“Finally!  I’ve made it.  I’ve got a sweet red Ferrari.  No more waiting in stupid lines for this guy.  I’m a Ferrari owner, now.  I’ve achieved true boss status.  At long last, my life is perfect.  Wait…  It won’t shift out of neutral?  I can’t even  get it towed?  I have to fix the problem […] More »

Being a Formula One driver comes with certain perks: gorgeous women lining up to date you, the opportunity to drive the most technologically advanced race cars on earth and finally, somewhere way down the list, testing cars the public can’t wait to get their grubby little hands on. For your consideration: Giancarlo Fisichella. He drove […] More »

If all but a few people were to vanish from the face of the Earth and have a field day with some Ferrari F1 cars, this is how it would look. YouTuber Marchettino has filmed a video at a desolate Spa-Francorchamps comparing the sounds of V6-powered Ferrari F1 racers versus their V12 counterparts. You’ll see […] More »

Whether you love, hate or simply don’t care about the circus that is Formula One, one thing is undeniable: the sounds are intoxicating. Frantic, screaming, unrestrained engines scrambling to put power out and barely (sometimes, not) containing the thousands of explosions within– it’s mesmerizing. We could listen to these beasts all day, like Sirens luring […] More »

When Mercedes-Benz re-entered Formula 1 as a car constructor and not just an engine manufacturer something was bound to give. What gave was the German giant’s engine supplies. Mercedes claimed they were cranking out an unsustainable amount of power plants. Then Mercedes signed McLaren star driver Lewis Hamilton the relationship between the teams seemed to […] More »

“Every twenty years we like to take the engine out and just check everything over,” says Jay Leno as he stands in front of the engine of his McLaren F1. The 627 horsepower naturally aspirated V12 is an impressive setup–the whole drivetrain, including the transmission, weighs less than 500 pounds. He shows us the ultra […] More »

We were just tipped off to a set of car-porn shots taken by Lamborghini and McLaren of Newport Beach, CA. The artful photos show the still unreleased McLaren P1 sitting next to the 2006 McLaren MP4-21 F1 car piloted by JP Montoya and Pedro de la Rosa. Yes, this is just propaganda for McLaren Newport […] More »