Ever since Ferrari’s debut season as a manufacturer back in 1947, the Italian firm had largely dominated the scene for purpose-built Sports and Prototype racing cars. There had of course been…
Read MoreWithin a few months of the Tipo 33 Stradale’s September 1967 launch, Alfa Romeo knew the model was not going to hit the 50-car homologation requirement for the Group 4 Sport category. Rather…
Read MoreFor 1962, the World Sportscar Championship was split into two categories: the International Championship for GT Manufacturers and the Coupe des Sports. In addition, the calendar was…
Read MoreHaving graduated with a degree in engineering from the University of Pisa in 1953, Giotto Bizzarrini briefly took up a teaching position before joining Alfa Romeo where he was quickly assigned a role…
Read MoreSince 1951, Ferrari had offered a low volume flagship model reserved for the firm’s wealthiest customers. Typically equipped with the biggest, most powerful engines of the day, these low…
Read MoreFor 1966, dramatic rule changes were made to the World Sportscar Championship. The main event, known as the International Manufacturers Championship, would no longer be decided by…
Read MoreOne of the first individuals to recognise the commercial potential of Ferruccio Lamborghini’s automotive project was Gerino Gerini, an Italian nobleman whose aristocratic family originally…
Read MoreFerrari had campaigned two different types of Sports racing car during a successful 1961 campaign that had seen the Scuderia take victories at four out of five World Sportscar Championship events en…
Read MoreAfter a self-imposed year in exile, Scuderia Ferrari returned to the World Sportscar Championship for 1969 with the all-new 312 P. Ferrari’s absence from the 1968 campaign had come about as a result of…
Read MoreAlthough Fiat had not offered a particularly sporting model since the commercially unsuccessful 8V back in the early 1950s, the FIA’s decision to implement new Formula 2 racing regulations for the…
Read MoreHaving dabbled in a variety of motor sport disciplines since his company’s 1959 inception, Alejandro de Tomaso’s first production model, the Vallelunga Coupe, entered the final throes of development…
Read MoreIn the midst of a two-year campaign that yielded eight class wins for the TZ2 at World Sportscar Championship level, Alfa Romeo gave the order for a rolling chassis to be dispatched from Autodelta…
Read MoreOff the back of an extremely successful debut campaign with the TZ which had most notably garnered class wins at the 1964 Le Mans 24 Hours, the Sebring 12 Hours, the Targa Florio and the…
Read MoreAlthough some spectacular road-going machinery was produced by Europe’s most revered manufacturers from the early 1950s through to the mid 1960s, nothing could eclipse Ferrari’s line of…
Read MoreFor 1966, new Appendix J motor racing regulations came into effect that split machinery into one of seven categories. Groups 1, 2 and 5 were for Touring cars. Group 3 was for Grand Touring cars and…
Read MoreBeginning in 1962, the governing body of motor sport decided the de facto World Sports Car Championship would be decided by cars from the Grand Touring category. By contrast, purpose…
Read MoreFor 1965, Ferrari developed a revised top flight prototype, the P2, to contest the International Trophy for GT Prototypes. The International Trophy for GT Prototypes ran alongside the International…
Read MoreHaving won the inaugural 1950 and ‘51 Formula 1 World Championship, Alfa Romeo quit single seater racing owing to the cost of building a new car for 1952 when a two-litre engine limit came into effect.
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