The Mercedes-AMG GT3 – the turn-key race car that’s eligible for competition in a whole heap of different racing series – is a spectacular looking (and performing car), but it has one glaring fault: It’s...
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As of now, the Mercedes-AMG GT R is the most potent version of the performance-centric sub-brand’s two-seater. There’s no word of a Black Series version being in the pipeline but, given that a salable ultra-limited-production...
In the pantheon of overused-to-the-point-of-becoming-meaningless words, “legend” is at or near the top of the pile. But applying the term to all-American boy and global racing icon Daniel Sexton Gurney absolutely would absolutely, under no...
Few areas of the country are as hip, happening and vibrant as Downtown Miami. And in case the plethora of world class restaurants, clubs and shops aren’t attractive enough, the beautiful blue water of Biscayne...
Less than a generation ago, the notion of a factory-backed Cadillac prototype sports car racing program – or any factory-backed Cadillac racing program, for that matter – was as bizarre and unlikely as Apple releasing...
Although the late 1970s and early 1980s were very much the Dark Ages of road car performance, that very same timeframe was arguably the golden age for production-based road racing cars. The FIA’s Group 5...
There are those who said It would never happen. Top Gear came close to making It happen, before two of the three players got to arguing and subsequently took their balls and went home (of...
There are some sounds that just seem right coming from a particular brand of car: A V12 howl from a Ferrari. A low V8 rumble from a Corvette. And the offbeat flat-four burble from a...
Back in January, when Ford rolled out its new EcoBoost V6 powered GT supercar, we mentioned that an announcement concerning a factory-backed racing program – including a return to the 24 Hours of Le Mans...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQErgDQaRZM&list=UU8AMAhCRmep7VJKe1sxvHFg[/youtube] We’ve said time and time again that, as far as we’re concerned, the mid-1980s through the early-1990s was the golden age of sports car racing on planet earth. Yeah, yeah, we’re biased because we...