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 […]
Scott McLaughlin Wins Alabama IndyCar Grand Prix
Scott McLaughlin won the 2023 Alabama IndyCar Grand Prix – edging former Formula One driver Romain Grosjean and Will Power…
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Top Gear – Series 21, Episode 2
Synopsis: The boys – Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond – all get something to do in this episode. Hammond gets to drive the new Alfa Romeo 4C around Lake Como, Clarkson gets to taunt Hammond with an amphibious quad and drive the McLaren P1 at Spa Francorchamps in Belgium while Captain Slow fiddles with British military vehicles. Details: The second episode of the new series begins admirably enough […]
Austin Sits On Pole In Daytona
Rookie Austin Dillon won the pole position for the upcoming Daytona 500. Dillon clocked a 196.019 mph speed to edge out Martin Truex, Jr. at 195.982. Dillon, who is the grandson of former NASCAR driver and current multi-team owner, Richard Childress, won the Nationwide Series last year and becomes just the fifth rookie to win the pole at Daytona and has added significance with Dillon driving car #3 – the […]
Red Bull Racing Signs 2011 GT Academy Winner
Red Bull Racing has signed 2011 GT Academy Jann Mardenborough to their driver development program and have assigned him to the Arden International GP3 team which won the GP3 driver’s title last year with Daniil Kyvat at the helm. Mardenborough, who is 22, began playing the Sony PlayStation racing simulator video game Gran Turismo 5 and ultimately beat out 90,000 competitors in its Nissan GT Academy competition. Mardenborough advanced with […]
Presenting…The New McLaren 650S
McLaren will be introducing their new supercar to the world in a couple weeks at the Geneva Motor Show in Switzerland but you don’t have to wait that long to at least be given a glimpse of what to expect just in case you have a few million dollars lying around or burning a hole in your pocket. The new McLaren 650S boasts 641 horsepower from a 3.8-liter twin turbo […]
Rush Rakes In BAFTA Film Award
“Rush”, the Formula One-themed feature film directed by Ron Howard and based on the 1970s racing rivalry of Brit James Hunt and Austrian Niki Lauda was given the award for best editing in a feature film by the British Academy and Film and Television Arts, a precursor to the Academy Awards. Howard was in London to accept the award for the film which defeated “The Wolf of Wall Street” and […]
Captain America Is Daytona 500 Grand Marshal
Captain America – actor Chris Evans – has been named as the Grand Marshal for the 2014 Daytona 500. Evans stars as the comic book superhero in “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” due out in theaters on April 4, 2014. The 2014 Daytona 500 will be at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona, Florida, on February 23, 2014.
Formula One Makes Doughnuts Legal…For Winners
In case you happened to miss it, three-time defending champion Sebastian Vettel won a whole bunch of races in the Formula One racing season last year and after a few of them, he performed some rubber-stripping doughnuts in celebration. For this blatant display of unbridled joy, Vettel received several insignificant $36,000 fines every time he was happy to win a race. But now, Formula One has relented and made it […]
NASCAR Is On Fire! Well, Pace Car Is, Anyway…
NASCAR opened the 2014 season with their exhibition Sprint Cup race at the Daytona International Speedway and everything was going fine on the initial parade laps until…
The Stig Joins Formula E Roster
Ben Collins – aka The Stig from “Top Gear” – has joined the already illustrious roster who will be competing the newly introduced single-seater electric race car Formula E racing series. Along with Collins will be 23 other drivers, including ex-Formula One drivers Sebastien Bourdais, Narain Karthikeyan, Bruno Senna, Takuma Sato, Lucas di Grassi as well as IndyCar drivers J.R. Hildebrand and Marco Andretti. The 10-race Formula E racing series […]
Daytona Front Stretch Seats Will Be Sold
Seats from the front stretch of the Daytona International Speedway will be sold off to fans. In an overhaul of the track, the front stretch seats will be removed and track officials have partnered with online memorabilia company Fanatics Authentic to sell off the grandstand seats – first offered to ticket holders of the seats in a pre-sell and then to non-ticketholders if any seats remain. Other speedway seats and […]
Formula One Stunt Driver From Rush Killed In Crash
Mauro Pane, a stunt driver who filled in for actor Daniel Bruhl in the role of Austrian Formula One racer Niki Lauda in the feature film “Rush” was found dead in northern Italy after his white Renault Megane was discovered submerged in a canal. Pane had been missing for several days before he and an unidentified female passenger were found in the car. Mauro’s death is the second involving drivers […]
Sauber Signs Up Simona de Silvestro
Sauber F1 has signed IndyCar driver Simona de Silvestro as a third affiliated test driver. The 25-year-old Silvestro is originally from Switzerland but moved to the USA to compete in auto racing and has raced in IndyCar – where she was rookie of the year in 2010 – for the last four years. De Silvestro does not have a ride for the 2014 IndyCar season and finished with zero victories […]
Want AMG Boat Fries With That?
You have the Gran Turismo 6 video game? Check. You have the new Gran Turismo Vision AMG Mercedes specially created for the 15th anniversary of the series? Check. How about the AMG boat that goes along with it? Technically, it’s called the Cigarette Racing Vision GT Concept, but who are we kidding? It’s the AMG Mercedes Boat. But it’s a boat you can actually buy, that is, if you have […]
Sochi Formula One Track Nearly Complete
The 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, are nearing the halfway point but what happens next week after the closing ceremonies? A new Formula One track is what is going to happen – because it’s “91% complete” according to Russian officials. Work is going on during the Winter Olympics with the track encircling the main Winter Olympics site in Sochi. The Russian Grand Prix is slated for Sochi, Russia, on […]
Vettes Get That Sinking Feeling
Eight Corvettes at the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky, were sitting there, minding their own business, when suddenly…boom…a sinkhole happens…
Saavedra Finds Indy Ride
Sebastien Saavedra has found a ride for the 2014 IndyCar racing series after KV Racing and AFS Racing teamed up to give him the opportunity. Saavedra will team up with former Formula One driver Sebastian Bourdais [Toro Rosso, 2007] with Bourdais solely driving the KV entry for the year. Saavedra finished his first full IndyCar season last year with a best finish of eighth in Baltimore.