2014 Red Bull Grand Prix of the Americas: A spectacular race in Austin featuring the world’s fastest racers on two wheels

2014 Red Bull Grand Prix of the Americas


Grand Prix motorcycle racing (aka MotoGP) is known to many worldwide as the greatest show on earth; showcasing the fastest road-racers, hitting speeds beyond 200 mph. The series—which travels to 18 race tracks in 14 countries over…

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Autodromo Prototipo Chronographs: Two new watches that recall the golden days of sports car racing

Autodromo Prototipo Chronographs


Bradley Price, founder of Officine Autodromo, not only recognizes the romanticism and beauty of early automobile racing, he also captures it in his design work—across gloves, sunglasses and watches. His two latest releases in the Continue Reading…

Interview: Moi Torrallardona : We talk to the off-road veteran who took Land Rover across the harshest desert in the world

Interview: Moi Torrallardona


We recently had the incredibly exciting opportunity to join Land Rover on their latest Driven Challenge; a time-crunching race across the Empty Quarter in Saudi Arabia—one of the harshest…

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Cunningham: The Passion, The Cars, The Legacy: An expansive book outlining the career and contribution of the humble and passionate racing pioneer

Cunningham: The Passion, The Cars, The Legacy


Briggs Cunningham is the most important American racer and sportsman you have never heard of. Not only is he responsible for racing stripes on cars, but he also owned the first Ferrari (166SC) ever raced and…

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Gentlemen’s Guide to Racing: No money, no cars, no sponsors—when amateurs race competitively on their own terms

Gentlemen's Guide to Racing


by Katharine Erwin If you love Britain’s Top Gear and you like racing, The GGTR (Gentlemen’s Guide to Racing) may be your new favorite TV show. Helping to bring back chivalry in racing—or at least inject…

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Lexus F Sport Division: Supercar performance and dynamic design trickles down to liven up the brand’s everyday drivers

Lexus F Sport Division


Lexus as a brand has come a long way in recent years. The bland forms and semi-luxe sedans of its adolescence have been left behind in favor of a wholly new, considerably sexier identity as the Toyota-owned brand approaches the quarter century…

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Cool Hunting Video: Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse: A race around the suburbs in Bugatti’s latest and greatest supercar

Cool Hunting Video: Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse


At 1,200 horsepower, a top speed of 252 mph that produces 1.4g of lateral acceleration potential and a $2.2 million price tag, there was no chance we were going to turn down the opportunity to cruise around Greenwich, CT in …

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Randy Mamola and Riders for Health: The racing legend brings motorcycles to Africa to increase accessibility to medical care

Randy Mamola and Riders for Health


by Katharine Erwin Randy Mamola is undoubtedly one of the greatest racers to never actually win a world championship. A crowd-pleasing racer with a heart of gold, Mamola’s best known moment was in 1985 with Moto…

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Nowhere to Nowhere: A rare look at how two professional cyclists handle the mentally exhausting downtime between races

Nowhere to Nowhere


At its core, professional cycling is a beautiful exercise in pairing physical fitness with mental strength. While the majority of media coverage given to the rigorous sport focuses on efforts to cut time and win races, the difference between claiming a stage and…

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A Car Without Compromise

This bizarre (and awesome!) concept car might look outlandish with its exaggerated proportions, odd stance, and overall indulgent aesthetic… but then again, I just described every other Mercedes too! But the Mercedes Giuseppe is dfferent- it’s an F1 racing machine that, over-the-top as it looks, was designed in every detail to minimize air resistance. With independent winged front arms that adjust width and a flexible body that changes with the track, this thing wants to do one thing… WIN.

Designer: Jaemin Park


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