JD Motorsports and Mike Wallace ready to do some good at Dover International Speedway
JD MotorsportsGAFFNEY, S.C. (September 27, 2011) ? Mike Wallace and the No. 01 Chevrolet of JD Motorsports is ready to keep the good momentum going when they take to the one-mile, concrete oval of Dover International Speedway this Saturday. Wallace, a NASCAR Nationwide Series winner there in 1994, has scored five top-20 finishes in the…more»
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Read MoreIrby Repeats Victory at the Glen
The Watkins Glen International Boot road course hosted week two of the Red Sox Racing League?s 2011 Season 3 schedule. Surrounded by scenic lakes and mountains, the track is a perfect location to kick back and relax? unless you are there to race! Drivers don?t have that luxury, because the 3.4 mile, 12 corner layout includes massive elevation changes, sweeping high speed corners, a tricky chicane at the end of the longest straight, and very few passing zones. The track?s fifty years of racing history means fans with a penchant for watching some of the most successful drivers in F1 history will be in attendance, making nervous drivers even more so as they try to live up to the standards set by their predecessors. Nineteen RSR league members participated in [...]
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Read MoreNationwide points battle moves on to Dover
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Read More2012 Volvo S60 T6 AWD Long-Term Test Intro: A Polar Bear Moves into C/D?s Vehicular Zoo
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Read MoreThe Final Lap #176 ? Tony Stewart?s Dead Weight
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Read MoreG-Power M3 Tornado RS with 720 HP
G-Power makes the most powerful BMW M3 around with a new supercharger system.
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Read MoreHot-variant 2013 Nissan GT-R spied on the ring
Model could be a GT-R Evo or GT-R SpecR variant. The car was spied doing laps around the Nürburgring-Nordschleife looking to set another record for the GT-R.
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Read More2012 Nissan Versa SL Sedan Tested: A Large Back Seat, but Not Much Else
Sacrificing progress at the altar of cost. The ongoing belt-tightening in America has seen small cars move upmarket, with many boasting attractive designs and premium features unheard of in the segment as recent as five years ago. But just as other manufacturers are moving onward and upward, Nissan has taken a few steps back with [...]
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Read MoreEcclestone says FOTA unnecessary
Formula 1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone has taken a fresh swipe at the Formula One Teams’ Association – saying its members would be better off focusing on making quicker racing cars. Ecclestone has always been sceptical about FOTA since it was formed in 2008 and, ahead of looming discussions to try and frame a fresh Concorde Agreement, he has once again questioned the benefit of the teams’ body.
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Read MoreFiat 500 Pink Ribbon Edition announced (US)
Fiat has partnered with the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) to create a 500 Pink Ribbon special edition for the United States.
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Read MoreHamlin rues inconsistent season
Denny Hamlin laments not having the consistency to battle for the Sprint Cup title this year, admitting his championship hopes are all but over now.
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Read MoreVINTAGE: Maserati 151 Stars At Goodwood
Rare sports racer finds acclaim today that alluded it during its Le Mans heyday.
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Read MoreOttinger Dominates but Erlekotte Takes Point Lead
The iRacing.com Street Stock Series traveled to Thompson International Speedway for the second time this season with sim racers looking to capture the season points championship. Many new drivers were looking to dethrone reigning champion Nick Ottinger (Carolina) but he would once again show everyone why he is a two-time champion. Weekly High Strength of Field Week Eight’s highest Strength of Field (SoF) race was run on Wednesday night and had a rating of 3053. Ottinger once again dominated the highest points paying race of the week by leading all 40 laps in route to a 4.8 second win over Richard Dusett (New England). Dusett is no stranger to Ottinger as they are teammates at Gale Force Racing, which got its name from Camping World Truck Series/ARCA/Late Model driver Cale [...]
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Read MoreAudio: RTR ? Canadian Auto Racing News, Sept 26th, 2011
Race Time Radio Their mission is to present to you the fan with the most up to date racing information for the Canadian racing scene. Where you can voice your opinions in the hot topics in racing. Live interviews with track promoters, drivers, travelling series, teams, and others that shape our sport. Race Time Radio Sept. [...]
