One of the most authentic 907s
The 907 marked an important turning point for Porsche. Introduced for the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1967, the model aimed not only at winning its category, as the 906 and 910 (referred to as the 906/10 by the…
Believe the hype
Ahead of its debut on the race track later this year, Peugeot Design Director, Matthias Hossann, has placed their new 9X8 hybrid hypercar in brutalist architecture to showcase its revolutionary design…
Volvo's 'Flying Brick'
Despite its boxy appearance and non-sporting image, the Volvo 240 competed successfully in touring car racing in the 1980s. In 1983 Volvo produced 505 'homologation specials' equipped with a larger…
Fifteen Eleven breathes new life into the Williams FW07/04
Prestige car builders and restoration firm Fifteen Eleven Design were chosen to fully recommission the 1980 Williams FW07/04 Formula 1 car that Alan Jones used in his World Championship title-winning…
McLaren x Rabab Tantawy
McLaren Racing and partner BAT’s brand Vuse today unveiled a bespoke livery designed by UAE-based artist Rabab Tantawy as part of the Driven by Change campaign for the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix…
Pole Position
The Petersen Automotive Museum has opened its first-ever exhibition dedicated solely to Formula 1. “Pole Position: The Juan Gonzalez Formula 1 Collection” features a varied collection of modern F1 cars…
The quintessential club racer
The fabled 100S, is one of the rarest and most highly sought after of all Austin-Healey sports cars. Donald Healey's stylish Austin-Healey 100 had caused a sensation when it debuted at the 1952 London Motor…
Tribute to a Le Mans winner
Pictures, trophies and racing suits – the typical mementos of a motor sport career. Paolo Barilla, overall winner of Le Mans in 1985 in a private Porsche 956, has chosen a different, far more dynamic reminder…
Renault’s Le Mans victor
Conceived as the successor to the Alpine A440 and A441, both prolific podium mainstays of European endurance racing in the 1970s, the A442 is one of the first to wear the Renault-Alpine badge following the…
Frank Stella's 'Polar Coordinates' BMW M1
Commissioned in 1979, the Frank Stella BMW M1 Procar was painted to Stella’s “Polar Coordinates” design and created for his close friend and racing driver, Peter Gregg. This was the only time that a BMW…
Porsche restore their iconic 962
Porsche has fully restored Hans-Joachim Stuck’s iconic 962 C racer that he took to victory in the 1987 ADAC Würth Supercup. The restoration, which featured the reproduction of many new parts, took a year and a half…
The original lightweight 911
Porsche rarely, if ever, follows any other automaker’s lead, but Colin Chapman’s maxim of “add lightness” was taken to heart by Zuffenhausen’s early racing director Ferdinand Piëch. He tasked his engineers…
Tribute to a Sebring racer
This beautiful Superformance Corvette Grand Sport was the second example built as a tribute to the Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport chassis #003 that was driven by A.J. Foyt at Sebring in 1964.
Inside Williams
Back in March, Williams introduced the FW43B, designed to compete in this year’s World Championship and piloted by George Russell and Nicholas Latifi. The car's livery pays homage to Williams' successful past…
Jaguar brings back the C-Type
Jaguar Classic is bringing a strictly limited run of new C-type Continuations to life in celebration of the iconic model’s motorsport heritage, 70 years after it first raced to victory at the Le Mans 24 Hours…
Twice as nice
The Calder Foundation and BMW have unveiled the Calder BMW Art Car (Artist’s Proof), which is set to be displayed at the ‘Alexander Calder: Minimal / Maximal’ exhibition at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin…
Mario Andretti's 'scary' GT40
The Ford GT story dates from 1963-64 when the mighty Ford Motor Company of Detroit was rebuffed by Ferrari in its attempts to buy into international endurance racing success simply by purchasing the Italian…