The world is an oddly serene place when you’re streaking across the salt at 400 mph.
You’ve wrestled your car, if that term applies to a 2,000-horsepower missile, into something approaching submission. The skull-rattling, vision-blurring vibration smoothed out somewhere around 300 mph, so you can see clearly again. It’s still a rough ride — you are moving 586 feet per second, after all — and noisy as hell. But, like the eye of a storm, it’s eerily calm.
“It’s very loud, but it’s very quiet because you’re tuned in,â€Â   … Pictures and more
Bonneville Speed Week 2010: THE RUN, Feat. the Spectre Performance SpeedLiner
The Mercedes GP team has helped a 14-year-old kid get a new prosthetic limb that has already been successfully fitted.
Matthew James, a fan of the Formula 1 team, was born without a left hand, but decided to write a letter to Mercedes boss Ross Brawn, explaining that his target was to be able to afford a functional prosthetic arm created by Touch Bionics, provider of advanced prosthetic technologies.
The new hand would give James … More
His outspoken comments and motoring expertise have helped make him one of the BBC’s highest-paid stars.
But it has now been claimed that many of the scenes filmed by Top Gear star Jeremy Clarkson are actually performed by professional drivers.
Sources say a large proportion of the stunts on the BBC2 series which appear to show Clarkson careering around the show’s racetrack at high speed are actually executed by professional racing drivers hired by the BBC  … Pictures and more
The best and worst crashes of the Red Bull Soap Box Derby at Red Rocks in Denver Colorado. This is what you get to see when you get there 4 hours early and get the best spot on the track