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Schumacher Stuns Phoenix on His First Oval Lap

Schumacher Stuns Phoenix on His First Oval Lap

Wheel Front Team Mar 7, 2026

Mick Schumacher was the first car out in qualifying at Phoenix Raceway on Friday, with zero oval reference points and a 1-mile track he’d never raced on. His two-lap average: 173.667 mph. Then he sat and waited while 23 other…

The Ace Ventura ‘Butt Birth’ Rhino Is Up for Auction

The Ace Ventura ‘Butt Birth’ Rhino Is Up for Auction

Wheel Front Team Mar 6, 2026

Bidding on the full-size mechanical rhinoceros Jim Carrey famously squeezed out of in 1995’s “Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls” has already hit $5,500. The expected…

Ruf’s Only 928 Failed to Sell — And That’s the Real Story

Ruf’s Only 928 Failed to Sell — And That’s the Real Story

Wheel Front Team Mar 6, 2026

The only Porsche 928 that Alois Ruf ever built crossed the auction block at the 2026 Amelia Island Concours through Gooding Christie’s. Nobody met the…

Cadillac Hits the F1 Grid in Melbourne, Humbled and Losing Parts

Cadillac Hits the F1 Grid in Melbourne, Humbled and Losing Parts

Wheel Front Team Mar 6, 2026

Eighteen years ago, Mark Reuss was in Melbourne running GM’s Australian business while Detroit was melting down. Last Friday, he was back at Albert Park…

The BMW ActiveHybrid 7 Is a Monument to Regret

The BMW ActiveHybrid 7 Is a Monument to Regret

Wheel Front Team Mar 6, 2026

Some cars whisper luxury. Others shout ambition. The BMW ActiveHybrid 7 screams something else entirely: that its owner has a profoundly dysfunctional relationship with money,…

The Cars That Made Us: Hollywood’s Best Never Left

The Cars That Made Us: Hollywood’s Best Never Left

Wheel Front Team Mar 6, 2026

Bruce Campbell announced this week he’s living with an incurable but treatable cancer, and Jalopnik editor Erin Marquis did what any self-respecting gearhead would do…

F1’s Brake Revolution Is the Story Nobody’s Watching

F1’s Brake Revolution Is the Story Nobody’s Watching

Wheel Front Team Mar 6, 2026

Every car on the 2026 Formula 1 grid runs Brembo Group hardware at each corner. That monopoly isn’t new. What is new is the sheer…

Toyota’s Safari Stranglehold: Can Anyone Break It?

Toyota’s Safari Stranglehold: Can Anyone Break It?

Wheel Front Team Mar 6, 2026

Five wins from five starts. That’s Toyota’s record at Safari Rally Kenya since the event clawed its way back onto the WRC calendar in 2021.…

Audi Arrives in F1 With Everything to Prove

Audi Arrives in F1 With Everything to Prove

Wheel Front Team Mar 6, 2026

March 8, 2026, will be remembered as the day Audi returned to Grand Prix racing for the first time since the Auto Union Silver Arrows…

Volvo Reinvents the Seatbelt It Gave the World

Volvo Reinvents the Seatbelt It Gave the World

Wheel Front Team Mar 5, 2026

Seventy years ago, a Volvo Amazon prototype rolled out of Gothenburg wearing a two-point, cross-chest diagonal belt — a contraption most drivers had never seen.…