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...
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With all the hoopla and hype being (deservedly) lobbed at Rush, it’s easy to forget that there’s another based-in-historical-facts racing movie hitting theaters in September. No, it wasn’t made with a budget as big as...
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...
For the last few weeks we’ve been checking up on the winner of the last nine World Rally Championship driver’s titles, Sebastien Loeb, and the Peugeot Sport team as they prepared for an assault on...
You there! Yes, you! You look like someone who has become disenchanted with the present state of motorsports, what with all the strict design and engineering constraints, sky-high participation costs (and subsequent dependence on corporate sponsorship)...
A while back, we compiled a list of ten documentaries every gearhead should watch at least once. A good many viewers of that list would probably argue that there were at least two glaring omissions:...
All motorsports events are adventures to a certain extent, but rallies? Those are the Homerian epics of the racing world, broseph. In how many other forms of motorsport do participants occasionally find themselves blasting down...
Last month we reported that the winner of the last nine World Rally Championship driver’s crowns, Sebastien Loeb, has teamed with Peugeot to take on the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb. The venture represents a...
The idea of making a single-seater/formula racing car street legal isn’t exactly new, but Ford Motor Company is one of the few entities with the means to make that happen. The monoposto in question is...
When most of us hear the phrase “electric car conversion,” we picture an aging econobox with an overwhelmed golf cart motor under the hood and a trunk full of batteries. Oh, and a plethora of...