Showing posts with label Motorsport. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Motorsport. Show all posts

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Grand-Am Ferrari 458 Italy: the first test in Fiorano

He made his debut on the Fiorano test track for a series of tests required for its development the new Ferrari 458 Italy Grand-Am car of the house of the Cavallino intended to take part in the races that make up the American Grand-Am series. Based on the Ferrari 458 GT3 Italy, the Grand-Am was created by Ferrari in collaboration with the Michelotto Cars and implementing many new features to make

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

BMW M3 DTM Concept, unveiled in Monaco

BMW has presented within the framework of the Olympic stadium in Monaco M3 DTM Concept, the brand-new racing car with which the House Ethics officially participate in the 2012 season of the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (DTM), the exciting championship dedicated to touring cars that takes place every year in many tracks scattered throughout Europe.

During the ceremony, Jens Marquardt, new

Monday, July 4, 2011

Lotus: Exige a rally in Frankfurt

The Lotus is not interested to invest in advertising, rather prefer to focus on motor racing and so, in addition to F1 and sports car races for the covered wheels, is also to debut in the world of rallies with a special version of the Exige. The car will be visible during the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show, Lotus, and will as usual, rear-wheel drive.

Still do not know where the championship race, but

Friday, July 1, 2011

McLaren MP4-12C GT3 debut at Goodwood

The timing of the McLaren MP4-12C GT3 has arrived and the car is unveiled at Goodwood in this weekend during the Festival of Speed. Frankly, there could be a baptism for a better race car with a British pedigree. The public presentation marks a time when imported for the English House, in fact, the MP4-12C GT3 will be the only McLaren F1 car apart, to take part in competitions and collects an

Porsche at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2014

The successes in recent years the 24 Hours of Le Mans for Peugeot and Audi, with the latter dominating nearly supreme edition ended a few weeks ago, Porsche seems to have convinced the leaders to schedule a return in force to the legendary endurance race, with the objective, we can say for granted, to win.

The German is in fact the brand which currently boasts the highest number of wins at 24

Thursday, June 16, 2011

F1: erase the Bahrain GP 2011

The news is official: the Bahrain Grand Prix has been permanently canceled and the October 30 teams will be able to avoid making stage in the Middle Eastern country in revolt. A difficult decision, came after a first attempt to move the competition and welcomed by the team. On the other hand, if it is true that in this way, the Circus will be without the revenue to 500 billion euro - would have

Monday, June 13, 2011

24 Hours of Le Mans: Audi between victory and accidents

Competitive spirit of the past, the presence of large manufacturers, the "usual" rain that accompanied the most famous marathon in the world. And all the duel between Audi and Peugeot, which for several years ignites the struggle for victory in the 24 hours of the Sarthe. All this is, in a nutshell, the menu of Le Mans 2011, which ended yesterday afternoon with the victory of the Audi R18 of

Friday, June 10, 2011

24 Hours of Le Mans: Audi says the front row

The fight for the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the infinite duel between Audi and Peugeot, has just begun and so far sees slight advantage in the German cars that have won the first row with the crews Fassler-Lotterer and Treluyer-Bernhard-Rockenfeller -Dumas, in first and second position. It seems that the R18 TDI is faster over one lap of the Peugeot 908 HDi, but the gaps are minimal and can not give

A Skoda Octavia with 600 HP for 10 years of "RS"

With the acquisition by the Volkswagen Group, Skoda has grown into the European market, so that in 2018 set itself the ambitious goal of doubling its annual turnover. Meanwhile, to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the sports models, those identified by the initials RS, VRS in the United Kingdom, has created special un'Octavia, capable of reaching targets speed and accelerations worthy of a

Subaru WRX STI record the Isle of Man

On the track of the Isle of Man, a place famous for the reckless motorcycle race that there tient each year, the Subaru WRX STI with the steering wheel the driver Mark Higgins has made a new record, covering nearly 61 km that make up the path of Historical Tourist Trophy in 19 minutes, 56 seconds and 7 / 10, exceeding by more than two minutes the previous record set with a road car by Tony Pond

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

F1: McLaren ready for Canada

And 'no getting around the league so far seen only one protagonist, that Sebastian Vettel, victory after victory, dominating a season is very difficult for the rest of the circus. The only team that has managed to put pressure on McLaren to Red Bull is that he can count on two pilots determined and ambitious. Button that Hamilton is revived in Canada where the challenge will not be content to