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Read MoreRace of Champions coming to a smartphone near you
Filed under: Motorsports, Toys/Games
Not everyone can compete in the Race of Champions. You have to be, you know, an actual champion of something. (That something being a professional racing series of some sort.) But us ordinary Joes can do the next best thing: pretend like we’re champions while playing with our smartphones.
The organizers of the annual event, which brings a wide variety of racing talent together each year for head-to-head competition, is launching its own video game for iOS and Android devices. The game features various track layouts from past runnings of the RoC, and benefits from the input of professional racing drivers like rally veteran Michele Moutan and endurance and rally champion Marc Duez.
It’s being developed by Hungarian studio Invictus, and is set to launch in app stores online later in October ahead of this year’s race scheduled for December 3-4 in Düsseldorf. Organizers have also recently announced that 2009 Formula One world champion Jenson Button, WTCC vet Andy Priaulx and DTM champ Mattias Ekstrom have signed on to join Sebastian Vettel and Michael Schumacher for the event, and that the 270-horsepower Skoda Fabia S2000 rally car will one of the cars they’ll be driving there come December.
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Read MoreRBR gets a curfew extension back
Red Bull Racing has managed to get one of its four curfew extensions back after successfully proving that the staff member who arrived at the track early on Saturday was not associated with the operation of its car. The Milton Keynes-based outfit was one of three teams that was deemed to have breached Formula 1′s curfew regulations when marketing staff were found to have entered the track before the 4pm cut-off point on qualifying day. The issue was of biggest concern to Red Bull Racing, because the curfew breach would have been the third of the four that it is allowed to have over the course of the season.
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Read MoreMoney talks. Live with it.
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Read MoreFord Fiesta Metal edition heads for UK
Filed under: Budget, Performance, Hatchback, Ford, UK
Ford UK is set to release a hotter version of the Fiesta to its customers. The Fiesta Metal Edition packs 132 horsepower and 118 pound-feet of torque courtesy of a reworked version of the same 1.6-liter Duratec engine that U.S. buyers enjoy. That’s a 12 horsepower nudge over the base figures, and as a result, the special-edition Fiesta can hop to 62 mph in 8.7 seconds. A slightly lowered ride height is also part of the handling package. Right now, Ford is only planning to build 1,000 examples of the hotter hatch, each with a price tag of £15,695.
In addition to the slight bump in power, the Fiesta Metal Edition will come packing dual chrome exhaust tips, a silver-painted grille surround, and fog light bezels as well as 17-inch alloy wheels. Inside, the vehicle features a piano-black center stack surround, as well as Ebony black leather sport seats with contrasting stitching. Buyers will only be able to choose between three colors, however; Panther Black, Midnight Sky and Frozen White. Hit the jump for the press release.
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Read MoreHamilton shrugs off qualifying issues
Lewis Hamilton said he was not too frustrated by the fuelling problem that ended his Singapore Grand Prix qualifying early, as he is confident that his McLaren’s race pace will allow him to quickly move up from fourth. The Briton was only able to get one early run in during Q3 as the team was unable to get sufficient fuel into the car for a second attempt.
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Read MoreRyan Newman Continues Success at NHMS with Fastest Practice Lap
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Read More2012 Jaguar XKR-S: Top Cat Driven
Jaguar?s new top cat. The ?S? stands for ?sweet.? Jaguar calls the XKR-S the company?s ?most responsive, powerful, agile, and driver-focused production car.? It?s also the quickest ever. Yes, it?s quicker and more potent than even the 1992?94 ?XJ220 supercar. Keep Reading: 2012 Jaguar XKR-S – First Drive Review
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Read MoreArai to race for Chevy at Suzuka
Rally star Toshi Arai will make his circuit racing debut in a fourth works Chevrolet in the World Touring Car Championship’s Suzuka rounds on 23 October. The 45-year-old Japanese driver is a double champion in the World Rally Championship’s Production class, and regarded as one of his nation’s greatest ever rally stars.
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Read MoreAudi launches Untitled Jersey City Project [videos]
Audi has teamed up with FX to create an original series dubbed the Untitled Jersey City Project.
