Video: Retromobile Classic Car show

A snapshot from the recent Retromobile car show from Paris
 
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Illustration: 1971 Formula 1 Grid

Check this cool illustration of the 1971 F1 grid. You can see a high res version below.
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Illustration: Ferrari 312S

Flat V12
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Top Five of 2012: Motorsport Art

Retro Art: Ricardo Santos

These brilliant artworks come from Ricardo Santos; Portuguese art director and graphic designer, and one of the design team responsible for the World’s Best-Designed Newspaper, jornal i, as judged by the Society for News Design in 2010.
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“The fastest thing about the monocoque Lotus is Jimmy Clark”: Ron Tauranac

The headline to this story has been attributed again and again to Ron Tauranac, designer of early Brabham Formula 1 cars. He may or may not have spoken those exact words, but his actions certainly …

The Magic Racing Car Models of Alistair Brookman

“My name is Alistair Brookman and I make 1:12 scale fully hand-built model Grand Prix Ferraris.”
From the humblest beginnings can come the most extraordinary things.

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The Awesome Automotive Art of Alex Wakefield

Motorsport is a very visual, evokative thing. All bright colours, beautiful shapes and kinetic energy.
And the most compelling motorsport art gets this. It aims to capture much more than a representative image of what happened …

French Flair: The Brief But Extraordinary History of Matra International

Image: Cahier Archive
It all began casually enough. Ken Tyrrell, whose eponymously named racing team would become a major force in 1970s Formula 1 competition, was in Paris attending the 1965 Trophees de France prize-giving ceremony. …