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.
The McLaren P1â„¢ was unveiled to the world as a design study at the Paris Motor Show in September 2012, and was met with the glare of a thousand camera flashes. Since then, development of the technology beneath the carbon fibre skin has continued at great pace. The team at McLaren Automotive has continued the relentless testing programme for the car. The goal being: to produce the best driver’s car in the world on road and track.
Burning questions ahead of this weekend’s 51st incarnation of the endurance racing classic…
What are the prospects of a repeat win for MSR?
The 2012 Rolex 24 at Daytona was a dream for Michael Shank Racing, with AJ Allmendinger delivering the drive of his life to hold off Starworks Motorsport’s Ryan Dalziel and earn the eponymous team owner a popular first Daytona victory.