Race cars are exotic beasts that require all kinds of care and attention, they aren’t simply plug and play like most normal cars. It’s for this reason that Formula 1 cars take hours to get ready to race and vintage racers require the kind of love that we’d never normally give our daily drivers. Now, … Read more
Gif: Goodwood Road and Racing / YouTube Travis Pastrana put on a show with the Hoonigan Huckster on the storied hillclimb at last weekend’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, but his run ended with the extensively modified 1983 Subaru GL Wagon in a haybale. The event’s traditional climax is the timed shootout. While victory carries some … Read more
Photo: Czinger This year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed saw the outrageous Ford SuperVan claim the fastest hill climb time of the weekend, running up the hill in just 43.98 seconds. Sadly, that wasn’t enough to take the overall record crown from the McMurtry Spéirling, but there was a broken record in another major category. The … Read more
The Goodwood Festival of Speed is a hillclimb event founded over 30 years ago that takes place in West Sussex, England every summer. Goodwood isn’t known for being a particularly rowdy automotive event, in fact the website recommends “smart casual” as the dress code, but that didn’t stop New Hampshire–born pro drifter Ryan Tuerck from annihilating the … Read more
Over the decades there have been many one-off or limited-production vehicles that have been lost to the sands of time, and many cars that were planned for production but never made it there, for various reasons. Some automakers have begun to build recreations or “continuation cars” to fill in the gaps of history, and Audi … Read more
Gif: Goodwood Road & Racing The time-attack-slanted all-electric Lotus Evija X prototype crashed directly into the wall on driver’s right as it was leaving the start line for a run up the hill at Goodwood on Thursday. The racer, based on Lotus’ electric hypercar, features nearly 2,000 horsepower, sticky racing slick tires, and enough downforce … Read more
Screenshot: Mad Mike Everyone’s favorite Antipodean rotary head, Mad Mike Whiddett, is constantly trying to find new and exciting cars to rotary swap and burn tires with. The guy has made dozens of Mazda Doriftos, and after a long time sticking with chassis from the same manufacturer, he’s started branching out to more exotic hardware. … Read more
