Max Verstappen Wins 2023 Miami Grand Prix In Red Bull 1-2 Snoozefest
Just like last week, it was another Red Bull 1-2 snoozefest in Formula One with the drivers reversed and Max Verstappen winning the 2023 Miami Grand Prix with Sergio Perez in second while Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso finished a distant and non-competitive third to close out the podium. Perez sat on pole position and looked […]
Sergio Perez Claims Pole Position For 2023 Miami Grand Prix
As expected, Red Bull claimed the pole position for tomorrow’s 2023 Miami Grand Prix, but unexpectedly, it was the Red Bull of Sergio Perez which will sit in the first spot of the grid after a crash by Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc put out a red flag and closed the qualifying with 1:36 left in the […]
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Sylvain Tremblay Takes You On A Few Laps At Laguna Seca
At this past weekend’s Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, Sylvain Tremblay takes you on a few laps at Laguan Seca in a 1990 Mazda 787 LeMans C prototype…
1954 Ferrari Wins Best Of Show At 2014 Concours d’Elegance
The 1954 Ferrari 375MM Scaglietti Coupe was named as Best in Show for the 2014 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. Despite the renown of the Ferrari marque, it was the first time ever that a Ferrari had won Pebble Beach’s top prize as well as the first time in 46 years that a post-World War II car had won. This particular car was originally ordered by the world-famous Italian filmmaker, Roberto […]
Red Bull Signs Verstrappen To Junior Team
Red Bull has signed Dutch teenager Max Verstrappen to their junior team. Verstrappen is the 16-year-old son of former Formula One podium finisher Jos Verstrappen and currently sits in second place in his first season of the Formula 3 European Championship. Verstrappen will compete at the Macau Grand Prix in November and then will likely compete in the Formula 3.5 Championship before moving on to a possible Formula 1 berth […]
2014 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance – 1967 Ferrari 206 Dino Competizione
It was not a winner of Best in Show but welcome to the future – 1967 Jetsons-style – with Andrea Pininfarina’s 206 Dino Competizione. The car had been sitting in Pininfarina’s museum for decades before coming to the 2014 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance and breathing little boy life into anybody who watched Saturday morning cartoons in the 1960s and 1970s. The car never saw mass production but who cares, right?
NASCAR Announces New Rules For Drivers Getting Out Of Cars
In the wake of the death of sprint car racer Kevin Ward, Jr. last week after being hit on the track by NASCAR driver Tony Stewart, the NASCAR organization has issued new rules regarding drivers getting out of their cars under a caution flag…
1962 Ferrari 250 GTO Sells For $38 Million At Pebble Beach
A 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO became the new record-holder for the highest price ever paid for a car at an auction when it was sold for $34.65 million but with the “buyer’s premium” added in, was officially sold for $38.1 million at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. The Ferrari 250 GTO Berlinetta was one of only 36 built between 1961-64 and designed as front-engine racers – a practice Ferrari abandoned […]
The Stig Bungee Jumps A Lotus F1 Car
The Stig is bored. A new season of “Top Gear” has yet to begin and driving motorcycles and chrome cars around a test track in South Africa don’t hold the same pizzazz as taking the SLR McLaren for a lap around the Top Gear test track. So what’s a bored Stig to do then? Why, bungee jump a Lotus F1 car, of course!
Toyota’s FT-1 To Make An Appearance At Pebble Beach
Toyota’s futuristic stylish race car-like FT-1 will be making its appearance at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance this weekend in Pebble Beach, California. The FT-1 being featured at Pebble Beach will sport a graphite paint job and a saddle leather interior. The Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance takes place at Pebble Beach, California on August 17, 2014.
A Plymouth Duster Sees New Life In American Muscle
Who knew a Plymouth Duster – and a bright yellow one at that [very “Starsky and Hutch”esque] would ever see life again anywhere, much less a feature film? Well, it’s not much of a film, a B or even C-grade horror film entitled “American Muscle” where a psycho goes out for revenge against his family of psychos that is deservedly coming straight-to-video on September 30, 2014 – but hey, at […]
Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee Single Shot: Marriage
The latest in the weekly “Single Shot” mini-episodes of Jerry Seinfeld’s Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee web series talks about marriage and how the first step to a successful marriage is lying… Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee: Single Shot: Marriage
Caterham Bringing Two New Models To The USA…Sorta
Caterham will be making two more models available to the USA market, but there is a catch – you have to supply your own engine and drivetrain. The frame for the Caterham 360 and 480 will both have the option of being outfitted with the Ford 2.0-liter Duratec engine that will give the 360 a top speed of 130mph and 0-60 time of 4.9 seconds for 180 horsepower while supplying […]
Jaguar Bringing Prototype Lightweight E-Type to Pebble Beach This Weekend
In 1963, Jaguar had allotted for 18 Special GT E-Type Jaguars to be built of aluminum, but only wound up building 12 of them. Now they are finishing the job, constructing the so-called “missing six” and selling them to customers who will be using them in historic auto races. The protoype for these six vehicles will be showcased at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance in Pebble beach, California, this weekend, […]
James May’s The Cars Of the People On BBC America
As your “Top Gear” withdrawals continue and you are a law-abiding citizen but don’t happen to find yourself current residing in a law-abiding fashion in the UK or Australia, then there is good news for you as it concerns “Top Gear” series presenter James May and his new three-part special “James May’s Cars of the People”- the brief mini-series where May tackles various cars from around the globe that were […]
The 13 Most Expensive Celebrity Cars
The 13 most expensive celebrity cars are mostly Bugatti Veyrons and mostly belong to rap or hip-hop music stars. The Veyron group range in price from $1.7 million to $2.7 million and all but one [the cheapest, which belongs to Simon Cowell], belong to rap/hip-hop stars. The most expensive is an $8 million Maybach behemoth belonging to Jay-Z, however, the impressive of the lot, have to be Paris Hilton’s pink […]
Alonso Gives Ferrari $150 Million Ultimatum
Ferrari keeps giving Fernando Alonso crap cars that could not compete with Red Bull the last four years and cannot compete with Mercedes this year yet there sits Alonso in fourth place of the 2014 Formula One season points standings for drivers. Because of this and his history of driving well, Alonso is demanding that Ferrari give him a three-year contract worth $50 million per year if they want to […]
James May Talks About The Cars Of the People
For those of you who are currently experiencing “Top Gear” withdrawals [we assume that would be nearly all of you] series presenter James May has come to the rescue – albeit temporarily and only if you live in the UK or Australia – with his new three-part special “James May’s Cars of the People”. In the brief mini-series, May tackles various cars from around the globe that were touted as […]