Red Bull Fastest In Second Practice Session For 2023 Miami Grand Prix
Red Bull was fastest in the second practice session for this weekend’s 2023 Miami Grand Prix with Max Verstappen doing the honors…
Mercedes Fastest In First Practice Session For 2023 Miami Grand Prix
Mercedes was the surprise fastest car in the first practice session for this weekend’s 2023 Miami Grand Prix, with George Russell doing the honors and edging past his teammate, seven-time Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton…
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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….
Nurburgring Added To Forza Motorsport 5 For Free
Nurburgring, the famed German track, was announced as a free add-on to Forza Motorsport 5 for Xbox One by Microsoft at E3 [Electronic Entertainment Expo] in Los Angeles. Below is the E3 trailer released by Microsoft explaining the new Nurburgring addition…
Red Bull Breaks Mercedes Stranglehold At Canadian Grand Prix
It seemed like it was never going to happen in the 2014 racing season but Mercedes finally lost a race as Daniel Ricciardo won his first-ever Formula One race as he fended off Nico Rosberg in his crippled Mercedes for the 2014 Canadian Grand Prix victory and four-time defending champion Sebastian Vettel finished third. In a bit of foreboding, the tone for the race was set on the very first […]
Luke, I Am Your Father…And Also A Car
Hot Wheels has made a Darth Vader Hot Wheels car and it will be officially released at the 2014 Comic Con in San Diego in July but an image of the helmeted car has already popped up in the pages of Road and Track magazine. The sleek black car is essentially a stretched-out version of Darth Vader’s helmet with the eye shield doubling as a windshield and the speaking vent […]
Nissan Pimping New GT6 Car
In the last few weeks, video game Gran Turismo 6 has seen the addition of a new BMW and Mitsubishi along with a planned but so far unannounced VW GTI Roadster to its Vision Series. Now Nissan is not sitting around waiting for the announcement of what is expected to be either their contribution to the Vision GT Series or what appears to be another GT car as it issued […]
Party In Montreal This Weekend
Formula One’s traveling circus comes to Montreal this weekend for the next race on the 2014 schedule, the Canadian Grand Prix, and – barring mechanical or driving failures – with the winning race results a foregone conclusion due to Mercedes’ dominance, perhaps the only way to make the race weekend more exciting is by pre-functioning on Friday and Saturday so you can snooze through the race on Sunday. The party […]
Buffalo Bills Defensive Line Spend Off-Season Racing
There’s a reason the National Football League’s Buffalo Bills haven’t been to a Super Bowl in 21 years or even been to the playoffs so far this century. They’re not very good. But another reason may be that members of their defensive line spend their off-season drag racing each other rather than trying to prepare to beat other teams in their league. In the case of Marcell Dareus, he would […]
Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee Returns For Season Four
Comedians George Wallace, Robert Klein, Jon Stewart, Aziz Ansari and actress Sarah Jessica Parker will appear on Jerry Seinfeld’s popular web series, “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee”, when it returns for its fourth season on June 19, 2014. Here is the promo trailer for the upcoming cars-in-coffee goodness…
LEGO Mini Cooper On The Way This Summer
Just in time for the holiday gift-giving season, actually way ahead of holiday gift-giving season, arrives the latest contribution from LEGO in their car division – the Mini Cooper. Joining its predecessors the VW Beetle and Microbus, the Mini Cooper possesses a whopping 1,077 bricks, the Mini Cooper has its own picnic basket and the best part – you can choose whether or not it is left or right-hand drive […]
Ferrari 458 Italia To Get Twin Turbo
The Ferrari 458 Italia is the latest car to move from natural aspiration to a turbocharger and, in this case, a twin turbo. The 458 is likely to receive the 39-liter twin turbo currently found in the Ferrari California T that delivers 552 horsepower for that car but what will probably deliver more than 600 horsepower for the 458. Presently, the California T hits a 0-60 time of 3.9 seconds […]