Air|Water: On Four Wheels, But in Full Flight!
The Air|Water extravaganza – which is not a trade show, or a race event, or a concours ‘d Elegance, or conference, or an auction – is a little bit of all of those – with...
RACING CULTURE
Racing in the Slipstream of the Legends
Article by Ben Kuhl. Driving a vintage racecar, at its core, is an expression of passion toward a sport that came long before us and will continue eons past our mortal existence. What amplifies that...
Touching the Soul of Shelby
“I’m just a poor chicken farmer from east Texas who loves cars and airplanes,” was Carroll Shelby’s oft-quoted statement throughout a lifetime of racing and car-building successes. True to form, the American iconoclast who burst...
The Glory of SPA and its Greatest American F1 Victory
Back in the day, Spa was a winding 15km thread of street tarmac that cut a triangular swath between the villages of Francorchamps, Malmedy and Stavelot; a flat-out blast through the countryside and pine forests...
CORNERING: Carving vs Driving Your Line
It’s a fair assumption that most racers and high performance drivers have a good basic idea of visualizing and executing the prescribed line through a turn. But is it the most efficient line? And is...
Feeling Fast vs Being Fast
The year was 1964, I was 23, and my daily driver was a 1960 Triump TR3. Playing in the rain and on dirt, I fashioned myself as quite adept at sliding through turns and smoothly...