INSIDE ISSUE Nº 08

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Car culture is not only about the machines we remember.

It is about the places, people and moments that made us feel something.

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Issue 08 of THE SHIFT is perhaps our most personal exploration of that idea yet.

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In our cover story, I return to the Paris–Dakar of my childhood. To nights waiting with my father for stage results to arrive by telex, to the heroes we followed across Africa, and to a race that once seemed to exist at the very edge of the possible.

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Glenn Allan takes us to Mount Panorama with Daniel Bilski to explore why Bathurst demands respect like few other circuits, while Alessandro Nobile sits down with Dominique Leroy, whose extraordinary photographs captured Formula 1 from behind the lens.

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Antonietta Gianola takes us into Italy’s Motor Valley and also introduces us to Sauro Torreggiani, the artist who believes every F1 car deserves a portrait.

 

Andy Parker enters the colourful and uncompromising world of Itasha, while Dante Guarnaccia asks a deceptively simple question: what matters more behind the wheel: speed or sensation?

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António Ferreira remembers the extraordinary adventure of the Camel Trophy, while Hans Gruber revisits the Jaguar

E-Type and the moment one car seemed to stop the world.

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I also speak with Tim Bradshaw about an unlikely Mini, an extraordinary adventure and the philosophy of simply keeping going.

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Jake Gruijters explains why, when it comes to cars, the answer is never one, while Michael Lazarus looks back at the Porsche 959, a machine that seemed to arrive from the future.

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Welcome to Issue 08.

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Twelve stories.

Twelve perspectives.

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One shared passion for Car Culture.

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Nuno Di Franco
Founder
KINGSHIFT