Road & Track

Road & Track includes technical features on automotive subjects, wide-ranging feature stories, spectacular automotive art and standard-setting new-car photography, humor, fiction, travel stories, book reviews and the most comprehensive racing coverage offered by a monthly magazine.Bonus: iPad Interactive

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SPEED LAB • RACING IS THE ULTIMATE TEST OF ANY VELOCITY-RELATED HYPOTHESIS.

HYPER REALITY • McLaren brings a video-game fantasy to life for a lucky few.

Here Comes the Judd • The soul of the Solus GT hails from the golden era of Formula 1 engines.

FLOW STATE • HOW THE GOVERNMENT-DESIGNED NACA DUCT WENT FROM EARLY-JET-AGE FAILURE TO MOTORSPORT FETISH.

FRAMING THE OPPOSITION • ONE UPSTART RACE TEAM IN THE NINETIES USED A CRASH-TEST CAMERA TO SPY ON ITS COMPETITORS AND NEVER GOT CAUGHT. UNTIL NOW.

THE FABRIC OF OUR LIVES • A HALF-CENTURY SINCE ITS FIRST APPEARANCE IN RACING, IS CARBON FIBER STILL THE WONDER MATERIAL OF THE FUTURE?

THE NEW BOOST • FIFTY YEARS AFTER THE TURBO SHOOK THE SPORTS-CAR WORLD, HYBRID POWER IS READY TO REDEFINE THE PORSCHE 911.

BOXER BRIEFING • PORSCHE’S HYBRID TURBO FLAT-SIX IS LEANER AND MEANER.

AI OF THE TIGER • RACE TEAMS ARE TURNING TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO RISE UP TO THE CHALLENGE OF THEIR RIVALS.

OUT OF THE SHADOW • HOW A LEGEND WAS BUILT ON A FAKE MO CK-UP AND A FAILED RACING EXPERIMENT.

TEMPLE OF SPEED • THE UNTOLD STORY OF HOW THE BRICKYARD’S RACE-CONTROL BUILDING BROKE NEW GROUND IN THE SCIENCE OF TRACK ARCHITECTURE.

THE BIZARRO SUPERSTITIONS THAT FUEL VICTORIES • SOMETIMES SCIENCE CAN’T BEAT LUCKY OLD UNDERWEAR.

GET A GRIP • TOYOTA’S TRACK-SURFACE-TESTING ROBOT TAKES DRAG-STRIP SETUP FROM SHOE SOLES TO SPREADSHEETS.

OUTER LIMITS • AT THE EDGE OF PRACTICAL PERORMANCE, THE NEW CORVETTE ZR1 PUSHES ENGINEERING TO EXTREMES.

BEAUTIFUL COMPLICATION • THE SPLIT-SECONDS CHRONOGRAPH IS A PROPER (LAP) TIMING DEVICE.

Multitalented • This Canadian auto supplier can do it all, from hinges to hypercars.

Keeper of the Flame • Cosworth’s legend expands as the company becomes the exotic-car world’s engine supplier of choice.

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