© All Pictures – Copyright Rémi Dargegen Photography. Not a Tour Auto newcomer but a Cobra again and we love it, “644 CGT” aka CSX2130 one of the Willment cars was back on the Tour Autothis year after its win … Continue reading #RemiDargegen – The Willment “644 CGT” Shelby Cobra.
© All Pictures – Copyright Rémi Dargegen Photography. The Ligier JS2 DFV, a brutal and raw machine was back on the 2015 Tour Auto in its 1975 DFV engined version. Yes, it did not take part in the Tour de France … Continue reading #RemiDargegen – The 1975 Ligier JS2 DFV.
In french there is a saying, “Jamais deux sans trois” so here is our third and final #MotorsportFail, well at the moment because we’ve looked at the WSC Championship but there might be others and of course, motorsport is full … Continue reading #MotorsportFail – The 1991 WSC Brun C91.
Another #MotorsportFail and this time we’re talking about a German one. 1992 would see the World Sportscar Championship restricted to the 3500cc engine formula and many of the customer teams, mainly the one using the Porsche 962, saw that as … Continue reading #MotorsportFail – The 1991 WSC Konrad KM-011.
Back in 1988, the idea to recreate the ProCar series as seen in 1979 and 1980 as support races for Formula One Grand Prix weekends came arround. Back in the days, the idea was put together by BMW Motorsport and Jochen … Continue reading #TouringCarMadness – The V10 Powered Alfa Romeo 164.
All Pictures © Stéphane Sasso – Sassography. Thanks to Stéphane Sasso for the pictures, Stéphan and Mike Kupka of MECauto and all the MECauto Boys’. The World Sportscar Championship again ! Not the best era of sportscar racing as this championship … Continue reading #PurpleCat – The 1991 WSC Jaguar XJR-14.
Our first #MotorsportFail here but an interesting one and a car that I haven’t heard a lot about before seeing a picture on bloody Facebook ! Here is the story of the failed attempt to resurrect the British Racing Motors … Continue reading #MotorsportFail – The 1992 WSC BRM P351.
One of the most successful drivers in Supermodified competition and an equally skilled racer in asphalt and dirt-track Modified stock cars, Jim Shampine (March 25, 1941 – September 4, 1982) of Clay, New York, had an innate knack for handling … Continue reading #Focus – Jim Shampine and his Green Machine.
Chaparral or Jim Hall that’s a big name in North American road and oval racing. Known for his inovative way of work, the materials involved and of course, his look at the aerodynamics. Yes, back in the late sixties, early … Continue reading #Focus – The Chaparral 2K Cosworth Indycar.
1996 saw the end of the glorious DTM/ITC years and the BPR series was to become the FIA GT for 1997, all that being the result of Bernie’s TV rights madness..! Mercedes and AMG were to enter the evolution of … Continue reading #Focus – The McLaDes or the Mercedes CLK-GTR testbed.
Ferrari, well we’ve never been fan of it. Truly we never understood why so many people loved that Italian manufacturer. Okay Enzo did look cool and on the engineering side, you can’t argue his saying of “Aerodynamics are for people … Continue reading #Focus – The 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO a taste of Italian engineering !
Porsche 917 will always have that special thing, a raw racer build for speed that outperformed the whole field and factories such as Ferrari. The 917 is a special car, the engine is special, an air-cooled flat 12 ! But appart from … Continue reading #Focus – The first road converted Porsche 917.
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