Close

by Marshall Pruett   RACER has learned Indy car veteran Alex Tagliani will make his second consecutive Rolex Series start for the R. Ferri/Aim Autosport Ferrari team this weekend in Monterey.   Tagliani, who scored a pole in his first outing for the team as a late substitute for Italian driver Max Papis on the Kansas roval, will...

1043

by Andrea Almeida   Carando is gearing up for its first-ever NASCAR sponsorship at the Loudon Sprint Cup race. Throughout the week, the #43 Richard Petty Motorsports Ford will be making pit stops at area Big Y stores, where Carando will be sampling its classic Italian meats, along with a variety of other activities and giveaways planned at e...

1406

When I was a child, I had the privilege to shake Enzo Ferrari's hand. I didn't know who that old man was, but my father, who was born very close to Maranello, seemed to be very fond of him, and so I knew that he was somebody important. When I told this to Albert DeLauro, the Chairman of the Board of the Ferrari Club of America, he probably felt the...

7261

Ferrari have revealed their 2016 car, the SF16-H, as they target overtaking Mercedes at the front of the Formula 1 grid this year. Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen pulled the wraps off the new car at the team's Maranello base. Chief designer Simone Resta enthused: "I can say that this F1 car is one of the most beautiful Ferrari's ever....

1230

by James Galloway   In a tie-up which has been widely expected for some time - particularly after Haas Automation became a Ferrari sponsor in July - Gene Haas's new Carolina-based operation will run Ferrari's V6 turbo engine, energy-recovery systems, gearbox as well as receiving technical support when they join the grid from the season after...

1434

The Mille Miglia has a nearly 90-year history, but looks younger than its real age. Rather, it is as lively as it used to be in its early days, when it was "the most beautiful race in the world" (as Enzo Ferrari called it). For thirty years, from 1927 to 1957, the Mille Miglia ran across half of Italy, along its 1,700 km-odd route amid dust whirlw...

816

by Diane Langton   The Giaur Lancia Moretti, a rare Italian race car, was being built for Italian Formula One driver Felice Bonetto, who planned to race it in 1953 in the Mille Miglia (thousand mile) road race in Italy. But when Bonetto was killed in November 1953, in the Carrera Panamericana race in Silao, Mexico, work on the car stopped....

1039

By Tim Bojarski   Although it was Columbus Day atBatavia Downs, it was Groundhog Day for Rock Vinci. That is because Vinci won the special harness racing Italian-American drivers race (known as the Christopher Columbus Pace) for the second year in a row, in the identical time as last year and with another bombs-away payoff.   Vinci le...

913

L'italoamericano Mario Andretti è una delle leggende del mondo dei motori. Ha vinto negli anni '70 il campionato mondiale di Formula 1 e un'infinità di altre gare. Non tutti sapevano però che la sua vita è legata a Lucca. Arrivato come esule istriano con la sua famiglia negli anni '40 trascorse la sua infanzia dentro le mura prima di emigrare in Am...

978

  WTI Magazine #57    2015 April, 3Author : Simone Callisto Manca      Translation by:   The year in the engine competitions could not have started better for our colors: the green, the white but above all the Red. Indeed, a single triumphant Sunday has seen the comeback of two Italian legends: Ferrari, after almost two years, with his new drive...

1526