by Driver | Apr 7, 2021 | Car and Auto News
The first-ever Extreme E race weekend is underway. The ship carrying the whole heckin’ series, cars and all, managed to get through the Suez Canal before chaos broke loose and nine electric SUVs have made it into the ancient desert of Al Ula, Saudi Arabia. Remarkably, given the teams hadn’t seen their racers since February—or […]
by Driver | Mar 2, 2021 | Car and Auto News
Extreme E is a fun series that’s also deadly serious. On the one hand, you’ve got Chip Ganassi dressing the series car as a reimagined alien GMC Hummer, and on the other, it’s a Lewis Hamilton-endorsed climate change documentary mission that also...
by Driver | Feb 1, 2021 | Car and Auto News
GMC and Chip Ganassi Racing’s Extreme E team have partnered to, err, make their off-road EV look like Hummer’s off-road EV even though it’s not actually a Hummer. The outfit’s Spark-designed Odyssey-21 will take on the silver bodywork and...
by Driver | Jan 14, 2021 | Car and Auto News
1988/1994: The Dunes Wreak Havoc Long distances over the sand dunes of North Africa can often lead to nowhere. In 1988, the 461-mile special stage in Algeria between Djanet and Djado was first renamed “Hell” by the participants who pretty much all got lost...
by Driver | Dec 23, 2020 | Car and Auto News
The heyday of Group B rallying was brief, brutal and above all, brilliant. Major developments in turbocharging technology and the introduction of all-wheel drive made cars of this era faster than any that came before. For a short period, Group B made the World Rally...
