URBAN OUTLAW is a portrait of Magnus Walker, the rebel Porsche customizer who turned a hobby into an obsession, and an obsession into a successful business. From a workshop in downtown Los Angeles, Magnus obsessively harvests fragments from donor 911s, grafting them onto vintage frames to create one-off automobiles with the spirit of Ferdinand Porsche but an ethos entirely his own.
The machine you see here is Nico Rosberg’s 2012 Mercedes AMG F1 W03, a carbon-fiber monster with a naturally aspirated 18,000-rpm V-8 producing over 700 bhp. Amazingly, that engine isn’t the W03’s most impressive feature. Like all modern F1 cars, the Mercedes is both defined and dominated by its aerodynamic aids.
Topside, Rosberg’s car uses multi-element wings to produce downforce, but peer underneath and you’ll find  … More
For as much as she’s tried to keep a positive outlook, Danica Patrick admitted her first full season of NASCAR education hasn’t been easy.
“Oh, yeah. There’s only so much of it you can take before you start to get a little down,” Patrick told USA TODAY Sports at Kansas Speedway. “I recognize that I’m learning a lot and putting myself in difficult situations on purpose. I’m fortunate that the people around me are patient.”   … More
Technology that has been instrumental in Indy car racing for two decades will be applied to a USA Luge training sled with the goal of striking gold at the 2014 Winter Olympics.
An informal conversation between Panther Racing director of technology David Cripps and USA Luge officials during the IZOD IndyCar Series race weekend at Belle Isle in June evolved into development ideas and collaboration on the project of installing on-board telemetry on  … More