Events Summary

On May 6, the Piazza Vittoria in Brescia turned into a Mekka for classic car enthusiasts again when the scrutineering for the Mille Miglia took place. The 375 participating teams and the thousands of spectators had a lot of fun despite the crazy weather that ranged from enduring cold rain via thunderstorms to a blue sunny sky and temperatures in the 22°C range. Unfortunately the event was overshadowed on Saturday by the fatal accident of 77 years old American Harlan Schwartz.

The town of Maranello is Mecca for Ferrari enthusiasts world-wide, you may not easily gain access to the Ferrari factory, but there is a wide variety of choice for the aficionado to appreciate during a visit. You can see and hear F1 cars testing at the Fiorano track, visit the factory run Galleria Ferrari, enjoy a meal at the Cavallino restaurant, shop for memorabilia and

January 12th the Maserati "MCC" had it's track debut at Fiorano. The MCC will take part in the FIA GT championships. The car, which at the moment goes by the codename of the MCC project, will be unveiled at the forthcoming Geneva Motor Show, along with the Trident marque�s latest road-going

Barchetta proudly presents you a selection of very rare shots from the famous Rainer W. Schlegelmilch archive, some of them never published before. His slide archive consists of more than 650.000 photographs covering the Formula One scene and sports cars & prototypes races since 1962. Due to the genius of Rainer W. Schlegelmilch, almost every picture is a piece of art as well as the fastest time machine to put you back to times when racing really deserved this name.

Automakers will be spotlighting a number of entirely new vehicles at the Los Angeles Auto Show, January 2-11, 2004. The first major auto show of the year will feature additional production and concept vehicles making their World or North American debut

Ferraris at St. Armand's Circle, this Forida event opens the Ferrari Concours and Meeting season, followed by the Cavallino Classic, for all addicted galleries from Fritz Kloepfel

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the launch of the 275 GTB and GTS, Ferrari is organising an official meeting, the 275 Tour, which will be held

The events on the Monterey Peninsula, California, between August 13 and 19 promise to become a �once-in-a-lifetime-occasion� for Ferraristi: The established events of Concorso Italiano, Monterey Historics and Pebble Beach Concours d�Elégance will ALL feature the marque Ferrari

Ferraris at St. Armand's Circle, this Florida event opens the Ferrari Concours and Meeting season, followed by the Cavallino Classic, for all addicted galleries from Fritz Kloepfel

The Scuderia Ferrari will present its new Formula 1 car for the upcoming 2004 season on Monday, January 26 in Maranello. This event will take place in the Vecchia Meccanica building inside the factory complex. Hundreds of journalists are expected to attend this annual ceremony that usually brings together Ferrari�s entire board of directors, headed by CEO Luca di Montezemolo, plus all the key persons of the Scuderia, headed by Jean Todt. Technical director Ross Brawn will probably show up as well as

52 cars will be auctioned in at the Palais de Congres de Paris at February 15th

Retromobile the Paris Classic Car Show is Europeans season opener, next will be the Geneva Motor Show in March during which the cars are announced which made cut for the Mille Miglia

We are very proud to announce that our affiliate Schlegelmilch received an honourable award for his latest publication: The Jury of the XIXth International

If you don't know your Mille Miglia start number you may find it here

Former Veloqx / Ferrari UK 360N-GT squad member, and Club Fiorano Instructor, Allan Simonsen took the newly acquired ex-Rafanelli ALMS Ferrari 550 GT to a victory in the opening round of the Australian Nations Cup GT Championship at the Adelaide GP circuit on Sunday 21st March.

The MCC and the MCS are both based on the Enzo Ferrari, and visually they don�t really try to hide their common origin. Rumour has it that the MCS comes with a removable hardtop�Lamborghini will present the Murciélago Barchetta

Testing begins Monday as one of the great traditions of both Florida and Americana, the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring sports car endurance race, is set to roll off for the 52nd time at historic Sebring International Raceway.