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Read MoreRobert Kubica Could Be Ruled Out For At Least A Year Following Accident
Polish racing driver Robert Kubica will spend at least one whole year recovering from a rally crash he suffered this morning, according to his surgeon. Kubica, who races for Renault Lotus crashed the Skoda Fabia rally car this morning and was airlifted to hospital suffering serious injuries. He has spent many hours in surgery, with [...]
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Read MoreRain would be ?very tricky call? for FIA
Team Lotus driver Heikki Kovalainen believes that FIA race director Charlie Whiting could face a difficult call on whether to start the race should rain strike today’s Singapore Grand Prix.
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Read More2012 Audi A6 3.0T Quattro Tested: Redefining the Boundaries of Best in Class
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Read MoreButton: We were not quick enough
Jenson Button has admitted that his McLaren car was not quick enough to catch Sebastian Vettel in Singapore. Click here to see Jenson Button behind the scenes at Top Gear! The 2009 World Champion – who has now been on the podium in the last four races – pushed the German as hard as he [...]
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Read More5-time champ Johnson stuck in 10th
Jimmie Johnson might not have to clear space for a sixth championship trophy.
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Read More2013 Renault Clio mule spied with new details
Chassis test mule is sporting a new front fascia with new grille and bumper with air intakes.
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Read MoreBernie Ecclestone – No plans to put the brakes on
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In an exclusive interview with the Guardian as his 80th birthday approaches, F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone speak out about a variety of subjects, from the future of the sport to Margaret Thatcher, Hitler, Saddam Hussein, democracy, football and what continues to drive him.
The way I feel at the moment, why stop? I do it because I enjoy it. And yesterday is gone. I don’t care what happened yesterday. What else would I do? People retire to die. I don’t get any individual pleasure because we don’t win races or titles in this job. I’m like most business people. You look back at the end of the year and you see what you’ve achieved by working out how much money the company has made. That’s it.
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Read MoreWith CB 8 Vote, East Side Bikeway Ready to Run From Houston to 125th
The Second Avenue bike lane in the East Village. Photo: DNAInfo
Last night, the full board of Manhattan Community Board 8 voted in favor of building a protected bike lane on First Avenue between 60th Street and 96th Street.
Once construction is finished, the lane will be one segment of a complete street running from Houston to [...]
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Read MorePastor Maldonado – classic F1
Pastor Maldonado is the latest driver to choose his five favourite all-time grands prix for BBC Sport’s classic Formula 1 series.
The Venzuelan has made quite an impression one way or another in his first season in F1.
On the plus side, he has out-qualified his team-mate, the veteran Rubens Barrichello, an impressive six times in 14 races so far this season.
Not so positively, he has yet to shed a reputation for occasional wildness that followed him from the junior categories, and was on full public display when he drove into Lewis Hamilton’s McLaren in qualifying for the Belgian Grand Prix. The incident earned Maldonado a five-place grid penalty.
Maldonado not only came to F1 with the backing of President Hugo Chavez and his country’s state oil company, he also came to the sport relatively late in life.
He is 26, relatively old compared to the age many drivers make their debut these days. That almost certainly explains his selections for this blog – which span the last 30 or so years and would be classed as all-time greats in anyone’s book.
This race is famous for two reasons: the thrilling duel over second place in the final three laps between Ferrari‘s Gilles Villeneuve and Renault’s Rene Arnoux; and for being the first win for a turbo-charged car.
That second landmark, achieved courtesy of Renault’s Jean-Pierre Jabouille, has been rather overshadowed by the first.
“This race was before I was born but I have seen it many times,” Maldonado says. “It was so great because they were racing wheel-to-wheel, overtaking each other and switching positions. It was amazing. You don’t see action like that very often!”
Another event famous for many reasons: a controversial win by Alain Prost; Nigel Mansell crashing out of the lead; and two stunning drives in the wet by rising stars Ayrton Senna and Stefan Bellof.
Prost led from the start in heavy rain but was passed early on by Mansell, who crashed six laps later, blaming the embarrassing incident on his rear wheel losing grip on one of the white lines on the track.
