McLaren is offering the discerning few an opportunity to throw a McLaren GT around a frozen lake in Finland (plus enjoying a luxury stay with excursions and gourmet meals).
At the IAA Mobility show, BMW has shown a new concept of what an e-bike could be in the near future.
Like racing, cycling comes down to the details.
AI comes to e-scooter’s safety
Two world’s collide.
Cycling’s branching effect.
Storage space of all kinds comes with a massive premium in Southern California. Keeping a valuable second, third, fourth, etc. car is not only a space concern, but also often a security concern, especially when it’s a gorgeous work of rare art like a vintage Maserati, or high-end Porsche 911 continuation. Matt Farah of The Smoking Tire and his crew at Westside Collector Car Storage have all of this covered however: space, convenience, security, and much more.
During this dog-days-filled COVID Summer, a good amount of us are probably still in a place of having a tad more time on our hands than usual. Luckily, it seems like there are more YouTube channels than ever that focus on entertaining automotive content, which can help keep us occupied.
Formula 1: Drive to Survive will return on Netflix in 2020, this time with all teams onboard.
In 1960s Los Angeles, after the catastrophic Watts Riots, a legendary character emerged — one who found an unexpected way to bring people together, across race and class. Big Willie, a 6-foot-6, muscle-bound gearhead, used street racing to heal a city torn apart by violence. Cops and criminals, movie stars and miscreants, even Crips and Bloods — out at the drag strip, Big Willie could get them all to see eye to eye.
According to a CNN Business article, global oil demand won’t peak until 2035.
The 2008 best-selling novel, The Art Of Racing In The Rain, is soon to become a Hollywood motion picture with the involvement of Patrick Dempsey and Jeff Zwart. We take this as good news because the book is that rare crossover piece that appeals to racers and non-racers alike.
The British Open is one of the four golf tournaments classified as a “major”, a term appropriated by the SCCA but with a longer-standing history in the world of golf.
Winding Road Racing’s Austin location is moving to a new building on July 10th. We poured a fancy new ramp that is designed to work with race cars. We tested it out this week, and we’re happy to say it passed with flying colors!
You don’t want to miss this, we promise, at least if you have any interest at all in Formula 1.
Parents are typically excited to welcome a new arrival to the family, and so we are excited to announce a new partnership between Winding Road Racing and Thunderhill Raceway Park through which WRR will be the on-site retail provider of motorsports equipment at Thunderhill.
We’re pleased to announce the opening of our second location! The new office, which combines a storefront and a distribution warehouse, is located at 18437 Mt. Langely, Suite N in Fountain Valley.
Patrick Hoffstetter is our guest contributor this week. Patrick is a young scribe from Austin, Texas who attended the same Porsche Club of America event where we ran the 911 GT3 Cup car back in May. Here Patrick offers up some perspective on what it’s like to catch an event like this when you’re not running around doing race prep and instead just enjoying the spectacle and comradery of it all.
With over 350 million viewers in more than 170 countries, Top Gear is one of the most popular TV shows… in the world. The interplay between Clarkson, Hammond and May, their access to the most coveted vehicles ever built and equally desirable places to put them through their paces, and the freedom afforded to them by the hefty episode budgets that allows them to put their outlandish ideas into motion have made the series a hit amongst car lovers across the globe.
It comes at little surprise that Daniel Craig will find himself at the helm of an Aston Martin for the next 007 film, SPECTRE. But what sets the next film apart from its predecessors is that instead of Bond launching rockets and throwing out spike strips from a heavily modified version of a current product Aston Martin model, he will instead do so from the all-new DB10, a bespoke coupe designed specifically for the film.
Perfect for the racing junkie in your life, these films convey the intensity of competition in an honest and unfiltered way. Legendary races on the world’s most demanding tracks are captured here in a way that brings the viewer directly into the action. These are the films set the standard for racing cinema, and they’re guaranteed to be a hit with race fans both young and old.
A quarter mile of N329 highway in Oss, Netherlands is being used a trial run for an entirely new way of illuminating highways at night. Instead of relying on power-hungry overhead lights like traditional roadways, the road itself actually glows in the dark by way of a photo-luminescent powder integrated into the road paint.
In the world of console racing simulators, two franchises garner the lion’s share of attention: Forza Motorsport for Microsoft’s Xbox and Gran Turismo for Sony’s Playstation. But Slightly Mad Studios, the group behind the crowd-funded racing title Project Cars, might just have a legitimate contender on their hands.
