Skip Barber Racing School will host the 3rd Annual FREE Open House at Road Atlanta on Friday, May 4, 2012. Tickets are limited, register ONLINE today for either the morning or afternoon session. Spend the day getting free seat time in Mazda MX-5 Miata on the Autocross course, taking hot laps arounud the full [...]
Archive for Category: "Le Mans"
1967 LeMans Winning GT40 in Ford Booth at SEMA Show
Sitting in Ford’s 2011 SEMA booth, might be one of the most important Ford of all times, but that won’t stop most SEMA Show attendees from walking right by it. Sitting on a container high above the show floor, is the red #1 1967 Ford GT40 Mark IV, but with all the glitz and booth [...]
Audi R8 LMS Defends Title at Bathurst in LeMans Series
Audi remains unbeaten at Bathurst: For the second time in succession, the R8 LMS prevailed in the most important GT endurance race “Down Under” in Australia. Conditions were difficult as varying intensities of rain and dense fog at times caused a number of spins, off road excursions and yellow caution flags. But unlike NASCAR the [...]
Rob Bell, Alexander Sims and Alvaro Parente to Race McLaren GT for 2012
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
