogether 95 club members. The troop arrived with the ferry to Göteborg habour in the beginning of the week and will tour western Sweden for a couple of days. Volvo Cars was the main attraction yesterday with visits to the Volvo Museum, Brand Experience Centre and the Torslanda plant. Through clever parking, the cars formed the name "Volvo" outside the museum with the letter "o" made up of the club members themselves. "Very nice to be back at the Volvo roots. This is of course the highlight of our anniversary," says Fritz...
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Masters Racing Series racers enjoy Monaco success
2008-05-15 00:00:00
Competitors from the Masters Series enjoyed a highly successful weekend at Monaco during the biennial Grand Prix Historique (10/11 May). With five race winners from the seven race groups, and stronger than expected results for other competitors, the event proved to be extremely good for Masters racers. The team at Masters and all fellow members of Masters Racing Club send congratulations to those Masters regulars who were Monaco winners: Julian Bronson took another victory in the Mac Hulbert's ERA R4D in the pre-1947 GP car race. Simon Hadfield was a race winner in his 1961 Lotus 21 in the pre-1966 GP race. Duncan Dayton won in both his Lotus 16 and his Brabham BT33 in the pre-1960 and pre-1975 GP car races respectively. Professor John Monson scored his first Monaco win in his BMC Mk1 in the Formula Junior race. "Five winners out of seven races seems a pretty good indication of the level of race talent which regularly competes in Masters events; many congratulations to them a...
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New Touring 70s series gathers momentum at the Masters Racing Series
2008-05-15 00:00:00
Cologne Capris and BMW 'Batmobiles' are coming back to the race tracks of Europe this season as Touring 70s, the new race series for Group 2 Touring Cars of the 1970s, rapidly gathers strength. Touring 70s has been created by the Masters Racing Organisation and is set to become one of the most exciting race series in Europe. It has already received a tremendous response from competitors eager to race these stunning cars. The first two races have now been held, and in the most recent event at Donington Park, three BMWs took on the awesome Cologne Capri of Shaun Lynn. At least three more examples of each car are known to be currently in-build, so the prospects for the future of Touring 70s are very bright. "I've been after one of these cars for years," said Lynn after his Donington victory. "It's a proper car and I was so pleased to get it. I'd been chasing the guy who owned it for a long time!" However, it is not just the Cologne Capris and BMW 'Batmobiles' that are being ...
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