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Car Pulled From a Hotel Lobby Wins the Indy 500 — The Unbelievable Story of Al Unser’s 1987 Victory
Weeks before the 1987 Indianapolis 500, the car that would eventually win the race wasn’t being prepared inside a garage at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. It was sitting in a hotel lobby in Pennsylvania. The March 86C had essentially become a show car, retired from frontline competition and put on display near Team Penske’s headquarters in…
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The Toyota WRC Cheat So Ingenious Even the FIA Was Impressed
Toyota was caught cheating in the World Rally Championship in 1995. There was no gray area, no clever interpretation of an ambiguous regulation and no technical loophole that lawyers could argue about afterward. The system hidden inside the Toyota Celica GT-Four was illegal. But there was one problem for the FIA: it was brilliant. The…
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The Forgotten Endurance Rivalries of the Historic Grid at Le Mans
How mid-engine privateer chassis builders and underdog factory programs challenged established motorsport titans during a golden era of sports car racing.