Dyson Racing starts off the New Year with a new YouTube page featuring the footage of noted videographer, Jim Perry. The first of an on-going series, “The Cockpit” takes you inside a racecar driver’s office. Experience first-hand their championship-winning Lola Mazda as Chris Dyson, Guy Smith, James Weaver, Butch Leitzinger, Vince Wood, and Peter Weston invite you inside the cockpit.
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Though the start of a new year is traditionally a time to look to future, Porsche instead will be forced to relive a painful incident from the past as a a group of investment funds are seeking $2.6 billion in damages over the automaker’s unsuccessful 2008 takeover attempt of Volkswagen.
Porsche gained control over the price of VW common stock as it secretly built enormous derivative positions covering almost all of VW’s freely traded shares, then triggered a massive short squeeze, and finally released billions of euros worth of shares into the short squeeze for its own profit,†read a statement from the investors.
“The accusations are  … More
I told the blokes here at Jalopnik I was pissed at Ferrari and wanted to tell a few people. They said I could do it here. Stay with me, this might take a while.
I think it started in 2007 when I heard that Ferrari wanted to know which test track we were going to use for Autocar’s 599 GTB road test, but in reality the rot had set in many years earlier. Why would it want to know that? “Because,” said the man from the Autocar office, “The factory now has to send a test team to the circuit we chose so that they can optimize the car to get  … More