• Belgian Grand Prix 2012: Lewis Hamilton ready to reignite F1 title charge as he bids to reel in Fernando Alonso

    Updated: 2012-08-31 21:02:21
    Alonso still the man to beat but McLaren star leads group of four who can challenge the Spaniard.

  • Mazda, Alfa Romeo Roadster Could Be The Start Of A Beautiful Friendship

    Updated: 2012-08-31 19:30:56
    , HotRides This Is What Were Waiting For The Hamstars Return Home add your blog Archives Search Forum Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Mazda , Alfa Romeo Roadster Could Be The Start Of A Beautiful Friendship post from The Truth About Cars on 31 August 2012 03:30:56 PM . The Truth About Cars While discussing the future of a Mazda Fiat collaboration last week , one industry insider trusted by TTAC had this to say It’s a bit like a first dance during the sixth grade the Roadster , I mean . They’re leaving room for Jesus , but still able to cop a feel if they’re lucky . 8221 Now we’ve got more info on Read The Full Article : http : www.thetruthaboutcars.com 2012 08

  • Are White Cars Really Popular Because of Apple?

    Updated: 2012-08-31 18:00:54
    HotRides Mazda , Alfa Romeo Roadster Could Be The Start Of A Beautiful Friendship Home add your blog Archives Search Forum Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Are White Cars Really Popular Because of Apple post from The Truth About Cars on 31 August 2012 02:00:54 PM . The Truth About Cars The person ultimately responsible for choosing colors for BMW cars , Sandy McGill , the other day attributed today’s popularity of white cars to the influence of Apple on consumers and designers . Prior to Apple , white was associated with things like refrigerators or the tiles in your bathroom . Apple made white valuable . Raphael Orlove over at Jalopnik Read The Full Article : http :

  • Pictures From The Chengdu Motor Show. The What?

    Updated: 2012-08-31 17:48:57
    . HotRides Mustangs : Drift v . Race Home add your blog Archives Search Forum Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Pictures From The Chengdu Motor Show . The What post from The Truth About Cars on 31 August 2012 01:48:57 PM . The Truth About Cars You are familiar with that toothy grin . But have you ever heard of the Chengdu Motor Show The annual affair in the city of 14 million in China s Southwest is gaining in importance as the car industry reaches into China s vast hinterlands and to demographics that just yesterday were thought to live under a rock . Read The Full Article : http : www.thetruthaboutcars.com 2012 08 pictures-from-the-chengdu-motor-show-the what Add to

  • Belgium Grand Prix 2012: heavy rain ruins first practice session for Sunday's race at Spa-Francorchamps

    Updated: 2012-08-31 16:36:00
    Lewis Hamilton turns to Twitter to keep his mind occupied as wet weather turns practice for Sunday's race into bore sessions.

  • QOTD: What?s The Best Fast Car To Drive Slow?

    Updated: 2012-08-31 15:48:35
    : HotRides Mazda , Alfa Romeo Roadster Could Be The Start Of A Beautiful Friendship Home add your blog Archives Search Forum Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . QOTD : Whats The Best Fast Car To Drive Slow post from The Truth About Cars on 31 August 2012 11:48:35 AM . The Truth About Cars Reader Claude Dickson asks I was watching Road Testament on YouTube and they were purported talking about the best fast cars to drive slow . Most of their suggestions were ridiculous , but the question they asked is becoming increasingly relevant if the question is refined to what are the best high performance cars to drive at Read The Full Article : http : www.thetruthaboutcars.com

  • Mustangs: Drift v. Race

    Updated: 2012-08-31 15:18:18
    : . HotRides Marchionnes Money : Kragujevac Cant Pay , Brussels Can Home add your blog Archives Search Forum Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Mustangs : Drift v . Race post from The Truth About Cars on 31 August 2012 11:18:18 AM . The Truth About Cars TTAC has some great Mustang coverage coming your way in about a week , including multiple tests of two different Shelby GT500 models ranging from a 168-mph blast down the back straight of Virginia International Raceway to a pedestrian-frightening growl through the streets of downtown Toronto . We’re busy writing apology notes to Ford for the state Read The Full Article : http : www.thetruthaboutcars.com 2012 08

