Month: April 2021

Written by Motorsport Muse

TOO FAST TO RACE

20 years ago, one of the most remarkable occurrences happened in motorsport history. This is when a race was cancelled because of the extreme physical effects the speed of the cars had on the drivers. The race was the Firestone Firehawk 600 at Texas Motor Speedway and the championship was CART. There were two open […]

Written by Motorsport Muse

Alfonso de Portago

The Ferrari team in the late 1950s had perhaps the greatest mix of personalities and characters in the history of the sport. It had the dashing English gents of Mike Hawthorn and Peter Collins. The flamboyant Italians of Luigi Musso and Eugenio Castellotti. There was the Argentinian maestro Juan Manuel Fangio and the aristocratic German, […]