Edmunds.com is reporting that pricing for the 500-horsepower Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 will be $42,975, including a $745 destination charge and a $1,300 gas-guzzler tax.

+ Edmunds.com: 2007 Ford Shelby GT500 to start at $43,000

We uncovered this video of Juan Manuel Fangio driving his W196 Mercedes-Benz racer at Sandown in a demonstration race before the 1978 Australian Grand Prix. Sir Jack Brabham is on hand in a Lotus, too. It's an interesting video because it's obviously well after JMF's retirement, yet he seems to take this "demonstration" as a serious little event.

We found this archive of an interview that Jackie Stewart conducted with Ayrton Senna, which was actually recorded from Japanese television. In it the two world champions discuss Senna's tendency to make contact on the track. Senna's response is exactly what we'd hope he would have said:

"If you no longer go for a gap that exists, you're no longer a racing driver."

Winding Road pal and legendary advertising copywriter, Willy Hopkins, contributed this little bit of history this morning in his LaughingMan email newsletter:

May 30, 1911:

Ray Harroun and relief driver Cyrus Patsch win the inaugural Indianapolis 500 mile race in Marmon Wasp in six hours, 42 minutes, eight seconds, at an average speed of 74.602 MPH.

There's a new way for the law to nail you with a speeding ticket. In the often ignored construction zones in Illinois, state police are setting up surveillance vans with high-powered cameras that not only take a photo of the license plate, but also the driver of offending vehicles.