There are a lot of people in sports car racing that aren't there because of talent. They're there because they have money and want to go fast. We call them 'gentleman drivers.' Most of the time you find them driving a Porsche or a Ferrari. Now there's another choice: The Aston Martin Vantage GT4. What's it like to…
This Is The F-Type Race Car Jaguar Has To Make
Bob Tullius' name might not be familiar to you, but his race cars almost certainly are. He chose historically unreliable cars from British Leyland for his Group 44 team, painted them up in a distinctive white and green Quaker State livery, and then went out racing. Group 44 hasn't had a new car in quite some time, but…
The Sauber Mercedes C291 with a brand new 650 hp flat-12. It was built in 1991 right after the dominant C11. But the only thing it dominated was…a French comic book. (Image: Jean Graton/Daimler AG)
Female Palestinian Race Car Drivers Documented In Speed Sisters Film
In January, we read about a woman named Noor Daoud — born in Texas, former member of the Olympic swim team, former player on the Palestinian national soccer team — currently racing cars in Formula 3.
The Exhaust Pipe That Made Red Bull A Success
The coolest car at Renault’s booth at the Geneva Motor Show was the Red Bull RB7, the Renault-powered Formula One car which won the 2011 championship in the hands of Sebastian Vettel. Unlike the old or partially complete F1 cars displayed at many carmakers’ booths, this was the real deal, as evidenced by this flattened …
How to take Eau Rouge flat out
Spa-Francorchamps is probably the best racetrack in the world and Eau Rouge is its most famous corner. It’s a wild, violent downhill-left-uphill-right ride and English racing driver Andy Dickens of Spawny Whippet Motorsport is here to tell us how to take it flat out in an open-wheel race car:
When Gordon Murray failed
The man who designed some of the wildest and most successful Formula One cars of all time, as well as the McLaren F1, is indeed something of a prophet of clever aerodynamics. But when this picture was taken, at the 1986 Spanish Grand Prix, Murray’s latest radical design sucked big time. It was also the way to the…
Colin Chapman’s simple and chilling definition of a Formula One race…
To see the most interesting document at the Frankfurt Motor Show, one had to get a particular stool at Lotus then not sit down on it. Beneath a layer of glass was a page from Colin Chapman’s notebook from the summer of 1975 which contains many of his iconic quotes about Formula One cars. Some are simple, some are…
This is probably the ugliest Ferrari ever
McLaren may know how to build the occasional ugly race car
