Despite some notable success, perhaps best demonstrated by four Grand Prix wins between 1923 and ‘24, Enzo Ferrari felt he did not have what it took to become a top flight racing driver and instead…
Read MoreFerrari’s debut season as a manufacturer in its own right was a great success with seven outright wins from 14 races contested. Initially the Maranello firm began that 1947 campaign with a brand new…
Read MoreFerrari’s 1947 season proved an enormous success. Using the 125 Sport and 159 Sport, Scuderia Ferrari racked up six important victories culminating in a win for Raymond Sommer at the Turin…
Read MoreFerrari’s first car, the 125 Sport, proved itself to be a top class competition machine. Of the ten races it contested between May and July of 1947, the 125 Sport won six. The immediate post World…
Read MoreAfter David Brown acquired the Aston Martin company in February 1947, he immediately commissioned a new model. It would use a purpose-built chassis and the Claude Hill-designed two…
Read MoreEarly in 1949, Aston Martin decided to enter a team of three works DB2 prototypes for the first post-World War 2 running of the Le Mans 24 Hours. Known as Experimental Le Mans Fixed Head…
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