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NASCARs Most Memorable Moments at Darlington Raceway Its the Lady in Black, Too Tough To Tame, and home to the Southern 500 May 7, 2021 Brian LawdermilkGetty Images When Harold Brasington came back from the 1933 Indianapolis 500 and declared that he wanted to build a superspeedway in rural South Carolina, his friends and family thought it was an elaborate joke at best and utterly ridiculous at worst. Then he purchased an old cotton field and they thought he might be insane. Undeterr...

Lewis Hamilton: Out of an early mistake comes another masterclass By Andrew BensonChief F1 writer Last updated on This one meant a lot to Lewis Hamilton. Any victory feels good, but even as the Mercedes driver closes on 100 Grand Prix victories - the one in Portugal on Sunday was his 97th - some are more special than others. And this was undoubtedly one of the special ones. The fight Hamilton and Mercedes are facing against Max Verstappen and Red Bull this year is arguably the toughest they h...

Valtteri Bottas beats Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton to pole position in a bizarre qualifying session at the Portuguese Grand Prix.

Portimao Qualifying: Bottas gatecrashes the party 1 May, 2021 Valtteri Bottas took pole position by a margin of 0.007 seconds from Lewis Hamilton in qualifying for the Portuguese Grand Prix at Portimao. With both drivers failing to improve on their second runs in Q3, Bottas’ first flying lap of 1.18.348 was good enough to secure a 17th pole position of his career. Hamilton was slower in Q3 than in Q2 and will have to settle for a front row start behind his teammate, with Max Verstappen one sp...

1984 Dodge Daytona Turbo Z Gets Serious about Performance From the Archive: Adding a turbo to Dodges Daytona sports coupe results in Americas first legitimate front-wheel-drive muscle car. From the July 1983 issue of Car and Driver. The guys at Chrysler have been telling us they were going to do it. In fact, theyve been telling everyone within earshot, from congressmen to Wall Street bankers, that the new G24 sports coupe would stop the heart of the American car enthusiast. And now, months lat...