Despite the passing of almost 70 years, Aston Martin’s most impressive on-track achievement remains that famous 1-2 finish at the Le Mans 24 Hours in 1959 with the DBR1. Of almost equal…
Read MoreTo see off the expected threat from GT1 iterations of the Ferrari F50 and a reverse engineered purpose built racer that Porsche was known to have in development, McLaren created an uprated…
Read MoreAfter a five-year spell campaigning the E36 M3 GTR, BMW’s North American competition partner, Prototype Technology Group (PTG), switched focus to the new E46-based Motorsport 3-series.
Read MoreJohn Wyer’s Mirage team created the M2 as a Group 6 Prototype to contest the 1969 World Sportscar Championship alongside the team’s Group 4 Ford GT40s that had won the title in 1968.
Read MoreIn January 1960, Chevrolet struck a deal with noted American sportsman, Briggs Cunningham, to campaign a trio of Corvettes at the 1960 Le Mans 24 Hours. Ever since 1950, Cunningham (who was…
Read MoreThe trend of radically re-engineered low volume homologation specials that, for marketing reasons, resembled a manufacturer’s more prosaic offerings was most famously characterised by…
Read MoreWhen it comes to great 20th century road races, arguably the most formidable was the Carrera Panamericana which took place over five days and 2000-miles on Mexico’s newly opened section of…
Read MoreFor 1993, organisers of the DTM elected to adopt arguably the most radical regularity framework for production-based machinery since the Group 5 Silhouette era. Dubbed Class 1, the new rules…
Read MoreHaving won seven of the twelve events that made up 1982’s World Rally Championship and delivered that year’s Manufacturers’ crown, Audi replaced its original Quattro with significantly…
Read MoreHaving lost the pair of brand new Grifo A3/C Corsas assembled for 1965 in a pair of horrifying crashes at the season-opening Sebring 12 Hours, the works Iso outfit run by Giotto Bizzarrini was…
Read MorePorsche’s competitive endeavours with the 924 are perhaps best remembered for its high profile outings with the Carrera GT-based homologation special, arguably the most famous of which was…
Read MoreThe second iteration from Porsche’s fabled 908 line was conceived for the 1969 season in response to the FIA’s decision to relax aspects of the three-litre Group 6 Prototype regulations that concerned…
Read MoreHaving bought back production rights to the 924 (a car it had originally begun to develop for the Volkswagen Audi Group), Porsche subsequently created a significantly enhanced forced induction…
Read MoreHaving thundered around Le Mans with a pair of experimental GT40s running enormous seven-litre engines in 1965, Ford became convinced big block motors were the route to success at ultra high…
Read MoreAfter an enormously successful partnership with TAG Porsche that delivered three Driver and two Constructor titles between 1984 and ‘87, McLaren signed an engine supply deal with Honda for 1988.
Read MoreFollowing the untimely death of Colin Chapman in December 1982, Lotus recruited ex-Matra and Ligier designer Gerard Ducarouge to create a new line of F1 cars. Ducarouge arrived at a team in…
Read MoreHaving campaigned the two-litre V6-powered A440 and A441 with much success during the 1973 and ‘74 seasons, Renault’s Alpine subsidiary created a 2.2-litre turbocharged A442 for 1975 when the…
Read MoreFollowing its return to the World Rally Championship for the 1999 season, Peugeot quickly went on to break the stranglehold that Japanese manufacturers had imposed on the competition which…
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