Racing
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Generally speaking, rally events exist to test the capabilities of both car and driver, often among the most grueling conditions imaginable. Like biological evolution on an accelerated scale, rally racing improves the breed, starting with race cars and trickling down into production cars. The same philosophy applies to the Silvretta E-Car Rally, which exists to push the boundaries of current electric car technology. Now in its third year, the 2012 Silvretta Rally promises to be even more challenging than past events, with longer distances, greater elevation changes and steeper climbs than in...
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Brumos To Build Limited Edition Porsche 911 GT3 Cup Race Car
When it comes to racing Porsches in North America, the name Brumos is the stuff of legend. The Jacksonville, Florida dealership has been building winning Porsche race cars for the better part of five decades, and it’s now working with Porsche Motorsport North America to offer a special...
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Formula 1 British Grand Prix Preview
Despite claims of a possible Formula 1 race run on the streets of London, the British Grand Prix held at the Silverstone Circuit remains the premier motorsport event of England. For many teams, the British Grand Prix can be considered a second home race as many have their headquarters nearby. The...
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Update: Maria De Villota Loses An Eye In F1 Testing Crash
On Tuesday we brought you the news that Marussia F1 test driver Maria De Villota had been critically injured in a testing crash at Britain’s Duxford Airfield. After completing a shakedown lap, De Villota was slowing to enter the pits when the car suddenly accelerated, striking the rear lift...
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2012 Pikes Peak Hill Climb Rescheduled For August 12
Originally scheduled for July 8, the 2012 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, the 90th running of Colorado’s venerable ‘race to the clouds,’ will now take place on August 12 due to the devastating Waldo Canyon wildfire which is still yet to be completely contained. The fire has...
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Honda To Race CR-Z Hybrid In Japan’s Super GT Series
The racing version of the Honda CR-Z gets a twin-turbocharged 2.8-liter V-6 and custom hybrid system.
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Damon Hill’s F1 career spanned some eight seasons, enough for the British driver to rack up 42 podium finishes, 22 wins, 20 pole positions and the 1996 F1 Word Championship. As a man who’s made his living by driving cars fast, you’d expect that Hill would have retained something of a lead foot in his retirement. After all, F1 drivers possess a mastery of car control in all weather conditions that few mere mortals can rival. Not so, says Piston Heads, who report that Hill is actually opposed to raising Britain’s motorway speed limit to 80 mph. In fact, the thought of...
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Marussia F1 Test Driver Maria De Villota Suffers Serious Crash
Maria De Villota, a test driver for the Marussia F1 team and the only woman currently driving in Formula 1, has sustained serious injuries in a testing crash at Duxford Airfield in Cambridgeshie, England. According to the Daily Mail, De Villota had just completed a testing lap and had returned to...
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Ferrari 458 Spider, F60 F1 Car Run Goodwood Hill: Video
In this Ferrari-filled video two-pack, you can get a tiny taste of what it was like to be at the Goodwood Festival of Speed this past weekend. Ride along as Marc Gené pilots an F60 F1 race car through the tight and twisty Goodwood hill climb course, then watch the 458 Spider take to it as...
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62 Years Of F1 Car Design, Rendered In Under A Minute: Video
Formula One cars of 2012 have precious little in common with Formula One cars of 1950. Aside from the open wheel and open cockpit designs that form the backbone of the sport, everything from construction materials through engine position and steering wheel design has changed over the past 62 years...
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Randy Pobst, K-PAX Racing Fight Fire, Crashes At Mosport: Video
Racing isn't easy. It's not easy to get into, to stay in, or, even for the talented and well-financed teams, just to keep up with. Sometimes it's not the fierce competition that holds you back, however. Sometimes it's just bad luck. On the other hand, there are a few doses of good luck in what...
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Double Loop World Record Set At X Games: Video
Just two weeks after Top Gear thrilled fans at a Top Gear Live show in South Africa by running a specially-built buggy through back-to-back loop-the-loops, Hot Wheels has managed to raise the bar with added spectacle at this weekend’s X Games competition. Instead of using a lightweight buggy...
