Auto Racing: ALMS Audi To Offer Customer GT3 R8 |
| 8/27/2008 10:19:43 AM |
Auto racing for the first time, Audi Sport will offer a racing sports car specifically developed for customer use in the form of the powerful 500 hp plus GT3 version of the Audi R8 which will be available from autumn 2009. The logistics and factory space required for the AUDI AG customer sports car racing program will be created over the next few months in Ingolstadt,... Read More |
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Auto racing supplies cheaper, easier to find online |
| 8/26/2008 11:33:53 AM |
 If you are still heading down to the local place to grab up the auto racing supplies that you need, think again my friends. There are easier and far cheaper ways to get your hands on the auto racing supplies that you need. Certainly the local auto racing supplies may have plenty of selection. However, you will never find more auto racing supplies selection than you will... Read More
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Auto Racing: 2009 BMW Entry Growing Presence |
| 8/21/2008 3:50:46 PM |
Auto racing the volume of frequency of BMW/Rahal Letterman Racing employees at ALMS races has been  growing since the Series got back underway after Le Mans this year, and the amount of speculation over their 2009 driver lineup is growing at an equally impressive rate. Rumors of Jamie Melo signing for RLR continue to grow, just as rumors that former factory pilot Joey Hand... Read More |
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Some fun street car racing at Firebird raceway |
| 8/14/2008 4:51:18 PM |
Down here in Phoenix we have nothing better to do than race our cars. Our spaces are so pointlessly wide and spread out, that racing is the only seemingly possible way to make it from one destination to another.
But in all seriousness, thought, street car racing is a big thing down here and often people will take their suped up cars down to the race track and engage in some... Read More |
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Will Kentucky Speedway Stay on the Nascar Racing Schedule |
| 8/14/2008 1:47:34 AM |
 Jerry Carrol, who until next Monday owned Kentucky Speedway has had some choice words to say about the Nascar racing schedule. Back in 2005, Carrol filed a lawsuit against Nascar for antitrust violations. Those allegations never came to be and the case was dropped. This spurred him to put Kentucky Speedway up for sale. Speedway Motorsports Inc. decided to buy it for 78... Read More |
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NASCAR: Ambrose Ready For Ovals? |
| 8/12/2008 10:52:13 AM |
NASCAR racing, Australian Marcos Ambrose is determined to prove himself as a complete driver and not just a road course specialist after taking his maiden NASCAR victory at Watkins Glen on Saturday.
The double Aussie V8 champion won on his 59th NASCAR start in the Nationwide Series event on Saturday, and went on to finish third in the NASCAR Sprint Cup race on Sunday.
"I... Read More |
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Toronto Street Car Racing Legislation Keeping Drivers Safe |
| 8/8/2008 12:46:22 AM |
 There is no doubt that racing on a closed circuit is one of the most exciting and sought after things to do. Go to an indoor kart racing track and you will find droves of people who have dreams of taking their need for speed to a real race course. Well for young people and some older people, street car racing is the next best thing. I understand the thrill of street car... Read More |
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Auto Racing: Grand-Am Childress-Howard Motorsports DP Car To Debut At Watkins Glen |
| 8/5/2008 11:04:26 AM |
Auto racing Childress-Howard Motorsports Debut at Watkins Glen The No. 4 AT&T Daytona Prototype Pontiac  Crawford fielded by Childress-Howard Motorsports will make its 2008 Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series debut Aug. 8 in the Crown Royal 200 at the Glen at Watkins Glen (N.Y.) International.
Sports Car racing legend Andy Wallace and multi-time Rolex Series champion Andy... Read More |
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Auto Racing: ALMS Former Honda F1 Test Driver Joins AGR ALMS Team |
| 8/4/2008 4:31:05 PM |
Auto racing Former Honda F1 and Super Aguri test driver James Rossiter will make his American Le Man s Series debut at Road America this weekend.
The 24-year-old Briton will join fellow former Super Aguri driver Franck Montagny in Andretti Green Racing's Acura for least two events, with Mosport following Road America later this month.
"I'm really looking forward to the... Read More |
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Auto Racing: Grand-Am Brumos Team So-Close-Yet-So-Far |
| 8/4/2008 8:22:03 AM |
 Auto racing - Darren Law expected to be excited following his third-place finish in Friday's Grand-Am Montreal 200. It marked the fourth podium finish for himself and David Donohue in the No. 58 Brumos DP Porsche Riley. Out of the top 20 in points only a few weeks ago, the result also moved the pair to a tie for fifth in the Daytona Prototype championship standings.
