The Risi Competizione No. 62 Ferrari F458 Italia started sixth in GTLM class for today’s 53rd Annual Rolex 24 Hours race. Qualifying driver, Pierre Kaffer of Germany Davide Rigon, third driver of the day, No. 62 Ferrari F458 Italia: How were you able to battle back and get back in the race? “To be …
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6 Hours: Ferrari 24 Hours at Daytona
The Six Hour Report (Dateline: Daytona International Speedway, 24 January 2015). Press Release from Ferrari on progress at the Daytona 24 Hour Race. Ferrari leads in GT-LeMans and GT-Daytona throughout first six hours Five examples of the 458 Italia lead during opening stages January 24, 2015 (Daytona Beach, Fla.) – It was Ferraris to the …
The Paddle Economy: Scottsdale 2015. Part III
(UPDATED WITH AUCTION RESULTS) RM auctions has become an international powerhouse in the collector car world, with auctions all over the planet. But there is still plenty of action in the U.S. and this year, they brought a huge number of lots to the sale at Scottsdale. A few of our favorite picks are listed …
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The Paddle Economy: Scottsdale 2015, Part II
(UPDATED WITH AUCTION RESULTS).The Arizona auctions have become increasingly important in the world collector car scene over the last decade. The offerings are increasingly diverse (and expensive) and estimated prices feed off the major sales coming out of Pebble Beach in the famous auctions held there in the fall. Here, a selection of the most …
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The Paddle Economy: Scottsdale 2015. Part 1
(UPDATED WITH AUCTION RESULTS) The Scottsdale Auctions are one of the biggest events on the Collector Car calendar in North America. For the last few years, we’ve been covering the Pebble Beach Auctions but this year, the time was right to branch out and review some of the offerings in Scottsdale. In the next three …
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The Hunt For New Music: Never Take It Away (featuring Mayer Hawthorne)
Mayer Hawthorne is just all over Soundcloud..and that’s good, because Mayer is very good with his own music and very good with everyone else’s. You win if you listen. You lose if you don’t.
The New Swiss Bank Account is a New York Condo
Press Clippings: New York magazine continues to deliver the goods when it comes to timely, incisive and important journalism. A recent issue contained an extensive and very well researched piece on an undercurrent of foreign money that’s flooding into New York real estate–some of it legal and some of it questionable–and in the process driving up …
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Roger Staubach on Effort
“There are no traffic jams along the extra mile….”
The Paddle Economy: A Pebble Beach Shopping List, Part III
Paying Attention(updated with sold pricing): We tend to focus on the auction houses that concentrate on European (and American) sports cars in this annual survey. There are certainly some blockbuster collectibles crossing the block at Pebble Beach this year, and RM Auctions, which treats this sale like the Super Bowl of collector car auctions, has some …
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Abe Lincoln on Preparation
“If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend four hours sharpening the axe…”