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Motorsport is where the automotive industry’s best ideas get stress-tested at speed until either the idea survives or the car doesn’t. It is also where manufacturers spend extraordinary sums of money proving things that are, occasionally, completely irrelevant to the cars they actually sell. Cars & Code covers motorsport through an enthusiast lens — the history, the engineering stories, the moments where racing changed road cars, and the occasions where it very obviously didn’t. No race-by-race results. Just the stories worth telling.
A week ago I wrote about Kimi Antonelli becoming the youngest Monaco Grand Prix winner in F1 history while Lewis Hamilton, finishing second, told him: "You're catching me up." Seven days later, in Barcelona, Hamilton drove the Ferrari that had…
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Nineteen years, nine months, thirteen days. That's the age at which Andrea Kimi Antonelli became the youngest Monaco…
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The year is 1980. You are a World Rally Championship competitor. You have spent years developing your rear-wheel…
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On the morning of Saturday 14 June, at Circuit de la Sarthe, 62 cars will line up for…
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On Wednesday afternoon, in a press release written largely in the language of luxury rather than the language…
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With three and a half hours left at the Nürburgring on Sunday afternoon, Dani Juncadella was two laps…
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This weekend the four-time Formula 1 world champion will not be racing in Formula 1. He will be…
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