Pebble Beach's racing green |
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Great Read: Pebble Beach – the lost West Coast raceway with a Metropolitan air |
November 2002 | Colin Goodwin |
You may know it better for golf and the concours d'elegance, but in the Fifties this lush resort introduced road racing to America's West Coast All we have to go on is a crumpled circuit map that magazine editor Paul Fearnley pressed into my hand back in England. That and the knowledge that, each year from 1950 to '56, a race meeting was held at Pebble Beach.
You enter the estate through a security gate just a short drop down from the Pacific Coastal Highway that runs from Los Angeles, through Carmel and Monterey, to San Francisco. The folk at the security hut are friendly and don't seem too perturbed by the arrival of two Englishmen in a flash red Mustang. They have a map to give us, but as to information about the old circuit, we draw a blank... |
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Recreating Porsche's most feared racer |
There are few names finer in motorsport modelling than Pocher, and the brand's latest offering is truly something special What do Lily of the Valley, Foxglove and the 1971 Le Mans 24 Hours winner all have in common? While all are unquestionably beautiful, they are also unquestionably deadly.
Porsche's 917 wasn't a beacon of safety at the best of times, but its 1971 challenger stands as perhaps its most radical evolution. Stunning in its classic Martini Racing livery, beneath those stripes lay a car that was literally win or (com)bust in an era when performance pushed boundaries like never before. |
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Splash and dash: How Piastri recreated Ricciardo's greatest race |
Oscar Piastri's masterful Spa-Francorchamps win was reminiscent of Daniel Ricciardo's finest F1 drive back in 2014, writes Mark Hughes |
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