Fast cars, girls, yachts and a champagne lifestyle: but there’s more to Formula 1 than you may at first realise.
A new exhibition at London’s Science Museum demonstrates how engineering and innovation from Formula 1 spins-off into the broader world.
‘Fast Forward: 20 ways F1 is changing our world’, is a new free exhibition at the museum, which is located in South Kensington.
20 innovative by-products of the sport are on display in an elegantly designed gallery overlooked by the chassis of the McLaren MP4-21 suspended from the ceiling….. Details
Los Angeles motorists can save nearly 50 percent on car repairs by patronizing an independent repair shop rather than a dealership, says a first-ever industry-sponsored study of the issue.
After comparing the cost of 10 common vehicle repairs, the Automotive Aftermarket Industry Association found that dealerships …Â Details
Brian Wolfe has learned to live with less and, hopefully, make it work.
The director of Ford’s North American motorsports program since the middle of 2008 came from the company’s power train unit, where he says budget and personnel cuts were a way of life long before the economy began crashing down around everyone’s heads.
“There’s no easy jobs at the OEMs (original equipment manufacturers),†Wolfe said Thursday in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. “I’ve been at Ford for 27 years now in a variety of leadership positions and you learn to focus on what’s really critical to be successful.
“And being successful means I have to have a winning platform and championship capable teams and I have … Details
The tired NASCAR axiom of “Win on Sunday, sell on Monday” has been outdated for the past decade, if not longer, but the executives who run Rick Hendrick‘s NASCAR team and auto dealerships brought it back to life last month at Daytona.
Hendrickcars.com, the Web site that aggregates all of the used cars at Hendrick’s 80 dealerships, was the sponsor on Tony Stewart‘s winning car at the season-opening Nationwide Series race. Not only did Stewart’s car lead much of the race and capture the checkered flag, Stewart also mentioned the site in his post-race interview on FOX…. Details