It’s Monday, July 3, 2023 and this is Race Recap, your summary of the weekend’s motorsports action. Racing spanned a full range of emotions from triumph to tragedy over the past two days. Australian Supercars ace Shane van Gisbergen won in his debut at NASCAR’s first-ever street race in downtown Chicago. A Dutch…
The Jaguar XJ220's silhouette might’ve been a bedroom wall mainstay, but the car itself wasn’t quite the article promised. A twin-turbocharged 3.5-liter V6 evolved from the MG Metro 6R4 was a neat talking point for a supercar, but it was no V12. The switch from all- to rear-wheel drive, ostensibly to keep weight down…
Concept cars, by definition, tend to be pretty rad. But some are radder than others; namely, the ones designed to do more than just look good. The Mercedes-Benz C111 is in that elite group of concepts. The tangerine Bruno Sacco-penned wedge was not only otherworldly in its design way back in 1970; it also served as…