Autodelta: the Alfa Romeo race shop that wrote half its story in America Autodelta was an Italian race shop, but a surprising share of its story was written in America. In 1964 a Giulia TZ won its class at the Sebring 12 Hours. In 1966 a Giulia GTA won the under-two-liter class of the first … Read more
Carlo Chiti, the Ferrari engineer who made Phil Hill a champion and then dragged him down with him The first American to win the Formula 1 World Championship did it in a car designed by a man most Americans have never heard of. Phil Hill took the 1961 title in the Ferrari 156, the “sharknose,” … Read more
THE WAR FERRARI LOST AGAINST ITSELF. June 1969 Enzo Ferrari signs the papers. Fifty percent of his company is no longer his. He has just sold it to Fiat. In exchange he receives a brutal sum of money that he needs for a single reason: to build a car capable of beating Porsche. The Porsche … Read more
Lotus: The Brand That Made Weight the Enemy In May 2026, Lotus CEO Feng Qingfeng sat down at the Financial Times Future of the Car Summit and admitted the strategy that was supposed to conquer the world had hit a wall. His words were that the plan had been aggressive and that the company moved … Read more
BMW M1: the only mid-engine BMW supercar, never officially sold in the US, yet a winner in IMSA GTO in 1981, in Procar with Lauda and Piquet and at Le Mans with Warhol.
