A very special Throwback Thursday Theater as we wish a happy birthday to the legendary Gordon Murray. We look back at Murray’s crowning achievement, the 1995 24 Hours of Le Mans where his F1 supercar beat the prototypes to claim a historic victory. Here is a video of the man himself telling us the story of this amazing part of motorsport history. Enjoy.Read More

File this one in the saving the best for last of the 2015 PPIHC (Pike’s Peak International Hill Climb) announcements. Perennially underrated IndyCar ace Justin Wilson is making his first trip to the mountain to drive Wirth Research and HPD’s abandoned LMP2 project, the ferocious looking ARX-04b. After problematic development and winter testing, Extreme Speed Motorsports raced the ARX-04b in the TUSC season opening Rolex 24 at Daytona only for ESM to replace it with it’s predecessor and then a Ligier JS P2 for the remaining Tudor and WEC racesRead More

Combining revolutionary monocoque construction and cutting edge aerodynamics led to a Le Mans threepeat in the mid 1950’s. 1954 – 1957 24 Hour of Le Mans Winner 1955, 1956, 1957 Designed by Malcolm Sayer Campaigned by Jaguar, Ecurie Ecosse, Cunningham The Jaguar D-Type was among the last great front engined prototypes to conquer Le Mans. Designed by expert aerodynamicist Malcolm Sayer it replaced Jaguar’s venerable C-Type which had won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1951 and 1953. The D-Type was a clear step forward and a radical departureRead More

For this week’s episode of Throwback Thursday Theater we take you back to Le Mans, way back to the 1977 race with this awesome qualifying footage onboard the legendary Porsche 936. Enjoy.  Read More

With the greatest weekend of the year nearly upon us, we take a look back at the 1965 Monaco Grand Prix in this week’s Throwback Thursday Theater. A race dominated by Mr. Monaco himself, Graham Hill, who won over Lorenzo Bandini by over a minute and nearly three minutes over Jackie Stewart in third. Enjoy.Read More

May for so many reasons is like Christmas for the racing community and it all culminates when the Monaco Grand Prix, Indy 500 and Coke 600 celebrate the pinnacle of our sport. Not to be forgotten however is perhaps the most glamorous of car shows, held that same weekend every year on the shore of Italy’s beautiful lake Como, the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa D’este. For this week’s Throwback Thursday Theater, here are nearly 30 minutes of last years show and a rare glimpse at some of the most historic andRead More

There are more than 392 options to find the optimal setup for 2016 MX-5 Cup racecar. Mazda rolled out a pair of engineering development models of the 2016 Mazda MX-5 Cup racecar for testing at Mazda Raceway on Thursday. As a part of the development process, the cars will be tested in public on the first test day of all remaining race weekends during the 2015 MX-5 Cup season. Mazda SKYACTIV prototype racer Tom Long, who has raced in, and won with, all three previous generation MX-5 Miatas, will leadRead More

What is the 2016 Global Mazda MX-5 Cup series?     The next generation 2016 Mazda MX-5 Miata will be raced in a new Global Cup series slated to be held in North America, Europe, and Asia; full details of the Global MX-5 Cup will be announced as they are confirmed. The series will culminate at the end of 2016 with a Global Shootout at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey, California, to crown the Global MX-5 Cup overall series champion. A one-day test in Mazda’s top-level TUDOR United SportsCar Championship SKYACTIV prototypeRead More

The Spanish Grand Prix is the next round of the F1 circus and marks the series spring time return to Europe. For this week’s Throwback Thursday Theater we take a look at the first race at the Catalunya circuit with highlights of the 1991 race. Enjoy.Read More