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The renamed Jim Clark Grandstand beside the BRDC clubhouse and the Lotus 32B raced by Clark. (Photo Gauld)
Story and photos by Graham Gauld
At Silverstone on Saturday April 25, the British Racing Drivers Club invited Sir Jackie Stewart to announce the renaming the club’s private grandstand in the name of Jim Clark.
Breathtaking and fitting. Photo by Bernard Canonne.
Review by Pete Vack
Baby Bugatti, the Art of the Automobile for Children, by Jean-Pascal Viault, is a 456 (the same number as Baby Bugattis listed in company records) page blockbuster, the Baby Bugatti Bible, an effort almost beyond comprehension. The author has attempted to track down as many of the Baby Bugattis as possible, accumulating photos, stories, diagrams and histories from owners and families around the world. [Read more…] about “Baby Bugatti, the Art of the Automobile for Children” Reviewed
Story by Jean-Pascal Viault
directeur artistique – metteur en scène
Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite
artistic director – stage director
Knight of the National Order of Merit
All photos courtesy of the author
“May the road rise to meet you, may the wind always be at your back, may the sun shine warm upon your face…” Old Irish Blessing
From April 14th to 21st, Ireland became both a stage and trial, a setting and challenge. Beneath a shifting sky—at times slate-grey, at times liquid light—a caravan from another age took to the road. To the sound of an Irish ballad that seemed to rise from the wind itself, and to the lilting rhythm of the jig, nearly thirty Bugattis, Amilcars, and Rileys carved their path westward, into the raw soul of Connemara. More than a thousand kilometers were devoured between winds and tides, across rugged land, peat, and ever-shifting horizons.
The object of our exercise.
Exclusive story and photos by Jonathan Sharp
The first event of the first Anantara Concorso Roma, the Giro d’Anantara, held on the 17th April, took lucky entrants on a journey through the heart of Rome to Frascati, and back to Rome. The start point was the Anantara Palazzo Naiadi Hotel, finishing at the Casina Valadier in the Villa Borghese, where the main event was to be held over the weekend, with suitable stops for coffee with a lunch break at the Villa Aldobrandini in Frascati.
Now that is my kind of coffee shop. Maserati Tipo 26 located in the coffee shop at the Anantara Palazzo Naiada Hotel, the base hotel for the whole event.
Story and photos by Jonathan Sharp
This is a continuation of the start of the Giro d’ Anantara on April 17th. I was so blown away by the cars I saw outside the Anantara hotel I had not realized that there was another selection waiting for the start of the tour across the square, I am so glad that somebody told me as it would have been a shame to have missed them. So I hurriedly photographed as many cars as I could as they snaked their way through the streets. This was a rare event in Rome, and apparently no one minded being a little late for work.
We will report on the actual Anantara Concorso Roma next week. [Read more…] about Giro d’ Anantara…catching up with the rest…
View of the three Ferrari hypercars in the pits.
Story and photos by Hugues Vanhoolandt
For the third consecutive year on April 19 the Imola circuit located in Emilia-Romagna, hosted a round of the World Endurance Championship. However, this time, following the events in the Middle East, it hosted the first round of the championship, as the inaugural race scheduled for Qatar had to be postponed until later in the year.
Like their Hypercar counterparts, the Ferrari 296 LMGT3s were not a success in their home country. The #54 finished a distant 11th, while the #21 took 6th place in its class.
Story and photos by Hugues Vanhoolandt
While the Hypercar prototype category boasts 8 manufacturers and 17 cars entered, the GT category, known as LMGT3, features 9 manufacturers, each fielding two cars. Although Porsche, champion of this category in 2024 and 2025, remains the favorite, it was another German manufacturer, BMW, that took the victory at Imola.
Jerome C. Earl from Grosse Pointe, Michigan, in the Corvette SR2. Earl would later sell the SR2 to Jim Jeffords.
Words by Bob Birmingham
Photos by Glen Glendenning
A return to two SCCA race weekends made up Road America’s calendar for 1957, the first in June followed by early September. June offered four events, three on Saturday and a 38-lap feature on Sunday. All told the weekend was best described as fun-to-watch club racing.
1957 June Sprints, June 23
1957 SCCA Nationals September 7 (Saturday)
1957 Road America 500, September 8 (Sunday)
Just to prove the event was in London, the rear end of the R33 and a London Double Decker Bus, also known as the Boris bus, so named after Boris Johnson, the then Mayor of London.
Story and photos by Jonathan Sharp
I was unable to make the London edition of Salon Prive, but as luck would have it the organizers decided to do a small preview under the title of ‘The Sloane Street Concours’ on April 11th. For those not familiar with London shopping streets, Sloane Street and the surrounding environs is home to some very upmarket shops, as you will see from looking at the background. Great if you like shopping (yuk) and have a Gold card.
Click to order…only $45.
Review by Pete Vack
Photos by Glen Glendenning courtesy Dave Rex
For years, the name Jim Jeffords was just that, a name on a car, a program, a result. Like many of the low key but successful SCCA race drivers, and unlike the international racing stars, Jeffords did not get much publicity on a personal level. After his death in 2014, however, there appeared much more information about this hard driving, multitalented Milwaukee resident whose brief career, according to the SCCA bio, may not have been the longest but almost certainly unmatched. [Read more…] about Jim Jeffords Biography Reviewed
Traction Forward!
By Philippe H. Defechereux
From the VeloceToday Archives, June, 2017
The year 1934 was to be André Citroën’s finest yet, the highest summit in a vast range of accomplishments already marked by several impressive peaks in his two preceding decades. And the year 1934 did start well for great French industrialist. After turning 56 on February 5, in mid-April he witnessed his life’s two grandest industrial creations come to life together, for they were entwined from conception: His new and thoroughly revolutionary Traction-Avant sedan began to come out fully formed and by the hundreds daily. This from his just-completed car production plant in Paris by the Seine, then by far the biggest, most modern and integrated mass-production automobile facility in Europe. [Read more…] about The Most Famous Citroën…Ever!
Photo by Walter Marshall.
Story by Dave Nicholas*
Most VeloceToday readers would recognize the name Frank Dominianni. Renowned as a 1960’s Corvette driver and 1964 BP national champ, Frank started in much smaller cars. After working for George Patton and his 3rd Army, Frank returned to Long Island and opened Hi Speed Power equipment. Frank had a passion for racing and started in a TC MG in 1950. He wanted more speed and imported a Giaur Nardi in 1952.