If one... Read More |
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Gas Prices Impacting Attendance at the NASCAR Racing Schedule |
| 8/2/2008 11:05:00 AM |
Look At the Sparsely Filled Stands at a Recent NASCAR Event
Gas prices are affecting the NASCAR racing schedule, but perhaps not in the ways you expect. It's making it more expensive to field a car in the NASCAR racing schedule of course, but it's also affecting the size of the crowd at many NASCAR events. In fact, a recent estimate of NASCAR attendance indicated that high... Read More |
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Formula 1: BMW-Sauber KERS shocks mechanic to ground |
| 7/30/2008 5:46:27 PM |
BMW-Sauber has been testing, as have all of the other F1 teams, anew transmission that regenerates energy that is dispersed. This helpslower emissions of the Formula 1 racecars, and helps to promote morecost effective F1 cars. This system is known as KERS, or Kinetic Energy Recovery System. Iwon't even go into how the hell it works, because I will just get waytoo... Read More with Video |
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F1 Street Car Racing Cat Fight |
| 7/27/2008 1:45:47 PM |
| We all heard about the F1 street car racing cat fight that took place between Danica Patrick and Milka Duno. Duno threw a towel into Danica’s face after she was approached and asked why she was so slow and if she had seen Patrick in her rearview mirror. It started off friendly enough but Duno did not like Patrick’s attitude and the claws came out. If you missed this street... Read More with Video |
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Auto Racing: M3 GTR Video |
| 7/23/2008 2:46:40 PM |
| Yes, I am a biased BMW nut! I will admit it, and really I'm not afraid to. I love the American Le Mans Series, as well, and I miss the days of the E46 M3 GTR. Now, as I posted a while back, BMW has the new E92 M3 GTR that will come racing into GT2 starting in 2009. I can't wait, personally. Thanks to my buddy Horatiu at BMW Blog, I have a nice video of the M3 GTR doing its... Read More with Video |
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Auto Racing: Volvo Coming to WTCC with Ethanol C30 |
| 7/23/2008 2:22:10 PM |
| It seems that everyone wants in on the Ethanol craze these days. Ferrari has brought an F-430 out that uses Ethanol, Lotus has an Ethanol Exige and the C6.R Corvette in ALMS is fed only Ethanol to survive. That' just off the top of my head. I'm sure if I did more research I could find a whole host of new sports cars and race cars that come in Ethanol form. I won't get... Read More |
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Wear Driving Shoes from Auto Racing Supplies Web Sites |
| 7/21/2008 9:19:17 AM |
 There are times when I have to do a lot of driving as part of my work, and I've found that the driving shoes you get from auto racing supplies web sites help keep my right foot from getting all cramped up when I'm doing a lot of city driving, with tons of starting and stopping. I don't know what it is about that kind of driving that occasionally sends my foot and lower leg... Read More |
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Auto Racing: Lexus Enters Speed Challenge |
| 7/18/2008 12:47:06 PM |
There hasn't been any news on an IS F racecar since we heard rumors that the sedan, unveiled at the Tokyo  Auto Salon, was really a reskinned 2004 Opel Vectra DTM. While Lexus might not be supporting a factory-backed motorsports program for the IS-F, that doesn't mean that privateer teams can't develop a car on their own. DRC Motorsports has done just that and has built two... Read More |
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Busch Conquering Nascar Racing Schedule to Spite Hendrick |
| 7/14/2008 10:56:36 AM |
| There has been talk that after this Sprint Cup series is over Kyle Busch will be solidified in Nascar racing schedule history if he can get 13 season wins. There have only been two other drivers to accomplish this and they are nothing short of house hold names in Nascar friendly families, Petty and Gordon. Busch has already won 7 of his Nascar racing schedule appearances... Read More with Video |
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L. Hamilton Takes F1 Street Car Racing Lead |
| 7/8/2008 11:56:56 AM |
<--Street Car Racing Recap of Hamilton Win
Lewis Hamilton battled wet tarmac during the British Grand Prix before taking first place, which boosted him to the top of the F1 standings over the weekend. For those that are not familiar with the street car racing talents of Hamilton, he is a 23 year old British driver who is only in his second season of driving F1. He almost... Read More with Video |
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