Jenson Button may have secured the McLaren hotseat to race alongside Lewis Hamilton, but outgoing F1 driver Kimi Raikkonen leaves both men trailing in the category marked ‘superhuman’.
Well OK, superhuman may be over-doing it, but he does have a nickname that deserves comic book status: the Iceman.
The Iceman (a woefully underused way of describing sporty Scandinavians, we’re sure you’d agree) was frozen out at Ferrari earlier this autumn and now … Details
Put the words “Subaru” and “rally” together, and you’ll inevitably be flooded with visions of the Impreza WRX STI campaigning in the WRC. This isn’t one of those times.
Details are a bit on the scarce side, but what we do know is that Barattero Motorsport and YPF Elaion have teamed up (with a little help from Subaru, we’re sure) to compete in the January running of the 2010 Dakar Rally. Their chosen chariot …Â Details
Subaru-Elaion Dakar 2010
It may not appear obvious at first glance exactly what Princess Margaret of England, John Lennon, Peter Sellers and Rauno Aaltonen had in common–apart from a love of hard liquor. When sufficiently sober to do so, however, all four of them drove Minis.
The original Mini was a car that broke down social barriers, proving that almost anybody could be too cool for school. Think of swinging London in the ’60s, when hip cats such as the Rolling Stones strutted their stuff on the Hit Parade. Flared jeans, Carnaby Street and the old-school Mini spring instantly to mind. Yeah, baby!  … Details
Volkswagen will again seek to be the champion at next year’s Dakar Rally and will be entering five Race Touaregs. VW won the rally last year with its Touareg rally concept, which is powered by a 2.5-litre TDI that outputs 276bhp. The car topped the timesheets in 10 of the 13 stages to claim a one-two finish by Giniel de Villiers and Dirk von Zitzewitz
Mitsubishi had dominated the event in recent years but it withdrew from front-line rallying …Â Details