Category: Petrol Personalities

Valentino Balboni driving a Lamborghini Miura on Amelia Island

It’s Not Every Day That You See an Icon Driven by a Legend

Over the weekend, I attended the Amelia Island Cars & Coffee and their 21st annual Concours d’Elegance. While there on Saturday, my wife and I were waiting to be shuttled to our parking area, when a Lamborghini Miura drove by a few times. On one pass, I captured some photographs of it approaching on the straight and rounding the corner. Later that night, looking through the raw files, the driver’s head and face, for some reason, looked very familiar… When I zoomed the image up to full size, I recognized him immediately; the retired legendary Lamborghini chief test driver, Valentino Balboni. Can someone help me get my jaw up off the floor?

A History of Seinfeld’s Porsches Selling at Amelia

If you are a fan of Porsche, and you’ve been anywhere near the internet in the last month, it’s unlikely that you haven’t heard about the upcoming Seinfeld collection grouping

Why the Miura Can Never Be Topped

“It’s such a tragedy when someone owns such a car and it never leaves the garage. It’s like never making love to your wife.” [Alex Roy, of Road & Track,

IndyCar Motorcade Across Golden Gate Bridge Honors Fallen Driver Justin Wilson

As the drivers of IndyCar prepare for their season-closing race at Sonoma Raceway, they likely do so with heavy hearts following the crash that claimed the life of Justin Wilson.

Celebrating the Life of a Champion: Dan Wheldon

Before the IndyCar race at St Pete, they played this video tribute celebrating the late great Dan Wheldon; the local racing hero who sadly passed away in a serious crash