Mike Guy

The latest volume of Road & Track is all about grassroots racing.

The tech revolution is complicated.

Motorsports A to Z: Sebastian Vettel, ‘A’ is for agitator.

For The First-Ever R&T Music Issue, We Strained To Avoid The Commonplace.

In 1966, McCartney, that relentless overachiever and the only driving enthusiast in the Beatles, looked at the Aston Martin DB5 in his London garage and did what you and I do when we want to clear our heads.

The 24 hours of Le Mans survived a world war, horrific on-track violence, and countless poorly behaved fans. Here’s to another 100 years.

It’s a masterpiece that couldn’t be made anymore. It’s also radical Nineties normcore.

We’ve all seared a track map of the perfect road course in our minds. These are public roads that wind around a nearby reservoir, cut through a patchwork of farmland, or—for at least one extremely irresponsible driver lamming it in Canada—­around the island of Manhattan. I have several, each corresponding to a place I’ve lived. My first street course was about eight miles long. Half tarmac and half gravel, it passed through pine and maple forests and circled the York County transfer station twic…

Big-ticket racing series love street circuits: They are big-ticket races. On the Formula 1 calendar, the hottest of all is Monaco, a spectacle so old and storied it might as well be in the Odyssey. But the realities of F1 have caught up with this dinky circuit. Though the streets are curbed with striped glamour and the Casino (shabby in reality but shiny on race day) still has a vibe, today’s cars are simply too large for the narrow European streets. Monaco may be the standard-­bearer of street…

That’s right. I have my doubts about electric cars. I’m a gashead and a skeptic, and I spend my days covering an industry whose product hadn’t changed much since it was invented. Four wheels and an engine, and you’re more or less good to go. EVs are rewriting that. This story originally appeared in Volume 20 of Road Track.Electric vehicles present complications. Though they have noble goals—to reduce the amount of carbon ­dioxide piling up in our habitat—EVs create new problems while doing litt…