(This might be the archetypal NASCAR fan photo; Dad spending a ton bringing the family to a race and buying trinkets and food and beer and maybe seeing some drivers; with the Pentagon a favorite NASCAR sponsor).
The only way to run a successful racing series is as a benevolent dictatorship. Never was this so obvious than in Sunday’s three-hour, 28 minute and 29 second tire test run by NASCAR as the Allstate 400 at the Brickyard at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Since its creation by "Big Bill" France over 50 years ago, and now overseen by his grandson, Brian France, NASCAR has been run first and foremost by and for the France family, their partners and minions. This is one place where there is never any question of who is in charge; as a publicly-traded company, International Speedway Corporation, stockholders are happy to leave the running of the organization to those who know it best. In 2007, NASCAR made a profit of just under $3 billion, and was the world's second richest motorsport, trailing Formula One.
Back to Sunday's race at Indy: About two-thirds of the race’s 160 laps on Indy’s 2.5-mile track run under the yellow caution flag (where there’s no passing allowed and the cars are slowed to about 80mph), spectators at the track and those at home were treated to one of the biggest disasters in American racing history.
This past Sunday, ex-Formula One driver Juan Pablo Montoya, traditional crowd favorite Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Matt Kenseth, Brian Vickers and this season’s winningest driver so far, Kyle Busch, all experienced right-side tire blow-outs which put them out of contention for a win.
Well, we knew an accident involving a Tesla Roadster was bound to happen sometime, and now the first crash has taken place in San Francisco on Friday at the corner of Geary and Gough streets at about 6 p.m. PDT. While we'd heard something about a scuff with one of the first "production" units earlier this past month — something about Tesla founding father Martin Eberhard's little two-seater rear-ending the back end of a truck — this certainly does not appear to be the same incident.
Truckblog.TV shows you how vinyl vehicle graphics are made, and the tips and tricks to making sure the installation of your decal graphics kit goes smoothly.
In this newest of traditions the R35 GT-R meet at Daikoku was held today. The first such meet to have been blessed with dry weather. About 40 GT-Rs attended today’s meet which makes it the biggest meet up yet.
Don't be confused: Unlike last year's JCW kit, which was a dealer-installed accessory, the 2009 Mini John Cooper Works Hardtop and Mini John Cooper Works Clubman are actual production models. The John Cooper Works models effectively replace the kit, and for about the same money, they offer even more power and performance.
The 1.6-liter turbo four from the Cooper S and Clubman S models has been revised for more power, featuring a reworked cylinder head and turbocharger and new intake and exhaust systems similar to those used in the Mini Cooper Challenge race car. Re-mapped ECU programming now allows almost 19 psi of boost (up from 13 psi), bumping output to 208 hp and 192 lb-ft of torque. An overboost function temporarily allows even higher boost for a midrange torque peak of 207 lb-ft - quite a lot of twist for a diminutive four-cylinder. Tons more below...
Found this creative photo of the ARC intercoolers on the MCR R35 GT-R and thought to share it. MCR and ARC have teamed up on a number of projects lately. Firstly they collaborated on the ARC titanium exhaust version 1, then the ARC intercoolers. Next up is the ARC titanium exhaust version 2 which they are currently working on.
If you haven't seen this week's blisteringly fast episode of Top Gear already and you plan on doing so without having plot details spoiled, you should probably ignore this post in its entirety. The rest of you should hit the jump.
TMZ's reporting Transformers star Shia LaBeouf faces misdemeanor DUI charges after he allegedly made an unsuccessful left turn in front of another car this morning at the corner of La Brea and Fountain in Hollywood.
A few nuggets of automotive goodness have already seeped out of the nerdry that is this week's Comic-Con, but nothing is getting us excited more than this quick peek at some in-movie footage of the trailer from the new Tron 2 movie (alternately called Tr2n or Tron 2.0). Click through for video...
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