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Porsche Experience Center Le Mans – The Ultimate Automotive Roller Coaster

An amusement park is all about the experience. Regardless of age, the rides and the music and the food and the games and the peals of laughter make it...

Maximizing a McLaren Morning at Donington Park

Pure – unmixed with any other matter, free from harshness or roughness and being in tune, free from what weakens or pollutes, containing nothing which does not properly belong. Start...

Frozen Fun – Porsches on Ice

A Porsche should not be a mere garage decoration nor a rare treat saved for a sunny day. Porsches are not intended to hibernate for the winter. They are...

Flirting with Physics – Behind the Wheel of a Formula One Car

A Formula One car is a compact violent physics laboratory on four wheels. Each vehicle overflows with space age technology, engineering design, and exotic materials with the single objective...

A Club Worth Joining – Aston Martin Drivers Club Takes on Historic Brands Hatch

What could be better than driving a twin-turbo eight-cylinder chariot produced by one of the oldest English marques around one of the most iconic and well-known English race tracks?...

Prologue to Le Mans – The Porsche 992 Puts the “Experience” in the Porsche Experience Center

While hurtling down the Mulsanne Straight at Le Mans in a road-going Porsche 992, the greatest challenge is not outright speed. The challenge is completing the next corner. After...

School is in Session: Lessons Learned at the Lotus Driving Academy

Open-wheel motorsport changed radically in the 1960s as large front-engine beasts gave way to lightweight racers with engines mounted behind the driver. Lotus and founder Colin Chapman made history...

The Scarbo Performance SVF1: Experience the Golden Age of Formula One

Modern Formula One often feels like a computer-generated exercise. Over fifty years of racing, a fairly simple combination of chassis, wheels, body, engine and gearbox has morphed into carbon...

Porsche 911GT2RS – Providing the Perfect Introduction to Paul Ricard

Why does Porsche offer so many variants of the venerable 911? One good reason is to permit the Porsche engineers to make barely road-legal track-focused versions such as the...