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Broad Arrow: a Powerful Arrow in Las Vegas
Halloween sandstorms, a city flood, and $92.7 million in sales – Broad Arrow’s Las Vegas auction rewrote the record books.
Car(s) of the Year Part 1: Pre-War
From a 1929 Ford hot rod to a Figoni-bodied Alfa Romeo – eight pre-war auction standouts that money alone cannot fully explain.
The Queens of the 1000 Miglia: Mercedes-Benz 300 SL W198 #417 – Born for the Road and Racetrack
Before dawn in Brescia, a road car became a race legend – the story of Mercedes-Benz 300 SL W198 #417.
Broad Arrow: a Powerful Arrow in Las Vegas
Halloween sandstorms, a city flood, and $92.7 million in sales – Broad Arrow’s Las Vegas auction rewrote the record books.
Desiré Wilson: The Lost Opportunity of Formula 1
Paddock Hill bend, 1980 – a South African driver leads into the first corner and never looks back, still the only woman to win in a Formula 1 car.
Art for Advertising: Marcello Dudovich, the Force of Elegance
Engineering as desire, status as brushstroke – how one poster master made the automobile an object of longing before mass ownership changed
Roarington International Classic Racing Challenge 2026: First Round Decided, Two More to Go
A German driver has claimed victory in the opening round of the Roarington International Classic Racing Challenge 2026, a closely contested regularity competition inspired by the 1000 Miglia.
Kimi Antonelli: The Serenity and Smile of a Champion at Ease with New Technologies
Born in 2006, Antonelli speaks the language of modern F1 instinctively – and that may be the greatest advantage of all.
The Queens of the Mille Miglia: Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR – The Unbeaten Record
Engine noise swallowing every word, a paper roll guiding Moss through the Apennines – and a record no one has touched since 1955.
Art for Advertising: Federico Seneca, Drawing Speed
Four posters, four years – and a question that united chocolate and motorsport: how do you reduce a sensation to a single image?
A London in Monterey Week Style for RM Sotheby’s
Beneath the hammer in London, a Giallo Daytona SP3 and Ayrton Senna’s NSX rewrote the record books – and a £25,300 Integra Type R stole the writer’s
Art for Advertising: Plinio Codognato, the Bard of Speed
Centaurs, racing circuits, and a single bold number – Codognato sold not cars but the sensation that speed had entered the world.
The Yohan Poonawalla Collection: Royal Rolls-Royces, Papal Lincolns, and India’s Automotive Legacy
Concours trophies and rally dust, maharaja provenance and papal history – one Indian collection holds more contradictions than most museums dare