Wow, what a ride it has been. This will be my final editorial, and it's only now dawning on me how far we've come over the past year and a half. It has been truly amazing, however it's time to let someone else have a steer. Although I didn't know it at the time, it was this post back [...]
Every now and then we publish blogs from our readers, such as Amaury Laparra’s photographer’s blog and road trip through the South of France. Currently studying Design and Architecture in Paris, Amaury likes to spend his off time photographing cars. In particular, Amaury has a love for the cars of yesteryear; and for this guest [...]
Over the weekend there were numerous reports speculating that California's Irwindale Speedway had been closed. Sadly, those rumours appear to be true. This afternoon, the management of Irwindale Speedway released a one sentence statement confirming that the 2012 racing season has been cancelled. No further details regarding the long term future of the famous 1/2- [...]
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Following the unveiling of the TS030 HYBRID, Toyota have announced the remaining drivers for their two car attack on the Le Mans 24 Hours. Joining Hiroaki Ishiura will be two former F1 drivers in Anthony Davidson and Sebastien Buemi. Davidson was without a drive since Peugeot's exit from endurance prototype racing, while Buemi was recently dropped by [...]
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The Australian Touring Car Championship was an old stomping ground of Nissan's R32 Skyline GT-R; a car that local media quickly dubbed Godzilla. However it's utter domination of the ATCC series came to an end in 1993 when the governing body changed its Class A regulations. The GT-R was outlawed, paving the way for an exclusive Ford [...]
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During last year's World Time Attack Challenge I bumped into Andrew Brilliant, a well known aerodynamicist from Yokohama, Japan. Andrew has developed aero for not only high profile time attack cars, but also for Super GT, GRAND-AM Rolex and American Le Mans. One of his recent projects caught our attention: this impressive, all-carbon bodied Evo known as Nemo. [...]
One down, eleven to go. And as is customary here at Speedhunters, we’ll kick off a new month with a look at what’s in store. For February we’ve decided to focus on Game Changers; cars that sparked trends, rewrote the rulebook or rocked their sport. We’ll be taking a look through various car cultures to uncover [...]
My name’s Amaury Laparra and since an early age I've been a huge automotive fan. Although I study architecture and design here in Paris, my passion for cars has only grown more intense. I've been taking photos of landscapes since I was four or five years old, but as soon as I got a DLSR I [...]
The first 2012 Formula 1 car has been leaked on Twitter. Ahead of its official unveiling in the next issue of F1 Racing magazine, the Caterham team (formerly the Malaysian-owned Team Lotus) popped this teaser photo of the CT01 on Twitter. The next F1 car launch will be McLaren's next Wednesday. – Charles Kha Caterham F1's [...]
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