Tag: Motorsports
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Long Range, Short Wheelbase.
I’ve always loved trucks. From before I could speak, trucks fascinated me: big ones, small ones, sleepers or basic cabins. I loved them all. I especially love the ones with massive, endless trailers, stretching behind them, to infinity and beyond. This, however, is non of that. This is a thoroughbred rally machine. And goes like…
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Hilux Homebound
The last stage of the longest race in the world.Battered, beaten, broken. Man and machine, enduring all of natures prowess. This is the Dakar Rally. Known as the most gruelling race in motorsport- and it shows. 12 days of rally, across rock, stone and dune. From the East of the Arabian peninsula, down South, then…
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The Longest Route
I’ve always deliberately kept myself from liking motorbikes. I appreciate the insane engineering that goes into them, and even more, the bonker riders that make magic with them. It’s just too dangerous for my liking. My first real encounter with a proper hardcore motorcycle was a dirt bike much like this- owned, modified and driven…
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Liveries and Liberties.
Orange and blue are iconic in motorsport. They represent the Gulf Oils sponsorship with some of the biggest brands in racing. Throughout the 70s and 80s, motorsport was at its height, and so was sponsorship deals. The restrictions on what could be advertised to the public was extremely lenient, so anything went. Cigarettes, oils, condoms,…
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They you have it. One of my favourite projects. A rebuilt, modified Vespa 2 stroke, repainted, custom decaled, retrofit HID headlights and aftermarket carbi and exhaust manifold. All so I can do 32 kph on the highway. The first time I laid eyes on it, it was abandoned in a stairwell on the 4th floor…
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Γ.
See that cross over the headlight? Itβs electrical tape covering a small part of the light. Seems counterintuitive right?why would you mask the very thing that gives you visibility?Well firstly, it just looks freaking cool. Secondly, it’s a homage to the older days where racing was a real contact sport, and glass headlights broke easily,…
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Up to 11.
Life is all about passion. Youβve got to be passionate about something. Politics, Photography, Sports, Medicine- something. Without passion, there is boredom. And thatβs when the trouble starts. Bored people, generally do stupid things. Wasteful things. Destructive things. The human being is such a fickle creature. Its has the potential to seek greatness. I mean…
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Motion is tranquility.
The motion series. I saw this picture the other day, of Stefan Johanssons Ferrari during the 1985 Monaco GP and I fell in love with it. It’s know as the Mona Lisa of the Motorsports world, it’s just that good. So, I tried to emulate it. I’m my own style. Not as good of course,…
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Short Shift.
Manual transmissions are dead. Nobody wants one. Traffic kills the satisfaction of the shift. Even higher end, sports cars, like the new Supra have no manual transmission. The general population just doesn’t want stick shift. People just don’t want to be engaged with driving anymore. It’s a necessity, not an experience anymore. I can honestly…
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Fancy Footwork.
Some people drive with their eyes. Some with their minds. And some, use their ass. The road makes contact with the rubber. The rubber with the rim. The rim with suspension. The suspension and chassis. The chassis and the seat. The seat and the ass.Itβs how a man speaks to machines. To know what it’s…
