It’s red hot race action in below zero temps when the slopes of Maine’s Sunday River Ski Resort are invaded by winter tuned, 900hp off-road trucks. Bryce Menzies looks to defend his title on a course filled with jumps, chicanes, and high-speed straights.
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What happens when you give professional mountain bike freerider & rally driver Brandon Semenuk a Subaru and a Trek Bike?
Brandon hails from Whistler, BC and is a professional mountain bike freerider. He is also a rally race car driver with Rocket Rally.
It’s 1995 and Renault is in the middle of a period of F1 dominance that’ll stretch from 1992 to 1997. Its powerplants have just secured three Constructors’ Championships in a row, so what does a company do when it’s making the best engines in the world? It puts one into an Espace people carrier.
It may sound ridiculous, but it actually happened – and there’s a video too. The engine in question was 3.5-litre, 40-valve Renault RS5 V10, and came from a 1993 Williams F1 car. The only change Renault made to the engine was to increase its output from 515kW to 588kW – or around 800bhp. The result? … More
According to reports from Greenville, North Carolina, police, BMX legend Dave Mirra died Thursday of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was 41.
Mirra, widely considered to be one of the biggest influences in the history of BMX, was one of the sport’s most successful athletes. He podiumed each year at the X Games from 1995 to 2008, amassing a total of 24 medals, 14 of which were gold. Those 24 medals were the record for the most X Games medals ever held by one athlete until skateboarder Bob Burnquist broke it in 2013 … More