Drivers, designers, engineers, founders…The people who shaped motorsport ando those changing it now. No protocol.
Wifredo Ricart: The Spanish Engineer Who Made Ferrari Happen… Without Even Trying A kid from Barcelona, born in 1897. A guy who graduated in industrial engineering before turning 21. A man who designed racing cars with double overhead cams and 16 valves when most manufacturers didn’t even know those words. A Spaniard who walked into … Read more
GIANPAOLO DALLARA: THE ENGINEER WHO CHOSE A GARAGE IN PARMA OVER A DESK IN MARANELLO The first note Enzo Ferrari left on his desk read “Più ordinato, per favore.” Tidier, please. Handwritten in the purple ink the Commendatore used for everything. It was December 1959. Gianpaolo Dallara had just left university and just walked into … Read more
MARCELLO GANDINI: THE GENIUS BERTONE NEVER LET SIGN HIS OWN CARS At sixteen, they gave him money to buy a Latin textbook. He bought a combustion engine manual written by Dante Giacosa instead. That act of rebellion defines everything that followed. Because Marcello Gandini wasn’t born to study what he was told. He was born … Read more
Barreiros: The Spanish Mechanic Who Beat the British, Defied Franco and Ended Up Building Engines for Fidel Castro The black Dodge 3700 GT rolls up Claudio Coello Street at half past nine in the morning. December 20, 1973. Three men inside. The driver, José Luis Pérez Mogena. The bodyguard, police inspector Juan Antonio Bueno Fernández. … Read more
Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus: Le Mans’ Last Privateer From Hollywood to Sleepy Hollow: Who Is Jim Glickenhaus Before he ever put a car on the Le Mans grid, Jim Glickenhaus had put Jackie Chan in front of a camera. Born in New York City on July 24, 1950, raised in New Rochelle, Glickenhaus directed, wrote, and … Read more
Sabine Schmitz: The Queen of the Green Hell Over 30,000 laps of the Nordschleife. Two outright victories at the Nürburgring 24 Hours. A Ford Transit van pushing the 10-minute barrier at the most dangerous circuit on Earth. And a driver who never needed anyone to hand her anything. Born Inside the Circuit Some drivers discover … Read more
Carroll Shelby: The Chicken Farmer with a Borrowed Heart Who Humiliated Ferrari His Los Angeles Times obituary summed him up in a single sentence: “He raced cars. He had a heart transplant from a Las Vegas gambler in 1990 and a kidney transplant from a son in 1996. He was married seven times.” That sentence … Read more
Lotus and Colin Chapman: The Engineer Who Proved Light Beats Powerful “Simplify, then add lightness.” If you had to compress the entire philosophy of automotive engineering into five words, those would be it. They weren’t spoken by a professor or a CEO with an MBA. They came from Colin Chapman — a British engineer who … Read more
Life Is a Gift — The Story of María de Villota, the Spanish Woman Who Broke Every Barrier in Motorsport and Paid With Her Life There are stories that aren’t told to fill a feed. They’re told because if they’re not told, we deserve them a little less. María de Villota Comba. Madrid, Spain. January … Read more
De Tomaso: The Argentinian Who Built Italy’s Most Underrated Supercar Empire De Tomaso: The Argentine Who Humbled Ferrari with Ford Power There are brands that are born to last. And there are brands that are born to burn everything down. De Tomaso belongs firmly in the second category. An Italian company founded by an Argentine, … Read more
Jeff Gordon: The California Kid NASCAR Loved to Hate and Couldn’t Stop Admiring NASCAR had a problem with Jeff Gordon. Not because he was bad. Because he was too good in the wrong way. He was young in a sport of veterans. He was Californian in a sport rooted in the Deep South. He was … Read more
Dale Earnhardt: The Intimidator Who Died Protecting His Son on the Final Lap at Daytona There are names in sport that transcend numbers. Names that mean something deeper than victories and championships. Names that divide the history of a sport into a before and an after. Dale Earnhardt is that name for NASCAR. 76 victories. … Read more
