Gosling Took The Watch Again
Ryan Gosling [“La La Land”] absconds with his TAG Heuer Carrera prop watch – again – in a Porsche Carrera [of course] as the prop master, played by Vanessa Bayer [“Saturday Night Live”] attempts to hunt him down and retrieve it.
Red Bull Fastest In First Practice Session For 2023 Azerbaijan Grand Prix
After an unprecedented month off in the early part of the season due to the cancellation of the Chinese Grand Prix – Formula One shook off the rust with a chaotic return to racing in the first practice session for this weekend’s 2023 Azerbaijan Grand Prix. Alpine’s Pierre Gasly had his car catch fire while […]
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Lexus Shows Off Its GT3 Concept
Lexus will be unveiling their new GT3 concept car for closer inspection at next week’s Geneva Motor Show, but for now, you can catch a glimpse of the rainbow-enhanced Lexus RC F GT3 Concept. The car will go through testing in 2014, then will be made available for racing purposes in 2015, most likely in the Super GT series in Japan.
FOTA Disintegrates For 2014
The Formula One Teams Association was created six years ago as a way for the teams to organize themselves into a collective bargaining entity that could do battle with F1 chief Bernie Ecclestone should they not be happy with the direction Ecclestone was leading the legendary auto racing series. However, Ferrari, Red Bull, Sauber and Toro Rosso [both Ferrari and Red Bull junior teams] pulled out of the group three […]
Sergio Perez Fastest Again On Day Two In Bahrain
The second day of the second testing session at the Sakhir track in Bahrain [but third overall in the season so far] was completed and Force India’s Sergio Perez repeated as fastest on the track with a recorded lap time of 1:35.57 – only marginally slower than his Day One fastest time which was still two seconds off the fastest time recorded so far this season at Sakhir. Meanwhile, the […]
Mustang Feels Need For Speed
For better or worse – that’s for you to decide – the new 2015 Ford Mustang has been lumped in a promotional video for he upcoming video game-based film, “Need For Speed” [release date: March 14, 2014]…
The Name Is Bond…James Bond collection
Do you expect me to talk? Noooo, we expect you to gawk! An entire collection of James Bond vehicles has been put up for sale and those vehicles include iconic versions – though perhaps not the ones you really wanted – of several from the many 007 films over the years. Among the most notable are an Aston Martin DB5 from “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” [that’s the lone George […]
Sergio Perez Fastest On Day One In Bahrain
The first day of the second testing session at the Sakhir track in Bahrain [but third overall in the season so far] was completed and Force India’s Sergio Perez was fastest on the track with a recorded lap time of 1:35.29. That was two seconds off the fastest time recorded so far this season at Sakhir but was enough to lead the day. Meanwhile, the defending champion Red Bull team […]
Marussia Hit By Virus In Bahrain
You may have been keeping track of last week’s second testing session of the 2014 Formula One racing season in Bahrain and wondering what happened to Marussia. That was very close to the same thing Marussia was thinking as a Trojan virus hit their computer system and succeeded in knocking out the team for the first day of testing and effectively setting them back for the remaining three days at […]
Top Gear – Series 21, Episode 3
Synopsis: The new Danish supercar is tested and the boys – Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond – take a road trip to Ukraine before it became ironic and Kiev was burnt and the Ukraine president was sacked. Details: While the second episode of the new series featured the lovely Alfa Romeo 4C, the third episode knocks some sense back into you with the feature on the new Danish […]
Williams Hands Wheel To Wolff For Two Practice Sessions
Williams has handed over the wheel of their Formula One car to Susie Wolff as a development driver for two free practice sessions sometime during the 2014 season. The 31-year-old Wolff, who spent seven years in the German touring car series, is the wife of Mercedes executive Toto Wolff, who used to be an executive at Williams. Wolff had already participated in solely for Williams last year but will become […]
Hennessey Venom Takes Lead In Speed Peeing Contest With Bugatti Veyron
The Hennessey Venom GT officially became the fastest production car in the world this month when it achieved a top speed of 270.49 miles per hour at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. That eclipsed the previous record of 269.86 set by the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport at the Ehra-Lessien Oval in Germany. However, there are 29 Hennessey Venom GT’s built, of which only 11 have been delivered. Here is […]
Earnhardt, Jr. Wins Daytona 500…Six Hours Later
Delayed by tornado warnings and rain, the 2014 Daytona 500 was delayed for six hours and 22 minutes before Dale Earnhardt, Jr. finally won the season-opening NASCAR Sprint Cup series race. It was Earnhardt, Jr.’s first NASCAR win since 2012 as he held off the charging Denny Hamlin when a late crash brought out the yellow flag and the race finished anticlimactically under caution. On a humorous side note, televising […]
The Fernando Alonso Collection Assembles In Madrid
There are still several weeks remaining until the first race of the 2014 Formula One season – plenty of time for Kimi to wreck another Ferrari and Red Bull to find another mechanical issue with the RB10, so while you are waiting for all the pre-season drama to play itself out, why not check out the Fernando Alonso Collection at the Canal Art Centre in Madrid [running through May 4, […]
Regan Smith Wins Nationwide Series Opener By Lucky 13 Hundredths Of A Second
This would have been back-to-back Nationwide Series opener wins for Regan Smith except for the technicality of that crash last year when Smith was leading coming into the final turns. Smith was leading and tried to block an oncoming Brad Keselowski but Keselowski nicked his car and spun Smith, which caused a 12-car accident and sent Smith back to 14th place. This year, Smith and Keselowski were at it again […]
Nico Rosberg Fastest On Day Four In Bahrain
Mercedes is unequivocally enjoying the best of the 2014 Formula One season’s second testing session in Bahrain as Nico Rosberg was the fastest in the fourth and final testing session – putting in a lap time of 1:33.28, this is coming on the heels of teammate Lewis Hamilton recording the fastest lap time of the day for Mercedes in Day Three of the season’s second testing session on the Sakhir […]
Last Place Blaney Already Out Of Daytona 500
Dave Blaney was down to his last car – well, his only car, really – and now he doesn’t even have that after a crash in a practice session has taken him out of the Daytona 500. Blaney, who was the Daytona 500’s slowest qualifier and therefore was slated to start in last place in the 43-car field this weekend, was involved in a crash in a practice session this […]
Lewis Hamilton Fastest On Day Three In Bahrain
Lewis Hamilton finally showed up for the 2014 Formula One racing testing season without crashing his car as he recorded the fastest lap time of the day for Mercedes in Day Three of the season’s second testing session on the Sakhir track in Bahrain. Hamilton recorded a lap time of 1:34.2 which makes him the fastest on the track so far in the Bahrain testing session. Meanwhile, three-time defending champion […]