Motorsport enthusiasts will be keen to get their hands on the first Subaru Impreza World Rally Car (WRC), which has gone up for sale on the Prodrive website priced at £85,000.
The car was first seen at the Rally Monte Carlo in 1997 and the chassis was subsequently used by Colin McRae, Pierro Liatti and Kenneth Erikkson.
For sale on the new website, which is dedicated to pre-owned Prodrive-built rally cars, the 1997 Impreza WRC with the chassis number PRO-WRC-97-001, was the first car built under the new WRC regulations…Â More info
Codemasters has been a veteran developer/publisher for many years and, perhaps more than any other genre, has been best known for its hard-core car-racing games. Though the late Colin McRae was a legendary rally racer in the UK, it’s likely that a majority of the people who recognize his name in North America came to know him as a result of the Codies’ many releases that had his name in the title.
In mid-2007, Codemasters extended that lineage with its Dirt release—which had the full title of Dirt: Colin McRae Off-Road—a game that furthered the franchise built off the driver’s name … More info
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Strict simulation videogames are usually something of a tough sell on consoles, which is why we don’t see many of them on current-generation systems like the Xbox 360 these days. Racing games such as Forza Motorsport 2, however, have come incredibly close to the total-sim ideal while still maintaining a fun air that invites non-fanatics to slide behind the wheel for a few laps.
But Sweden-based veteran PC racing simulation developer SimBin has taken that idea one step further by bringing its unflinching brand of hardcore driving to the Xbox 360. Race Pro is a no-holds-barred racing sim …Â More info
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It’s almost fitting that a most unlikely winner of the first two Cup races of 2009 has kicked off what many expected would be a most unlikely season by NASCAR standards.
By that measure, it’s not really a surprise, then, that Matt Kenseth proved his rain-shortened win at Daytona last week was no fluke, coming back Sunday to win in thrilling fashion in the Auto Club 500 at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif.
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