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Video: The Fiat X1-9 from hillclimb hell!
This is what you get when you combine a tiny Fiat X1-9 with a high powered Suzuki GSX-R1000 motor. It’s been called one of the most nimble hillclimb cars in the world. It’s a 600kg rear wheel drive...
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BMW M1 – Onboard at Laguna Seca – Video
What an unbelievable sound! Let’s go for a blast in the M1. We’ve written a little bit about the BMW M1 here at Motorsport Retro before. When it comes to awesome sounding sportscars, for us the...
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More than Adequate: Marina Rolls Royce Special V8 Volume
In mankind’s timeless quest to cram the most power into the lightest frame, Alan Mann found a way to squeeze a 6.25-litre V8 Rolls-Royce engine into this one-off Marina Rolls Royce Special, and we’re...
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AMSCAR: Australia’s “other” Touring Car Series
The fascinating tale of AMSCAR, an awesome albeit often forgotten touring car competition. THE V8 Supercar Championship and its forerunner, the Australian Touring Car Championship, are known around...
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1965 Armstrong 500: A Great Race in the Making
In 1965 Barry Seton and Midge Bosworth won the sixth running of the Bathurst 500 in a Ford Cortina Mk.I GT500. Then Barry drove home. In that same Cortina. The sixth running of what would become...
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Laguna Seca Screamer – Onboard a quad rotor RX7
There’s phenomenal sounding engines, and then there’s four-rotors. This is what it feels like to blast around Laguna Seca in a quad rotor RX7. We love the roar of a good sounding racing engine here at...
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Gallery: Nigel Mansell – The Ferrari Years
He was the last Formula 1 driver to ever be personally selected to race for Enzo Ferrari. He spent two seasons with the team, during which he earned the nickname “il leone” – The Lion. This is the...
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Fiat 131 Abarth – Completely Sideways – Video
It takes the crazy driver of this Fiat 131 Abarth a shade over ten seconds to demonstrate everything you’ve ever loved about rallying. Awesome. This is what rally is all about; the fist-pumping...
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Flat out around Bathurst in a Ferrari 458 GT3 – Video
Allan Simonsen laps Mount Panorama in a Ferrari 458 GT3, 3.5s quicker than the V8 Supercar record! Take a look at this awesome video shot in Bathurst, Australia. It depicts Danish sports car master...
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Introducing Motorsport Retro Premium
Rich Fowler (enthusiast, founder and editor of Motorsport Retro) explains Motorsport Retro Premium. In 2008 I started Motorsport Retro as a hobby because I couldn’t find one place showcasing all the...
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Gallery: Up close and personal with the Camel Lotus 101
The 1989 Camel Lotus 101 is machine of incredibly beauty, however it’s perfect lines and striking colors mask a painful history reflecting on the brutality and political speed of the Formula 1 game....
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BTCC Super Tourers – Screaming Ford V6s
Come for a ride flat-out on board some of the best sounding British Touring Cars to ever race – V6 Ford BTCC Super Tourers, Nigel Mansell and co. This video is a quick fan-made tribute to one of the...
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Rat Trap Dragster – 3000 horsepower unleashed!
Watch as this rolling earthquake / rat trap dragster converts a mix of Nitro and Alcohol into tyre smoke at the 2014 Goodwood Festival of Speed. Front engined dragsters are a thing of the past; a...
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Just add lightness: 10 Iconic Lotus Formula 1 cars
They were racing machines which truly portrayed the spirit of innovation. Here are 10 of the greatest Lotus Formula 1 cars ever built. We recently had the chance to blast around in Lotus’ latest 2014...
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10 things we learnt at the 2014 Monterey Motorsports Reunion
Countless beautiful historic racing cars descended on Laguna Seca for the Monterey Motorsports Reunion, a mind-blowing whirlwind of all things fast. If you think that racing cars should be driven...
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Hopping in to Historic Racing: Three Timeless Tin-Tops
We love historic racing; what could be better than a weekend at the track with your historic race car or bike and some good friends? So we’re taking a look at entry-level machinery that’ll get you...
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Audi S1 E2 Rally – Through the forest with a WRC driver (video)
Narrow tree lined roads, a life-long rally driver and the legendary Audi S1 E2. Armin Schwarz is more than comfortable behind the wheel of a rally car, he’s right at home. The German born ex-WRC driver...
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Gallery: The best of Martini Racing
From the mother-load of beautiful Martini Racing photographs out there on their Facebook page, these are our favorites. The Martini Racing stripes will forever remain as one of the most evocative...
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Mazda 787 – Raw noise – Aggressive Driving (video)
This is what Laguna Seca looks like when a Mazda 787 driver hunts down 17 positions in just a few laps of racing. Watch as Sylvain Tremblay knocks off a whopping seventeen positions whilst piloting the...
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Formula One documentary – The Limit
F1 engineering boils down to one primary thing – going faster than the other guy. This Formula One documentary follows the march of technology through the years as constructors and drivers fight for...
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