Rob Bell and Alexander Sims join Alvaro Parente in McLaren GT customer team driver line-up for 2012 Three examples of the MP4-12C GT3 race car and one MP4-12C road car to be presented at Autosport International 25 Mclaren MP4-12C GT3’s to race in Europe in 2012 McLaren GT is building on its successful 2011 development [...]
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Danny Thompson Plans To Attempt New Land Speed Record In Mickey Thompson’s Challenger
Danny Thompson, son of slain race car driver Mickey Thompson, and an accomplished racer and innovator in his own right, will present the details of his plans to complete the restoration of his fathers’ Challenger 2.5, building the fastest piston-powered car in the world. Thompson plans to exceed the existing internal combustion wheel-driven land speed [...]
Toyota Plots Return to Le Mans With 2012 LMP1 Hybrid Car
Toyota will compete in the Le Mans 24 Hours in 2012 with a new hybrid power sports car. Its return to the world’s most famous endurance race will be with a new LMP1 chassis designed, developed and produced by Toyota Motorsport in Germany, equipped with a hybrid petrol powertrain engineered by Toyota in Japan. Participation [...]
Dodge Viper Celebrity Challenge Racing to Air on Versus
Dodge Motorsports will present viewers an exciting alternative to all the football, baseball, golf and other competitive events on the tube with the first ever “Dodge Viper Celebrity Challenge,” Sunday afternoon at 3 p.m. on Versus. Dubbed “The Duel in the Desert,” the race is unique because it features competitors from several racing formats, all of [...]
Chevrolet Malibu: Becomes Longest-Running Midsize Auto Nameplate
From hot rod to police cruiser to convertible to America’s main street sedan, few midsize cars have appealed to so many, for so long, as the Chevrolet Malibu. The Malibu is the auto industry’s longest-running midsize nameplate, spanning 35 years, six decades, and eight iterations. Chevrolet has produced more than 8.5 million Malibus in the United States since its [...]
ALMS Champion Dyson Racing Named US Distributor for Caterham-Lola SP/300.R
Dyson Racing, will act as US distributor for the new Caterham-Lola SP/300.R sports prototype when the first of the brand new race and trackday cars lands in the States early next year. Caterham Cars appointed the newly-crowned American Le Mans Series (ALMS) LMP1 champion team as its official US distributor. The two companies share a [...]
Camaro ZL1 Laps Nurburgring in 7:41.27
The 2012 Camaro ZL1 recently recorded a 7:41.27 lap at the Nurburgring. That is nearly 40 seconds quicker than a Camaro SS tested at the legendary German track in 2009. Measuring 12.9 miles (20.8 km) and including some 154 turns, the Nurburgring’s Nordschleife (“north loop”) is widely considered the world’s most-demanding course. The Camaro ZL1 used for [...]
Motor City Archives: Ford GT70 Rally Concept
Ford has enjoyed many successes in motorsport but one of its rarest creations came about thanks to a failure. In 1970 after Ford pulled the plug on its successful GT40 Le Mans program, Ford toyed with creating a successor to the GT throne: the GT70. On the way back from an unsuccessful Monte Carlo Rally, Ford’s [...]
