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GST Motorsports Sets Another Time Attack Record [video]
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As we reported two weeks ago, GST Motorsports set a new Super Lap Battle record around Firebird’s main racing circuit. Well, the boys from Hayward, California have done it again, this time setting a new Redline Time Attack lap record at Las Vegas Motor Speedway’s outside road course, posting a best time of 1-minute 39.657…
BMW Announces Return to DTM After 20 Year Absence
After pulling from the series in 1992, BMW has announced a tentative return to the DTM touring-car series in 2012. BMW is planning to build a new race car based on the current M3 – which would ideally also be able to run in Japan’s Super GT series and the American Grand-Am series. The BMW…
Bondurant Holding Driver Search for Race Series; Are You the One?
The world of racing is a tough one to break in with. Sadly for some, no matter how much talent you have, unless you get a big break or have real deep pockets you might never get the opportunity you deserve. The Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving is looking to change that, offering…
FIA GT1 Nissan GT-R Teams Confirm Silverstone Participation [video]
After reporting yesterday on the possible boycott of Round 2 of the FIA GT1 World Championship by both Nissan GT-R teams due to a controversial weight penalty assessed to them prior to the season opener in Abu Dhabi, we have since learned that the Swiss Racing Team and Sumo Power GT have confirmed their attendance at…
Report: Nissan GT-R Teams Threaten Boycott of FIA GT1 Championship
As reported in Autosport Magazine, the two Nissan teams competing in the new FIA GT1 World Championship have threatened to boycott the next round and to launch a protest unless the weight penalty heaped on the GT-R ahead of the Abu Dhabi series opener is removed. The first race of the season took place last weekend…
Drag Racing Honda CRX Destroyed When Flywheel Flies Loose [video]
While Toyota owners continue to be worried about “unintended acceleration” issues associated with faulty gas pedals, owners of other makes are eagerly testing the limits of their vehicles’ intended acceleration on the quarter mile. Sometimes, however, there are unintended consequences. Take this drag-racing CRX for example and an owner who got one seriously unpleasant surprise…
An Inside Look at Tyler McQuarrie’s World-Challenge Lotus Exige S [Video]
After his dominating World-Challenge GTS performance at Long Beach in the LPL/DRS Lotus Exige 240 S, Tyler McQuarrie sent us a highly entertaining GoPro HD helmet cam clip from qualifying. Check it out after the jump. We also noticed our friends over at The Octane Report just posted a full story on McQuarrie’s glorious Long…
Lamborghini Gallardo Super Trofeo Race Car Spotted On Public Roads in France
Some of the baddest street cars of all time are little more than race cars with a few concessions thrown in to make them suitable for day-to-day use. The Jaguar XK-SS was barely more than a LeMans-spec D-Type with a passenger seat. Nissan would sell special editions of its Skyline GTR that were stripped down…
Mustang Drag Racer Opts for Toyota Supra Power
There’s an old adage that floats around the drag racing track that goes something like this: “If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em.” Sometimes this means throwing in a 100-shot of nitrous oxide to keep up with the competitors, or dropping your credit card at the local shop to replicate what someone else has done….
BRE Mazda MX-5 to Make its Debut at Road Atlanta
Racing legends Peter Brock and John Morton will fly their famous #46 red, white, and blue pattern on a classic Japanese roadster once again. But rather than on the Datsuns that made this livery so renowned, it will be on the most popular roadster ever sold or raced, the Mazda MX-5 Miata. The car will…
McQuarrie takes World Challenge Win at Long Beach in Lotus Exige 240 S
Tyler McQuarrie, best known for his sideways style in the Formula D professional drifting series, proved his versatility as a racing driver by dominating the Toyo Tires World Challenge GTS class at Long Beach throughout the weekend in the LPL/DRS/Switcars/LCS/Dayco/M&T Lotus Exige 240 S. McQuarrie’s win was made all the more impressive by the fact…
Natural Gas Powered Volkswagen Scirocco GT24 CNG Race Cars to Compete at Nurburgring 24 Hour
Every time we set our eyes on the new VW Scirocco (like at the Nitto Tires booth at the Tokyo Auto Salon), we were jealous to say the least that North America will never get this beauty. This decision was made in 2008 by Martin Winterkorn, Volkswagen’s CEO, stating that the Scirocco would negatively affect…
Ford Mustang to Enter FIA GT3 European Championship
As reported on Marc VDS Racing, a Belgian-Canadian joint effort is preparing to take on the competition in the FIA GT3 European Championship with a pair of freshly built Ford Mustangs. Canada’s Multimatic Motorsports has prepared the Mustangs for Belgium-based Marc VDS Racing, an experienced racing outfit that runs a pair of Ford GTs in the…
Front Wheels Simultaneously Fly Off Toro Rosso F1 Car During Chinese GP Testing
During testing for the Chinese Grand Prix this weekend, Torro Rosso’s Sebastien Buemi was involved in a bizarre crash that just has to be seen. While under hard breaking down the main straight heading into Turn 14, both front wheels and tires came flying off his race car, leaving him without steering or much braking….
