Tom Kristensen, aka Mr Le Mans, has won at the Circuit de la Sarthe a record nine times, six of which were scored consecutively from 2000–2005. But even exclusive of his exemplary performances in the French endurance classic, the great Dane’s résumé is nothing short of extraordinary, encompassing six 12 Hours of Sebring wins, an FIA GT Championship and victory in the inaugural Kinrara Trophy at the Goodwood Revival.
The coronavirus pandemic might have halted our freedom of travel and locked down virtually all of Europe, but that hasn’t stopped The Houtkamp Collection in the Netherlands from ‘keeping calm and carrying on’. With the help of modern technology such as video conference calling, trade has thrived in the face of adversity. And Rutger Houtkamp and the team have been putting their spare time to good use.
In the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s, the top Italian carrozzerie queued up for the chance to design coachwork for Fiat’s latest wares, resulting in a multitude of drastically different shapes on a plethora of different cars, from the opulent Otto Vu to the dinky 500. In their own distinctive and interesting ways, Fiat’s cars – be them styled by Zagato, Vignale, Pininfarina or Boano – always epitomised the cultural trends of the time.
It’s been more than two years since Eugenio Amos kindly allowed us to break the news that, in his continued efforts to Make Lancia Great Again, he was going to build a three-door Singer-style restomod version of the Delta Integrale under the Automobili Amos banner. A speed-loving racing driver and a truly eclectic collector, Eugenio is a man of many passions – so long as they’re related to cars.
The coronavirus has thrown the events calendar into disarray, and we’re not just talking about the collector car world – everything from major sporting occasions such as the Olympic Games to Goliath music festivals such as Glastonbury have been forced to postpone or simply cancel altogether.