Fast X – Open Road
The second trailer for the upcoming – release date: May 19, 2023 – tenth film in the “Fast & Furious” film franchise….
The Trailer For The Gran Turismo Feature Film Has Arrived
The trailer for “Gran Turismo” – the feature film adapted from the popular PlayStation video game racing simulation franchise created by Polyphony Digital and Kazunori Yamauchi in 1997 – has been released. Directed by Neill Blomkamp [“District 9” and “Elysium”], it is based on the true story of British teenager Jann Mardenborough, who – via […]
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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 […]
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. And His Cars
The American television series “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.” ran from 1964-68 as a superspy series in the James Bond mold and starred Robert Vaughan as Napoleon Solo and David McCallum as Illya Kuryakin. Along with the usual spy gadgetry came fancy cars, prototypes – and not just any prototypes, prototypes from the Space Age 1960s, the best kind of prototypes – and generally cool cars and vehicles that you will […]
Lotus Has The Bike You Want
Lotus is producing a special limited edition motorcycle called the C-01. The new bike has the Lotus name on the frame but it was built by German firm Kodewa, which is responsible for Lotus’ Le Mans race car, and designed by Daniel Simon of Bugatti fame. The C-01 has a four-stroke 1195cc V-twin engine that kicks out 200 horsepower on a bike that weighs less than 400 pounds. Only 100 […]
Kevin Magnussen Fastest On Day Two In Bahrain
On the second day of the season’s second Formula One testing session, three drivers posted sub-1:37 lap times on the Sakhir track in Bahrain, but Danish rookie Kevin Magnussen, driving for McLaren, went well beyond that, driving a 1:34.9 lap to easily distance himself from the next driver, Nico Hulkenberg, the Day One fastest driver, who put in a 1:36.4 lap. For the first time in this year testing sessions, […]
Bernie Dodges Another Speeding Bullet
Embattled Formula One chief Bernie Ecclestone dodged another legal bullet challenging his authority over the world’s most popular auto racing series when a German judge decreed that, while he did toss a $45 million bribe to German businessman Gerhard Gribowsky, the bribe did not devalue F1 and was merely a payoff intended to keep Gribowsky quiet about Ecclestone’s UK tax evasion scheme. Gribowsky who initiated the bribery/payoff attempt in 2006 […]
Nico Hulkenberg Fastest On Day One In Bahrain
Force India’s Nico Hulkenberg was fastest on the Sakhir track in Bahrain during the first day of the fledgling Formula One season’s second testing session. Hulkenberg was the only driver to post a sub-1:37 time on his laps and finished with a 1:36.8 to edge out Fernando Alonso from Ferrari at 1:37.8. Meanwhile, three-time defending champion Sebastian Vettel and his Red Bull team continued to experience problems that hampered the […]
Better Late Than Never, Lotus Brings New 2014 F1 Car To Bahrain
The first official testing session for the upcoming 2014 Formula One racing season occurred in Jerez, Spain, last month and everybody was there. Well, almost everybody. Lotus passed. But the Formula One team with the legendary name finally showed up with their 2014 Formula One car – the E22 – at the second testing session in Bahrain this week. Romain Grosjean will handle driving duties on the first two day […]
Kimi Raikkonen Takes LaFerrari Out For A Spin At Fiorano
Leave him alone, he knows what he’s doing when he spins out the LaFerrari at the Fiorano test track. In between Jerez and Bahrain testing sessions, newly signed perpetually mercurial mumbling Finnish Ferrari Formula One driver Kimi Raikkonen enjoys the perks of being a Ferrari F1 driver and takes the LaFerrari out for a spin…
You Can Have Graham Hill’s 1968 Formula One Lotus 49B
All you need is probably a few million American dollars and you could be the proud owner of Graham Hill’s Formula One Lotus 49B which he used to win the 1968 Formula One title. The 49B was designed by Colin Chapman and powered by a mid-engine Cosworth-Ford V8 that could get 400 horsepower out of it. Formula One drivers Jim Clark and Jochen Rindt both also drove this 49B of […]