Maserati 250F: The Most Beautiful Car to Ever Win a War Denis Jenkinson, the great Motor Sport correspondent who rode shotgun with Stirling Moss to win the 1955 Mille Miglia, did not hand out praise cheaply. He had watched everything the 1950s had to offer. And of one particular afternoon at the Nürburgring he wrote … Read more
Oreste Berta: The Cosworth Argentina Built and Then Abandoned In January 1975, a flatbed trailer pulled by a tired van crossed the country from Córdoba to Buenos Aires carrying a Formula 1 car. No transporter. No team uniforms. No sponsors on the bodywork. Just a small group of mechanics, a forty-six-year-old engineer named Oreste Berta, … Read more
Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR: The Silver Monologue Nobody Could Answer Some cars win races. Some make history. And then there’s the Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR, which did both in the same season and then walked away forever. No farewell tour. No victory lap. A clean slam of the door that left the motorsport world speechless and sick … Read more
Maserati: Seven Brothers, One Trident, and the Greatest Race Ever Run The family born for speed To understand Maserati, you need to start with a fact almost nobody knows: there weren’t six brothers. There were seven. Rodolfo Maserati was a locomotive driver for the Italian railways, based in Voghera, Lombardy. He married Carolina Losi, and … Read more
