Sergio Perez Wins 2023 Azerbaijan Grand Prix Snoozefest
Sergio Perez won the 2023 Azerbaijan Grand Prix in a Red Bull 1-2 snoozefest ahead of his teammate, Max Verstappen with Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc claiming the third and final podium position. Leclerc began the race in pole position but was only able to hold that position for three laps before first, Verstappen passed him, then […]
Sergio Perez Wins 2023 Azerbaijan Grand Prix Sprint Race Shootout
Red Bull’s Sergio Perez was victorious over Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc – the pole-sitter – in the 2023 Azerbaijan Grand Prix Sprint Race Shootout. AlphaTauri’s Yuki Tsunoda crashed on the first lap of the sprint race, bringing out a yellow flag that caused a rolling re-start where Perez took advantage and eventually passed Leclerc with the […]
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Gran Turismo 6 Is First Racing Game To Be FIA Certified
The Federation Internationale de L’Automobile [FIA] – the organization responsible for sanctioning Formula One [and other] world automobile racing events – has entered into partnership with Polyphony Digital, the creators of the racing video game Gran Turismo 6, to officially certify four of the existing tracks depicted in the GT6 game, making GT6 the only racing video game to officially be certified by the FIA. In addition to the certification, […]
Four Seasons Singapore Rolls Out Red Carpet For F1 Fans
The winning team will be a foregone conclusion by the time September rolls around on the 2014 Formula One racing season, but the Four Seasons Hotel in Singapore is attempting to inject some excitement into what will likely be just another race win for Mercedes on their march to the 2014 championship. By way of enticing Formula One fans to consider attending the event, the hotel chain is offering a […]
Home Depot Closes Up NASCAR Shop
Home Depot is expected to end their primary NASCAR sponsorship duties and will cease their co-sponsorship with Joe Gibbs Racing, who owns the #20 car driven by Matt Kenseth. Home Depot had been a co-sponsor of that car along with Dollar General but Dollar General is now expected to take on a more expansive sponsorship role once Home Depot departs at the end of the racing season. Home Depot had […]
Edwards Holds Off Gordon at Sonoma
Carl Edwards held off hard-charging veteran Jeff Gordon to capture the Toyota/Save Mart 350 at the Sonoma Raceway in California. Gordon came charging back from 15th to catch up to the leader Edwards on the final lap, but was unable to pass Edwards on the final turn. Dale Earnhardt, Jr. finished third. It was the first-ever win for Edwards at Sonoma – where Gordon has won five times.
Mercedes Returns To Dominance At Austrian Grand Prix
After one race where there was actual drama and intrigue regarding the identity of the race victor, it was back to the same old, same old for the 2014 Austrian Grand Prix as Mercedes again went 1-2 with Nico Rosberg holding off Lewis Hamilton for the top two spots and those pair a whopping eight seconds over third-place Valtteri Bottas in his Mercedes-powered Williams. It was the first podium finish […]
Season 4 Premiere Episode Of Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee: Sarah Jessica Parker
Actress Sarah Jessica Parker is Jerry Seinfeld’s guest on the Season Four premiere episode of the popular web series “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee”. The car in use for the premiere episode is none other than a 1976 Ford Country Squire Wagon… Sarah Jessica Parker’s 1976 Ford Country Squire Wagon.
GT Racing 2 Available On Windows Phones
Gameloft’s GT Racing 2 has been available for Android and iOS mobile phones since late last year but it now has become available for Windows phones. The game boasts 13 tracks on which to race 67 cars from 30 manufacturers and an improved physics engine from its original launch for a more realistic racing experience and to depict weather conditions. Download of GT Racing 2 will require 1 GB of […]
Nissan Reveals Their Car For The Gran Turismo 6 Vision Series
After being taunted for most of June with promises of a new Nissan supercar of some sort in the Gran Turismo 6 video game, Nissan finally pulled the red sheet of mystery off the car and produced the Nissan Concept 2020 as their entry in the GT6 Vision Series…
Audi Wins 24 Hours of LeMans
For the 13th time in the last 15 years, Audi has won the 24 Hours of LeMans endurance race. The Audi #2 e-tron Quattro with a driving team of Marcel Fassler, Andre Lotterer and Benoit Treluyer won the LMP1 class race ahead of the Audi #1 car in second and Toyota in third. It was the third win in four years for the driving trio of Fassler/Lotterer/Treluyer. In other races, […]
Nissan’s ZEOD RC EV Doesn’t Use All 24 Hours Of LeMans
Nissan’s experimental electric car – the ZEOD RC EV – used less than one hour of the 2014 24 Hours of LeMans race in France before a mechanical gearbox failure sidelined the car and knocked it out of the race. The car is similar to the DeltaWing car sponsored by Nissan in a previous LeMans [and which Nissan is being accused of design-stealing by Don Panoz, the architect of the […]
Ferrari Threatens To Leave F1
Having been shut out – along with just about everybody else save last week’s lone Red Bull victory – of the 2014 Formula One racing season, Ferrari chairman Luca di Montezemolo is considering calling it quits in the racing circuit and possibly focusing on sports car racing [such as this weekend’s LeMans race in France]. Despite being the most popular team in the sport, Ferrari has not won a Formula […]
Volkswagen Scores With Gooooooolf Celebration Video
Most of the automobile companies will be afflicted with World Cup fever over the next few weeks and Volkswagen has decided the best way to advertise their Golf GTI will be to adorn it in the national colors of a country when it scores a goal in the World Cup and then run a 13-second in-game celebration video on ESPN and Univision live streams with the car doing doughnuts on […]
Nakajima Climbs Pole At LeMans
Kazuki Nakajima became the first Japanese driver to ever claim the pole position for the 24 Hours at LeMans with a 3:21.789 lap on the eight-mile [13km] circuit in his Toyota No. 7. Nakajima shares operation of the Toyota No. 7 with Alex Wurz and Stephane Sarrizin. Toyota also claimed its first LeMans pole position since 1999. The 24 Hours of LeMans will be held at the Circuit de la […]
Yee-haw! General Lee Emerges From The 80s For An Auto Trader Ad
For its new ad touting its online services, Auto Trader dipped into the 1980s and brought out the General Lee – the 1969 Dodge Charger from “The Dukes of Hazzard” television series – but, alas, while the Duke brothers were jousting with the sheriffs, there was no appearance from Daisy Duke…
Hyundai Knows About The World Cup – Part Two
Part Two of Hyundai’s knowledge of why the World Cup is the world’s biggest sporting event…
Hyundai Knows About The World Cup – Part One
Just in time for the world’s biggest sporting event – the World Cup – Hyundai has produced a pair of video advertisments that indicate they know exactly what the World Cup means to people around the world. First up, don’t tell me anything about those matches played while I have to [supposedly] work in the office….