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The Thomas Sommer Superfinds Collection

Adapted from the book SuperFinds by Michael Kliebenstein Although he is an accomplished businessman and has given his name in sponsorship to his local Bundesliga football stadium, Thomas Sommer ten...

Goodwood Speedweek 2020

It was Goodwood but not as we know it!  It was great to be back at the finest historic motoring racing circuit in the world but it was mighty strange that the place was eerily lacking in spectat...

250 SWB Revival - recreating a legend

By Stewart Longhurst Photos courtesy GTO Engineering As David Wheeler pointed out in his latest book Ferrari 250 GTE - the family car that funded racing, nearly two hundred Ferrari 250 GTE chassis...

Ferrari 250 GTE: Author's Introduction

By David Wheeler (Adapted from Ferrari 250 GTE - The family car that funded the racing) It is well known that Enzo Ferrari had little interest in his road cars and is quoted as saying, ‘I have, in ...

A Selection of Early Gordon Murray Sketches

Above: Gordon Murray's initial sketches of potential spaceframe arrangements with one (of 6 September 1989) showing the first incarnation of the final Rocket body shape. Sketches copyright Gordon ...

Gordon Murray's Fan Club

By Stewart Longhurst Not content to sit back and reflect on a stellar design career in Formula One and McLaren Cars, Professor Gordon Murray CBE and his eponymous automotive company GMA have recent...

Rocket - In Gordon Murray's words

So far in my automotive career, I have designed upwards of 50 cars but the Rocket stands out as a very important and personal design for many reasons. Firstly, Chris and I had been talking about do...

Michael‘s SuperFinds: The mysterious racer

By Michael Kliebenstein   When I was researching cars in Italy for a client, I got a call from my friend Paolo telling me that he had seen a very mysterious race car in Vicenza. The mystery being ...

BRM P167 Can-Am

By Ian Wagstaff First published in http://dailysportscar.com/ My first sight of the BRM P167 Can-Am car had been at Hockenheim in 1971. Having lapped virtually the whole Interserie field, Brian Red...

The turbine-powered IndyCar you’ve never heard of

The 1960s witnessed a seismic shift in how IndyCars were designed. The front-engined Roadsters were on borrowed time the moment Jack Brabham and the Cooper Car Company rocked up for the 1961 runnin...