There was a time that Toyota’s involvement in the World Rally Championship was a given. Every year, some of the sport’s best drivers – world champions Carlos Sainz, Didier Auriol and Juha Kankkunen among them...
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MsAN0ETLss&index=12&list=LLCpNw5Fe-9YYS4duyxmzh0A[/youtube] Impossible though it may seem, it’s already Thanksgiving Day again here in the U.S. And in between munching on appetizers before the big turkey dinner and fielding questions from elderly relatives concerning such lightweight...
You know, it’s been a while since we heard from Kazunori Yamauchi and the crew at Polyphony Digital regarding the progress of Gran Turismo 6. You remember Gran Turismo 6, right? The latest chapter in...
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...
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 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 earliest motor races were as much adventures as they were speed contests. Drivers (and, in most cases, riding mechanics) often dashed hundreds of miles from town to town across open countryside, battling not only...