Like to know if it is worthwhile to visit Paris and see some of your favorite cars at the start of the Tour Auto

The new racing series "Classic Endurance Racing" will be the curtain raiser for the four 1000km races of Le Mans Endurance Series. The races will take place at the the circuits of Monza, the Nuerburgring, Silverstone and Spa. These one hour races are by invitation. Eligible are

The BMS Scuderia Italia Ferrari 550 cars took their second consecutive one-two victory today in Valencia, with Gollin and Cappellari finishing once again ahead of their teammates Bobbi and Gardel. Reiter Engineering's Lamborghini Murcielago R-GT came in third, scoring a podium in their first race of the season. The G.P.C. Giesse Porsche 996 of Sascha Maasen and Lucas Luhr won in the N-GT class, ahead of De Simone and Pescatori, with Ortelli and Collard third.

Fabrizio Gollin celebrated his 29th birthday with victory in Monza, after the BMS Scuderia Italia Ferrari 550 cars dominated the first round of the 2004 Championship. Gollin and Cappellari finished ahead of Bobbi and Gardel, with the new GPC Giesse Squadra Corse Ferrari 575 M Maranello car of Babini and Peter third. In N-GT, Ortelli and Collard were victorious, ahead of the Ferrari 360 Modena of De Simone and Pescatori, with the Proton Competition Porsche third.

Between April 1 and 4, 2004, the exhibition area of Essen/Germany turned once again into a Mekka for classic car lovers: The Techno Classica, the world's most important fair for the classic car trade, attracted thousands of visitors from all over Europe and even from the U.S. Ferrari automobiles were scarce this time - some highlights were brought to Essen by some of the "usual suspects", Lukas Hüni, Paul Koot and Klaus Werner.

Andreas Birner visited the latest Bonhams Auction for you - several chassis "came under the hammer"
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The 75th Concorso d´Eleganza Villa d´Este (24./25. April 2004) was cram-full with highlights. Amongst them a special feature dedicated to the 85th company anniversary of Carrozzeria Zagato, the Ex-Agnelli Ferrari 375 America Pinin Farina Coupé and the freshly restored Maserati 5000 GT Frua Coupé which was the fastest and most expensivest car in the world at its presentation in Geneva in 1962.

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50 Years Ferrari in the USA, cellbrated with an Exhibition at The New York Rockefeller Center hosted by Ferrari of North America brought to you by Marco Valenza

We followed the Tour Auto from Paris through Tours, Bordeaux, Carcassonne and Montpellier to show you the over 45 Ferrari entrants and the occasional other sports cars of particular interest. Imagine spending a week in France with your digital camera, surrounded by some 200 classic cars, or be one of the lucky once and participate with your own Ferrari

What a couple of Ferrari collectors started, was soon picked up by Ferrari and run as the Ferrari Historic Challenge, is today the largest museum on the move. Seeing the entire rang of cars build as participants, from the famous 166 Mille Miglia to the very powerful 512 S/M, to more modern cars

Le Mitiche Sport a Bassano the event reserved exclusively for open sports cars, the images from Daniele Salatin bring the beauty of both ... northern Italy and historic barchette right on your screen and the best you don't get wet like many of the participants, but that has also a down side, we have never done events which we enjoyed more, then the once in Bella Italia, with the friendly people, a fascinating landscape, historic buildings and last not least a well know non matched cuisine

In the past years, many enthusiastic owners of rare (and usually very expensive) competition Ferrari, brought their pieces of Ferrari Heritage to compete in the Shell sponsored Historic Challenge. The perfect chance for the public to re-live all the great moments of Ferrari's rich history. But the present seems to catch up with history.

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the launch of the 275 GTB and GTS, Ferrari is organising an official meeting, the 275 Tour, which will be held in Maranello and in Tuscany from the 15th to the 20th of June. This is the first of a number of exclusive events that will be dedicated to Ferrari�s most important models.

