In early July, Fernando Alonso had denied reports that he was making a deal to leave the Renault team for Ferrari starting in 2010 and certainly no later than 2011, telling reporters that there had not been any contact between the two sides. Renault’s Carlos Ghosn also dismissed the stories, expressing that he fully expected Alonso to be in his team’s car again in 2010.
The rumors have obviously started to flare up again.
Alonso’s right wheel dropped off his car thirteen laps into the Hungarian Grand Prix, and it has been determined by F1 safety officials that the crew did not take proper care in fitting the wheel to the car, or in informing Alonso of its condition. Considering that this was in the wake of …Â Details
Video automobile Drifting – Insane drifting from Japan
The precision displayed in the following insane drifting video from Japan is truly amazing. Within inches of a cliff, cones, and oncoming traffic these illegal Japanese street drifters display astounding skill. The vehicles are perfectly tuned, obvious by watching the reaction and control of the lead car. Drifting through the curvy mountain roads at high speed, these two unknown drifters are setting the standard in touge style JDM drift. Amazing…Â Details
We’ve all want to jump into a car, preferably a car you waved down in the streets and said, “Police emergency, gimme your damn car, goddammit!” and head off down the road crashing into wayward dustbins and fruit stalls. Before embarking on a high speed chase across dust tracks, concrete roads, tarmac’d race tracks, children’s playgrounds. Anything. Smashing up all that gets in your path, including the very old and the very young – especially the very old and the very young – with a flagrant disregard for the rules of the road and the safety of others. Who wouldn’t?
The problem is you’d either be arrested or die. So we live out those fantasies by watching wheel-screeching, metal-grinding, whip-lash inducing, speed-loving car chases…Â Details & the Videos
And you thought the STI-ATV was crazy. Cramming a BMW V12 and a turbocharger into a quad bike wasn’t enough for French bike builder Ludovic Lazareth, he needed more power, so he added ethanol.
Better known as a bio-fuel favored by Iowan farmers; Ethanol, or E85 in this case, has a higher octane rating (typically 100-105) than traditional pump gas, which allows higher compression ratios and more power. The engine actually makes only 350 HP in its current form, with the 150 necessary to take that figure up to 500 HP coming soon in the form of a turbocharger.
There’s no fancy traction or stability control keeping all that power in check, so … Details & Pictures