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It’s time to say goodbye to the European season of Formula One at Monza, the track where racing looks like racing footage on stimulants. It was everyone’s last chance to stop the Red Bulls. But tell that to Sebastian Vettel, not about to be stopped. Warning: spoilers. More »
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The Italian Spada Codatronca is a car occasionally talked about but rarely ever seen. Is it real? Or does it merely exist in the vapor of faith like so much incense spilled from the Pope's thurible? Not sure, but now there's a convertible version! More »
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This is Jackie Stewart at Monza in 1966, kicking up dirt with the fat rear tires of his H16-engined BRM P83, an overweight mess of cylinders and piping, three months after the accident at Spa that changed his life and led him to begin his campaign for safety in Formula One. More »
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Perhaps all of those asides made about the Gumpert Apollo's appearance in relation to the new Gumpert Tornante finally got to it, as this weekend a modified 800-hp Apollo hit Monza with one question: who you callin' ugly? More »
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One of the organ-transporting Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 Italian police cars takes a wet lap at Monza, surely scaring the crap out of the guy in the 911 who saw it coming in his mirrors. "Che Cavolo!" More »
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Watch as a Hispania Formula One pit crewman gets clocked by the rear wing and tire of Sakon Yamamoto's car during a pit stop at Sunday's Monza race. FIA fined the team $20,000; the crewman is reportedly recovering. More »
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It's 1980, you want a gas-sipping Chevy, but you're not feeling quite futuristic enough for the newfangled front-wheel-drive Citation. How about the crypto-Vega-based Monza, in its final year of production? More »
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Motorsports is exciting because it's inherently unsafe and depending on the track, it can get even more... exciting. These are your picks for the world's ten most dangerous racetracks. More »
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The stripped down, 2,800-pound, 570 HP Lamborghini Super Trofeo GTR gets an on track debut, mixing it up with LP560-4 little brothers and a Porsche GT3 RSR at Italy's Autodromo Nazionale Monza. More »
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Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. Can you believe 450 DOTS vehicles and today's is the first Corvair?
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Thursday brought video of the Pagani Zonda R and its Monza track attack. Today, thanks to the nice folks at Carplatform, we have photos, glorious photos. More »
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This is Down On The Street Bonus Edition, where we check out interesting street-parked cars located in places other than the Island That Rust Forgot. Today we've got seven machines shot by Battles in his hometown of Edinburgh, Scotland. Jump for the gallery and Battles' descriptions. More »
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Stephane Ortelli was lucky to walk away, or perhaps we should say "limp away," from this horrific crash in Le Mans series racing at Monza today. The Courage Oreca racer driven by Ortelli was approaching the opening chicane when he went off the course and the aerodynamics on his car suddenly turned on him. A modern racer is designed to create such great downforce it is as though the car is being sucked to the ground. Unfortunately, when you lose that you can end up doing somersaults. As amazing as it is that Ortelli escaped without serious injury, it's even more impressive to see how Allan McNish was able to guide his Audi just out of the path of the out-of-control Oreca. We'd probably be too busy mouthing "There's no way that car is gonna hit us" to actually get out of the way. [YouTube via MaximumMotorsport] More »
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When we showed off the Moto Guzzi version of the three-wheel Blackjack, commenter superstar DoctorNine dropped an image into the thread that had us running for the history books. Built by Augusto Monaco and Carlo Felice Trossi, the 1935 Monaco Trossi is a front engined beast designed to race in Grand Prix, but due to terrifying driving dynamics never did. The engine is an eight bank, 16-cylinder radial air-cooled 2-cycle, 3982cc engine with two Zoller superchargers. The whole shebang was good for 250 HP at 6000 rpm and powered the front wheels. More »
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There's no better way to start off the work week than with a stiff shot of Detroit Malaise badge-engineering hijinks! UDMan ran across a website jam-packed with all manner of H-body info, and he was kind enough to send in some highlights. Be sure to make the jump for a massive gallery of Starfires, Sunbirds, Firenzas, Skyhawks, and more. [Homestead.com] More »
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There is a rawness to vintage race cars sorely missing from their more modern counterparts. The IMSA cars that closed the 2007 Monterey Historics at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca sent this point home in ten laps. Turbocharged and naturally aspirated Porsches tossed it up with V8 Corvettes and Monzas. A BMW, Ferrari, and a Ford were on track for race fan sonic amusement. Chad Raynal of San Jose took the checkered flag in his 1975 DeKon Monza. The symphony of forced-induction compression theatrics and atmospheric RPM was a winning combination for all. Our personal favorite was the lone 1974 Ford Capri RS3100 piloted by John "Ten-Tenths" Norman, who took tenth place. More »
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In our estimation, the two finest cards of the day at the Monterey Historics fell on Sunday — the resurrection of the Canadian-American Challenge Cup and the retro IMSA class (aka Group 7b in Historics parlance) are the two wish-we'd-been-there, can't-miss events of the weekend. And since commenter jrhmobile requested pics of the DeKon Monzas, we're happy to oblige him, especially considering this particular car, driven by Chad Raynal of San Jose, decimated a field consisting of insanely-turbocharged Porsche 935s, a few RSRs and even a wound-out Ford Capri, whose driver John Norman was one of the ballsiest, hooniest men of the weekend. The three DeKons in the contest all ended up in the top ten, but here're a few photos of the winning Monza shot while we were entering a pleasant haze courtesy of eight internally-combusting cylinders and a heaping helping of race gas. Enjoy the pre-race gallery; on-track action shall follow. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=291474&view=rss&microfeed=true Yes, it's actually called the Sunbird, but the batshit driving and cheezoid stunts in this ad move Pontiac's badge-engineered Monza into hoon respectability, if only for a few moments. Your mileage may vary. – Murilee Martin More »
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Say what you will about Formula One racing these days — the tooth-and-nail fighting for position, the swiping and sniping, the bump and run (and that's just in the front office) — but future racing historians will remember Michael Schumacher as one of the sport's premier drivers and savior of the Ferrari Grand Prix mojo. Today at Monza, after effectively capping a career's worth of achievements with his 90th win, Schumacher — as expected — announced he'll be retiring from Formula One after this season. The 37-year-old has already beaten Aryton Senna's record for pole positions (65) and has won nearly double the number of races as the next winningest F1 racer, Alain Prost. What's next? Did someone say rally? More »
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Cherry Bombs on Schuey's Ferrari? That's what it's basically coming down to at Monza, as residents of the small hamlet of Biassono have complained that the noise of the cars has turned their lives into a living hell; as a result they've enlisted the clout of a judge to make sure that all vehicles running at the famed circuit run quietly. The order puts the kibosh on "the use of vehicles not fitted with an appropriate silencing system." We've always wondered what a small-displacement V-10 would sound like through a pair of two-chamber Flowmasters... More »
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The boys at Dubspeed Driven found a video of Ferrari's super-Enzo, the FXX, being tested at Monza. The video stream quality is a tad on the shaky side, but the music of that V12 being wrung out comes through like high-def audio. [Thanks to CJ for the tip.] More »
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