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

Road & Track

THE ULTIMATE EXTREME EDGE ISSUE! • METAPHORICAL OR LITERAL, THE OUTER LIMITS NEVER FAIL TO FASCINATE.

BOUNDARY PLAYERS • THE VANGUARD OF TECHNOLOGY IS ALWAYS CREATED BY THE BOLD.

Red Bull RB17 Gives You… • Quicker lap times than an F1 CAR and, unless you’re fit, possibly BLACK-OUTS.

BEYOND THE PRECIPICE • WHEN YOU RUN OUT OF TALENT ON ANGELES CREST HIGHWAY, THESE FIRST RESPONDERS PICK UP THE PIECES.

SPOILER ALERT • THE GURNEY FLAP DOESN’T LOOK LIKE MUCH, BUT IT CHANGED RACE-CAR AERODYNAMICS.

THICC • THE WEIGHTY NEW M5 MAKES BIG NUMBERS.

THE WALL OF SHAME • FORMULA 1’S TRICKIEST CHICANE MAKES EVEN WORLD CHAMPS LOOK LIKE CHUMPS.

NANNY STATE • ONCE TOTAL BUMMERS, ELECTRONIC DRIVING AIDS NOW ALLOW ENTHUSIASTS TO GO FASTER. HERE’S PROOF.

A LESSON IN LUSTER • THIS WATCH USES LASERS AND TECHNOLOGY INSPIRED BY BIOMIMICRY TO TELL A GOOD STORY.

WEDGE ISSUE • HOW PEDESTRIAN-IMPACT STANDARDS WILL SOFTEN FUTURE AUTOMOTIVE DESIGN.

AMPED UP, TURNED DOWN • THE CHARGER EV LOOKS LIKE A BULLY AND GOES LIKE STINK.

CIRCLING BACK • FLYWHEELS WERE ONCE THE FUTURE OF HYBRID RACING.

PATRIOT MISFIRE • THIS CHRYSLER RACE-CAR CONCEPT WAS WAY OUT ON THE TECHNOLOGICAL FRINGE.

Racer’s Edge • When good sense screams to back off and the consequences of a minuscule mistake could be tragic, professional racers—using skill, stubborn confidence, willful ignorance, or a trancelike calm—need to push through. They must find the limit of mechanical and human capability. Otherwise, they’ve already lost. Here are three drivers’ stories of their time teetering on the brink.

GUIDED BY ELECTRONS • THE NEXT FRONTIER IN STEERING DOES N’T HAVE TO BE SCARY.

JOEY VERSUS THE CURVE • J.RUITER’S BLOCKISH TRANSPORTATION DESIGNS PONDER A TECHPROOF FUTURE.

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