Riding The KAMAZ Truck like never before… This is some serious wakeboarding!
Russian athletes introduced a KAMAZ racing semi truck to wakeboarding. The result: world’s first mid-air tricks 33 feet off the ground at 50 MPH!
Russian wakeboarding star Nikita Martyanov and KAMAZ-Master team pilot Anton Shibalov broke down the borders between two extreme sports. Nikita saw a picture of a KAMAZ truck ripping down a levee across an artificial lake and thought to himself: “What if that mad truck towed me?
This is the Porsche 919 EVO. It’s what you get when you take a Le Mans-winning prototype and rip up the rulebook. In 2018, Porsche set it’s engineers a single goal – make a car go faster than anything else.
But how did Porsche make the 919 faster than even the latest F1 cars? What rules did Porsche need to ignore to turn an LMP1 car into a machine capable of being the fastest car ever to lap the Nurburgring?
The Porsche 919 was a dominant machine in the World Endurance Championship’s LMP1 category, winning 17 of the 33 races it took part in and winning three championships in a row from 2015 to 2017.
It was a truly ground-breaking car, with an astonishingly efficient V4 engine and one of the most advanced hybrid systems ever.
After winning Le Mans three times over, the time came for Porsche to retire the 919 and with that, their LMP1 campaign. So Porsche looked for a way to give it the send-off it deserved.
Today, let’s look back at the life and career of a pioneer in women’s drag racing, and how her depiction in a feature film cemented her legacy
It goes without saying, it can be a tough world for a woman to live in too much of the time. But just as often, there comes along a brave young woman who proves she can do something just as well as a man could, and then some. In American drag racing, this was Shirley Muldowney.
With a career spanning 60 years on strips across America, her record dwarfs that of 99 percent of drag racers of any gender. Today, at 80 years old, she still makes appearances signing autographs for a large group of dragster fans that adored her in their youth. Other women may have driven faster than her, but no one else is the undisputed first lady of the drag strip … More