Archive for the ‘Sports Car’ Category
… Memo Gidley, the Indy Car/prototype ace who co-drives the #77 Doran McDonald’s Dallara-Ford with Brad Jaeger, has been busy during the layoff between Daytona and VIR: he scored a podium finish in Superkarts Shifter Kart race; spoke to a group of 3rd, 4th and 5th-graders at Lynwood Elementary School during “No Excuses Career Day”; won the Super 800 class in a Jet-Ski competition and tested vintage Grand Prix cars, including a 1956 Maserati 250F driven to victory in the Australian Grand Prix by Sterling Moss…Â Details
Co-drivers Gil de Ferran and Simon Pagenaud raced to their first American Le Mans Series victory Saturday.
The duo won a duel of new Acura prototype LMP1 sports cars, holding off a car driven by St. Petersburg winners David Braham and Scott Sharp until a full-course yellow for a car fire forced the 100-minute race on the temporary street circuit in downtown Long Beach to end under caution.
Former open-wheel star de Ferran, in the car at the finish, came out of retirement midway through last season to start his own ALMS team. He and Pagenaud did not win while racing in 2008 in the LMP2 category. Former Indianapolis 500 winner de Ferran’s last victory came in… Details
Holland may be best known for windmills, tulips and cannabis-serving coffee shops, but a little-known company is looking to change all that with a lightweight sports car that tips the scales with figures comparable to a Formula One racing machine.
From humble beginnings in 1978, Donkervoort has developed a cult following on the Continent, with exquisitely engineered yet wincingly expensive Lotus Seven clones. It’s still a family concern: Joop Donkervoort is the founder and designer, Denis, his son, drives the company’s racing car and Amber, his daughter, staffs the office — yet they’ve turned out more than 1,000 cars from a small factory in Lelystadt, northern Holland.
What started out as copies have morphed into cutting-edge sports cars in their own right. In the FIA GT4 European racing championship, prototypes of its latest model, the D8 GT, have mixed it with Aston Martins and Porsches…Â Details