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
Nissan R390 GT1: the race car Nissan had to fit with headlights and a number plate to be allowed to run at Le Mans If you were a manufacturer in the late nineties and you wanted to win Le Mans in the GT1 category — the one that actually won the race overall — you … 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
