Photos and Captions by Hugues Vanhoolandt
Ferrari 330 P3 s/n 0844 (Leventis/Hardman (UK).
Garfield’s Monster Renault: It’s Alive!
Reader Thierry Lesparre just sent us this photo of the Garfield Renault as it appears today. Details in an upcoming editon of VeloceToday. Scroll down to read the exciting story of this rare and unusual record breaking machine and its American driver.
First Annual Monterey Motorcycle Meet
Another Motorized Festival on the Monterey Peninsula
By Michael T. Lynch
This 1915 Cyclone board track racer was sold at the MidAmerica Auction on Friday night. The winning bid was a whopping $520,000. Despite European interest, it happily stayed in America. Credit: MidAmerica Auctions.
Since the Monterey Historic Automobile Races and the Pebble Beach Concours were scheduled on the same weekend in 1973, a week long automotive festival including vintage races, concours, public and private parties, tours and many other events has been created. [Read more…] about First Annual Monterey Motorcycle Meet
Ducati’s Year (book)
Ducati 2007: MotoGP & Superbike
Official Yearbook
Published by Ducati Corse
144 Pages, 12″x12″
Price US $60.00
While Ducati had previously dominated the World Superbike category, in 2007 the famous Italian concern won the coveted MotoGP Constructors Championship, bringing the title back to Italy after thirty four years.
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German Grand Prix
Massa on the podium: second is not enough.
By Pete Vack
Erik Nielsen was unable to travel to Germany this weekend.
July 20th 2008, Hockenheim, Germany
The German Grand Prix was not a good race for Ferrari. It was not a good race for Massa. It was not a good race for Kimi. Ferrari still leads the Constructors race by a good margin, but the recent on-track performance of the team belies the mere numbers.
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Dream Museum Opens in Philadelphia
The Simeone Foundation Museum
Fred Simeone, although a highly successful neurosurgeon, is a lot like you and me. He loves cars, he collects cars. He loves racing. Like many of us, he dreamed of having a museum for his collection.
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An American (race driver) in Paris, Part II
By Patricia Lee Yongue
Photos Courtesy of VintageMotorphoto
Guillon, Garfield and Plessier are
rewarded for their efforts.
In May and June of 1925, Renault took the world’s twenty-four hours record at Montlhery, with Ellery Garfield and Robert Plessier at the wheel of the 5500 pound open-bodied car.
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Bugattis at Classy Chassis
By Patricia Lee Yongue
Photos by Paul Simms and Patricia Lee Yongue
Classy Chassis Concours, Houston, Texas, June 8, 2008
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Ellery Garfield and the 100 mph Renault
By Patricia Lee Yongue
Photos Courtesy of VintageMotorphoto unless otherwise noted.
Ellery Garfield in the 1920s.
As a professor of American literature and culture specializing in the Lost Generation expatriates, I am usually on the trail of American writers in Paris. The discovery of another sort of expatriate, one who enriches my knowledge of auto racing history, delighted me. I have, however, been able to ascertain only a few details of the short, hopefully happy life of Ellerv Irving Garfield. [Read more…] about Ellery Garfield and the 100 mph Renault
British Grand Prix
Wet & Wild at Silverstone
Duke of Kent, Stefano Domenicali and Jackie Stewart
By Erik Nielsen
Photos courtesy and copyright Ferrari Media
If anyone said that F1 has become totally predictable, they’ve obviously never watched a race in the rain before. The only people who think it doesn’t rain plenty in the Midlands live in places like Seattle and Vancouver… [Read more…] about British Grand Prix
From Passion for Speed to Immortality
This review orignally appeared on December 5th, 2007. We have now included this title in our VeloceToday Store.
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James Dean: From Passion for Speed to Immortality
By Philippe Defechereux
Published by Dalton Watson.
132 Pages, 121 photographs, 300mm x 230mm
ISBN 1-85443-215-X
Price US $30.00
There are over twenty five books written about James Dean, (American actor 1931-1955), who starred in three Hollywood movies, entered five automobile races, and died at the age of twenty four on a two lane road on his way to a race in Salinas, CA. This book is the latest of the lot and for us car nuts, no doubt the best. [Read more…] about From Passion for Speed to Immortality
Renault: To Race or Not to Race
By Patricia Yongue
Our scholarly scribe, Patricia Yongue, explains a period of indecision about racing at Renault, while Dale LaFollette
(vintagemotorphoto) provides the period photography.
Renault driver Louis Raffolovitch passes the Allen Kingston car on his way to win the 24 hour race in Morris Park New York, September 1907. Louis Renault was not pleased.