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Today, the first real fight between Audi and Peugeot in 2010 concluded at SPA. Both had a full contingent...
1905 Darracq 200 In December of 1905 driver Victor Hemery broke the outright land speed record with this Darracq 200....
1906→1908 Locomobile Racer In 1908, the number 16 Locomobile won that year’s Vanderbilt Cup Race and it became the first...
1909 Stoddard-Dayton Model K A Stoddard-Dayton won the first race held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 1909. It was...
1921 Ballot 3/8 LC Ballot was formed by Edouard Ballot who built engines for many different manufacturers. In 1919, he...
1923→1932 OM 665 ‘Superba’ In 1923, Officine Meccaniche started production of the Tipo 665 or Superba with side-valve, 6-cylinder engine....
1924 Alfa Romeo P2 The first car designed by Vittorio Jano in 1924, the P2 is also the first Alfa...
1924 Alfa Romeo P2 Gallery The Alfa Romeo P2 won the inaugural Automobile World Championship in 1925, taking victory in...
1924 Delage 2LCV For the ACF’s 2-litre formula, Delage released the 2LCV. A highlight of the car was its V12...
1924 Delage 2LCV Gallery For the ACF’s 2-litre formula, Delage released the 2LCV. A highlight of the car was its...
1924 Delage CO In 1919, Delage launched their 6-cylinder car known as the CO 4½ litre. It was the first...
1925 Delage Bequet Grand Prix This special racer out that started out as a Delage 2 LCV until it was...
1926 BNC 527 GS 1926 BNC 527 GS Gallery See full 1926 BNC 527 GS Gallery here...
1926 Delage 15 S8 Gallery Delage’s 15 S8 was the most successful GP car in 1927. That year, it won...
1926 Renault Type NM 40CV In the 1920s, vehicle manufacturers were locked in an all-out race to set new records,...
1927 Lancia Lambda MM Zagato Spider The 1927 Mille Miglia was Lancia’s first motor sport race and they used a...
1927→1930 Amilcar C6 The C6 is a production version of Amilcar’s successful 1925 six-cylinder race car known as the CO....
1930 Stutz Series M Indy Race Car In 1931, the Indianapolis was run under the ‘junk formula’ which let cars...
1931 Chrysler Eight Chrysler offered the Series CD Eight as an alternative to its more costly Series CG Imperial Eight....
1931 Chrysler Eight Gallery Chrysler offered the Series CD Eight as an alternative to its more costly Series CG Imperial...
1931 Maserati 4CS 1100 4CS was Maserati’s first sports car intended for the 1100cc class at the Mille Miglia. These...
1931 Maserati 8C 2800 Final evolution of the original Maserati Tipo 26 to compete against the latest Alfa Romeo 8C...
1932 Alfa Romeo Tipo B P3 Gallery The 1932 Alfa Romeo P3 (or Tipo B as it was widely known) was...
1932 Maserati 4CM 1100 In Detail submitted by Richard Owen engine Supercharged Inline-4 valvetrain DOHC 2 Valves / Cyl displacement...
1932 Maserati 4CS 1500 The 4CS was Maserati’s first road car. It was a two-seat version of the 4CM-1100 monoposto...
1932 Maserati 8C 3000 The Tipo 8C 3000 was the final two-seater Grand Prix Maserati. Between 1930-1932, the Maserati brothers...
1933 Maserati 4CM 2000 This unique car has an offset driving position. The driver sits just right from the center...
1933 Maserati 8CM The Maserati 8CM was a Grand Prix race car produced by Maserati between 1933 and 1935. Maserati had designed...
1934 Aston Martin Ulster In 1927 Aston Martin was taken over by race driver A. C. Bertelli. He designed a...
1934 Auto Union Typ A First appearance of the Auto Union Silver Arrow happened on the Avus race track in...
1934 Maserati 6C 34 Some big rule changes in F1 in 1934 meant that competing cars could not weigh more than...
1935 Delahaye 135 Spécial In 1936 the ideal French sports car was the 135 Special. It used the most developed...
1935 Delahaye 135 Spécial Gallery The Special’s engine offered 160 bhp, up nearly 50 bhp from the standard model. This...
1935 Pirrung Special One of the very first cars to use the fabled Offenhauser engine was this 1935 Indy special....
1935→1935 Auto Union Typ B Mercedes-Benz still dominated in Grand Prix 1935, but the Auto Union Typ B still won...
1936 Alfa Romeo 12C To compete with the German might of Mercedes-Benz and Auto Union, Alfa Romeo let Vittorio Jano...
1936 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900A Spyder Gallery One of the most advanced sports car of the era was the Alfa Romeo...
1936 Auto Union Typ C Mercedes-Benz domination in Grand Prix ended with the Auto Union Typ C. It took a...
1936 Delage D6-70 Spéciale Gallery This pretty Delage is one of the first dual-purpose grand tourers and easily the most...
1936 Lagonda LG45R In 1936 Lagonda, under the direction of W.O. Bentley, prepared four factory race cars for the semi-official...
1936 Maserati 6CM Maserati built the Maserati 6CM race car for the Voiturette racing series. It is a single-seater car produced from 1936 to...
1936 Maserati 6CM Gallery Maserati built the Maserati 6CM race car for the Voiturette racing series. It is a single-seater car produced from 1936...
1937 Auto Union Typ C Stromlinie The evocative shape of the streamlined Typ C must have caused a sensation in...
1937 BMW 328 Mille Miglia ‘Büegelfalte’ For the 1940 Mille Miglia, BMW`s design department, Künstlerische Gestaltung, produced this one-of prototype...
Delahaye 145 Grand Prix To encourage local manufacturers, the French Government and the Automobile Club of France hosted a competition...
1937 Delahaye 145 Grand Prix Gallery Covered in crude aluminum bodywork and supported by a chassis similar to the 135...
1937 Kurtis ‘Tommy Lee Speedster’ Tommy Lee commissioned Frank Kurtis to create this special speedster in 1937. Based on a...
1938 Alfa Romeo 158 Alfetta Gallery The 158 was a single-seater designed by Gioacchino Colombo in the spring of 1937...
1938 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900MM The dominant race manufacturer of the thirties was Alfa Romeo. From 1930, up to the...
1938 Maserati 8CTF Gone was the ridiculous maximum weight of 750 kg that F1 had, replaced instead by a minimum...
1938 Maserati 8CTF Gallery The CTF was the first european car to take consecutive wins at the indianapolis 500. With...
1938 Sparks-Thorne Little Six Having run the Indianapolis 500 seven times, the Sparks-Thorne special is a huge part of the...
1938→1939 Auto Union Typ D Leading up to the end of 1937, Auto Union had won 32 of 54 races...
1939 Maserati 4CL The Maserati 4CL and its derived sister model the Maserati 4CLT are single-seat racing cars that were designed and...