  • Pop The Hood: 2012 FIAT Abarth with 1.4L MultiAir Engine

    Updated: 2012-08-31 12:55:00
    : HotRides Winterkorn : Marchionne Talks Nonsense Home add your blog Archives Search Forum Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Pop The Hood : 2012 FIAT Abarth with 1.4L MultiAir Engine post from autoMedia Auto News Blog on 31 August 2012 08:55:00 AM . autoMedia Auto News Blog Welcome to Pop The Hood , a weekly autoMedia.com feature that examines the industry's latest innovations and what makes them tick . Recently , we've poked around inside the SRT Viper , nbsp Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 and Porsche 918 Spyder full list below Today let's delve into a car that proves small cars aren't just fun they rock : the . Click through for more info and . pictures Read The Full Article

  • GT Academy Winners Announced. It?s All Dudes. Mostly Unemployed Dudes.

    Updated: 2012-08-31 12:54:19
    . . . HotRides Marchionnes Money : Kragujevac Cant Pay , Brussels Can Home add your blog Archives Search Forum Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . GT Academy Winners Announced . Its All Dudes . Mostly Unemployed . Dudes post from The Truth About Cars on 31 August 2012 08:54:19 AM . The Truth About Cars The winners of Nissan’s GT Academy have been chosen . To nobody’s surprise in particular , their group photograph is completely unsuitable for this site . Turns out that the Internet is a little short on hot girls or street-wise African-American dudes who are totes into racing imaginary cars online . Oh well . Now , the shortlist of digital Sennas Read The Full Article :

  • Junkyard Find: 1984 Toyota Cressida

    Updated: 2012-08-31 12:50:07
    : HotRides Are White Cars Really Popular Because of Apple Home add your blog Archives Search Forum Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Junkyard Find : 1984 Toyota Cressida post from The Truth About Cars on 31 August 2012 08:50:07 AM . The Truth About Cars We’ve seen a totally Malaise-y early Cressida and a didn’t-know-they-built-them-so-recently Cressida in this series , but I’ve been scouring the self-serve yards for an example of the mid-80s rear-drive Toyota luxury sedans . Finally , here’s an 84, complete with all manner of high-tech for the time features . It’s very angular , in the manner of just about all Read The Full Article : http : www.thetruthaboutcars.com

  • Ford Gets Sued Over Fuel Injection Patent

    Updated: 2012-08-31 09:50:16
    HotRides Meet The New Prius Owners Or Maybe , You Dont Want To Home add your blog Archives Search Forum Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Ford Gets Sued Over Fuel Injection Patent post from The Truth About Cars on 31 August 2012 05:50:16 AM . The Truth About Cars If a Pennsylvania company will get its say , Ford needs to equip its F150 truck with carburetors . Or , at the very least , with something else than its current fuel injection system . TMC Fuel Injection System LLC of Wayne , Pennsylvania , sued Ford for allegedly infringing a TMC patent , Reuters says . TMC says its 2008 patent Read The Full Article : http : www.thetruthaboutcars.com 2012 08

  • Ford Gets Sue Over Fuel Injection Patent

    Updated: 2012-08-31 09:50:16
    HotRides Mazda , Alfa Romeo Roadster Could Be The Start Of A Beautiful Friendship Home add your blog Archives Search Forum Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Ford Gets Sue Over Fuel Injection Patent post from The Truth About Cars on 31 August 2012 05:50:16 AM . The Truth About Cars If a Pennsylvania company will get its say , Ford needs to equip its F150 truck with carburetors . Or , at the very least , with something else than its current fuel injection system . TMC Fuel Injection System LLC of Wayne , Pennsylvania , sued Ford for allegedly infringing a TMC patent , Reuters says . TMC says its 2008 patent Read The Full Article : http : www.thetruthaboutcars.com 2012

