You might have heard that there’s a movie currently in theaters called Rush. You might have also (or read) that, as not just car movies but movies period go, it’s cool beans, daddy-o. But what...
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When it comes to dramatic feature films with characters based on real people and storylines based on real events, Ron Howard has seemingly had the directing market cornered for the last 20 years or so....
These days, developing and building any car is a complicated process. But this is even truer of the most sophisticated racing cars on earth: The cars that contest the Formula 1 World Championship. Each of...
It’s one thing to read about the formative days of Formula 1, or to look at still photography. It’s a completely different thing to watch video footage of the World Championship’s early years. Only then...
Formula 1 is a sport full of extremes: The biggest budgets. The quickest, most agile cars. The most exotic venues (Monaco, Singapore, Abu Dhabi, etc.). And oh yes, the fastest pit stops. Four-tire changes under...
Ayrton Senna drove Formula 1 cars powered by four different engine suppliers during his career, but both his longest association and the bulk of his success (including all three of his world championships) came with...
As irrepressible motorsports history nerds, we’re monumentally psyched for Ron Howard’s 1970s Formula 1 epic, Rush. That really should have been evident from the write-ups we did for the first two trailers. Of course, the...
A Formula 1 fan from Brighton in the UK has built a full-scale racing car in the shed at the end of his garden. The car, which needed £8,000 in parts and took four years...
On Monday the international trailer for Ron Howard’s Formula 1 historical docudrama Rush burst onto the internet, and boy howdy, does it make the flick look good. The cars, the costumes, the special effects…it all...
When we first got wind that Ron Howard would be making a movie called Rush chronicling the 1976 Formula 1 season – specifically, the rivalry between that season’s top title contenders, Niki Lauda of Ferrari...