One of the most successful Formula 1 drivers Great Britain ever gave, Sir Stirling Moss, has just been involved in an accident in his own London home, after he fell three stories down an elevator (or lift, as Brits call it) shaft. Despite suffering quite a few injuries, including broken ankles, a few chipped bones and skin damage, the famous driver... ...read the full post
Hello and welcome to a new edition of Motorsport Weekend, our own feature where we roundup all of the biggest motorsport events in the last three days and show you the results. The past weekend was pretty hectic, with four major events taking place. First were two rallies: the WRC Rally Mexico and the IRC’s Rally Curitiba, taking place in Brazil.... ...read the full post
The world of motorsport definitely has a lot of specific championships, but Nascar has a pretty special place. While Americans are huge fans, Europeans aren’t that into racing around oval tracks and turning left every now and then. But with the change in rules at the beginning of the 2010 season, Nascar officials hoped that excitement would return... ...read the full post
BMW Z4 fans were treated at the end of last year with two very big surprises: the announcement of the sDrive35is model, which unofficially supplants the need for a dedicated M-car, and the promise of a Z4 GT3 race car, which will be offered to professional teams. Now, the Bavarian company decided to finally unveil the first pictures of its GT3-spec... ...read the full post
After a lot of speculation and quite a few far fetched rumors, USF1’s team principal Ken Anderson confirmed that a request to delay its entry into the Formula 1 motorsport competition until 2011 has been forwarded to the governing body, the FIA. It seems that the rumors we posted a few days ago were true in part. The team has admitted to some... ...read the full post
Problems are continuing to plague USF1, one of the teams which were scheduled to start racing during the 2010 season of the Formula 1 championship. After reports of the team’s closure, as YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley was preparing to stop supplying cash, two very distinctive rumors are gathering influence these days about the American F1 team.... ...read the full post
Formula 1 is one of the most extreme motorsport competitions, with the special race cars reaching dizzying speeds on the track. As such, whenever there’s a crash, a safety car of equal performance must be used to set the pace of the racers. Starting with the 2010 F1 season, the new Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG supercar will be used, as the SL63 AMG... ...read the full post
Hello and welcome to another edition of our weekly feature Motorsport Weekend, where we gather the results from the most important races and rallies which took place in the last three days. After last week we reported only on the Nascar races in Los Angeles, now we’re tackling the Las Vegas ones, as well as the 100 Acre Wood Rally, counting for... ...read the full post
BMW is taking its “Joy” marketing campaign all over the world. After scoring some big wins with it in Europe, the company has introduced it to North America. But the campaign won’t be focused on just ads or billboards, as it will also be displayed on the 2010 livery for the two BMW M3 race cars that the Rahal Letterman team will be... ...read the full post
Rally driver Ken Block has a very special connection to the upcoming 100 Acre Wood Rally, which will take place this weekend. He won it four consecutive times in the last years, and is now aiming for a fifth win. This time however, he’ll be wrangling the new rally-spec 2011 Ford Fiesta model on the dirt roads of the competition. As you all know... ...read the full post
Aston Martin wants to make its racing-inclined customers happy, and has just announced that it will be debuting a one-make series in the UK focusing on the Vantage GT4 and the N24 variants. The competition is set to run on five tracks in Britain, plus a bonus one at the famous Spa Francorchamps in Belgium. It is open to anyone owning the aforementioned... ...read the full post
Hello and welcome to another edition of our Motorsport Weekend feature where we roundup all of the most important results from motorsport in the last three days. This weekend was rather poor in European events, so we’ll only be covering Nascar ones, more specifically the Auto Club 500, counting for the Sprint Cup, and the Stater Bros. 300, counting... ...read the full post
The 2010 Formula 1 season is set to receive quite a few new teams, either renamed, like Mercedes GP, or completely fresh entries, like Lotus F1. But one specific team which was highly anticipated by North American fans is USF1, which promised to make the motorsport competition much more popular in the territory and to prove that Americans aren’t... ...read the full post
Michael Schumacher’s return is surely one of the biggest events during this season of Formula 1, even though the races have yet to begin. The German driver has just finished the Jerez testing sessions on the eight overall spot, and says that the Mercedes GP race car is extremely good and that it will definitely put his team in the race for the... ...read the full post
Hello and welcome to another edition of Motorsport Weekend, our Monday feature where we round up the results from all the most important racing competitions in the last three days. After seeing just a few events happen in the last weeks, we were treated this weekend with some big races: the Daytona 500 in Nascar, as well as its smaller competitions... ...read the full post