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Honda ran a factory-backed motorcycle team in the legendary Paris-Dakar Rally from 1981 thorough 1989. In this nine-year period, Honda won the event five times on three different motorcycles (the XR550, the NXR750 and the NXR800). It’s been 23 years since Honda last ran the event in an official capacity, and much has changed since. The route no longer runs from Paris, France to Dakar, Senegal, as the region is deemed too dangerous and politically unstable. Today, the event is simply called the Dakar Rally, and it’s run in South America, thousands of miles away from the city...
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Birkin Blower Bentley Sets Record Auction Price At Bonhams Goodwood
The Bentley four-and-a-half liter is a racing legend. Known as the "Blower" Bentley, the big-engined, supercharged hot rod was, at the time, an incredibly powerful beast at 240 hp. These days, it's a vintage relic from the dawn of modern racing--the 1930s. The example you see here belonged to Sir...
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Chevrolet Celebrates 60 Years Of Corvettes: Video
It may seem hard to believe, but the Chevrolet Corvette turns 60 in 2013. Over the car’s six-decade life, it’s been transformed from an underpowered and hastily slapped-together roadster (the original 1953 model) to a world class sports car (most recently, the Corvette ZR1) and...
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Bernie Ecclestone Offers To Fund London Formula 1 Race:
How badly does Bernie Ecclestone want to see Formula 1 run on the streets of London? Bad enough to offer up $55 million of his own personal fortune, and bad enough to waive the $25 million sanctioning fee for such an event. As Autoweek reports, the ever-controversial Ecclestone calls the proposed...
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SRT's Viper GTS-R Looks Fast On Track: Video
SRT is set to debut its Viper GTS-R in American Le Mans Series competition later this year, so it’s taking every opportunity it can to show off the car in development and testing. As with the Viper teasers released ahead of the car’s New York Auto Show debut, we expect to see regular...
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Open Wheel Wreck At Road America From All The Angles: Video
Last week we brought you the in-car video of Doug Peterson's Formula Mazda crash at Road America, and now we have the incident from almost every possible angle and vantage point. While Peterson's ride was the wildest, the scenes of frenzied of avoidance maneuvers, brake lock-ups, and general mayhem...
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The massive Waldo Canyon wildfire in the Colorado Springs, Colorado area, has spread flames, smoke, and ash as high as 20,000 feet and consumed more than 15,000 acres, creating tremendous, almost incredible images--and causing the U.S. Forest Service to forbid the running of the 90th Pikes Peak International Hill Climb on its scheduled July 8 date. The fire is only about five percent contained. Right now, no specific time for the famed run up the mountain has been set, the organizers simply saying it will be run "later in the summer." The goal is to find a date that will allow the race's...
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New Jersey F1 Race On Hold, Street Circuit Not Ready
Formula 1 racing in the U.S. has had a rough time over the five years since its ignominious last appearance at Indy. The Circuit of the Americas is rapidly shaping up as the new center of American F1 racing, but there is--or was--hope that a New Jersey street circuit might soon join it. That hope...
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Sebastian Vettel To Race For Ferrari From 2014?
Rumors, gossip, silly fights--if it weren't for the winged cars and the racing suits, Formula 1 might be mistaken for the Real Housewives of Some Rich County. The latest gossip on the rounds? Sebastian Vettel's transfer from Red Bull to Ferrari in 2014. Sign up: Get our best headlines every morning...
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McLaren To Debut Enhanced MP4-12C, Show 12C GT3 Model At Goodwood
In 2010, McLaren showed off its MP4-12C supercar prototype to an appreciative crowd at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, and last year used the event to debut its MP4-12C GT3 racer. It stands to reason, then, that McLaren will mark this year’s Festival of Speed with another product...
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MINI's Record Parking Job Wasn't As Easy As It Looked: Video
Earlier this month, we brought you video of Chinese driver Han Yue breaking the Guinness World Record for the tightest parallel parking job. After beginning with a successful run of 22 centimeters (8.7 inches), Yue kept going until he was able to squeeze his MINI Cooper Chinese Job edition into a...
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Ken Block Teases Gymkhana Five: Video
Ken Block’s critics are quick to point out the American driver’s failures in World Rally Competition, where his part-time effort doesn't draw much attention from hardcore fans. Even Block’s other driving endeavors, like the Global Rallycross Championship, aren’t enough for...
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