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. …

Video: A celebration of 40 years of BMW M

The story of one of the most emotive letters in racing started 40 years ago with the BMW 3.0 CSL Coupé and BMW Motorsport GmbH. This video looks at 40 years of passion for BMW’s …

Video: Adrian Newey drives Leyton House March and 2009 Red Bull RB6

Red Bull Racing’s Chief Technical Officer Adrian Newey recently had the unique opportunity to get behind the wheel of two F1 cars, born twenty years apart. Both the 1990 Leyton House March and 2012 Red …

Retro Gear: 8380 Laboratories’ Can-Am ’73 Unbesiegt

“If you can make black marks on a straight from the time you turn out of a corner until the braking point of the next turn, then you have enough power.”

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