  • Nissan, Front And Sentra

    Updated: 2012-08-31 04:00:23
    , HotRides Why you dont park a Ferrari on the . street Home add your blog Archives Search Forum Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Nissan , Front And Sentra post from The Truth About Cars on 31 August 2012 12:00:23 PM . The Truth About Cars Nissan unveils its new Sentra tonight in Dallas as part of its new product onslaught . Objective : Regain market share in the U.S . The Sentra is the third of five all-new vehicles being introduced in a 15-month period , as the company is proud to say . Getting with the worldwide weight-loss program , the new Sentra is Read The Full Article : http : www.thetruthaboutcars.com 2012 08 niisan-front-and-sentra Add to del.icio.us Digg

  • Jenson Button says he will not do McLaren team-mate Lewis Hamilton any favours until F1 title is out of reach

    Updated: 2012-08-30 21:02:33
    Jenson Button says he will not help Lewis Hamilton's title challenge until his own chances are mathematically over.

  • Big Brother and the Targa Newfoundland

    Updated: 2012-08-30 05:14:00
    A hundred years ago, when I was in high school, I read George Orwell’s novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. In 1949, when it was published, it was satire. Today, it’s reality. That Big Brother is everywhere already, let there be no doubt. Take your own money out of your own bank account via a bank machine transaction and your picture is taken as you do it. Walk through your workplace at any hour of the day or night and somebody is likely watching you. Stroll across Nathan Phillips Square to the front door of Toronto City Hall or sit down to eat...

  • MotoGP: Lorenzo’s last lap nightmare (video)

    Updated: 2012-08-30 03:09:56
    MotoGP has always had a special place on my list of favorite motorsports events to watch. The quality of the riders on the grid and their explosive, competitive rivalry produces endless viewing pleasure. The most recent GP at Brno did more than live up to expectations. Lorenzo and Pedrosa ensured that fans will be glued to the [...]

  • Dave Zink loved golf, the military and Denis Hulme

    Updated: 2012-08-29 06:10:55
    Bayview Golf and Country Club assistant pro Dave Zink (left) and teaching pro George Clifton are seen in this 1960s-era picture. Photo is courtesy of Richard Janes. Friends and family will gather at the Royal Canadian Legion branch in Port Perry in two weeks to celebrate the life of David Robert Zink, who died Aug. 7 at age 69. If you want an example of someone with wide-ranging talents and interests, Dave Zink would be your man. He was a professional golfer – a talent inherited, no doubt, from his mother , who was a provincial golf champion – and...

  • Belgium Grand Prix 2012: Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel under pressure to prove title bid credentials at Spa

    Updated: 2012-08-29 01:48:11
    F1 world champion heads to Belgian Grand Prix looking to make up 42-point deficit on overall leader Fernando Alonso.

  • Longtime Sarah Fisher Crew-member loses race against ALS...

    Updated: 2012-08-28 16:28:00
    : . skip to main skip to sidebar Tuesday , August 28, 2012 Longtime Sarah Fisher Crew-member loses race against ALS . Two years ago I scribbled about longtime Sarah Fisher Racing employee Carey Hall who unfortunately had been diagnose with life threatening ALS as Carey’s devotion to the team and courage of battling his Lou Gehrig’s disease was brought to my attention by CARPETS which I dually posted in Fisher to carry colours of . Hope Which ironically Sarah Fisher did carry upon her car in Chicago and Kentucky just twenty-four months ago . Unfortunately , sometime within the past week As the article below is dated August 22 nd it was publicly announced that Carey Hall had succumbed to his battle with ALS and passed away . Racing Community mourns passing of Carey Hall And thus , in typical

  • New Indy 500 History website announced

    Updated: 2012-08-27 21:33:00
    : skip to main skip to sidebar Monday , August 27, 2012 New Indy 500 History website announced Heard about this on last Tuesday’s Trackside with Cavin Kevin , when they interviewed the person who’s building the website which is hoped to become a one-stop spot for all of us hankerin’ to hear Donald Davidson’s Gasoline Alley information as reportedly they’ve just uploaded the Jochen Rindt interview , so you may wish to check it out : at Indy 500 History Posted by Tomaso at 2:33 PM Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Labels : INDY 500 Misc Ramblings No : comments Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to : Post Comments Atom Links About Attractions Blog News Commenting Interviews Northwest Happenings Pictures Racing News F1 Team Links Caterham F1 Ferrari F1

  • Danica Patrick has to start fighting back

    Updated: 2012-08-27 06:39:34
    If Danica Patrick wants to survive in NASCAR, she’s going to have to start fighting back. She’s been wrecked, or nearly wrecked, in every Sprint Cup race she’s started this year. Saturday night, it was obvious she was just getting too uppity – it was late in the race and she was on the lead lap and closing in on a strong top 20 finish (in the two Cup races she’d actually finished earlier this year, she was no threat to anybody) – so Regan Smith just went up the track and ran into her for no particular reason other...

