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The 2023 Las Vegas Grand Prix wasn't the first time the FIA and Vegas hooked up to put on a show of Formula One racing in the hope of a big payday. Hosted by a Vegas giant, the stakes were high, with a championship title to play for. A new champion would...

"Best selling"? Well, it has sold more copies than any of my other books, so it's my best seller. That's the clickybaity title dealt with. Why now? Well, I've never actually posted about this book since it was (self) published. Christmas is looming and this...

I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking; How come there are so few decent photographs of that lovely Maserati Quattroporte GTS? Well, there are two reasons. Firstly, this roadtrip was done to create a little series of documentaries for our friends...

I wonder how many MX-5 owners know where their Nardi steering wheel comes from. EBay isn’t the answer, there’s more to the name than that. The man, Enrico Nardi, was born in 1907 in Bologna. He was a practical joker, racer and first class Engineer and...

Motor racing is a serious business; Martini is a serious multinational company; and the volks from the land of pork knuckle aren’t exactly known for their zany sense of humour either! So why the dickens did they trot out a flesh pink Porsche 917 at the 1971...

Sometimes motorsport heroes are linked with a furry companion. Currently we have Lewis and his bulldogs. Previously there was Donald Campbell and his teddy bear, Mansell’s bushy caterpillar, and Hunt, and his extrovert trouser snake. All of these are put...

We love skidding; always have. But it was only last week when we were filming a new little feature for XCAR on the British Land Speed Record cars that the question came up: What was the World’s longest skid? Well, a quick bit of Googling threw up some...

As you probably know we at MotorPunk HQ have a bit of a soft spot for the 1970s, and we get quite nostalgic over wedgy sports cars, grainy BBC comedies, Scalextrics and other retro playthings. But we get especially misty eyed over anything from this golden...

In 1965 a Morris Mini journeyed south to work in the hostile environment of Antarctica. This was no ordinary Mini. It was a hybrid creation. Part car, part tracked vehicle, built by Australian legend, Terry O’Hare. Based in the Melbourne suburb of...