The Maserati Brothers Who Quit Maserati to Avoid Building Road Cars — Then Put Their Engine in a Fiat Here’s a question worth chewing on. What do you do when you’ve built one of the most famous names in motoring, sold it, and then legally lost the right to ever use your own surname on … Read more
Mercedes W196: The Machine That Thought Like Fangio This site told you about the man. Now it’s time for the machine. When this site covered Fangio, the line was that he made the car good, that he didn’t depend on the machine, that the talent lived in him. And it’s true. But it would be … Read more
Fangio: The Man Who Won With His Head When the BBC or Sky pundits reach for a yardstick of greatness, they tend to say a modern champion is “the best since Fangio.” Not since Senna, not since Clark. Since Fangio. The name has become the floor of the conversation, the bedrock figure every other great … Read more
SLR Stirling Moss: The Goodbye That Beat Everyone by a Decade Some cars close a chapter. A rare few close it so well that, without meaning to, they open the next one. The SLR Stirling Moss is one of those. It’s the final page of a story this site has been telling in instalments. The … Read more
Stirling Moss: The Champion Who Chose Not to Be One Ask any British kid of a certain age what their dad said when a copper pulled him over for speeding, and you’ll get the same answer: “Who do you think you are, Stirling Moss?” Not Hawthorn. Not Fangio. Not Hamilton, decades later. Moss. The name … Read more
Mercedes SLR 722: The SLR That Finally Stopped Arguing With Itself There is a clip somewhere of Chris Harris talking about the SLR McLaren, and you can see the conflict on his face. He respects the car. He just can’t quite love it. And he’s not alone. For years the SLR was the supercar nobody … Read more
The Aston Martin DBR1 That Won Le Mans Costs Less Than the One That Lost The Aston Martin DBR1 lived in five near-identical examples: same shape, same engine, built by the same hands in the same English works months apart. Brothers in green. And something happened between them that doesn’t add up until you understand … Read more
Maserati 250F: The Most Beautiful Car to Ever Win a War Denis Jenkinson, the great Motor Sport correspondent who rode shotgun with Stirling Moss to win the 1955 Mille Miglia, did not hand out praise cheaply. He had watched everything the 1950s had to offer. And of one particular afternoon at the Nürburgring he wrote … Read more
Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR: The Silver Monologue Nobody Could Answer Some cars win races. Some make history. And then there’s the Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR, which did both in the same season and then walked away forever. No farewell tour. No victory lap. A clean slam of the door that left the motorsport world speechless and sick … Read more
Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren: The Supercar Born from an “Impossible Marriage” Imagine putting a German engineer obsessed with luxury and a British engineer obsessed with performance at the same table. Tell them they have to build a car together. Give them an unlimited budget and four years. What comes out of that meeting is the Mercedes-Benz … Read more
