In the last few months I managed to spend a summer afternoon and a cold January night in Milan with this special Lancia Delta HF Integrale Evoluzione. The one you see in this video is called ‘Verde York’ and it was released in the summer of 1992 as one of the special limited editions of…
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A few years ago I started to keep an eye on an interesting historic hillclimb event which was taking place on one of my favorite mountain roads in Switzerland, the Bernina Pass. When I was a child they used to take me there for a brief day trip in summer and I still have fond…
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If you think back to the late 90s rally scene I’m pretty sure the red Mitsubishi Lancer of Tommi Mäkinen is one of the first things that come to your mind. To commemorate his four consecutive driver’s championships (1996, ’97, ’98 and ’99) Mitsubishi launched a special edition of their Lancer Evolution VI, calling it…
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You understand you are getting old when a certain type of cars that had never fascinated you before begins to interest you and, sometimes, makes you more excited than most modern stuffs out there. Something that I’ve always considered just like carriages with an engine they are now growing on me, more and more, especially…
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Since the first talks on the new top-level prototype class regulations, a beautiful scenario dominated by futuristic cars derived from road-going hypercars opened up, thanks to numerous aspects of the design kept open. Unfortunately the first ‘Hypercar’ prototypes didn’t meet the fans’ premises also due to later changes to the rule set prior to its…
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To my great surprise yesterday I managed to record the new Ferrari Le Mans Hypercar which will mark the return of the Italian brand at Le Mans after 50 years. The car did its first km at Fiorano Circuit driven at first by Alessandro Per Guidi and later by Nicklas Nielsen. Nothing is known of…
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A couple of days ago I learned that the tour to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Mclaren F1 would be held in Northern Italy and I did everything I could to be present to record and see those amazing machines. For the occasion the organizers managed to gather a total of 13 McLaren F1s,…
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I managed to capture McLaren’s future GT4 challenger in action at Monza Circuit in the last few days. The candidate appears to be the McLaren Artura, which is going to replace the 6-year-old McLaren 570S GT4. The road legal Artura uses a 577 hp, 3.0-litre, 120 degrees, twin-turbocharged V6 engine paired with an electric motor…
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Sono da sempre innamorato dalla bellissima atmosfera presente al Nürburgring con i suoi ‘Touristenfahrten’ serali e le numerose opportunità di noleggio. La cosa sorprendente e inaspettata è stata trovare un qualcosa di molto simile a Magione, con la possibilità di poter noleggiare un’auto e godersi alcuni giri intorno all’omonimo circuito. Essendo ancora giovane, ho scoperto…
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After a year of mandatory break due to the pandemic situation, the 78th edition of EICMA (also called ‘Milan Motorcycle Show’) took place regularly even with some notable absences among the manufacturers. Thanks to a huge public participation I must admit I forgot of this terrible period for a couple of days, seeing thousands of…
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