What Would You Have Seen At The 2016 Portland Auto Show?
If you had been able to go to the 2016 Portland Auto Show, you might have seen a few things you might have liked. Such as… Photo credit: Tariko Duarte
If you had been able to go to the 2016 Portland Auto Show, you might have seen a few things you might have liked. Such as… Photo credit: Tariko Duarte
McLaren, in cahoots with their Formula One sponsor, whisky-maker Johnnie Walker, would like to implore you not to drink and drive by scaring the living bejeebers out of anyone brave and wealthy enough to stop by and take a lap around Wembley Park in London today [December 4, 2015] with current Formula One drivers for […]
As if the 2015 Formula One season wasn’t going poorly enough for McLaren – ninth place out of 10 teams and only 27 points scored overall – Luxembourg-based Swiss-founded luxury timing manufacturer, Tag Heuer, has ditched McLaren and signed up with Red Bull for the 2016 season after Red Bull’s deal with Japanese-based Casio ended […]
After 99% of the word’s media – AutoSportsNation was in the other 1% – was all but signing off on him detaching himself from McLaren and retiring or hosting Top Gear or playing video games or shopping at Whole Foods or doing something other than driving a Honda McLaren Formula One car around a track […]
While defending Formula One champion and current 2015 driver’s standings leader, Lewis Hamilton, was using his off week to make a cameo appearance in a “Zoolander” feature film sequel, McLaren’s Jenson Button was cross-training by running the 2015 London Marathon – covering the 26.2-mile distance in the impressive time of 2:52.30. The 35-year-old Button was […]
At least week’s 2015 Blancpain World Endurance Race at Monza, a Bentley and McLaren encountered some issues coming into one of the corners…
Your entry-level starter McLaren is not due to arrive in the good old US of A until later this year, but the 2016 McLaren 570s – identified as an “entry-level” McLaren – will be priced at $184,900 [that’s without destination charges or any other additional fees and whatnottery usually attached to supercars from abroad]. That […]
Fernando Alonso has been cleared to race for Honda-McLaren at the 2015 Malaysian Grand Prix this weekend. Alonso had to pass a series of tests this week to make himself medically eligible to participate in the race after crashing into the wall during the final testing session in Barcelona earlier this month. That crash caused […]
Fernando Alonso’s crash in a practice session at the Catalunya track in Barcelona last week not only knocked him out of the driver’s seat for Honda-McLaren in the upcoming 2015 season-opening race in Australia next week but likely ended this season’s racing and may have also ended his racing career after it has been announced […]
McLaren brought their Honda-ized Formula One car to the 2015 Geneva International Motor Show but elected to keep their Sport Series for a New York debut in April 2015…
Honda-McLaren’s Fernando Alonso has been pulled from the 2015 Formula One season-opening race in Australia next week due to his continuing recovery from a concussion suffered in a crash during a testing session in Barcelona, Spain, last week. Doctors had advised Alonso be held out of the race and Honda-McLaren complied with the advice. Kevin […]
Spaniard Fernando Alonso is out of the hospital after suffering a concussion in a crash at last week’s first testing session at the Catalunya track in Barcelona. The McLaren driver will return home for a few days and although he will be at Barcelona, will not participate in this week’s final testing session with his […]
Lotus had a good week at the second testing session for the 2015 Formula One season in Barcelona last week as their drivers took the fastest times on three of the four testing days with Romain Grosjean taking the honors on the final day of testing. Grosjean recorded a 1:24 lap time followed by Mercedes’ […]
McLaren has officially unveiled their 2015 Honda-powered Formula One car…
McLaren’s newest teammates for the Formula One 2015 racing season – Fernando Alonso and Jenson Button – decide the best way to thwart Mercedes dominance this year will be to take the “Back to the Future” approach…
Ferrari and McLaren have both announced dates for when they will reveal the cars they intend to bring down to Spain for testing next month. McLaren will reveal their car on January 29 and Ferrari will follow with their car’s unveiling one day later. The first race of the 2015 Formula One racing season takes […]
Formula One driver Jenson Button married his longtime actress-model girlfriend, Jessica Michibata, in a ceremony in Hawai’i on Christmas Eve. Button had been dating Michibata since 2008. Button recently re-signed with McLaren for the 2015 Formula One racing season.
Marussia’s failure as a Formula One racing team has cost its racing partners, Ferrari and McLaren, a combined total of nearly $37 million with its folding as a team this year. Ferrari, who supplied engines to the team, was on the hook for nearly $26 million while McLaren, who had a technical partnership arrangement, was […]
Formula One racing team McLaren took a week to finally announce that they were keeping former world champion Jenson Button and dumping Danish rookie Kevin Magnussen for the 2015 racing season. Button joins another former world champion, Fernando Alonso, as the newly-Honda-powered team seeks to move up the standings after the Mercedes-dominated 2014 season. Alonso […]