Filed under: Motorsports, Time Warp, Etc., Rolls Royce, Driving
Picture this - you’re screaming around the Nurburgring in a not-insubstantial Rolls Royce Phantom, hammer down, stereo on, trying to complete a circuit of the 14-mile course before the woofers go still. Driving on the ‘Ring certainly requires concentration, but for a drummer, sometimes you’ve just got […]
Filed under: Motorsports, Supercars
You can make a car that accelerates. You can make a car that brakes. You can make one that handles. One that corners. One with a high top speed. But to make one that does it all is a different story entirely. That’s why automakers go to the Nürburgring. Its northern loop […]
Filed under: Motorsports, Euro, Supercars
Ultima, one of several dozen independent British sportscar companies and makers of the GTR, could only take so much rejection. The cottage automaker claims it offered its road-legal race-car to the producers at BBC’s hit TV show Top Gear several times, only to be repeatedly refused. So Ultima took things into […]
Filed under: Supercars
Performance figures don’t give an accurate picture of just how well a car performs overall. A given car may be the fastest to sixty, but that doesn’t mean it has the highest top speed, tightest cornering or sharpest brakes. Lap times around a given track paint a more accurate, comprehensive picture of a […]
