We know the new Porsche 911 is about to be unveiled soon. We know Porsche is busy working on its electric car the Taycan. We know Porsche is still continuing its 70th-year celebrations. But, we DIDN’T know that Porsche Motorsport was busy making this beautiful surprise for us. It’s the new Porsche 935 track only […]
Fernando Alonso announced earlier today that he will be retiring from Formula One after the end of the current season. It is currently the mid-season break in the sport but the McLaren driver said he’d been deciding over the matter for a few months now. In a video released on his Twitter profile (seen below), […]
We never fail to mention the Nüburging Nordschleife lap times and records while talking about modern supercars and hypercars, but they usually tend to compete with the road-legal times. Once upon a time, a sub-7 lap was insane in a road car but then over the last couple of years, we’ve gotten it down to […]
There is no time to rest, no breaks, no lulls. To stay ahead of the game, you’ve got to be working on something better or bigger or faster, or all of those at once. Or that could all just be a bunch of hot air. But what is relevant and accurate is that BMW has […]
If you’re a fan of any form of top-level motorsport or even of circuit-racing video games you’d have heard of an event called the Le Mans. The 24 hours of Le Mans to be specific. This event is part of the World Endurance Championship and is a time format, wherein the cars try to complete […]
What was up in the second half of the 1940s? And can we please have another phase like that soon? I say that because another icon from automotive legend turns 70 this year and this time it’s from the race tracks – Brabham. In 1948, Sir Jack Brabham launched his racing career in Australia and […]
Toyota has been making headway in the motorsport scene again, both in WEC and WRC and has done admirably but championship success eludes them. Meanwhile, for the rest of us driving on the public roads, the Japanese carmakers has launched a new performance brand for selling sports cars, called Gazoo Racing. The first of this […]
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