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Patrick Dempsey has been busy during the long break since the opening round of the 2009 Grand-Am Roles Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Cask No. 16 season opener, the Rolex 24 At Daytona. But nothing felt better than the recent special test at Homestead-Miami Speedway, the only opportunity for many of the teams to get track time before the next event on the schedule, the April 25 Bosch Engineering 250 at Virginia International Raceway.
“It’s great to get back in the car,” Dempsey said at Homestead. “I like this track a lot. The car’s running really good.
“It’s been such a long break after Daytona. We’re trying some stuff today…Â Details
Sports cars go fast … no one disputes that. However, the Dunlop-equipped BMW M3 racing cars of the BMW Rahal Letterman Racing Team are demonstrating that a new race team can get “up to speed†quickly, as the team posted its first podium finish in just the second race of the 2009 American Le Mans Series (ALMS) season.
In the April 4 Acura Sports Car Challenge of St. Petersburg, the No. 92 M3 of BMW Rahal Letterman Racing …Â Details
The ATV racing season is fully underway and Can-Amâ„¢ ATV racers are seeing much success on Can-Am Outlanderâ„¢, Renegadeâ„¢ and DS 450â„¢ ATVs. In South Carolina, Can-Am X-Team racer Lexie Coulter was less than one second from the Big Buck GNCC morning overall as she finished second overall in front of more than 280 other ATV racers. This is the second GNCC in-a-row Coulter has piloted her DS 450 EFI ATV to the morning podium.
“Each week our racers and teams are improving and building upon successes,†says Delton Bohlman, Racing Manager for Can-Am ATVs at BRP. “The Can-Am ATV racing machine is up and running… Details
As an answer to those who say e-cars will never take off because their range is limited, this isn’t at all bad. A Tesla Roadster managed to cover 241 miles on a single charge while taking part in the Rallye Monte Carlo d’Energies Alternatives.
Organised by the Automobile Club of Monaco, the annual rally is open to cars powered by just about any ‘alternative’ fuel source, such as LPG, ethanol or even petrol-powered hybrid drives.
The rally course runs 390km (241 miles) from the town of Valance in France to the Principality of Monaco and covers a mixture of trunk roads, motorways and single-carriageway roads that wind through the mountains.
This year’s all-electric entrants included a Ruf-modified Porsche 911 and a handful of Mitsubishi iMiEVs but…Â Details