Due the great success of the previous edition of the Dakar Rally, the organizers of the famous race have decided that the 2010 Dakar Rally will also be held in Argentina. The rally will kick off in Buenos Aires and will include stages that navigate through both Argentina and Chile.
This will be the 32nd Daker Rally and will begin on …Â Details
Subaru Road Racing Team Back on Familiar Turf
– Race at ‘The Glen’ pivotal for team’s championship hopes –
The Grand-Am KONI Sports Car Challenge series hits the middle of its 11-race season Friday at Watkins Glen International, the world-famous 3.4-mile road course in upstate New York, marking a weekend that stands as an icon of all Grand-Am seasons.
The Subaru Road Racing Team (SRRT), which is based just four Interstate highway hours away in Phoenixville, Pa., approaches this 2 ½-hour race on very familiar turf as an opportunity to revitalize their hopes for a championship in the Street Tuner class with the #111 Subaru Legacy 2.5GT spec.B race car.
After five races of 11 races…Â Detail
If the movie industry was the entertainment king of the 20th century, the video-gaming industry is where disposable income is headed for the 21st century. Nowhere was this more apparent than the Electronic Entertainment Expo–E3 for short–going on right now in Los Angeles.
True, the vast majority of the games at E3 involved vixens and/or steroid-shot musclemen shooting and/or chainsawing bad guys and/or zombies. Actual zombie video-game quote overheard at E3: “And when the bullets run out, there’s always the chain saws.†(Another actual quote, “. . . and spray giant pieces of poo!â€)
But there were plenty of car-related games, and that was why we went.
The first one we saw was the coming Forza Motorsport 3. We saw that one first because …Â Details
In an attempt to drum-up interest in the launch of the Fiesta in North America, Ford is putting on a serious publicity stunt by running two 800 horsepower versions of the economy car in the legendary Pikes Peak race.
Ford is eager to appeal not just to econonomically-minded individuals with the Fiesta sub-compact, but also to enthusiasts as it attempts to set a Pike Peak record with a sub-10 minute run up the mountain.
To do this not only will Olsbergs Motor Sport Evolution race team owner Andreas Eriksson be piloting one of the turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder Fiesta racers, but so will rally legend Marcus Grönholm. In World Rally Championship competition Grönholm has won 30 races and clinched the championship twice.Â
Both Eriksson and Grönholm will certainly need all 800 horses when they take on the 12.4-mile, 156-turn dirt and tarmac climb on July 19th.
“We’re pleased to have a top independent team like Olsbergs MSE coming to the U.S. with their Fiesta Rallycross cars to take on the challenge of Pike’s Peak… Details