Celebrating 50 years of the Ford GT40, 50 years of Lamborghini, 50 years of the Porsche 911, 50 years of the Corvette Stingray, and Ducati motorcycles.
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When the 27th annual Historic Motorsports Festival returns to Sonoma Raceway this weekend, it will celebrate the 60th anniversary of the legendary Corvette, the popular sports car created by Chevrolet in 1953.
“Corvette will be the center of attention as we salute those who have established the marquee’s place in motorsports history,” said Steve Earle, president of General Racing, Ltd., which organized the event. “From its introduction in 1953 and the bold first steps into … More
Thomas Flohr, the chairman and sole shareholder of Swiss-based private plane company VistaJet, just bought $8 billion worth of new planes from Bombardier Bombardier Ask him about it–the largest single transaction in the history of that aircraftmaker–and he’ll give you a matter-of-fact answer. But bring up the prospect of spending more than a week bouncing over 3,000 miles of rocks, sand, mud and grass, with snakes, lions, heatstroke and wind exposure thrown in for good measure, and he lights up. “Racing is in my fingertips,” he says over lunch in Montreal. “It’s my passion.”
The object of his passion is the East African Safari Classic Rally, which he terms … More