After we got that amazing photo of Jackie Stewart at the 1970 Spanish Grand Prix our research led us to this fascinating highlights package of the race. It has a bit of everything, typical F1 politics messing around with qualifying, a fiery accident, close racing and a runaway winner thanks to a high rate of [...]
Following yesterday’s preview, here is the full version of the Desert Nemesis short film, featuring the Nissan Juke-R. It runs for about six minutes and the official intro reads: The film, which is reminiscent of the ‘Need for Speed’ movies, Desert Nemesis follows GT Academy winner Lucas Ordóñez as he takes the one-off Juke-R to [...]
Chris Harris has just filed a video that must remind him, and certainly us, what a lucky sod he is sometimes. Never mind he has awoken his own Porsche 911 GT3 RS 4.0 from its winter slumber to take part in this three-piece fantasy; the other two cars are just as fine and just as [...]
The video you’re about to see takes us back to a world before the six-point safety harness. Indeed helmets seem optional and the creator of the HANS device would have been laughed out of town. Some of the footage is shocking, some of it genuinely amazing—that people got up and walked away from some of [...]
Motor racing returned to Bathurst over Easter and even though it was a few weeks ago now we’d be remiss not to bring you this video. You see, Chris Gilmour, a Formula 3 driver from Queensland, set a new official lap record around Mount Panorama in Bathurst. Gilmour finished second at the race meeting, but [...]
With thanks to Tasmania’s Southern Cross TV we can bring you this excellent in-car comparison from Targa Tasmania. On top of screen is Jason White in a Lamborghini Gallardo, below is Matt Close in an Audi TT RS. At the time, White was leading the event in Modern outright and Close was in third place. [...]
The Ariel Atom V8 has 475bhp and weighs less than 600kg. The Noble M600 has 650bhp and tips the scales around the 1200kg mark. They’re some healthy ingredients for some seriously healthy speed. Driving what is little more than a chassis with an engine and four wheels, the Atom V8 is sure to be exhilarating [...]
You might think a video comparing a 2013 Nissan GT-R Black Edition with a 997 Porsche 911 Turbo S would be pretty entertaining. Especially when you consider the test involves some stunning mountain roads before a balls out drag race on an empty airfield. Well, we’re not so sure. Take a look at Jonny Lieberman’s [...]
The 1965 Lotus 38, powered by a 500hp Ford V8, was the first mid-engine car to win the Indianapolis 500. Adding to its provenance immeasurably is the fact the great Jim Clark was the man at the wheel that day. While this exploded view showing the 38 is hundreds of individual parts is spectacular to [...]
We stumbled across these videos featuring all-round motoring legend Walter Röhrl. Of course he talks a lot about Porsches (he’s at the wheel of a 997 GT3), but you may be surprised to learn Walter is not too shy to point out an interesting horse when he sees one. The clips are a few years [...]
Andy Frost. Red Victor. Those names ring a bell? They’re the central characters in the transformation of a 1972 Vauxhall Victor from family car to drag strip phenomenon. You may recall Fifth Gear did a story on Red Victor 1 back in 2007 (see original story after the break). Back then it made do with [...]
A new video has been posted to YouTube with the title “Robert Kubica returns after his accident at Ronde di Andora!” For those playing at home that’s the same event he was competing in when he had his original crash last year. As recently as last month former F1 driver Jaime Alguersuari expressed doubts over [...]
In the early stages of Sebastien Loeb’s WRC career he ran a few races in a Toyota Corolla. After the break you can enjoy a short and sweet clip from 2000 showing the, then, young French starlet forging a career that would go on to become superior to all those to have gone before him.
En route to film his latest piece for Drive, Chris Harris shares with the viewer his reasons for buying a modest diesel-powered Volkswagen Passat Estate. A bit later in the film he reveals the recipe for the driving he enjoys the most. As it turns out it’s a Porsche 911—no real surprise there—but it’s not [...]
Fifth Gear luminary Tiff Needell moonlights for Evo in his latest track comparison. His weapons of choice are the MY12 Nissan GT-R and the 991 Porsche 911 Carrera S. Nissan v Porsche, it’s the Ford v Holden of the supercar world. In many respects it’s an astonishing question to ask, but can the 394bhp normally [...]