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Top 5 Monterey Car Week Reveals
Here is our selection for the top-five reveals from 2023 Monterey Car Week, encapsulating a blend of innovation, style, and performance.
Driven: 2023 Toyota GR86 Compliments the Curves
How does the 2023 Toyota GR86 fair on the Tail of the Dragon? Put simply, it’s the perfect tool for tackling the famous curves.
Legendary Rothmans Porsche 962 Headlining Le Mans Auction
This Rothmans Porsche 962, was one of three Works 962s assigned to the Rothmans Porsche factory team for the 1985 and 1986 seasons.
Spied: Porsche Boxster 983 EV
The Porsche Boxster 983 EV is expected to arrive in 2025, while the latest spy video show doing laps at the famed Nürburgring race track.
Monza: Mercedes-AMG ONE Hypercar Sets Another Production Car Track Record
Carlos Sainz’s Toro Rosso STR12 from 2017 managed a lap time of 1:38.53, just five seconds faster than the Mercedes-AMG ONE hypercar.
Porsche Experience Center Atlanta to Open New Track Designed by Tilke
This new Porsche Experience Center Atlanta track has been designed by Tilke (of Formula 1 fame), offering four distinct driver modules.
Get up to Speed on the New Porsche 911 Hybrid
Porsche’s flagship sports car, the 911, is set to receive a major upgrade with an electric introduction; enter the Porsche 911 Hybrid.
Mercedes-AMG ONE Deliveries Start
After years of delays, Mercedes-Benz has finally delivered its long awaited Mercedes-AMG ONE.
0-200MPH in Under 10 Seconds?
Not only are they targeting the record at the Nürburgring, it was also revealed that the car can go from 0-200mph in under 10 seconds.
Schumacher’s Ferrari F2003-GA Nabs $14.9 Million
The Ferrari F2003-GA which Michael Schumacher won his 6th Formula One World Championship in sold at auction for a price of $14.9 million, making it the most expensive F1 car sold to date.
Review: 2020 Mercedes AMG C63 S Sedan — Modern Brute-Force Fun
In the case of our week with the 2020 Mercedes Benz AMG C63 S sedan, it’s a little hard to avoid using a healthy helping of hyperbole. Photos and its published weight made it seem like a big sedan, but the proportions and dimensions proved otherwise. The way it accelerated, cornered, and braked proved otherwise as well.
Buyer’s Guide: The Klemantaski Collection
Louis Klemantaski, whose motorsport photography work spans from 1930s through the 1970s, represents the pinnacle of the Jacques-Henri Lartigue aesthetic, a photographer who pioneered the art of capturing images moving objects during the turn of the 20th century. The son of a Willys-Overland importer, Klemantaski spent his youth at the famous Brooklands racing circuit in Surrey, England, both racing on the circuit as well as taking photos of cars during races.
More Than A Longitudinal-G-Thing: Tesla Now Offers Factory Performance Upgrades
After already making a name for themselves with performance add-ons that come in the form of wattage boosts (with uncomfortable levels of acceleration), Tesla will now be entering the grip side of factory performance packages, notably their new $5,500 “Model 3 Track Package”, according to Elektrek.co.
Video: Tourenwagen Classics At The Oldtimer GP
Earlier this month, the Oldtimer GP went down at the Nürburgring, a celebration of older and vintage race cars from various series over the years.
Top Gear America To Make Its Triumphant Return On Motor Trend
Today, it was announced that Top Gear America will return to the airwaves exclusively on the Motor Trend app in Spring 2020. We were pondering whether it would return, and this move certainly makes a lot of sense, since the automotive media powerhouse already hosts the extensive catalog of Top Gear UK.
The 2020 C8 Corvette Is (Pretty Much) Everything We Hoped It Would Be
The 2020 C8 Chevrolet Corvette. The buzz surrounding the new generation is perhaps the most significant in the US auto market for at least the past decade, and it all appears to be well-founded.
Race Tracks Of The World Drawn To Scale
We pretty much can’t stop looking at this poster of many well-known road racing tracks drawn to scale and placed together on one page. We’re probably losing our minds, but we recommend taking a look.
Need To Know: 10 Reasons Your Racing Should Begin In A Simulator
We talk to lots of drivers who have an interest in track activities. But they often are slightly confused about how to get started. On one level, we say “just do something” because getting experience and getting in the habit of doing track activities is how you get comfortable and begin to develop some skill. That isn’t sufficient, though…
Speed Secrets: 5 (+1) Tips To Learn Any Track Quickly
Learning to go fast quickly at any new track is a challenge. So imagine what it would be like to learn the 20.8 KM (12.9 miles) of the Nordschleife circuit at the Nurburgring in a very short amount of time. And your job depended on it.
Speed Secrets: Basics of Heart Rate in Motorsports
Not long ago I was coaching a driver whose heart rate was being monitored and sent back to the pits via telemetry. Over time, we could almost predict his lap times based on his heart rate. Just like the three little bears, if his heart rate was too low, his lap times were slow; too high and his lap times slowed. Just right and he was fast.
WRR Team Profile: Todd Therkildsen
Todd “Therk” Therkildsen moved to Winding Road Racing last year as our manager of Trackside Services. In that role, Therk manages race car prep, transport, set up, data logging, coaching, maintenance and hospitality for Winding Road Racing (WRR) customers.
