Chaque mois d’août depuis les années 30, le lac salé de Bonneville accueille tout ce que la planète auto et moto compte de fondus de vitesse pure. La Bonneville Speed Week, c’est LE pélérinage à effectuer dans la vie de tout amateur de mécanique extrême, qu’il soit hot rodder, fan de moto hi-perf ou accro aux streamliners et autres lakesters. Vidéaste français de talent, Vincent Montreuil était présent à l’édition 2012 et vous offre, à vous Stationautes, 3 minutes 30 exclusives de bonheur sur la surface abrasive du grand lac salé. Enjoy!
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In the annals of the 24 Hours of LeMons — the racing series that combines a $500 vehicle spending limit with “Let’s Make a Deal” costumes into a weekend jubilee of junkyard engineering — few racers and builders have brought more innovation to the track than Jeff Bloch. Bloch, known around the pits as Speedycop, has built 13 cars for the series over the years, none more involved than the craft he unveiled this weekend that combined Toyota minivan power with the body of a Cessna to create “The Spirit of LeMons” — a road-racing airplane  … More
The road racing Cessna 310 is on the track at the 24 Hours of LeMons in South Carolina.
Being an officer of a the law is a hard job. Sometimes you get it right, and sometimes you mistakenly issue a parking ticket to a snow sculpture because you think it’s a real car.
That’s exactly what happened in Germany recently when  … More
A daredevil Finn has set a new world record for the fastest car on ice, reaching a confirmed speed of over 208mph.
The new record was set by Janne ‘Iceman’ Laitinen on an 7.5-mile track carved into the frozen seas of the Gulf of Bothnia, near the city of Oulu.
He broke the record in an Audi RS6 fitted with … More