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Once again, the Gumball 3000 machine fires up and will blast through exotic locales to thrill millions of fans worldwide. Now, celebrating its 15th anniversary (wow, that just hit us), the 2013 Gumball 3000 rally will be whisking through 13 countries on a 3,000 mile (5,000 km) trek from ...

Normally when a Formula 1 driver takes us on a lap of a circuit, it's done with the visual aid of a car actually traveling the track – the driver narrates what we see on screen. In the good old days before every car sported cameras, however, it wasn't like that. Graham Hill, double World ...

DAY THREE – THE SNOW BEFORE THE SWEET REWARD On Day Two there were plenty of opportunities to try all chassis setups and I explored them all. So doing, I spotted those couple of things that could use work in the future. But I honestly have to say I was falling ever more under the spell of ...

DAY TWO - THE FASTER CURVES OVER HILL AND VALLEY If the first day was a warm-up just to get us to the good stuff in central France, Day Two of my McLaren MP4-12C odyssey was one type of pure sports car touring pleasure. The sun was everywhere, the roads were pure entertainment, and the five test ...

To hype the Formula 1 Grand Prix of Monaco the BBC put together a flyover – or would that be drive-through? – video of an F1 driver's life from birth to The Principality, from the driver's point of view. In just 1:56, it's clear that an F1 driver's life is so much tougher than you ...

DAY ONE - UNDER THE ENGLISH CHANNEL INTO FRANCE Since the very first viewings and tech workshops in early 2010 of the McLaren MP4-12C, I've been working my contacts in Woking, England for a cross-country drive in the innovative supercar. We're still talking about a possible New York to Los ...

Prince Rainier III of Monaco spent years amassing a collection of classic, rare and collectible automobiles. It was an eclectic assortment of makes, models and eras. A 1939 Simca 5 shared the same display area as a 1980 Citroën CX2400 and a 1928 Hispano Suiza. But his son, Prince Albert II, ...

Policing the streets of Monte Carlo and the outlaying Monegasque countryside (little of it though there is) presents a unique set of challenges. Contrary to popular perception, there is an enforced speed limit in the Mediterranean principality. Enforcing it, however, is another issue, because ...

While this may have missed the mark of the World's most expensive car crash, the repair bill certainly wasn't cheap. Last year we brought you a gallery of a Bentley driver who flipped out in a valet parking lot and smashed into several high end vehicles. The female driver put the hammer down and ...

On this day in 1956, a French Grand Prix driver became the oldest person to ever compete and finish in the sport at the ripe age of 55. That driver was Louis Chiron. Chiron was born in 1899 in Monaco where as a young boy, he became smitten by the latest craze - the automobile. After serving as ...