Lancia LC2: the Ferrari-powered Italian that almost embarrassed Porsche at Le Mans June 1984. Le Mans. Saturday afternoon, final qualifying session. Bob Wollek climbs into a prototype wearing Martini Racing colours, heads out onto the Sarthe, and pulls a lap of 3:17.11. Eleven seconds faster than the quickest Porsche 956 from Joest Racing. Eleven. Seconds. … Read more
Volkswagen W12 Nardò: the supercar that was always a test rig If you watched Top Gear in the early 2000s, you remember the era. Clarkson worshipping the McLaren F1. May still mourning the death of the V12 Vantage. The Veyron was about to land like a meteor and rewrite everything we thought we knew about … Read more
The Ferrari that Ferrari didn’t build: the uncomfortable truth about the 333 SP Let’s get one thing straight before we go any further. When Ferrari came back to sports prototype racing in 1994 after twenty years of absolute silence, the car that restored their dignity wasn’t built in Maranello. It was built in Varano de’ … Read more
