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The three-time defending champions, representing the hopes of the Maranello firm thanks to the 499P, which is already making its fourth participation.
Story and photos by Hugues Vanhoolandt
This latest edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans posed a crucial question: would Ferrari achieve a fourth consecutive victory, following the wins of the #51 in 2023, the #50 in 2024, and the #83 last year?
The #74 of Kessel Racing for Blattner, Marschall and Lorenzo Patrese, another son of a former Grand Prix driver placed 9th at Le Mans.
Story and photos by Hugues Vanhoolandt
For the 2026 edition, 25 LMGT3s were entered, including the 18 competing in the full WEC championship. This represents nine manufacturers involved: Aston Martin, BMW, Corvette, Ferrari, Ford, Lexus, Mercedes-Benz, and Porsche.
In the first two rounds of the WEC, McLaren particularly stood out, narrowly missing victory at Imola in the final hour due to a mechanical failure, but winning at Spa.
By Pete Vack
From the VeloceToday Archives, July, 2010
For the 1923 French GP, French car builder Gabriel Voisin and his ‘spiritual son’ André Lefebvre, entered four highly advanced race cars equipped with a 2 liter six cylinder Knight sleeve valve engine, which was a mainstay of his fabulous line of luxury cars. But what is a sleeve valve engine, who was Knight and why did Voisin choose such a layout, straight from the American heartland?
A Koenig Special, based on the Ferrari 348 complete with a twin turbo V8.
Story and photos by Jonathan Sharp
For the past few years, the Villa d’Este Concorso has not been the only show in town as it now shares the limelight with Guglielmo Miani’s Fuori Concorso, which is held across three lakeside villas about a kilometer outside Como, all on the same weekend as Villa d’Este, (this year, May 16-17).
John Mull, DB Panhard
Text by Robert Birmingham
Photos by Glen Glendenning
Read Road America 1958, Production classes
In 1958 crowds for both June and September proved to be highly profitable for both SCCA and Road America and the future looked bright. With four years of racing at Road America in the books, profits soared for the corporation led by Tufte and for area merchants as well whose revenues surpassed their wildest dreams.
Joe never tells a lie…but here is a very good story!
Photo courtesy terredicanossa
By Joe Hurwich
Photos by Joe Hurwich, Bob Golberg and Canossa staff
There are rallies that test you, rallies that impress you, and rallies that charm you. Then there is Terre di Canossa—the one that keeps pulling me back. This May, 7-10, marked my fourth time running in the event, and somewhere between the Ligurian coastline and the Apennine passes, I realized it has quietly become my favorite Italian motoring experience.
Betty Skelton, much more than a pretty face. Photo by Glen Glendenning
We received many correct answers on this one…And we thank all who responded. Seems that a lot of people remember Betty Skelton, and the first two readers to respond were John Dinkel and Bill Warner. Warner also recalled that her married name was Don Frankman.
Story and photos by Jonathan Sharp
May 21-23 2026. It was the light that first struck me, My wife and I had arrived in Como the day before and it was hissing down but Saturday morning dawned bright and sunny and not too hot. Hotel Villa d’Este lies slap-bang on the shores of Lake Como about 2km from Cernobbio, and at the time I arrived all was quiet and serene with the sun glinting off the lake and the concours entrants parked mainly in the dappled shade of the trees. The Riva boats were bobbing gently in the hotel’s small marina, and parking an Alfa Romeo 2500 SS ‘Villa d’Este’ outside of the hotel’s gift shop…very classy. It was going to be a very good day.
Story and photos by Jonathan Sharp
So if you are think “I would like to do that trip” here is a run down of how my wife and I did it. The nearest airport for Lake Como is either of the two Milan airports, Malpensa or Linate, however the airline we prefer to travel with only flies to the Milan airports via Heathrow, or in the case of Linate, London City.
The undisputed star of this field, this Porsche 917 finished second in the 1970 24 Hours of Daytona and won the 1970 Spa 1000 km.
Story and photos by Hugues Vanhoolandt
Since 2011, Spa Classic has been the unmissable spring event (May 22-24) for historic racing enthusiasts at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit. The other historic event on the Spa calendar is the well-established 6 Hours of Spa Historic, held at the end of September each year. Spa Classic is now part of the new Le Mans Classic Series, culminating in the next edition of Le Mans Classic this July.
Mustang and Maserati pedal cars
Story and photos by Gary Axon
Due to an imminent Maltese Governmental general election, the traditional St. George’s Square location for the annual Valletta Concours (VC) — usually staged next to the Maltese Parliament building in the center of Valletta; Malta’s breath-taking UNESCO World Heritage capital — had to relocate to Triton Square for this year’s VC on 24 May.
Historic Valletta is the citadel city of the Knights of St John, constructed after the Great Siege of 1565 with its striking honeyed facades largely unchanged since then. One of the more recent additions though are revisions made to the 16th Century fortifications built by the Knights around Triton Square, notably renovated by globally renowned architect Renzo Piano who changed the city’s main entrance gateway where the 2026 VC was held from one to keep people out to one now welcoming them in.
