This car/bike was designed and build by Dave Piontek and Jay Novak. It’s powered by a 120″ V-twin Harley Davidson engine. Power is at 120HP and weight is 1100 lbs
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Porsche Wins Again and Breaks Another Record. This time at the Pikes Peak Time Attack Class With a Porsche 911 GT3 Cup and Breaking the Record by 38 Seconds — Ahead of Every Production-based Car Entered. Jeff Zwart, from Woody Creek, Colorado, driving the specially-prepared Luminox Watch Porsche 911 GT3 Cup race car, has won and set a new record in the 2WD Time Attack class in Sunday’s 88th running of the Pikes Peak Hillclimb.Â
Zwart, now a seven-time Pikes Peak class winner, not only broke the 2009 class record by 38 seconds, but went faster than all but five of the entire field — three Unlimited Class and two Open Wheels cars, all with 600-plus horsepower. His 911 GT3 Cup car also beat all the production based race car entries
In 18 years of testing the famed Nürburgring, no Subaru has done better. None has gone faster. And none has exuded more confidence under extreme conditions.Â
That’s how Subaru is billing its April 16 blitzing of the arduous Green Hell in a fleet 7 minutes, 55 seconds in a 2011 WRX STI sedan. New video of this test is an enthusiast’s dream, offering the view from the cockpit as this lithe Subie strains and streaks through the forests of Germany. In the right-hand-drive car, the acceleration … Details
The prototype WRX STI has been timed in a test drive around the Nürburgring. Major improvements have been made to the chassis performance, including the body itself as well as its aerodynamics. The new mode shaved more than 4 seconds of the 2004 time, clocking in at 7:55; the fastest lap time ever recorded for the WRX STI. Driver: Tommi Mäkinen
The 78th running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the world’s most famous sports-car endurance race, is scheduled to begin Saturday at the 8.5-mile Circuit de la Sarthe track in France.
The long race includes different classes of race cars, each with multiple drivers, but the premier class features exotic prototype cars led by the diesel-powered entries of Peugeot and Audi.
One Peugeot team with drivers David Brabham, Marc Gene and Alex Wurz won the race’s overall honors last year, Peugeot’s first Le Mans victory since 1993 after several years of Audi domination  … Details