The 8th issue of "Curbs" magazine is on newsstands! The October 2015 issue once again contains many interesting reports and stories about historic motorsport.
5 years of the Eifel Rallye Festival
The first small anniversary is over. The organizers are taking this as an opportunity to swing the big celebrity clubs and bring more rally legends to the climatic health resort of Daun than ever before. With Walter Röhrl, Hannu Nikkola, Stieg Blomqvist, Timo Salonen and Sandro Munari, four real and one fake world champion fell into their clutches.
Silverstone has always been a highlight on the international classic racing calendar. This year, the event took place for the 25th time. The report shows all the highlights.
When racing drivers were still heroes
The Solitude Revival has been held since 2008 and every year makes us more aware of the racetracks on which Formula 1 was still held in the 1960s - but also why races such as Reims, Rouen or Solitude were no longer on the racing calendar in the following decade.
The Historic Grand Prix Zandvoort is another event with a long racing history. What's more, with lap times of around two minutes or less, every spectator at Zandvoort feels like they're always there.
The victories came with Nuvolari
When Alfieri Maseati died very young as the result of an accident, it was not only a great shock for the still very young company, it also brought a lot of development work to a temporary standstill. Fortunately, however, Alfieri had still completed the development of two new power units with double overhead camshafts, which were then used in fast racing cars such as the 8 CM.
When the Max Moritz-Porsche 934 appeared in 1976 in the European GT Trophy, the German Racing Championship and the one-make world championship, it already conveyed its power visually. The first Grandtourismo from Porsche soon had hardly any competition worth mentioning, which ultimately led to no more European GT Trophies being announced after five years of championships.
The portrait reports on the life of Jürgen Lässig and his first major international successes.
"There was really something going on here"
Formula Vee at its best, that's the story of Motul, the racing car brand from Motor Tuning Löffelsender.
After the BMW factory withdrew from touring car racing, it was then exclusively in the hands of the BMW tuner Alpina to keep the white and blue high in European touring car racing. With success. In 1970, the 2800 CS took the overall victory for Alpina at the 24 Hours of Spa.
