" LUIGI MUSSO, SEEN HERE IN A PUBLICITY PHOTO TAKEN FOR MASERATI IN 1954.

Born in Rome, the son of a wealthy Italian diplomat, Luigi was the youngest of three sons, all of whom would grow up to be race car drivers. In 1953, Maserati selected 3 young drivers to race their sports cars and Luigi was one of them. He promptly rewarded Il Tridente by winning the national 2 liter sports car championship in 1953 and the unlimited class Italian sports car championship in 1955. Naturally, Musso’s success opened opportunities for spot starts with Maserati’s Formula One squad, where he showed promise.

Musso’s ambition led him to join Scuderia Ferrari in 1956. While Luigi would find increased success at Ferrari, managing a number of podium finishes in F1 and major sports car races, including an overall victory in the 1958 Targa Florio with Olivier Gendebien, Musso’s time with the Scuderia was filled with tumult. Enzo Ferrari’s chosen mode of motivation in those years was to set his drivers, engineers and mechanics against one another, manipulating their competitive instincts to achieve maximum results. While its hard to argue against the results it produced, Ferrari’s tactics also created a work environment ripe with national pride, not-so-secret alliances and bitter rivalries among his employees like something out of the Machiavelli’s “The Prince”. It was this atmosphere that greatly contributed to the circumstances leading to Musso’s fatal accident at the 1958 French Grand Prix. We will return to that tale of back biters and syndicaters another day. "

Text & image source: http://hooniverse.com/2011/07/27/morning-qualifying-happy-birthday-luigi-edition/

Watch pit stop evolution, then and now.

"The BMW M1 Procar is a race car that was used between 1979 and 1980 in the BMW M1 Procar Championship.

The Procar Championship was created due to motorsport rules and regulations changing drastically during the M1's production time, preventing it from entering most motorsport events."

More info on BMW M1's in motorsport: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_M1_Procar_Championship

A perfect example of wheelspin. Wheelspin occurs when the force delivered to the tire tread exceeds that of available tread-to-surface friction and one or more tires lose traction.

The original GoPro- Jackie Stewart with his Nikon F.

Image source: http://filmmakeriq.com/images/jackie-stewart-with-his-nikon-f/

Well said.

Read all 50 of the greatest automotive quotes according to ridelust.com

http://www.ridelust.com/the-50-greatest-automotive-quotes-of-all-time/

1967 24 Hours of Daytona.

"During the final thirty minutes of the race the three Ferrari racers paraded around the track nose to tail at a leisurely pace ignoring the stream of race cars passing them by.

As the clock wound down to the final minutes the three Ferrari cars slowed down even further then filled the asphalt track three abreast as they headed toward the checkered flag and vindication for the Prancing Horse.

The rest of the pack was forced to bunch up behind them and as the three blood-red cars crossed the finish line the drivers purposely revved their engines and the distinctive scream of 12-cylinder Ferrari engines could be heard throughout the track. Ferraris led for almost 20 hours of the 24-hour race and it was a great victory for Enzo Ferrari."

Winning line up:
+Lorenzo Bandini - Chris Amon — Ferrari P4 #23
+Mike Parkes - Ludovico Scarfiotti — Ferrari P4 #24
+Pedro Rodriguez - Jean Guichet — Ferrari P3 #26

Photo colorized by Louis Galanos. Read the rest @ http://www.sportscardigest.com/1967-24-hours-of-daytona-race-profile/7/

Jacques Laffite demonstrating the Ligier JS19 chassis at the 1982 Pau Grand Prix in France.

The Grand Prix de Pau is a track located in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques (southwestern France).


Uncredited image

Post-War BMW Racing Bike & Sidecar.

Photo Credit: Giovanni Perrone

Source: http://www.trueartworks.com/artist.php/giovanni-perrone/1

TEMPORADA 1970 - Brian Redman dominated not only pratice but a large part of the race at the wheel of David Piper's 4.5-litre Porsche 917K, a 1969 specification (to be recognised on the nose). Here he passes Teddy Pilette in the VDS 5.0 Lola T70 Mk3B (#50). Redman retired after severe tyre-chiunking problems, having forced him to three pit stops. Picture: Champion, February 1970.

Some crazy detailed person has put together tons of info about the 1970: PORSCHE 917 vs FERRARI 512S season. Get overwhelmed here: http://fansoflemans.free.fr/F%20MYTHES%20ENDURANCE/IMCA%20-%20SlotRacing_fichiers/AS70LM.htm

Jean Behra, a short, stout Frenchman hired by Ferrari for the 1959 season became paranoid and surly as he strained to meet Ferrari’s expectations. At 38, he had survived a dozen crashes. His body was laced with scars. A French magazine published a full-page photograph of him with a dense display of arrows identifying his broken bones. A collision three years earlier had torn off his right ear. Behra endured it all with a Gallic shrug. “Only those who do not move do not die,” he said. “But are they not already dead?” - Michael Cannell, The Limit.