  • MotoGP: The Dani Pedrosa show (Brno GP)!

    Updated: 2012-08-27 05:46:21
    Do you remember what the basketball world was like when news broke that his royal ‘airness’ Michael Jordan was retiring? Do you recall the pandemonium that erupted when F1 woke up to the reality that Michael Schumacher was about to ditch the restricted cockpit of Ferrari’s F1 machine and retire to the comfort of his [...]

  • 2012 Rolex Monterey Motorsport Reunion

    Updated: 2012-08-26 15:56:57
    The 2012 edition of the Rolex Monterey Motorsport Reunion was held over the August 16-19 weekend. With almost 580 entries ranging from a 1907 Renault Vanderbilt Racer to a 1992 Mazda RX7-92P, the seventeen race groups provided continual on-track action. The weekend features an open paddock encouraging the spectators to talk with drivers and crews [...]

  • Drifting: Can you identify this machine?

    Updated: 2012-08-25 15:45:34
    Drifting is spreading worldwide quicker than a forest/bush fire in the USA. Thanks to the global village within which we exist, hobbies and fun-filled activities which were previously foreign are now awaiting a click on a computer to enter our living rooms. Motorsports enthusiasts locally have embraced drifting and even though we do not have [...]

  • Work begins on SFHR’s New ‘Digs

    Updated: 2012-08-24 21:22:00
    : skip to main skip to sidebar Friday , August 24, 2012 Work begins on SFHR’s New Digs These pictures were just sent to Mwah by Offical No Fenders Photographer CARPETS , who : notes Construction of the new state of the art home of Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing is officially under way . nbsp Not much to look at yet as there is just a few piles of gravel , heavy machinery , and a construction trailer on site . Pic-1 Future Home . sign Pic-2 . machinery Photos courtesy of No Fenders Offical Photographer CARPETS Posted by Tomaso at 2:22 PM Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Labels : IndyCar Pictures No : comments Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to : Post Comments Atom Links About Attractions Blog News Commenting Interviews Northwest Happenings Pictures

  • Old Racers resurface with push for Natural Gas...

    Updated: 2012-08-24 16:14:00
    : . skip to main skip to sidebar Friday , August 24, 2012 Old Racers resurface with push for Natural Gas . Surely there’s a sayin’ for OLD Racers Never Die , right As Gordon Kirby expounds upon the return of U.E . Pat Patrick and Jim McGee , as Patrick Racing has been tapped to lead the charge for Natural Gas liquefaction in the American Le Mans Series LMP Challenge class for next . year Natural gas to debut in the ALMS And while I’m all for diversification in motive power technologies isn’t it funny how nothing about Fracking” is mentioned in the article Y’all know when the corresponding drinking water is contaminated by this process of extracting natural gas from underground as surely Mr . Patrick , who just so happens to have diversified from his Oil business into the realm of natural

  • MotoGP: Rossi vs Lorenzo resumes in 2013!

    Updated: 2012-08-23 14:57:14
      If you are a MotGP fan you will remenber the classic, epic, cut-throat battles that rocked the MotoGP rounds, as teammates,rivals and apparently bitter enemies, Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo, would go for the kill-shot to determine which of the two would climb the top step of the podium. The competition betweeen the teammates [...]

  • Did Woodbridge seal AIM deal with Ferrari?

    Updated: 2012-08-23 04:31:40
    When I enjoyed my first conversation of the 2012 season with AIM Autosport of Woodbridge team principal Ian Willis, it was in February at the Canadian Motorsports Expo and he was telling me how thrilled he was to be running full-time in the Grand Am Rolex Sports Car Series with – wait for it – a Ferrari. Willis and AIM are no strangers when it comes to big-league sports car racing, having campaigned a Daytona Prototype for years with drivers like Mark Wilkins, Bruno Junqueira and Burt and Brian Frisselle. But the Ferrari deal came out of the blue when...

