Ford Mustang GTD Competition: Ford’s blow at the Nordschleife Six minutes. Forty seconds. Eight hundred and thirty-five thousandths. 6:40.835. Read it slow, because this isn’t going to live long in the papers before someone breaks it, but as I write this it’s the absolute fastest time an American street-legal car has ever registered at the … Read more
Ford Mustang GT3: the wild horse at Le Mans June 2024. Circuit de la Sarthe. Centennial of the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Twenty-four cars line up on the LMGT3 grid. Porsche 911s. Ferrari 296s. Aston Martin Vantages. BMW M4s. McLaren Arturas. Corvette Z06s. Mercedes-AMG GTs. Lexus RC Fs. Mid-engine cars. Rear-engine cars. Mid-rear-engine cars. … Read more
Ford Mustang GTD: the Mustang that wasn’t supposed to exist Three hundred and twenty-eight thousand dollars. For a Mustang. Read it again. No typo. A Ford Mustang costs, today, more than a Porsche 911 GT3 RS. More than a base McLaren 750S. More than an Aston Martin Vantage did not long ago. And the guy … Read more
Ken Block: the man who invented a genre and gave it away January 2, 2023. Mill Hollow, Wasatch County, Utah. A snowmobile flips backward on a steep slope and lands on top of the man riding it. He’s alone at that moment. By the time search and rescue reach him, there’s nothing to be done. … Read more
