The Watch That Outlasted the Race

The Paddock

The Watch That Outlasted the Race

Jack Heuer wasn't trying to build a fashion object in 1969. He was trying to win a fight nobody outside Switzerland was paying attention...

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The Leatherworker Who Makes One Bag a Week

The Paddock

The Leatherworker Who Makes One Bag a Week

The Math of One Everett stitches with an awl in his right hand and a needle in each direction of a single thread, and...

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Why the Porsche 911 Has Never Made Sense

The Garage

Why the Porsche 911 Has Never Made Sense

Frankfurt, September 1963. Ferdinand "Butzi" Porsche is twenty-five years old, and the car he designed is sitting on the motor show stand being studied...

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The Weight of the Outlap

The Grid

The Weight of the Outlap

The starting grid of a modern Grand Prix is less a sporting arena and more a claustrophobic circus. For an hour before the formation...

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The Long Way to Le Mans

The Paddock

The Long Way to Le Mans

There is a faster way to get to Le Mans, and almost everyone takes it. You leave Paris, drop onto the A11, and let...

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The Paddock

The Watch That Outlasted the Race

The Paddock

The Leatherworker Who Makes One Bag a Week

The Garage

Why the Porsche 911 Has Never Made Sense

The Grid

The Weight of the Outlap

The Paddock

The Long Way to Le Mans

The Grid

The Anatomy of an Overtake

The Garage

The Garage

Why the Porsche 911 Has Never Made Sense

Frankfurt, September 1963. Ferdinand "Butzi" Porsche is twenty-five years old, and the car he designed is sitting on the motor show stand being studied by…

The Garage

The Wind Tunnel’s Verdict

The Garage

What Hybrid Actually Means at 200mph

The Garage

The Civic Type R Is the Honest Car

The Grid

The Grid

The Weight of the Outlap

The Grid

The Anatomy of an Overtake

The Grid

The Slowest Way to Win

The Grid

Hannah Schmitz actually gives Red Bull its Wings

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The Pit Stop is Ballet, Not Racing

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The Track Designer Nobody Knows

The Hangar

The Hangar

Why Fighter Jets Are Built to Be Almost Unstable

The Hangar

Making a Warbird Race Ready is a Fight, not a Hobby

The Hangar

The Fastest Race You’ve Never Watched

Field Notes

Field Notes

The Illusion of Control

The Comfort of Telemetry The modern racing garage is a sanctuary of measurement. Before an engine ever turns over, the environment is defined by screens…

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The Watch That Outlasted the Race

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The Leatherworker Who Makes One Bag a Week

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The Long Way to Le Mans

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What a Concours Weekend Actually Costs the People Running It

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The Hotel That Refused to Touch the Ground

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The Intentional Price Gap of the Fountain Pen