I'm sitting in the pressroom at Fuji Speedway right now as the Toyota Gazoo Racing Festival comes to a close. There is a mouthwatering lineup of Toyota's Super GT and Formula Nippon race cars parked along the straight, an amazing sight to say the least. However despite the appeal of this yearly event it was [...]
Eleven months ago at the Tokyo Auto Salon, we showcased what the top Japanese car builders had to offer the world. Then just a few weeks back, we were treated to the automotive delights of the American SEMA show. And now it's time for the Europeans to display their wares. Welcome to the Essen Motor [...]
The entire rallycross community has been working hard recently to put itself back on the map. When I was much younger, rallycross was one of the most popular motorsports around with fantastic live coverage on BBC’s Grandstand show. Names like Schanche and Hansen were synonymous with the incredibly exciting racing. In 2010, rallycross became an [...]
What do you do when you have a fully-built and specced engine ready to go, but the rest of the car isn’t finished? Find another rolling shell to put it into, of course! This is Mike ‘Boxxer’ Bradley’s road-legal, 1980 Ford Escort Mk2 four-door, built for drifting, track days and general messing about. It might [...]
Interlagos, Sao Paulo, Brazil. The scene of so many classic racing encounters, and for me an almost mystical place – a legendary venue the other side of the world from me that I never expected to have the chance to see, but was lucky enough to visit a year ago for the penultimate round of [...]
Over the past few years I’ve lost count of how many drag races and drag cars I’ve photographed, but I’ve always been meaning to shoot one that was Australian born. That changed when I visited Mercury Motorsport, where I came across this stunning 1981 VC Commodore. Purchased two years ago by John Desmond, this Commodore is no [...]
Close your eyes for a moment and see if you can visualize the number 1,000,000. That's not too hard right? But now try and visualize one million people. That's a little too hard isn't it? I for one have a hard time grasping how a million of anything would appear, but we know that around [...]
To me the Mercedes Black Series is one of the most hardcore vehicles on the road. They excel in performance and handling. To top it all off, they also look amazing on the road and on the track. But there are always people who try and improve on something that is already ‘perfect'. After seeing [...]
It’s almost hard to believe that the humble MKII Escort has been around for thirty six years already. I don’t think anyone could have had quite imagined the impact the car would have on the motoring world when it launched. Its simplicity has lended itself to help the Escort become one of the greatest rally [...]
Imai-san at Bee Racing noticed I was drooling over the shiny blue S15 Silvia sitting in the middle of his workshop during my last visit there. It’s not every day that you come across a car like this, a project that someone has obviously poured a lot of time and effort into. If you sum [...]
Global Time Attack finished it’s inaugural season with a bang this past week at one of the most beautiful tracks in North America, Infineon Raceway. In total seven records were broken. One of them now belongs to Team Need for Speed driver, Chris Rado, who beat the previous front wheel drive time attack record by [...]
I originally spotted Rafael Duarte's awesome looking '72 Ford Maverick out of Florida when it was posted on the Enkei Wheels Facebook page. I have to say the RPF1 is much like the TE37 in that it looks good on just about anything, including this tough little Ford. -Mike Garrett
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