Mad Max: Go-Kart Paintball Fury Road
What if George Miller had used go-karts instead of cars for “Mad Max: Fury Road”? Well, it might have looked something like this…maybe
What if George Miller had used go-karts instead of cars for “Mad Max: Fury Road”? Well, it might have looked something like this…maybe
Yesterday’s massive liquid hydrocarbon-enhanced 21-ton explosion at a shipyard in Tianjin, China, claimed 44 lives as well as thousands of Volkswagens waiting to be shipped to their destinations. According to officials, the total vehicle loss for Volkswagen [and their insurance company] was 2748 vehicles burnt to a crisp. Volkswagen’s SUV Touaregs took the biggest hit, […]
Kenny Habul and Ryan Reed get tangled up at the turn before the pit entrance at NASCAR’s race at Watkins Glen in New York…
Force India driver Sergio Perez had a rear suspension failure which sent him careening into a wall during a practice session for this weekend’s 2015 Hungarian Grand Prix, and upon sliding out from the wall, one of his tires snagged the Astroturf trim and sent his car on a rollover – but Perez emerged unharmed […]
Now that “Mad Max: Fury Road” is nearing the end of its expected three-month run in movie theaters, the next must-see movie this summer for car chases, and cars in general, is “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.” – based on the 1964 television series of the same name that originally starred Robert Wagner and will star […]
The final lap of NASCAR’s rain-delayed 2015 Daytona Coke Zero 400 was a wild ride for Austin Dillon whose car was catapulted into the air, flipping over two rows of cars and into the catch fencing where the engine was ripped out and tossed onto the track. Dillon’s car came to rest upside down at […]
A NASCAR Sprint Cup race is scheduled for this weekend at Daytona so the boys decided they would practice crashing in the practice laps this week…
With only a lap to go at the IndyCar race this weekend at the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California, Ryan Briscoe collided with Ryan Hunter-Reay and the collision sent both into the infield where Briscoe’s car flipped. Briscoe was okay…
Lamborghini Huracan race cars are good for many things – but going through hay bales is not supposed to be one of them – as displayed at the 2015 Goodwood festival of Speed…
The Duval/DiGrassi/Jarvis Audi was trundling along the 2015 LeMans race course, minding its own business, maybe checking Facebook or Twitter status, when – what’s this? a slower car? what possible reason could there be for a slower car on the track? – I better go around it while I ignore the possibilities…
There usually is not any measurable action for the podium spots in Formula One this year [or last year, for that matter] so you must go to the European GT4 Championships where not only do they fight for podium spots but they also fight for the fourth-place spot as well, as Jorg Viebahn [in the […]
“Mad Max: Fury Road” has been out for nearly a month now and wait…what?…there’s still more “Mad Max: Fury Road” stuff to show you? Well, not really, but the special effects for movie – likely to be nominated for some Academy Award action – is even more impressive when you take out the special effects, […]
“Mad Max: Fury Road” has been out in theaters for almost two weeks now so you probably thought you had seen all the action there was to see from the movie. Well, you sir/madam, are wrong. Here is nearly 19 minutes of B-roll action from the craziest car chase movie possibly ever…
Although it won’t do any good for Lewis Hamilton, the learning process continues for Dutch teenager Max Verstappen, who was handed a five-spot grid penalty [and loss of two points] for smashing into Romain Grosjean at the 2015 Monaco Grand Prix this past weekend. The crash occurred on Lap 64 of the 78-lap race and […]
The fourth movie in the venerable “Mad Max” franchise, “Mad Max: Fury Road” is currently enjoying a successful run at movie theaters around the world, but you will have to wait a few more months [September 1, 2015, to be exact] for the arrival of the video game version of the movie – “Mad Max: […]
The official 2015 ASN Driver Rankings have been updated to reflect the 2015 Monaco Grand Prix – which we are calling the Monocle Grand Prix [due to its old-school money and high affluence attraction factors]. Typically, the main draw to the Monocle Grand Prix is the number of off-track celebrities and gigantic mega-yachts that show […]
Just as a pit decision determined the outcome for the day’s first big race – the 2015 Monaco Grand Prix – another pit decision determined the winner of NASCAR’s Coca Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Just like the Formula One scenario that saw Lewis Hamilton come into the pits late and lose his surefire […]
Every 15 years, Juan Pablo Montoya wins the Indianapolis 500 – so after winning it in 2000, it was time for Montoya to win again at the Brickyard. Montoya staved off a final challenge from Will Power and beat an underpowered Charlie Kimball and fading Scott Dixon to claim the crash-filled 2015 Indianapolis 500 that […]
Christmas came seven months early for Nico Rosberg as the pit crew of his Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton handed Rosberg the victory in the 2015 Monaco Grand Prix after a crucial miscalculation in the final stages of the race allowed Rosberg to pass Hamilton while he was exiting the pits. The miscalculation also allowed Sebastian […]
You have had a chance to see the movie [presumably, otherwise, what are you waiting for!?!] – and now you can see the craziness that went into filming those action scenes for “Mad Max: Fury Road” as well as seeing Furiosa actually crack a smile [which doesn’t happen much in the real film]…