auto racing
Survival in Vintage Motorsport Events: Giga Gears Captures the Thrills
Motorsport has been dangerous since its very start, but I think we can forget exactly how wild it was back before we had safety devices like seatbelts or pedestrian safety fences that were more robust than a piece of rope. I’ve been absolutely obsessed with reading about the origins of racing lately, and this…
First Electric Car to Reach 100 MPH: Giga Gears
You’ll be forgiven for not knowing much about the automotive world around the mid-1890s. It was a long time ago, and the world was a very different place back then. The automobile was pioneered by thousands of people making iterative improvements to four-wheeled transport, some more important than others. History…
“Garage 56 Le Mans Camaro Speeds around VIR with Jordan Taylor”
There were a lot of incredible race cars running around tracks in 2023, from new Le Mans prototypes like Ferrari’s winning 499P to hybrid WRC monsters and the second year of Formula 1's redesigned cars. But one race car captured the world’s attention more than anything else: the NASCAR-based Garage 56 Chevy Camaro…
McLaren CEO’s Start: Winning Wheel of Fortune | Giga Gears
A defining feature of the American Dream is the concept of upward mobility. Everyone has a chance at economic success, no matter their upbringing or background, if they just work hard enough. It’s almost certainly a lie we’ve been told for decades, but there was a time when it worked essentially as it was said to, at…
Henry Ford’s Racing Quote Debunked | Giga Gears
“Auto racing began 5 minutes after the second car was built” is a sentence that most racing fans have heard at least once during their lives. It is usually evoked to illustrate humanity’s innate competitiveness and how racing was a natural use for automobiles. The quote is widely attributed to Henry Ford, except there…