Watch Wes Anderson’s Charming 8 min Short Film: "Castello Cavalcanti" Starring Jason Schwartzman.

Anderson transports us to Castello Cavalcanti in the suitably mid-century year of 1955. The quiet evening scene, exuding that richly Italian feeling falling somewhere between idyll and indolence, splinters apart when a race car crashes into the center of town. Out of the wreck emerges the unscathed but enraged driver — evidently, the steering wheel got screwed on backward — the Italian-American Cavalcanti realizes he may have driven not only straight into his own ancestral village, but into the company of his ancestors themselves. These charming and vividly colorful seven Andersonian minutes come brought to you by Prada."

Text & video source: http://www.openculture.com/2013/11/wes-anderson-short-film-castello-cavalcanti.html

June 1st. 1969
A Ferrari 312 P Spyder catching air.

Driven by Pedro Rodríguez de la Vega & Co-pilot Chris Amon in the 1000km of Nurburgring.

Image source: http://romualdo.galeon.com/1969.htm

Bruce McLaren trying to get the inside run on none other than Jack Brabham.



More neat old Kart Photos: http://www.trhkc.com/history.html

Image credit: http://www.motorsportretro.com/2012/12/photo-of-the-day-mclaren-and-brabham-go-kart-battle/

Jarno Saarinen at Sachsenring racing circuit (Saxony, Germany) 1970.

"Saarinen remains the only Finn to have won a motorcycle road racing world championship, he won 15 Grand Prix during his short career."

Image source: http://www.classic-motorrad.de/Fischer/Saarinen/Saarinen.htm
Text source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarno_Saarinen

An aggressive shot of Jack Brabham in his 1960 Formula 1 Cooper T53 (chassis) F2-8-60 ‘lowline’.
Powered by a rear-mounted Coventry Climax 2.5 litre inline 4 cyl DOHC 8 valve.

Source: http://www.jackbrabham.com/

"Racer Jackie Stewart began the practice of taping a spanner to his steering wheel after the accident he suffered at the 1966 Belgian Grand Prix, where, after hitting a telephone pole, he sat soaked in fuel in his car for almost an hour until fellow racers Graham Hill and Bob Bondurant managed to remove him using a toolkit borrowed from a spectator."



Source: My Father & http://jalopnik.com/5787688/while-deadly-60s-racing-looked-like-awesome-on-drugs

Closer To The Edge (2010) Is a must watch (although agonizing at times).

"The Isle of Man TT is described as the world's most dangerous race, a complicated and unforgiving course.
Year after year in late May more than 25,000 people make this journey to the small island about 70 kilometers off the English coast in the middle of the Irish Sea. The TT race has claimed almost 150 lives in its 105-year history and the course itself has claimed more than 250 lives.
Most of the riders are amateurs with full-time jobs a world away from the megabucks of Grand Prix racing."

Text source: http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/isle-man-tt-dangerous-addiction/

Mont Tremblant 1968: Brabham BT26 looks like Sir Jack Brabham is driving.

5 min interview with Niki Lauda talking about the new F1 movie RUSH.

Source: http://www.youtube.com/user/CarjamRadio?feature=watch

Alfa Romeo GTA participating in the late '67,'68,'69 Tour de Corse.

"During the mid to late '60s Alfa was very active in motorsport. Autodelta, the racing division of Alfa, developed a car for competition that closely resembled to the road going model. These cars were named GTA instead of GT, the 'A' standing for "Alleggerita", Italian for lightweight."

Source: http://www.alfabb.com/bb/forums/gta-1965-1975/74038-tour-de-corse-gtas.html

More Info on the GTA model: http://www.alfaworkshop.co.uk/alfa_giulia_gta_sa.shtml & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfa_Romeo_GTA

An image from the Documentary "Mountain Legend” and an old Castol film covering the 1965 Targa Florio.

The films lasts 45 minutes shows some of the most famous cars in history belting around the serpentine mountain roads of Sicily.

Source: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http://8000vueltas.com/2011/04/23/targa-florio-1965-mountain-legend&authuser=0

"The Maserati MC12 was produced to allow a racing variant to compete in the FIA GT Championship. The car entered production in 2004 with 30 cars produced (five of which were not for sale). A further 25 were produced in 2005 making a total of 50 cars available.

