Aesthetics – The Corkscrew
The Corkscrew: perhaps the most famous turn in all of racing. For years, I've been attending races at the famed Laguna Seca circuit, and I've hiked the track's perimeter more times than I can count. ...
The Corkscrew: perhaps the most famous turn in all of racing. For years, I've been attending races at the famed Laguna Seca circuit, and I've hiked the track's perimeter more times than I can count. ...
Das Fest Nicht nur ein Porsche 917, sondern ein 917 KH, ein 917/10 und ein 917/30 Spyder, die wie selbstverständlich nebeneinander stehen. Dazu ihre damaligen Fahrer Richard Attwood und George Follme...
While standing trackside, with camera in hand, I often find myself musing on races of the past. What would it be like to be photographing those races decades ago? In the era when very little stood be...
Photo by the author. It was known that Mazda North America would not be renewing its 18-year naming rights sponsorship with California’s world-famous Laguna Seca racetrack, upon the completion of tha...
In 1979, a Kremer Porsche 935 K3 sat atop the podium at LeMans, and its success led to a growing interest in 1980. Kremer sold a number of cars to customers and packaged up kits to update old cars wi...
2017 Nitro Revival at Barona Drag Strip. Photo by Pam Conrad, courtesy Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. In 2017, a new event honoring vintage dragsters and the racers who piloted them came to the Barona Dr...
Trans-Am race cars have a menacing look to them that draws me in every time I come across them. I'm not often a muscle car guy, but the low-slung physique mated with aggressive air dams and meaty tir...
I distinctly remember saying to myself, sometime in high school, that I'd never understand how anyone could like the Fox Body Mustang. Both its predecessors and successors seemed to have something to...
Photo by RodrigoCruzatti. Fordlandia, Henry Ford’s failed attempt to create an American factory town in the jungles of Brazil, still counts a handful of residents squatting in the village’s houses, a...
For any race, half of the joy stems from wandering the paddocks. There is, of course, something to be said about the magic of cars screaming their way around the race track, but I also find a special...
Thirty million dollars is, by most measures, a fortune. It's far more than most of us will earn, cumulatively, in our lifetimes. In fact, that goes for you and a half-dozen of your closest friends, c...
The sheer bredth of cars at the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion is nothing short of breathtaking. From 1920s open-cockpit behemoths, to the fastest Group C prototypes from the mid 1980s, there's a...
Born in 1961, the Jaguar E-Type, or XK-E as it was sold to the American market, has grown into an automotive icon, holding a unique and nearly-impossible to dispute position as one of the most beauti...
Porsche's history in motorsports is a long one, laden with victories, achievements, and records that have arguably positioned them as the winningest manufacturer in history. The brand planted its rac...
There's a bread of racer out that that holds no reverence for the auction block values of cars. Instead, they strap into the harnessed seats of legendary race cars, bent on competition and the exhila...
The Porsche 911 is, in many ways, the quintessential sports car. Upon its introduction, the world of motoring was changed forever. Still, the 911 continues to help the world of motoring evolve, more ...
Early on a Thursday morning, before the sun had climbed up over the hills that surround downtown Los Angeles, Porsches converged to line the side streets of the Arts District. Outside of Magnus Walke...
Bill Kincaid is no stranger to racing. He's been a life-long fan of automobiles, and years of experience behind the wheel of formula cars has left him with both the skill and talent to navigate racet...