Classic cars and nothing but classic cars on track of the "grüne Hölle". The 32nd edition of the Oldtimer Grand Prix at the Nürburgring

It took a staff close to 1.500 people to exceed the success of the first edition of Le Mans Classic. Patrick Peter and the ACO did the job and Le Mans Classic 2004 won't be easy forgotten by anyone who was there. Close to 350 cars, built between 1923 and 1978 were seen during the 24 hour revival

Ferrari�s new F430 will be displayed for the first time to public at the upcoming Paris Motor Show from the 25th of September to the 10th of October. The F430 is the first of a new line of V8-engined cars and is a concentration of all Ferrari�s latest developments in the world of Formula 1.

A much-anticipated highlight of the Monterey Peninsula's annual August Vintage Car Week, The Quail - A Motorsports Gathering, will provide an intimate and glamorous historic sports and racing car showcase at Carmel Valley�s Quail Lodge on Friday, August 13, 2004. The full-day event, which debuted in 2003, is not only for connoisseurs of extraordinary classic cars, but also of excellent food, wine and luxury auction collectibles.

After 558 laps of non-stop combat, the BMS Scuderia Italia Ferrari 550 Maranello finished a lap ahead of its race-long rival, the GPC Giesse Squadra Corse Ferrari 575M Maranello; the first time a female driver has taken overall victory in the 24-hour race.

Victory for Maserati, Bertolini and Salo - The #33 AF Corse Maserati MC 12, driven by Andrea Bertolini and Mika Salo, was victorious in its second-ever race, at the Oschersleben circuit today. Starting off cautiously in damp conditions, the car came to the fore and built up a good lead

The spectacular Spa 1000km was without doubt the best race of the inaugural year for the Spectators have seen sunshine and rain during the six-hour race and no less than five safety car procedures. One thousand race kilometers later, 28 of the 41 starters had made it to the chequered flag.

A hot race round the challenging Imola circuit saw the Vitaphone Racing Team -Saleen S7 take a win, crossing the line ahead of the two Maserati MC 12

To celebrate its 90th anniversary, Maserati organized a wonderful "classic tour" for Maserati GT's and historic race cars starting from Modena on September 17th. Before reaching its final destination - Rome - the Maserati caravan stopped at Mugello for a regularity race.

Even mixed weather conditions could not prevent the team Viaro/Mair in their very nice Alfa 1750 Super Sport of winning the Gran Prix Nuvolari in 2004. Viaro, the genius behind the famous Digitech stop watches, now tries for years together with Jack Croul to succeed in the GP Nuvolari's big sister - the Mille Miglia. Maybe this win iwill be a good omen for winning this race next year at last.

As always, this year's Goodwood Revival Meeting again pleased both - the spectators and participants - with packing race action and the special atmosphere, only Goodwood can generate. But unfortunately it seems that it becomes more and more a trend to let some nasty replicas start at Goodwood. Wake up !

Grand Touring is the future of endurance racing, and no doubt remains. At Sebring next March we will see the debut of the Aston Martin DBR9, the new Chevrolet Corvette C6-R, the truncated Maserati MC12 chopped at the front, back and sides to fit the ACO�s �box� (5 metres long and two metres wide),

For a fifth consecutive time, an Audi R8 has won the "Petit Le Mans� event at Road Atlanta (USA), one of the highlights of the American Le Mans Series (ALMS). On the demanding track near Atlanta, JJ Lehto/Marco Werner and Johnny Herbert & Pierre Kaffer secured a 1-2 victory for Team ADT Champion Racing, and in doing so clinched the Manufacturers� and Teams� titles early in the LMP1 category. JJ Lehto and Marco Werner had already wrapped up the Drivers� title.

Organized by Stéphane RATEL and SRO (promoter of the FIA GT Championship and the French and the British GT Championship) and the Bahrain International Circuit, the Nov 25-Nov 26 exhibition race ends the 2004 GT season magnificently, wich saw competing the leading representatives of the various national GT championships.

Until October the Museo Luigi Bonfanti featured the "I gioielli della Touring" exhibition dedicated to all cars with Touring "carrozzeria". Besides 14 Alfa Romeos the display included the recently rebodied Ferrari 166 MM barchetta s/n 0036M. This car got a Vignale Coupe bodywork in 1953 which it had since 2003.