Maserati designed and built the car on the chassis of the Enzo Ferrari but it is much larger with a lower drag coefficient. The MC12 is longer, wider and taller and has a sharper nose and smoother curves than the Enzo Ferrari, which has faster acceleration, better braking performance and a higher top speed. The top speed of the Maserati MC12 is 330 kilometres per hour (205 mph) whereas the top speed of the Enzo Ferrari is 350 kilometres per hour (217.5 mph)." Source & more info about this beast found here: http://www.in2motorsports.com/greatest-cars-maserati-mc12/

1953 Ferrari 250 MM Berlinetta. One of just 32 built and one of only 17 examples bodied by famed coachbuilder Pinin Farina. This car raced in the 1953 Panamericana. Photo credit: http://driven.urbandaddy.com/2011/04/19/1953-ferrari-250mm-berlinetta/ More pictures of this car can be found here on this Spanish forum page: http://www.motorweb-es.com/foro/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=899&start=30

McLaren F1GT. Check out the rest of the 1990's sales brochure here: http://storm.oldcarmanualproject.com/mclarenf1gt.htm

Mercedes Postcard 1954. A Mercedes-Benz "300 SL" III. Carrera Panamericana Mexico 1952. Image contributed by Tilman from Germany & http://storm.oldcarmanualproject.com/

Road & Track Cover June 1948. "Mauri Rosa and the Blue Crown Spark Plug Special on the bricks at Indianapolis. The car is owned by Lou Moore of Northridge, California, and won the 1947 classic, with its stablemate running second driven by Bill Holland. Engine is an unblown 270 cu. in. Meyer-Drake Offenhauser. Photo credit - Tower Photographers" Magazine credit: Howard Norse & http://storm.oldcarmanualproject.com/

1957 Ferrari 625 New Zealand Tasman. Located at the Louwman Museum in Den Haag (NL) : www.louwmanmuseum.nl/

"Colin y Jim y en las 500 Millas de Indianápolis 1965" Translation: Colin Chapman and Jim C. at the 1965 Indianapolis 500 Source: http://pilotos-muertos.com/2011/Chapman%20Colin.html

I don't know why I want to buy shell oil after watching this.....

1932 Monaco Grand Prix - Rudolf Caracciola with an Alfa-Romeo

BRM teammates Jackie Stewart and Graham Hill achieving liftoff at Nürburgring in 1966 on the corner(s) of "Pflanzgarten" and "Flugplatz".

"In 1962 Hermann Lang came back to the Nürburgring to drive his Mercedes W125 Grand Prix car again. The 1937 Mercedes W125 Data: 8-Cylinder In-line 5,660 CC 646 bhp at 5,800 rpm (The most powerful gp car ever built up until the late seventies)" info by Lars Halvard Rødberg

"The Lola T530 was Lola's attempt to build a dedicated ground-effect single-seater Can-Am. One of the largest racing cars ever built, the T530 was used by nearly all the major teams in 1980 after Chevron, who were due to supply VDS and Newman, collapsed into liquidation. It dominated 1980, winning seven of the nine races but was overtaken in 1981 by the new March 817, CAC-2 and VDS designs."

Nurburgring For Sale: The state has appointed a liquidator, Jens Lieser, who explained that the entire business is for sale. This means that the buyer can get the F1 Grand Prix track. the popular Nordschleife, as well as other parts, such as the museum or the defunct rollercoaster. Source: http://www.autoevolution.com/news/nurburgring-is-now-for-sale-56501.html

2013 Dubai 24 Hours: Mercedes SLS AMG GT3. Friday night action at the 2013 Dubai 24 Hours. Shot taken during a routine pitstop. Source: http://www.forix.com/8w/6thgear/pwpc-yby.html#ERA

Hooray for the start of the 2013 Formula 1 season!

Scarab team pits 1958.

Scarab team pits 1958.

the "Bathtub Special" home and hand built by Juan Manual Fangio in Argentina.

Renault A110 one of the most incredible rally cars ever produced.

Sitges-Terramar Autodrome is an abandoned racetrack built in 1923 near Barcelona Spain. Skip to the 5:00 min mark to see Carlos Sainz & Miguel Molina test an Audi R8 LMS on the old concrete.

Could the Lotus E21 attempt to dethrone Red-bull in the Formula One world? As a Lotus fan, I hope so!

Soviet Motorsport postwar streamliner-- http://www.oldtimer.ru/

9 Days in Summer: Documentary title refers to the 9 races that Jim Clark & Graham Hill won in the late 70s. Produced as a promotional film for the Ford Company.

watch entire 50min video here-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ucau77iVndk A must watch for motorsport enthusiasts.

Frank Lockhart's 1928 Stutz Black Hawk Special

"OUP Shadow Racing
#17-Jean Pierre Jarier
Shadow DN5/1A Cosworth DFV V8
Location: GP España F1 1975 Barcelona, Spain"

Happy Birthday Michael Schumacher

191 Jordan

Kimi Raikkonen must have a great sense of humor.