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Posted October 16 2009 11:57 AM by Phil Floraday
Jay Lamm's 24 Hours of LeMons races have been covered in great detail since the inaugural race in 2006. The formula is quite simple -- take a $500 car, install several thousand dollars worth of safety gear, buy several...
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Posted June 23 2009 08:31 AM by Joe DeMatio
Jesse James claims he has set a new Land Speed Record for a hydrogen vehicle. "LandSpeed" Louise Ann Noeth, the most prominent Land Speed Record journalist alive today, says, um, not so fast, Jesse.
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Posted September 29 2008 12:39 PM by Evan McCausland
We don't want to spoil your evening if you happened to TiVo Saturday's Singapore GP, but Felipe Massa didn't fare all that well. Still, if you'd like to toast the Ferrari pilot's accomplishments (perhaps both past...
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Posted August 26 2008 01:47 PM by Marc Noordeloos
The American Le Mans Series (ALMS) is coming back to Detroit this weekend. We had lunch at Pratt and Miller's shop today, home of Corvette Racing, and learned a few things.
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Posted August 25 2008 03:16 AM by Evan McCausland
If there wasn't reason enough to celebrate the newly reunited Indy Racing League, here's another: turbochargers will be in use by the 2011 race season.
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Waterford Hills Road Course Celebrates 50th Anniversary
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Posted August 4 2008 06:45 AM by Marc Noordeloos
NASCAR finally realized that rain doesn't actually melt the cars and ran a race in the wet in Canada. Plus, there wasn't an American in the top three finishing positions. What is this world coming to?
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Posted August 1 2008 06:20 AM by Evan McCausland
We usually see technology trickle down from race cars to production vehicles, not the other way around. However, after fitting direct fuel injection to the 2008 Cayenne and 2009 911, Porsche has equipped its RS...
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Posted July 31 2008 09:51 AM by Evan McCausland
We've all had bad days, and we'll bet that last Sunday happened to be one for Michael Schumacher. While driving a Fiat van through Kent, England, the F1 legend managed to clip a security gate.
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F1 team leaders question the practicality of new hybrid system
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Posted July 25 2008 11:25 AM by Evan McCausland
Days after a BMW mechanic was shocked by a new hybrid F1 car undergoing testing, John Howett, president of Toyota's Formula One team, is expressing his concerns surrounding the new Kinetic Energy Recovery System.
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