Hyundai and Rhys Millen Racing to Challenge Pikes Peak World Record in an AWD Genesis [with Video]
Rhys Millen will once again head to Pikes Peak this year, in the hopes of setting a new world record. The Rhys Millen Racing (RMR) team is currently building a special vehicle for the uphill climb, called the RMR Hyundai Genesis PM580, which will compete in Unlimited class and use all-wheel drive. Hyundai has released…
Formula Drift Presents Live Streaming of all 2010 Events
All forms of motorsports – take note! Formula Drift, in association with YoParts.com has successfully launched the first ever full live streaming of their events to the world. Other sanctioning bodies have tried this in the past, but with hardly any sort of success. Needless to say when they first told us about Driftstream 2010…
Will Roegge’s 2009 Formula D Retrospective Video
At this past weekend’s first Formula D event of 2010, motorsports video phenom Will Roegge unveiled his newest creation entitled ‘Art of Formula D: 2009 Retrospective’. The video features 2009 series champion Chris Forsberg and a linear progress through all seven rounds of the 2009 Formula Drift professional drifting championship. What better way could there…
Track to Street: Corvette Racing Series Episode 3 Highlights Z06 Carbon Edition [video]
Corvette Racing has just released the next (and third) installment of its 12-part video series, this time examining how race technology makes its way to the street. In particular, the latest video highlights the new Z06 Carbon edition, which gets plenty of light-weight carbon fiber add-ons to help it shave off weight and run a…
GST Motorsports Sets New Super Lap Battle Record at Firebird Raceway
At this year’s Modified Magazine Tuner Shootout, the Super Lap Battle track record set by Crawford Performance last year was broken by driver Gary Sheehan in the GST Motorsports Subaru Impreza L. With famed Japanese Time Attack driver Tarzan Yamada behind the wheel, the Crawford Performance 2008 Subaru Impreza WRX STI set a lap record of 1:02.1…
New Porsche Videos Highlight Hybrids, From 918 Spyder to GT3 R
Porsche has just released two new videos outlining the technology, development and capabilities of both the 918 Spyder Concept and GT3 R Hybrid race car – the two models that stole the show at the Geneva Auto Show in March. Calling the 918 Spyder, “The future of motorsport and series production” it would seems as…
Volvo S60 Touring Car Gets 410-hp Mid-Mounted V6
It’s not ever often that we get to use the words Volvo and cool in the same sentence, but this is definitely one of those times. In fact, the last time we did so might be when K-Pax unveiled its World Challenge Volvo S60 race cars. Well, it’s no surprise then that the newest cool…
Chevy to Offer Camaro Indy 500 Pace Car Replicas for Retail Sales
Chevy has announced it will offer a limited number of Camaro Indy 500 Pace Car replicas for sale through select dealers. Based on a Camaro 2SS model with an RS appearance package the car also gets 20-inch wheels, White Pearl rally stripes, on Inferno Orange front grille, Inferno Orange engine cover, special floor mats, 2010…
Aston Martin Rapide to Compete in Nürburgring 24 Hour Race
For the fifth year in a row Aston Martin will take part in the annual Nürburgring 24 Hour endurance race, but for 2010 the team’s entry will have four-doors. That’s right, the all-new Rapide sedan will be stripped down to its bare essentials to compete in a class for mostly stock vehicles. Aston says more…
RealTime Racing Acura TSXs Moving Up to World Challenge GTS Class
For those of us who grew up and believing that Honda and Acura were the only “cool” auto manufacturers in the world, RealTime Racing had the coolest of the cool. From NSXs to Integra Type-Rs to RSXs to TSXs, RealTime Racing campaigned some of the most beautifully built touring car racers of the last two…
