If you know Australian off-road racer Sandy Bowman from the show AUSSIE RACER, you may have noticed (in the show's promo) he's got a Ford Escort Mk1, a classic 1970s rally car. Commenters wanted to know about Sandy's Escort, so he's done a proper tech short.
After a nasty crash, Australian off-r0ad racer Sandy Bowman embarked on a journey to race everything he could get his hands on. His effort became the show AUSSIE RACER. He returned to off roading, and tried rock crawling. Now he's racing under gravity power. Can he handle it?
Internet, meet TV. See, internet, TV is that flat thing on the wall. TV, internet is a series of tubes, that, uh... Never mind. /DRIVE on NBC Sports is coming back in April for another season. And Monkey's on too!
Back in 1981, this Boeing VC-137B Stratoliner (a military designation for the workhorse Boeing 707) brought 52 American hostages home from an extended stay in Iran. Now it's badly in need of a detail job. Sounds like what it needs is some Larry Kosilla.
On the latest episode of Aussie Racer on /DRIVE, Sandy and Daniel leave episode one's milk challenge, thankfully, to the past and embark on a new motorsports adventure. It's rock crawling. How do these ridiculous automotive crabs work? Actually, they're pretty amazing.
The entries have been submitted in the MOMO Design A Racecar Paint Scheme (#MyMOMOlivery) contest. The top three have been selected, and now you and the rest of the global social media community will pick the winner. It's judging time. Go for it.
Multiple media platforms, thy name is /DRIVE. If you haven't seen Season One of /DRIVE on NBC Sports, the show we produced to accompany NBCSN's F1 coverage, you can own it now — uncut, better quality and with no commercials — thanks to iTunes and NBCSN.
It's been said The Tire Rack One Lap of America is the toughest open road event you can do with a road-legal car. The 2015 event encompasses seven days, 3,245 miles and nine racetracks. It's really tough, but, so we hear, it's the most fun you can have on four wheels.
While my first love was the Ferrari 288 GTO, the F40's arrival hit me with the boost pressure of a thousand suns. But actually owning such an exotic motoring icon means caring for the paint job in ways most car owners would never dream. Watch how it's done.
You've had enough time to procrastinate, I mean think. Now you've got four days left to enter the Design A Winning MOMO Livery, Win All The Things (not the official title) Contest! What are you waiting for, an invitation? Here it is. Also, check out some of the competition.
Hey armchair designers: You've done your share of "let's put a Gulf paint scheme on a Miata." Now, you can design a real racing livery for an actual racecar. Yes, you heard that right. A racecar that will be in actual races. Get out your crayons. A REAL RACECAR.
Welcome to the premiere episode of Aussie Racer on /DRIVE. The show follows off-roader Sandy Bowman and cheeky co-host and navigator Daniel Hardman, who — after a nasty crash — set out to race anything they can: Cars, bikes, animals, cheese-rolling— anything. You'll see.
A few weeks before the Infiniti Q60 concept's debut at the Detroit Auto Show, /DRIVE got an invite to check it out. We don't usually do stuff like that, but we're looking forward to the next Q60 as a worthy adversary in the battle of the luxury sports coupes, so we RSVP'd.
"It was about the 80s, the sexy 80s. It was about excess. Far too much money. Shoulder pads and big hair."
What can I say about /DRIVE's 2014 that hasn't been said? There were ups and downs, to be sure. Lots of downs. But instead of staring down the barrel of "what the hell do we do now" we've got 2015 to look forward to. The new year looks pretty good.
How much faster is a race car than the street car with which it shares its body? It's one of our favorite things to discover. Matt Farah drove BMW's newest Z4 — the SDrive35i — then jumped into a championship-winning Z4 fielded by Turner Motorsport. Yes, they're different.
Some fathers and sons collaborate on building Pinewood Derby cars, others on restoring junkyard Camaros or AMC AMXes. These two generations of the Hughes family race vintage Formula Junior cars. To each his, and his, own.
John Pogson of the UK's Italia Autosport is a pivotal figure in the world of Ferrari. He's been fixing, driving and restoring them since his early 20s, and has raced 355s and F40s. Who better, then, to tell the story of the Dino, an oddball sports car that became a legend.
In 2011 Jann Mardenborough won the GT Academy competition, beating 90,000 contestants to become became the best Gran Turismo player in the world. His prize was a racer's seat for Nissan at the Dubai 24 Hour. And his racing story didn't end there.
Imagine you're an Italian engineering student, and you see an exotic supercar go by. You follow it home, knock on the door, and wind up with a job helping build them. That's the fairytale story of Davide Testi, chief test driver at Pagani Automobili. With a name like that, it had to be fate.
