As souvenirs go, this is a good one. The Porsche Museum has just released a DVD history of the company in eight chapters, each covering a decade of Porsche’s history. The DVD is titled The Porsche Way.
The DVD, which has a specially composed musical soundtrack, is two and a half hours in length and is available in both German and English. It’s based on the Porsche archives’ 5,000 hours of film footage. The company promises some never-before-released film clips…Â Details
Finland’s Mikko Hirvonen and Jarmo Lehtinen increased their lead in the Acropolis Rally of Greece today during a dramatic second leg. On a day of remarkable attrition, the BP Ford Abu Dhabi World Rally Team drivers steered clear of trouble in their Focus RS World Rally Car to extend their advantage to 1min 40.1sec. Team-mates Jari-Matti Latvala and Miikka Anttila also kept their cool in the Greek heat to charge up the leaderboard from 11th to third in a similar car.
Today’s route took competitors across the historic Corinth Canal into the Peleponnese peninsula, south-west of the rally base in Loutraki. Drivers tackled two identical clockwise loops of three speed tests covering 135.36km, split by … Details
From Buenos Aires to Antofagasta and back: For its “title defence†project, Volkswagen anticipates a tougher Dakar Rally than ever before. The approximate track profile of the legendary off-road marathon which the organiser A.S.O. announced in advance will contain more desert and off-road parts – and thus more challenges for the drivers, co-drivers and technology.
In January 2010, the roughly 8,500-kilometre route will cover a clearly longer, seven-stage distance through Chile, lead far up into the north of Bolivia and feature a significantly larger number of kilometres through the world’s most arid region, the Atacama desert… Details
Wanna know how its like in a rally car ? Well this onboard cam shows Rally driver Tanner Foust and co-driver Chrissie Beavis during the Oregon Rally. The car is a Mitsubishi Evolution X !
The Rockstar Rally Team’s EVO X tackles the final stage of the 2009 Oregon Trail Rally (SS16). Check out the incident around the 1:30 mark: they take a big hit and keep on running.
From Buenos Aires to Antofagasta and back: For its “title defence†project, Volkswagen anticipates a tougher Dakar Rally than ever before. The approximate track profile of the legendary off-road marathon which the organiser A.S.O. announced in advance will contain more desert and off-road parts – and thus more challenges for the drivers, co-drivers and technology.