Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 Competizione: The Car Whose Name Got Stolen
Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 Competizione: three cars on recycled 8C 2900 frames, Fangio’s first Mille Miglia, a $4.84M record and the name Alfa reused in 2007.
Mille Miglia
ALFONSO DE PORTAGO
Alfonso de Portago: The Spanish Marquis Who Tried to Live a Hundred Years in Twenty-Eight Adam Driver’s Ferrari put a Brazilian actor named Gabriel Leone in the role of a Spanish marquis most American audiences had never heard of, and that’s the injustice this piece is here to fix. Alfonso de Portago wasn’t a side … Read more
TAZIO NUVOLARI
Tazio Nuvolari: The Italian Who Humiliated the Silver Arrows On Their Own Soil On 28 July 1935, in the rain-soaked German hell that was the Nürburgring of the Eifel mountains, a 42-year-old Italian called Tazio Nuvolari climbed into a Grand Prix car carrying 110 horsepower less than the competition and proceeded to win a race … Read more
ACHILLE VARZI
Achille Varzi: The Anti-Nuvolari, the Morphine, and the Helmet He Wasn’t Wearing Drop Tazio Nuvolari and Achille Varzi into the same room and the only thing they share is the language they speak. Everything else divides them. Nuvolari came from a Lombard farm, the son of a cyclist. Varzi came from a Piedmontese textile factory, … Read more
ALFA ROMEO 8C 2300
Alfa Romeo 8C 2300: The Car That Buried Bentley at Le Mans Four Years Running Between 1923 and 1930, Le Mans belonged to Bentley. The British marque won five of the first eight editions of the 24 Hours (1924, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930), with those enormous British Racing Green machines, 4.5- and 6.5-litre engines the … Read more
Stirling Moss
Stirling Moss: The Champion Who Chose Not to Be One Ask any British kid of a certain age what their dad said when a copper pulled him over for speeding, and you’ll get the same answer: “Who do you think you are, Stirling Moss?” Not Hawthorn. Not Fangio. Not Hamilton, decades later. Moss. The name … Read more
Mercedes SLR McLaren 722 Edition
Mercedes SLR 722: The SLR That Finally Stopped Arguing With Itself There is a clip somewhere of Chris Harris talking about the SLR McLaren, and you can see the conflict on his face. He respects the car. He just can’t quite love it. And he’s not alone. For years the SLR was the supercar nobody … Read more