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Ayrton Senna’s last duel with Alain Prost

Alain Prost retired from F1 racing for the final time in 1993, with his last race coming at the Australian Grand Prix in November. He finished second in the race to his fierce rival Ayrton Senna but handily won the World Championship to the runner…

William Gibson on Why Sci-Fi Writers Are (Thankfully) Almost Always Wrong

Author William Gibson poses for a portrait at the Last Bookstore in Los Angeles.Photo: Jason Redmond/Wired William Gibson, one of science fiction’s most visionary and distinctive voices, maintains that he and his fellow writers don’t possess some …

Achille Varza Bugatti Type 54 – As Raced at Monza 1931

The IV Gran Premio Di Monza at the Autodromo di Monza was the first race for the 4.9-litre twin overhead cam, supercharged straight eight-cylinder Type 54s, which were the largest capacity Bugatti Grand Prix cars ever produced. In the heats the 30…

‘The true alchemists do not change lead into gold…

…they change the world into words.’ –William H. Gass

Harley-Davidson Brochure, 1948 | Retronaut

… Source: Old Car Manual Project via retronaut.co Love this retro art. The bikes aren’t bad, either….

Infographic: A Poetic Tribute To America’s Baseball Stadiums

As the great baseball novelist WP Kinsella noted in The Iowa Baseball Confederacy, there’s no rule stating that the foul lines end at the outfield wall. Technically, they run on forever, making just about all of America part of a baseball field. T…

Ray Bradbury: ‘Be your own self. Love what YOU love’

‘When asked in 1991 to describe an obstacle he had faced during his lifetime and the subsequent effect of his overcoming it, author Ray Bradbury replied to schoolteacher William Stanhope with the following letter. His inspiring response, along wit…

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