  • McLaren team principal Martin Whitmarsh optimistic over Lewis Hamilton future

    Updated: 2012-08-22 12:59:04
    McLaren team boss Martin Whitmarsh has no doubt Lewis Hamilton will sign a fresh contract.

  • Formula Atlantic Group Photo

    Updated: 2012-08-22 05:17:37
    To mark the inclusion of Formula Atlantic cars in the entry for the Rolex Monterey Historic Races a group photo shot was arranged for Friday evening. Twenty-three cars were rolled onto the front straight at the end of practice. Pride of place on either end of the front row were March cars driven by Gilles [...]

  • Fond memories of Flamboro Speedway

    Updated: 2012-08-21 04:05:43
    Back in the early to mid-1960s, I used to attend races at Flamboro Speedway out near Hamilton. A lot. In those days, I might be at Mosport during the day on Saturday to watch practice and qualifying for Can-Am or Formula Fords and then bomb out of there by 4:30 or 5 in the afternoon so I could get over to Flamboro in time for an evening of supermodified racing. Then I’d be back at Mosport Sunday for the feature event of the weekend. It was a great life. I went to Flamboro with my best friend at the time,...

  • Drag Racing:Got displacement? (Dean Shaw’s machine)!

    Updated: 2012-08-21 02:53:19
    In a recent blog, I suggested that there is a replacement for displacement. Stunning as it may sound, I argued that at Dover Raceway, for example, machines in Mp1 focused on other areas from which time may be gained – emphasis on weight reduction, suspension and handling. Dean Shaw I am of the view that [...]

  • Grand Prix of America chief Tom Cotter steps down

    Updated: 2012-08-21 01:04:11
    The president of the inaugural Grand Prix of America Tom Cotter has resigned from his position.</a

  • Racing roundup: On Danica, Jimmie Johnson and others

    Updated: 2012-08-20 04:58:40
    Musings, ramblings and confessions after a weekend of auto racing: – You have to laugh about everything that’s happened to poor Danica Patrick this year, her first full-time season in the NASCAR Nationwide Series. She’s done just fine qualifying and the speed is there but Murphy’s Law has never been more clearly defined than when applied to her when she's road-course racing. Earlier this year, at Road America, she was less than a half-lap from a top five finish when Jacques Villeneuve forgot to brake and knocked her off the track. Last week at Watkins Glen, she was on the...

  • The Danica Show

    Updated: 2012-08-18 23:38:00
    : skip to main skip to sidebar Saturday , August 18, 2012 The Danica Show Otay , so it’s an off weekend racing-wise , i.e . F1 and Indy Cars and having just been Up North eh , I decided to watch my GULP First RASSCAR Doublewide race of the year , especially since the Montreal race is always Juan Helluva a Humdinger . And I had to watch since TAG , nee Alex Tagliani was on the Pole , with the track’s Sir-name Jacques Villeneuve directly behind him giving Oh KanaDuh A 1-3 sweep with Sam I AM Hornish Jr . the meat in the Quebecerz sandwich . While Marty Doublewide” Reid and Ricky Craven frothed all over somebody named Princess starting P4. And I was surprised to hear the name Patrick Carpentier Huh Thought he’d retired last year , but good on Pat-the-Carpenter” for making a celebratory return

  • Versatile Tagliani wins NASCAR pole in Montreal

    Updated: 2012-08-18 16:19:33
     You hear the question again and again: why can’t open wheel drivers make the transition to stock cars? Why can’t winners in Indy car racing, say, transition over to NASCAR and win? The people who ask those question, of course, are primarily NASCAR reporters and fans who love sticking it to the Indy car drivers. Although Dario Franchitti and Sam Hornish Jr. haven’t exactly set the world on fire in NASCAR, and the jury is still out on Danica Patrick, they conveniently forget that Tony Stewart did it (from Indy car champion to NASCAR champion is pretty good) and...

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