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Shutter Speed: Dewar, Cooke, and Jackie

February 2, 2010

My new position as the chief and only photographer for the Canadian Baby Photographers in the Ottawa area was going well, but it had some serious challenges. Since I worked on a commission basis of my work sold, I needed to have good images and a great salesman to sell my work. The problem was the [...]

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Why they called them Ground Pounders

November 10, 2009

Those of you who have never seen the Can Am cars of the late Sixties and early Seventies missed out on what may be considered the most visceral motorsport of all time. Fortunately, many of these cars are still being raced and have lost none of their ferocity.
The car in the photo above is the [...]

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2009 Greenwich Concours d’Elegance: The British

June 20, 2009

The Fourteenth Annual Greenwich Concours d’Elegance was held on June 6-7 at Roger Sherman Baldwin Park in Greenwich, CT. Founders and co-chairs Bruce and Genia Wennerstrom hosted an impressive variety of marques, featuring rare, classic, unusual, exotic, and one-off production and race cars.
It is a pleasure to share this delectable mix of devastating machinery with [...]

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The coolest RC car ever!

March 12, 2009

The following video is perhaps the coolest RC car ever conceived. Of course the interwebs are aflame with doubters who feel this is just a viral video for Vodaphone. The technology end of things is probably fairly simple and existing. Who cares if it is a marketing stunt? One way or the other, this is [...]

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Lewis Hamilton proves he’s got the stuff at Spa

September 7, 2008

I managed to catch the last 14 laps of today’s Grand Prix from Spa, just in time to watch the monumental battle between the McLaren of Lewis Hamilton and Kimi Raikkonen’s Ferrari. Mixed wet & dry surfaces, run off roads, errant spinners and big brass balls all came together to produce one of the best [...]

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Video: McLaren M6B lapping Infineon Raceway

July 31, 2008

Some time ago, Gary Faules took us on a tour of Infineon Raceway in Lucky, the GT350R. I just stumbled across this video that puts things into a completely different perspective. Vintage racer Gary Sheehan takes us for a few laps of the legendary Sears Point track in the McLaren M6B Can Am car originally [...]

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McLaren F1 team slapped with largest ever sporting penalty

September 14, 2007

It is apparently the largest sporting penalty ever handed down against a team. 100 million dollars!
I don’t care if it is McLaren, that’s a big chunk of change and it’s gotta hurt.
For those who haven’t been following things, let’s condense it a bit. Disgruntled, ex Ferrari engineer, Nigel Stepney provided now suspended McLaren chief designer [...]

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Is Lewis Hamilton gettin’ jiggy with the bosses daughter?

August 17, 2007

Let’s see now. Young, talented, rich, about to become World Champion and the biggest schwantz in racing since Willy T. What more could a rich girl want?
Over at Full Throttle, there are reports that young Mr. Hamilton may be dating a certain Sara Ojjeh, the daughter of team boss Mansour Ojjeh. With European Paparazzi snapping [...]

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Let’s get started racing

August 8, 2007

Nelson, welcome to The Garage and I just wanted to say I am looking forward to your future articles with great interest. I have been involved with racing in one form or another since I was a little boy but my path took a very different road (no pun intended) than most. On the other [...]

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Freddie Hunt, Son of James Taking On Formula Ford

March 22, 2007

Andretti. Villeneuve. Rosberg.
These are just some of the families where the Formula 1 bug bites more than one generation. Perhaps we are about to see the scion of yet another famous name move up the ranks. Freddie Hunt, son of the late James Hunt has decided, like so many others to begin his racing [...]

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