Motorsports

Monaco offers stunning backdrop for historic races

June 12, 2012

Grand Prix on twisting, dangerous course has storied history


The race course at Monaco is hopelessly out of date by modern standards. It is too dangerous, too twisty and too narrow. There are only a few places where a driver can make a mistake without doing serious damage to the car ...
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Hagerty duo completes second Mille Miglia in very first Abarth

June 14, 2011

Perseverance pays.
In 1950, Guido Scagliarini took his brand new Abarth 205A – the very first built – to the Brescia, Italy, starting line of the Mille Miglia. The 1100cc Vignale coupe retired before reaching Rome.
The Abarth’s current owner, Mark Gessler, returned the car to the Mille Miglia 59 years later, but he made it only as far as Florence. This year, however, the Hagerty Collector Car Insurance team of McKeel Hagerty and Angus Forsyth completed the Abarth’s Italian journey, making it all the way to the finish line for the first time in the car’s 61-year history.
Although the pair finished 234th out of 376 cars, it felt like a victory ...
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World-class F1 racer Pete Lovely dies at 85

May 15, 2011

One of the best independent Formula 1 and sports car racers of his generation, Pete Lovely died May 15 in Washington at age 85.
Lovely was known in his F1 career for racing private Lotus entries, including a hybrid Lotus 69 F2 car fitted with a Cosworth DFV V-8. He retired from F1 in 1971, but continued to drive in historic races for another 35 years.
In all, Lovely's career spanned more than 50 years, both as a team owner and driver, including 11 F1 World Championship races ...
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Photos offer glimpse of racing history

October 27, 2010

Raymond Burk is an esteemed doctor and professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University, but 46 years ago, he was a young college student with an affinity for cars. In 1964, while studying German literature in Europe, he decided to hitchhike the continent and take in two of the biggest races: The 1,000 km race at Nürburgring and the famous 24 Hours at LeMans.
“I spent that year doing a lot of things,” Burk recalled ...
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