Spent the weekend at Circuit of the Americas, where two major sports car races were being conducted in one day. The first was the IMSA/TUDOR United Sports Car Championship series race, which took place in the morning; it was a 2 hour and 40 minute race and our team (Risi Competizione) took a very respectable …
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DRAFT:How to Watch the 24 Hours of Le Mans
Racing.This weekend is the 92nd running of The 24 Hours of Le Mans, the greatest endurance race in the world. Le Mans has been held every year since 1923; ten years the race was not held, once because of a labor strike and the other 9 times due to WWII and the recovery from that …
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The Last Race of Stirling Moss, Easter Weekend, 1962.
Racing. The 1962 Goodwood Tourist Trophy Race weekend, conducted over the Easter Holiday, was one of the most spectacular race meetings of all time, bringing together the top racing drivers of the time battling it out in the era’s greatest sports and F1 cars. The race featured a brace of legendary Ferrari 250GTOs (the Ferrari GTO has turned …
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Daytona at Speed
The Rolex 24 at Daytona just concluded (at 2PM ET, today…26 January 2015…). It’s a bit of a hybrid sports car race, combining the high banks of a NASCAR track with a flat, curvy infield section. The race is sometimes to the fastest, but always to the one who finishes but..to give you an idea …
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 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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The Paddle Economy: A Pebble Beach Shopping List, Part 1
Paying Attention (updated with final sales prices). Part 1 of our annual survey of the best and most interesting of the Pebble Beach auctions covers the Bonham’s auction conducted at The Quail automobile gathering at Pebble Beach. The Bonham’s auctions are always special because their auction team not only assembles a terrific group of automobiles for …
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The Paddle Economy: A Pebble Shopping List, Part II
Paying Attention (updated with final sales prices): Each year, we take some time to review the cars that are offered on auction at Pebble Beach. There are other big collector/classic car auctions in the world, but over the last decade, Pebble Beach has emerged as THE auction, the one where record prices are set and …
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How To Cover An F1 Race
Press Clips: The F1 racing season is in full swing now with the most glamorous race of the season just concluded,- -the Grand Prix of Monte Carlo–and still a long season of competition and drama to come. The coverage of this race by The Guardian newspaper of England is a textbook example of how to cover …