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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.
This weekend the four-time Formula 1 world champion will not be racing in Formula 1. He will be at the Nordschleife, driving a Red Bull-liveried Mercedes-AMG GT3 around the most demanding 25.378-kilometre stretch of tarmac on Earth, for 24 hours,…
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"V8 is coming." Three words from Mohammed Ben Sulayem in Miami at the weekend, and the entire premise…
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Colin Chapman died in 1982, aged 54, before most of the people who now cite his influence were…
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Three hits. That's what it took to turn Chaz Mostert from reigning Supercars champion into the most uncomfortable…
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On Monday evening, following an online summit between the FIA, team principals, power unit manufacturers and Formula One…
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Jason Plato spent the better part of a decade being asked if he would ever start his own…
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The Porsche 956 is one of the most successful racing cars ever built. It won Le Mans outright…
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