What Five Features On Cars Originated From Le Mans?
What five features on modern cars originated from Le Mans? Here they are, courtesy of DriveTribe… Front wheel drive Disc brakes Seat belts Headlights Hybrid technology
What five features on modern cars originated from Le Mans? Here they are, courtesy of DriveTribe… Front wheel drive Disc brakes Seat belts Headlights Hybrid technology
A 1965 Jensen C-V8 – not an Interceptor – emerges from Jay Leno’s Garage this week…
Former Formula One world champion Fernando Alonso flamed out spectacularly with McLaren at the 2019 Indianapolis 500 but he rebounded nicely with the un-opposed Toyota as he [along with co-drivers Kazuki Nakajima and Sebastian Buemi] captured his second straight 24 Hours of Le Mans victory…
Three-time 24 Hours of Le Mans winner Marcel Fassler is out of the 2019 version of the endurance race after smacking into the Porsche driven by Satoshi Hoshino sending the Swiss driver careening into the wall a mere few hours into the race…
Renault will not be winning any Formula One races in 2019, so they unleashed drivers Daniel Ricciardo and Nico Hulkenberg in Paris in a Twingo and made them both orange slice winners…
Professional race car driver Maryeve Dufault is from Canada – specifically, Sorel-Tracy, Quebec – and she throws around the [albeit, modified] 2020 Volkswagen Jetta GLI while the Sorel-Tracy townspeople filmed it…
Joey Logano fended off Kurt Busch and Martin Truex, Jr. to win a NASCAR race in Michigan…
Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel won the 2019 Canadian Grand Prix on the track – but off the track, Formula One stewards assessed him a five-second penalty after he briefly slid off the track, onto the grass and then re-entered the track in front of Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton – thereby gifting the victory to Hamilton. Ferrari’s Charles […]
Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel beat Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes in 2019 Canadian Grand Prix qualifying to claim his first pole position of the Formula One season – and it was only the second time this year that the dominant Mercedes have been beaten to pole – the only other time was also by Ferrari with by Vettel’s […]
The Haas Formula One team will race without their logo after losing a court battle with UK-based Whyte Bikes, who alleged that Haas’ title sponsor, Rich Energy, not only copied their Stag’s Head Logo, but also used it without permission of the cycle brand. The judgment handed down by UK Judge Melissa Clarke states that […]
With their newest advertisement, Volkswagen is going back to the 1960s with Simon & Garfunkel and hoping you will forget all about the nastiness of that Dieselgate mess. Dieselgate, VW wants you to forget, is when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency discovered that VW had violated the Clean Air Act and intentionally programmed its turbocharged […]
The semi-documentary “Framing John Delorean” feature film from IFC Films will be released this Friday, June 7, 2019. The film stars Alec Baldwin as Delorean, the General Motors executive responsible for the development of iconic American muscle cars like the Pontiac GTO and Firebird before turning entrepreneur and founding his own DeLorean Motor Company, which […]
Matt Damon plays Carroll Shelby, Christian Bale plays Ken Miles and Jon Bernthal plays Lee Iacocca in the trailer for “Ford v. Ferrari” [release date – November 15, 2019] that is loosely based on A.J. Baime’s book “Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans” about the famous […]
Vijay Mallya – the former co-owner of the Force India Formula One racing team from 2007 until last year – has been ordered by a London court to pay $135 million to spirits giant Diageo [owner of Johnnie Walker brand – a prominent F1 sponsor]. Diageo began the process of suing Mallya in 2017, after […]
The iconic 1988 Porsche 959 emerges from Jay Leno’s Garage this week…
Frenchman Simon Pagenaud won the 2019 Indianapolis 500 – his first-ever Indy 500 victory – by a mere two-hundredths of a second over 2016 Indy 500 winner, American Alexander Rossi, in a thrilling race finish that saw six lead changes in the final laps. Japan’s Takuma Sato – the 2017 Indy 500 winner – placed […]
Lewis Hamilton led start to finish as Mercedes continued to dominate with a 1-3 finish in the 2019 Monaco Grand Prix as teammate Valtteri Bottas finished third, split by Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel. Red Bull’s Max Verstappen finished second on the track but had incurred an earlier five-second penalty for an unsafe release in the pit […]
Juncos Racing – the little racing team that could – who knocked mighty McLaren along with two-time Formula One world champion Fernando Alonso, out of the 2019 Indianapolis 500, finally got a sponsor for the race. Last week, after driver Kyle Kaiser put in a lap that barely – by .02 miles per hour – […]
Lexus is showing off their new 2020 Lexus RC F in a promo video for the upcoming [release date: June 14, 2019] movie, “Men In Black: International”. The movie stars Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson and in the promo, Thompson wants to drive the new 2020 RC F and presumably hops into the driver seat, […]
Three-time Formula One world champion, Niki Lauda, has died at age 70. Lauda won the F1 driver’s titles in 1975, 1977 and 1984 and is most remembered for surviving and recovering from a fiery crash at the Nurburgring track during the 1976 German Grand Prix. Lauda competed in 171 F1 races, amassed 25 wins and […]