Archive for the ‘Sports Car’ Category
Casey Stoner has confirmed that he will, as expected, race on four wheels this year. The two-time MotoGP world champion has signed a one-year deal to race a Triple 8 Holden Commodore in the V8 Supercar Development Series.
The 27-year-old Australian denied reports last week that the deal, which has been rumored ever since he announced his retirement from motorcycle racing last May, had been signed. But he has now revealed  … More
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — The IndyCar series broke apart into two groups in 1996 and continued the rivalry for 13 years before unifying in 2008. While they finally resolved their issues of the costs of technology and the domination of a small group of powerful car owners, the series has yet to fully recover.
Ratings and attendance remain well below its heyday of 40 years ago when it reigned as the country’s No. 1 brand of motorsports.
Sports-car racing made a similar split in 1999. And like IndyCars, it  … More
More often than not, classic car owners deliberate whether to use their cars as daily drivers or keep them as garage queens. Why can’t one car be everything? Black Beauty, Jack Olsen’s Porsche 911 RSR, gets the royal treatment in The 12-Gauge Garage, but it also proudly wears rubber on the street and the track.
Jack built an enviable shop out of a suburban, two-car garage and worked on it until its engineering, design, and function matched that of the Black Beauty, a Porsche through and through.