You got to love this. Rally cars that get plenty of air time are always great fun to watch, the best part is how the drivers control the car as he lands, I guess keeping it floored works.
Yes yes, I know we have been stagnant for a while, after years of bringing you the latest in the industry, we all needed a break, but we’re back and with a bang. Here’s a great video of arguably the greatest BMW ever, the original E30 M3 racing tarmac rally stages, and the best part?? …
EVO UK recently put Porsche’s claim that the “new GT3RS is race-ready” to the test and to do that they sent Chris Harris to meet rally legend François Delecour and put the GT3RS through some WRC stages. His conclusion is what’s really interesting, you got to watch it and also check out the change in …
The Group A class was created to promote more private entries. In order to be homologated, 2500 examples of the competing car had to be put on sale by the manufacturer. Above is a great video of the cars that used to race in the class in the late 1990s, described by the compiler of …
Ex-F1 driver Kimi Raikkonen has crashed out of Rally Mexico in spectacular fashion. Raikkonen, who swapped F1 for rallying when Fernando Alonso replaced him at Ferrari, rolled his Citroen C4 six times on the final gravel stage of day one. Both Raikkonen and his co-driver Kaj Linstrom were unharmed, but the car was destroyed in …
Carlos Sainz will be a formula one commentator in 2010. The two-time rally world champion and reigning Dakar winner, 47, has been signed by the Spanish broadcaster La Sexta, as has the Ferrari test driver and fellow expert pundit Marc Gene. In late 2006, Sainz – a renowned F1 fan – tested Renault’s title-winning car. …
Citroen will be showcasing it’s hottest variant yet of it’s premium supermini, the limited edition Citroen DS3 Racing. It’s the product of Citroen’s Racing division, the same people who handle Citroen’s successful World Rally Championship cars, the DS3 Racing will limited to a strict number of 1000 units. The DS3 Racing is powered by a …
As the world of motorsports gears up for the start of the season, manufacturers and race teams are rushing to test their latest race weapons. Formula One teams are rushing to gather data and so are the Moto GP teams, some stages of rallying has already started and in Japan, the Super GT teams are …
Travis Pastrana’s enviable motorsports resume—which already features such mundane entries as double backflipping a motorcycle, jumping a car 270 feet across Long Beach Harbor, and capturing enough X Games gold to bailout Wall Street—expanded this weekend to include a new sport called vehicular ice dancing, and subsequently, his fourth Rally America Sno*Drift victory. Actually, ice …
Saturday 14th November 2009, Longyou, China. Alister McRae put in an inspired drive for the Proton R3 Rally Team to finish 4th overall in Leg 1 of the rally today against stiff competition both from the Asia Pacific Rally and China National Rally Championship teams. Cody Crocker, 4 time Asia Pacific Rally Champion is leading …
Proton unveiled its Satria Neo Super2000 rally car to the Indonesian media in a small ceremony at its Proton showroom in Makassar, Indonesia. The team also completed the shakedown of the Satria Neo Super 2000 prior to the start of Rally Indonesia on the weekend with its new driver line-up comprising of Alister McRae and …
A video of Ken Block and fellow rally driver Chris Atkinson having some fun in Ken’s very own 1978 Ford Escort. It’s not your normal Ford Escort as under the hood lies a 2.4-liter, four-cylinder Millington engine that boasts 280bhp. It has also been setup with WRC-styled paddle shift as well as a six-speed sequential …
Female racers always get our attention but more often than not, it is their ability to handle a car that gets our attention, not their looks for obvious reasons. But every once in a while, a real hot racer comes along and rocks our world, like how Danica Patrick did. Well since Danica has Indy …
Ultra-successful world rally driver Sebastien Loeb has reportedly made an approach to the new-for-2010 USF1 team. “Somebody representing Loeb called us but I won’t give details of the conversation,” sporting director Peter Windsor is quoted as telling the French sports daily L’Equipe. Ever since Loeb, 35, tested Red Bull’s F1 car over the winter, his …
Malaysian rally legend Karamjit Singh may have taken the driver’s seat in the Proton Rally Team but he has also found the time to coach aspiring hopefuls. He is organising an advanced driving course this Sunday 30th of August at the Stadium Shah Alam parking lot and everybody is invited but at a price of …
PUTRAJAYA, 12 August 2009 – PROTON yesterday announced its return to the coveted FIA Asia-Pacific Rally Championship (APRC) since its last participation in 2004. The FIA Asia-Pacific Rally Championship is one of the premier regional championships in World Rallying. The PROTON R3 Malaysia Rally Team was introduced yesterdat at the premises of the Perdana Leadership …