Motorhead hosted their first Hill Climb event held on the winding stretch of road that makes up the amazing Mazda Turnpike located on Hakone mountain. This special event played host to a wide range of racing machines from Super GT to classic race cars along with a high powered drift machine all with the sole intentions of attacking these fast paced, dangerous road.
Archive for the ‘Sports Car’ Category
A Formula 1 driver, a two-time CART series winner, an innovator, an athlete, a gold-medal winner at the Paralympics, but above all, a man with a true champion’s attitude. He is a great character, who can talk for ages, and he is a person who has never understood what quitting is. Many sportsmen and women fall short of even getting close to the things which Alessandro Zanardi has achieved in his long sporting career.
Such is the long list of his accomplishments. He started his career as a racing driver, but an on-track accident, because of which he lost both legs, changed his life forever. But, this didn’t stop him from being competitive, and most importantly, didn’t stop him to live … More
Porsche 911 Engine Plant, Assembly Line Zuffenhausen
Manifestations of the 911’s hairiest days.
A Porsche 935 is basically all engine.
It is all engine, and then some more engine, and then more engine after that. You open the rear lid and think, No. This is wrong. That’s a dishwasher, maybe, or a particularly randy sump pump. It does not look capable of motion. It looks capable of pumping out your basement.
Only it moves. It is an air-cooled, twin-turbo, mechanically injected six-cylinder originally drawn up by a bunch of obsessive Germans … More