Cars

There’s a quandary every racing driver faces, be it in historic or contemporary motorsport, and that’s switching from an adrenaline-inducing, sense-assaulting competition car to a comparatively sensationless road car to drive home. Following the Le Mans Classic in 2016, Sébastien Crubilé of the French Porsche specialist Crubilé Sport and his friend, who for reasons of discretion we’ll call Mr G, pondered the issue. They’d raced a 911 Carrera RSR 2.1 Turbo and a 935 K3, respectively, two of the fastest and most exciting Porsche racers of them all.

Green gift

Some 190 collector cars will cross the block over two days during the Goliath Techno Classica fair in Essen next month, a large proportion of which are intriguing modern classics from a mega Swiss collection RM Sotheby’s consigned late last year. We’ve already seen cars from the collection perform very well at the Canadian auction house’s Paris and Amelia Island sale, though it’s arguably saved the best for Essen. 

The fiery temperament of an Italian diva. Some might say that’s the absolute last thing you need on a 36-day, 8,500-mile journey almost halfway around the world, but not these two intrepid Italians, Giorgio Schön and Enrico Guggiari. They’re gunning for victory in this year’s Peking to Paris with a specially-built Ferrari 308 GT4, the first Prancing Horse to ever take part in the historic endurance rally. 

Blasphemous or beautiful?