Lemans

Bear with me for a moment. Imagine that a man from the ’50s traveled forward in time and saw the lunar rover before getting catapulted back to his home time. He thought it was really cool, but as a ’32 Ford owner who never wears anything but bowling shirts and drinks his weight in malts every week, he thought it would be even cooler as a hot rod.

We all know that the new Ford GT is dead sexy. It’s pornographic in its beauty. We also all know that it’s going to go racing, but we are yet to hear what races and what divisions it will be competing in.

Porsche was away from high-level Le Mans prototype endurance racing for a long time and came back last year with mixed success. Porsche ended up finishing in third place, with only one win to its credit.

Car companies maintain a wide variety of methods for testing out the driving characteristics of their cars. While an actual race track is probably the best way to go hands-on with a car, sometimes vehicles aren’t yet ready to be driven, or weather conditions prevent testing.