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Two Races, One Track
Two weekends at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta and the stories about why we keep coming back
Dear Collectors of Curves and Connoisseurs of Combustion. Welcome back.
There is a sequence at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta. The uphill climb to T2, the plunge through the esses and over the blind crest into T5 through T9, the long drop to T10 and T11, then under the bridge and down the chute through T12 to the start/finish straight. I was there in May, and again in June. Two races, one track. Somewhere between the first green flag and the last checker, it struck me that the phrase describes this entire issue.
Every story here runs two races at once. The one you clock with a stopwatch, and the one you can only feel. The machine and the meaning. The carbon and the crowd. The lap record and the lump in your throat. One track, two races. Welcome to Issue 04 of Revs & Redlines.
This month the cover belongs to Maranello. Our featured story, The Clienti List, is the purest expression based on Ferrari’s Corse Clienti. We take you inside the programme where the marque’s greatest competition machines are stored, shipped, and fired up by the factory itself, then run flat out by their owners exactly as they were built to be.
From the most exclusive grid on earth, we widen the lens to the most welcoming. One Paddock, Every Dream tours SRO Motorsport’s globe-spanning GT World Challenge. The only paddock where a teenager in a spec coupe, a gentleman in a touring car, and a factory ace in a half-million-dollar GT3 all chase the same apex.
We finish, as any proper race should, at the checkers. In A Checkered Past you’ll discover that the flag you’ve chased after your whole life began as a glorified road sign with a pun for a name. Consider it this issue’s gentle reminder to finish strong.
Finally, this edition’s Revs Gallery shares some of our favorite images from both race weekends.
Two races, one track. The fast one and the deep one. Thank you, as always, for running both with us.
See you at the fence,
D. Paul Graham, Publisher & Founder
Revs & Redlines Magazine