Renowned Concours d’Elegance brings out a moveable feast of rare and wonderful historic automobiles; full report and 410-shot photo galleries.
The annual Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance is traditionally the final and most important event of a week packed with collector-car happenings on the Monterey Peninsula. The 61st edition had an entry of 227 cars and motorcycles divided in both the familiar classes as well as several special classes to celebrate this year’s featured themes. Among them were the centenary of Stutz, 125 Years of the Automobile and the 50th anniversary of the Ferrari 250 GTOÂ Â …Â Pictures and more
The world is an oddly serene place when you’re streaking across the salt at 400 mph.
You’ve wrestled your car, if that term applies to a 2,000-horsepower missile, into something approaching submission. The skull-rattling, vision-blurring vibration smoothed out somewhere around 300 mph, so you can see clearly again. It’s still a rough ride — you are moving 586 feet per second, after all — and noisy as hell. But, like the eye of a storm, it’s eerily calm.
“It’s very loud, but it’s very quiet because you’re tuned in,â€Â   … Pictures and more
Bonneville Speed Week 2010: THE RUN, Feat. the Spectre Performance SpeedLiner
The Mercedes GP team has helped a 14-year-old kid get a new prosthetic limb that has already been successfully fitted.
Matthew James, a fan of the Formula 1 team, was born without a left hand, but decided to write a letter to Mercedes boss Ross Brawn, explaining that his target was to be able to afford a functional prosthetic arm created by Touch Bionics, provider of advanced prosthetic technologies.
His outspoken comments and motoring expertise have helped make him one of the BBC’s highest-paid stars.
But it has now been claimed that many of the scenes filmed by Top Gear star Jeremy Clarkson are actually performed by professional drivers.
Sources say a large proportion of the stunts on the BBC2 series which appear to show Clarkson careering around the show’s racetrack at high speed are actually executed by professional racing drivers hired by the BBC  … Pictures and more