![Scuderia Ferrari D50 Chronograph is Championship Material [w/ Video]](https://www.sub5zero.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/scuderia_ferrari_d50_chronograph_05-335x256.jpg)
Late in the 1954 Formula 1 season, Lancia debuted the D50. With innovations like a pair of distinctive pontoon fuel tanks and a 2.5L V8 engine that doubled as a stressed structural member of the...
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Motorsport is, like virtually any sport, a competition. Whether you’re trying to beat your own personal lap record at a track day in a Miata that’s older than you are, going wheel-to-wheel with the best...
![Treasure Chest: Check out the Rare Gems of the Righini Collection [Video]](https://www.sub5zero.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/video_still_242-335x256.jpg)
When compiling a list of great travel destinations for gearheads, no list should ever be considered complete unless it has Modena, Italy on it. Maserati, Ferrari and, the most recent addition, Pagani all call the...
![Back in the Day: Shell Chronicles the 1955 Formula 1 Belgian Grand Prix [Video]](https://www.sub5zero.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/video_still_152.jpg)
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...
![Formed to Function: An Ode to the Lancia Stratos [Video]](https://www.sub5zero.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/video_still_113.jpg)
When listing iconic performance cars of the 1970s (Yes, there were quite a few made despite the oil crises and overarching sense of global malaise.), one simply cannot leave out the Lancia Stratos. Seriously, we’ve...
Purpose-built racing cars – be they single seat open wheelers, sports prototypes, dragsters or any other automobile whose sole reason for being is to compete – have always inspired awe and been capable of extraordinary...
![Totally Radical Racing: Formula 1 and Rally in the 1980s [Video]](https://www.sub5zero.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/video_still_050.jpg)
Although most motorsports historians like to wax poetic (or not-so-poetic) about the barnstorming between-the-World-Wars era, or the glamorous 1950s, the 1980s was a damn good period for racing in its own right. Advancements in design...
![The Days of Madness: Group B Rally Monsters [Video]](https://www.sub5zero.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/video_still_002.jpg)
The early 1980s was truly the World Rally Championship’s Wild West period, thanks in large part to technical formula in place at the time. The FIA’s Group B regulations required manufacturers to build at least...
![The Fast & The Forbidden: 1986-‘92 Lancia Thema 8.32 [w/ Video]](https://www.sub5zero.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/2119lancia_ferrari-335x256.jpg)
Few automotive nameplates have a better batting average of successful joint ventures than Ferrari and Lancia. After Lancia was forced to withdraw from Formula 1 for financial reasons in 1955, the company’s racing operations, including...
The thought of being able to cover long distances quickly, comfortably and in high style gives grand tourers immense appeal among car buffs. And few nations are better at building grand tourers than Italy. Whether...