Senna, whose natural talent more than made up for the deficiencies of his Toleman car, then began catching Prost, with Bellof, driving a Tyrrell and, like Senna, in his first season of F1, making inroads into both.
As the weather worsened, Prost, driving a McLaren, began gesticulating for the race to be stopped, which it was as he completed lap 32, just as Senna caught and passed him on the pit straight.
The decision to stop the race was controversial because the man who made it, clerk of the course and former F1 driver Jacky Ickx, was employed to drive Le Mans cars by Porsche, which made McLaren’s TAG-badged engine. Ickx has always denied he was influence in any way.
“It was an amazing race to watch, as Senna came from the very back in just a few laps to catch race leader Prost,” says Maldonado. “He was overtaking everyone which was even more impressive being in Monaco where it is difficult to overtake anyway. He was amazing in the rain.”
A favourite among many of the grand prix drivers this season, this was the first of two consecutive Japanese races in which a crash between McLaren drivers Prost and Senna decided the world championship. It was, as Maldonado points out, “the end of a difficult two-year rivalry for the team-mates”.
Prost led much of the race but was eventually caught by Senna. As the Brazilian tried to pass at the chicane in the closing stages, Prost turned in on him and they collided. Prost climbed out of his car but Senna rejoined the race, pitting for a new nose cone before catching and passing Benetton’s Alessandro Nannini.
However, that was not the end of the drama. Senna’s win would have kept the title battle going until the final race of the season but he was controversially disqualified for missing the chicane and Prost declared champion.
This race at Donington Park has gone down in history as one of Senna’s greatest drives and is another favourite among the current crop of F1 drivers.
“There are so many great races from Senna it is hard to single any one out,” Maldonado says. “He was always amazing in difficult situations, with incredible instincts, and this was a perfect example.
“From fourth on the grid, he read the changing conditions perfectly, unlike anyone else on the grid, as the race went from dry to wet and back again. He ended up winning by over a minute by the chequered flag! It is like magic watching him.”
Relatively recent it might be but already another all-time classic. McLaren’s Hamilton and Ferrari’s Felipe Massa went into the race, the last in the season, contesting the world championship.
Massa survived a late shower of rain to win the race but, as the Ferrari pit celebrated, Hamilton slipped past the struggling Toyota of Timo Glock at the final corner to take fifth and the title.
“It was so great so see a race go right down to the wire like that and then change at the very last second,” Maldonado recalls.
“With so much at stake, it was great as a viewer but not so great for Massa. It was so close I never forget seeing both teams celebrating at the same time not realising what had happened.”
As always, we pick one race to highlight in the blog and, ahead of the street race at Singapore this weekend, we have chosen the 1984 Monaco event.
The full grand prix programme of the time is embedded below. Underneath it, to whet your appetites for the action to come this weekend, are short and extended highlights of Fernando Alonso‘s superb victory for Ferrari in last year’s Singapore Grand Prix.
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Short highlights from France 1979, Japan 1989, Europe 1993 and Brazil 2008, plus extended highlights from Monaco 1984 and Singapore 2010 will be broadcast on the BBC red button on digital television in the UK.
On satellite and cable, the classic races will be available from 1500 BST on Wednesday 21 September until 1055 BST on Friday 23 September, then from 1235 BST until 1425 BST on Friday 23 September.
On Freeview, they will be shown from 1235 BST until 1425 BST on Friday 23 September.
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Read MoreKobayashi aims to reward Sauber
Kamui Kobayashi is aiming to reward his Sauber team in the Singapore Grand Prix after apologising for crashing during qualifying on Saturday. The Japanese driver crashed against the wall at Turn 10 after jumping over the chicane during his first run in the second qualifying segment.
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Read MoreToyota NASCAR Tidbits ? Sept. 19-25, 2011
Toyota Motorsports LogoCHECKING IN ON CHICAGO: In Monday’s rain-delayed NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) race at Chicagoland Speedway, Kasey Kahne rebounded from early contact with the wall to finish 12th and fellow Red Bull Racing Team teammate Brian Vickers posted a 13th-place result in the 400-mile event. Brian Scott equaled a career-best finish of third-…more»
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