Former F1 driver Alex Zanardi claimed his third Paralympic handcycling gold medal on Wednesday after triumphing in the H5 time trial in Rio de Janeiro.
The 49-year-old, who made 41 Grand Prix starts in the Nineties, beat Australia’s Stuart Tripp to the gold by just 2.74s, despite being 10s behind at the halfway point of the 20km course.
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… Motorsport rulemakers make the rules, engineers find ways to stretch those rules to the absolute limit, and then rulemakers get mad. Fans love it, but when the banhammer comes down, it comes down hard.
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F1 driver Daniel Ricciardo and his mates explored the entire city of LA from east to west; including some killer Mexican food, dope lowriders, classic cars and an incredible canyon drive in some sweet sports cars.
Though the current F1 fleet sport a turbocharged, 1.6-liter V6 motor, they’re a far cry from the absurdity of early and mid-eighties turbo cars. Nowadays, the electric motor helps generate a linear power delivery, which is better harnessed by modern tires and a paddle-shifted gearbox. Thirty years ago, the turbo cars were more violent, more prone to self-destruct, capable of shredding gears without any real provocation, and much, much smaller. Observing the front … More