5 Coolest Racing Cars That Ever Touched Tarmac

Maserati 250F – The Gentleman’s Racer

If cool meant elegance and danger combined, the Maserati 250F would win every time. This 1950s Formula 1 car had a long, swooping red nose and an exposed engine that looked like a work of art. Fangio won his fifth world championship in one, sliding it through corners on skinny tires with zero modern electronics. It was beautiful, deadly, and impossibly cool.