The December issue of "Curbs" magazine is now available at newsstands. The latest issue is also packed with exciting reviews of historic motorsport events and stories about brands, vehicles and personalities.
Living return
Anyone with an interest in classic cars will be familiar with the Goodwood Revival. Anyone who has not yet managed to attend the Revival can only be told that they have missed out on a brilliantly staged historic motorsport event that is absolutely unique and unrivaled in its quality, as the report in Curbs shows.
In the 2002 season, around 15 years after the introduction of the basic car to motorsport, Arthur Deutgen from Duisburg set two quite remarkable exclamation marks with the BMW M3 in the VLN Endurance Championship Nürburgring after two second places previously.
Lady first!
As long as she was active, Desiré Wilson took her sport very seriously and always saw racing as hard work. "I learned from the mistakes of my colleagues Divina Galica and Leila Lombardi," she once philosophized, "they obviously didn't realize that they needed a lot of technical understanding, a lot of seriousness and emphasis to make it clear to the men that they weren't racing against a woman or a buddy, but against a competitor.
Opel and motor sport - a very difficult matter for the writing future in the 1960s. "No, we do not engage in motorsport at the factory and are not planning to do so," said press officer Josef-Christoph Hepting sternly in 1965. Reiner Braun tells the whole story about Opel's cautious start in motorsport, the first Head of Sport Peter Preikschat and the "black widow".
Shadow-Black Beautiful
From 1971, most of the black Shadow sports cars became an integral part of the Can-Am series and a growing threat to the established competition from McLaren and later Porsche. The founder of the Shadow brand was Don Nicholas. This article tells his story and that of his most successful vehicles, the Shadow Mk. 1 and the Shadow Mk. III.
The success story of the Europan Formula Drivers Association, EFDA for short, is one of the best-kept secrets in international motorsport, although EFDA has brought more young drivers into Formula 1 in a very short space of time than any other racing series, promoter or motorsport association before it.
Looking back on a great career
Jeff Gordon is the new "Ironman" of stock car racing: on September 27, 2015, he drove his 789th consecutive Nascar Sprint Cup race in the Sylvania 300 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in London. In doing so, he broke the previous record held by Ricky Rudd, who had contested 788 races without interruption. In addition, Jeff Gordon is the only racing driver besides Michael Schumacher to win five races in a race series at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The article tells the full story of this exceptional career.
1968 was a year of upheaval. The Prague Spring sent out a signal for the democratization of communist systems of power, the student movement in Germany had established the extra-parliamentary opposition, Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin set fire to a Frankfurt department store, laying the foundations for the Red Army Faction, which would terrorize the Federal Republic of Germany in the years that followed. And in Munich, motorsport enthusiast and VW and Porsche dealer Fritz Haber decided to realize his own Formula Vau project.
In addition, the last issue of this year also reports on various other motorsport events such as the International Edelweiss Bergpreis Rossfeld Berchtesgaden and the Spa 6 hours.
