What Five Features On Cars Originated From Le Mans?
What five features on modern cars originated from Le Mans? Here they are, courtesy of DriveTribe… Front wheel drive Disc brakes Seat belts Headlights Hybrid technology
What five features on modern cars originated from Le Mans? Here they are, courtesy of DriveTribe… Front wheel drive Disc brakes Seat belts Headlights Hybrid technology
Former Formula One world champion Fernando Alonso flamed out spectacularly with McLaren at the 2019 Indianapolis 500 but he rebounded nicely with the un-opposed Toyota as he [along with co-drivers Kazuki Nakajima and Sebastian Buemi] captured his second straight 24 Hours of Le Mans victory…
Three-time 24 Hours of Le Mans winner Marcel Fassler is out of the 2019 version of the endurance race after smacking into the Porsche driven by Satoshi Hoshino sending the Swiss driver careening into the wall a mere few hours into the race…
Matt Damon plays Carroll Shelby, Christian Bale plays Ken Miles and Jon Bernthal plays Lee Iacocca in the trailer for “Ford v. Ferrari” [release date – November 15, 2019] that is loosely based on A.J. Baime’s book “Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans” about the famous […]
The massive hype is over for another year as former Formula One world champion Fernando Alonso failed to qualify for the 2019 Indianapolis 500 in his McLaren. Ironically, Alonso’s big money, overly hyped McLaren team was bumped from the field by a mere .02 miles per hour by 23-year-old Kyle Kaiser from obscure Juncos Racing, […]
“Ford v. Ferrari”, a feature film detailing the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans battle between the two car companies has received a release date of November 15, 2019 from Disney [after their acquisition of Fox]. The film is directed by James Mangold [who most recently directed 2017’s X-Men final chapter “Logan”] and stars Christian […]
Back in the tent, the 12th episode of the third season of “The Grand Tour” was entitled “Legends and Luggage” and included a pair of Lancia legendary knockoffs, the real deal from Porsche, another installment of Conversation Street and ended with an airport travel segment. The episode began with Jeremy Clarkson featuring re-purposed, updated versions […]
Richard Hammond profiles perhaps the greatest professional race car driver of all-time, Jim Clark – and his Lotus 25 – on last week’s episode of “The Grand Tour” on Amazon Prime.
Santa has come and gone and you know why that is – because Santa’s Got A Mean Machine, of course [courtesy of JD McPherson]. Happy Holidays!
Two-time Formula One world champion Fernando Alonso has announced that he will retire from Formula One racing at the conclusion of the current racing season. The 37-year-old Spaniard will end his F1 career with McLaren after making his debut at the Australian Grand Prix of 2001. “After 17 wonderful years in this amazing sport it’s […]
The closest thing you can get to the Audi LeMans race car – the 2018 R8 V10 RWS – emerges from Jay Leno’s Garage this week. It only goes a paltry 199 miles per hour but if you want to get over that 200 mph hump then you can spring for the V10+ model that […]
Fernando Alonso – along with teammates Sebastian Buemi and Kazuki Nakajima – won the 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race for Toyota, which had never won the fabled endurance motor race. With no major automobile manufacturers in the race, Toyota had little competition though, as the SMP and Rebellion teams in their hybrid class […]
James Mangold – director of “The Wolverine” and “Logan” has signed on to become the director for what is unofficially known as the “Untitled Ford vs. Ferrari Project” – movie from 20th Century Fox based on the true story of the battle of designers at Ford and Ferrari to create the world’s fastest racecar in […]
Finally! The second season of “The Grand Tour” – which seemed like it took forever to arrive – is here…and ASN has the review of the motoring show’s first episode. There is a new intro theme song and it is not something as easily recognizable as “Come With Me Now” by the Kongos, more of […]
Porsche has indicated that they are considering a return to Formula One as an engine supplier after the sport introduces new regulations in 2021. Porsche is not, however, interested in creating a full-fledged F1 team. Porsche left as an F1 engine supplier in 1991 and is leaving the top category of Le Mans 24 Hours […]
The No. 2 Porsche 919 won the 2017 version of the 24 Hours of Le Mans after every other leading car in its LMP1 class – most notably the Toyotas – either retired or encountered mechanical problems, leaving the Porsche to win the class by surviving the entire race. Due to the aforementioned attrition rate, […]
Fernando Alonso will eschew the Monaco Grand Prix and race at the Indianapolis 500 instead this year as McLaren returns to the Brickyard for the first time in 38 years – albeit, using using Honda engines. McLaren will enter a single car in the 101st Indianapolis 500 – to be powered by Honda and run […]
No April Fool’s Day joke here as Porsche is taunting everybody else with a showy display of their new 919 Hybrid for Le Mans and the rest of the 2017 endurance racing season…
Amazon will be introducing a new original series – “Le Mans: Racing is Everything” – that will feature the legacy of the iconic 24-hour car race that occurred in Le Mans, France since 1923. “Le Mans: Racing is Everything” will delve into the history of the race that will include the generations of drivers as […]
The sixth episode of “The Grand Tour” came just in time for the holiday celebrations and the boys celebrated in Finland by bringing out Formula One driver Kimi Raikkonen to be killed in the forest by what appeared to be excessive alcohol consumption. After that, there was a mostly boring Ford vs. Ford battle pitting […]