John Coyle, Author at 6SpeedOnline - Page 3 of 12

If you think a 550-horsepower Italian supercar and a lead-footed lady can make the Florida and Georgia sticks a little more interesting, you’d be right.

Right now, I’m sitting in a gorgeous ninth floor room at the W Hotel in South Beach. The ocean view is breathtaking. The weather is tropical. The guaranteed madness of the 2014 Gumball 3000 lies ahead. And like sharks poised for a feeding frenzy, angry supercars circle the surrounding streets. A few minutes ago, one of […] More »

You can’t be totally prepared for the Gumball 3000. The full-frontal assault of ferocious supercars, exotic locales and block-rocking parties is enough to turn the brains of most mortals into an exhaust-rattled, octane-spiked blob of tapioca pudding.

The ladies of AnastasiaDate are running the legendary Gumball 3000. And in a radiant illustration of what it’s better to be lucky than smart, I’ll be tagging along to document the insanity. Live coverage starts June 4th!

When it debuted, the only thing I didn’t immediately like about Modena’s V12, 950hp Enzo successor was its name—and I wasn’t alone. Not that it ever really mattered. So how does it feel to drive Ferrari’s latest and—presumably—greatest?

At the Ferrari Racing Days event last weekend at Sydney Motorsports Park, Sporting Activity Department head Antonello Coletta announced that Modena was working on an FXX variant of the Enzo successor—and now it looks like the weapons-grade LaFerrari has been caught at the ‘Ring.

I recently returned from an amazing trip to Japan—courtesy of Lexus—to cover a host of amazing things for 6Speedonline’s sister site ClubLexus. One of the amazing things I got to do was flog the LFA at Fuji Speedway, so look out for a story about that experience, and I also saw a bunch of presentations […] More »