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When contemplating our lives, personally and professionally, there are areas that all of us prefer not to dwell on. Failures, accidents, disasters are generally airbrushed out of our memories and our CVs, the past is held to be a happy place Corporate bodies are no different, being essentially an extension of human activity, so it should come as little
Every now and then a car makes an appearance and you just go WOW! You know it has attitude, class, speed and just a whiff of danger. Back in late 1997 Toyota unveiled their latest weapon in the continuing quest to take overall victory in Les Vingt Quatre Heures du Mans and the motorsport world took a step back in amazement. Now on the eve of the opening
So 1995 saw a top ten finish at Le Mans for the NISMO run Nissan Skyline GT-R LM, how would it fare twelve months down the line? At first glance the car was largely unchanged, only the most observant would see the new rear wing, struts and endplates. However under the skin there were many developments. The engine was now 2800cc as the stroke had been
After the demise of Group C and IMSA GTP in 1992 it was clear to all that endurance racing would have to go back to its road car roots. And so it proved, in 1994 Stephane Ratel, Jurgen Barth and Patrick Peter formed an alliance and created the BPR Series. They ran a number of of races that were for racing versions of street legal sportscars, mainly
A new year brought fresh inspiration to the Nissan and TWR R390 project. The disaster of the 1997 Le Mans race was analysed and the car underwent a transformation. The R390 grew by 13 centimetres, the rear wing was repositioned and the aerodynamics were altered to improve airflow over the rear. Most importantly the transmission was changed. The X-Trac
Fastest in the PreQualifyiing Weekend, the mood in the TWR Nissan camp would have been quietly confident. Or it should have been, those of us on the outside would have heard that there had been a successful three day test at Magny Cours, all was plain sailing. The more observant, not me I hasten to add, would have questioned why the exhaust system had
The announcement that Nissan will, all other things being equal, return to the Le Mans 24 Hours next year with the GT1 GTR prompted me to have a look back at the last time Nissan competed in the GT1 class. Way back to 1997 and 1998 with the amazing Nissan R390. After the demise of Group C and IMSA GTP there was a plan to make the GT category more in
Around the office at EA, the Speedhunters audience is always referred to as "the hardcore" ... That is, you guys are so much more than casual automotive fans; you eat, sleep and breath this stuff... But among automotive enthusiasts there are the hardcore and then there are the REAL hardcore . People whose automotive knowledge reaches encyclopedic
Anniversaries are tricky things, looking back tends to fade the negative and accentuate the positive. Nostalgia for a safe past rather than the uncertain present or unknown future. But the years do rattle past quickly so some form of marker post is necessary if only to give focus to the things to come. Back in 1984 I never imagined that I would be still
OK. The really Mazda savvy of you out there will know that Mazda were the first (and so far the only) Japanese car manufacturer to win Le Mans. They did so back in 1991 with the crazy liveried 787B, which had the wheels driven off it by Johnny Herbert, Volker Weidler and Bertrand Gachot. It will be no surprise to you to learn that there will be a special