Lola T70: the crash-test dummy that beat Porsche and Ford Watch the famous crash scene in Steve McQueen’s Le Mans one more time — the Gulf Porsche 917 that peels off the racing line, slaps the Armco, sheds bodywork and keeps bouncing down the straight like a pinball ball with a death wish, iconic, cinematic, … Read more
Chaparral 2C and 2E: the car that drove the air with its left foot Bridgehampton, Long Island. September 1966. Practice for the second-ever round of the brand-new Can-Am championship. Bruce McLaren walks across the paddock and stops in front of the Chaparral pit. He stares at the white car parked in front of the truck. … Read more
McLaren: Sixty Years of Building Cars That Hurt, From a Limp in Auckland to the Top of Formula 1 Top Gear’s Chris Harris once said that the McLaren F1 is the only road car that has ever genuinely scared him. Not in the way a Lamborghini Diablo scares you with its switches and its truculence, … Read more
Jim Hall: the Texan who understood the air while everyone else stared at the engine If you walk into the Permian Basin Petroleum Museum in Midland, Texas, you’ll find oil derricks, rock samples and a hall full of dinosaurs. You’ll also find, almost by accident, the most important collection of racing cars built in America. … Read more
