If you’ve watched F1 drivers on the telly and thought ‘I could do that’, here’s your chance to prove it in a competition that could put you behind the wheel of a Formula One car for five laps.
Run by Philips Consumer Lifestyle, which sponsors the Williams F1 team, the competition will narrow down entrants in a series of driving tests and evaluations until one emerges as the winner.
Starting on the Philips website with a few Williams-related quiz questions and an online ‘test track’ called the Driving Academy, the competition will heat up for the 10 fastest who will win an expenses-paid trip to the UK from wherever in the world they happen to be based.
Then the contest really gets going, with …Â Details
Now that the soap opera that has embroiled Formula One’s off track energies seems to be finally calming down, one, potentially sad casualty is that Ferrari will not me making any factory based stabs at winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the greatest endurance race on the planet.
For a while there, it looked like Grand Prix racing, thanks to ham-handed abysmally awful management of Max Mosley was going to simultaneously explode and implode, leaving a multi-billion dollar smoking crater where the most popular form of motorosports in the world once stood.
Luckily, cooler head prevailed …Â Details
All other things being equal — which they are not in Formula One — most people in the paddock still believe that Jenson Button will drive to his first World Championship this season.
This weekend in Hungary, where temperatures are soaring, Button is hoping to return to the top of the podium and re-establish a firm hold on the title race after lacklustre performances at Silverstone and the Nürgburgring in Germany, where cool conditions turned his car into an also-ran.
Looking at his season, the remarkable feature is …Â Details
The years have passed and the lap times have dropped.
Since the 1970s, Albany Motorsports Park has showcased some of the fastest motorcycles and all-terrain vehicles in the nation, and track operator Ryan Leach wants to make sure that tradition of speed continues during this weekend’s Northwest ATV Sand Drag Nationals.
For the last six years, Leach has been running the event and watching the 100-yard track records bested, but he says that speed is not the only reason why he promotes the sport…Â Details