Nigel Mansell instantly hit it off with Ferrari and its partisan Italian fanbase, earning the nickname of “Il Leone” or “The Lion” thanks to his courageous driving style. The 1989 season, Mansell’s first racing…
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By the mid-1960s, Toyota saw the need to create a halo model – one that would raise international awareness of the Japanese brand. Toyota aimed high, seeking to compete with the finest European…
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A marque woven into the very fabric of touring car racing is BMW. From the Capri-killing 3.0 CSL ‘Batmobile’ to the legendary box-arched E30 M3, which remains German marque’s most successful…
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The 907 marked an important turning point for Porsche. Introduced for the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1967, the model aimed not only at winning its category, as the 906 and 910 (referred to as the 906/10 by the…
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Ahead of its debut on the race track later this year, Peugeot Design Director, Matthias Hossann, has placed their new 9X8 hybrid hypercar in brutalist architecture to showcase its revolutionary design…
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Despite its boxy appearance and non-sporting image, the Volvo 240 competed successfully in touring car racing in the 1980s. In 1983 Volvo produced 505 'homologation specials' equipped with a larger…
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Prestige car builders and restoration firm Fifteen Eleven Design were chosen to fully recommission the 1980 Williams FW07/04 Formula 1 car that Alan Jones used in his World Championship title-winning…
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McLaren Racing and partner BAT’s brand Vuse today unveiled a bespoke livery designed by UAE-based artist Rabab Tantawy as part of the Driven by Change campaign for the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix…
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By the mid-1990s, the Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft (DTM) and its concurrent international counterpart, the International Touring Car Series (ITC) had become the world’s premier touring car…
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The Petersen Automotive Museum has opened its first-ever exhibition dedicated solely to Formula 1. “Pole Position: The Juan Gonzalez Formula 1 Collection” features a varied collection of modern F1 cars…
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The fabled 100S, is one of the rarest and most highly sought after of all Austin-Healey sports cars. Donald Healey's stylish Austin-Healey 100 had caused a sensation when it debuted at the 1952 London Motor…
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Pictures, trophies and racing suits – the typical mementos of a motor sport career. Paolo Barilla, overall winner of Le Mans in 1985 in a private Porsche 956, has chosen a different, far more dynamic reminder…
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Conceived as the successor to the Alpine A440 and A441, both prolific podium mainstays of European endurance racing in the 1970s, the A442 is one of the first to wear the Renault-Alpine badge following the…
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Commissioned in 1979, the Frank Stella BMW M1 Procar was painted to Stella’s “Polar Coordinates” design and created for his close friend and racing driver, Peter Gregg. This was the only time that a BMW…
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Porsche has fully restored Hans-Joachim Stuck’s iconic 962 C racer that he took to victory in the 1987 ADAC Würth Supercup. The restoration, which featured the reproduction of many new parts, took a year and a half…
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Porsche rarely, if ever, follows any other automaker’s lead, but Colin Chapman’s maxim of “add lightness” was taken to heart by Zuffenhausen’s early racing director Ferdinand Piëch. He tasked his engineers…
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This beautiful Superformance Corvette Grand Sport was the second example built as a tribute to the Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport chassis #003 that was driven by A.J. Foyt at Sebring in 1964.
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Back in March, Williams introduced the FW43B, designed to compete in this year’s World Championship and piloted by George Russell and Nicholas Latifi. The car's livery pays homage to Williams' successful past…
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