…LaVallee becomes the fourth athlete to star in Red Bull’s annual New Year’s Eve celebration on ESPN, which highlights extraordinary athletes pushing their physical, mental and technical limits to break boundaries and records. Robbie Maddison kicked things off in 2007by jumping his motorcycle 322 feet over a football field in Las Vegas and followed it up in 2008 by jumping onto – and off – of the 96-foot-tall Arc De Triomphe at Paris Las Vegas. Also in 2008, Rhys Millen back flipped an off-road truck and just missed sticking the landing. Last year, Travis Pastrana jumped his rally car a staggering 269 feet over water, landing on a barge in Long Beach’s Rainbow Harbor  … Details & Pictures
Raised From the Dead Once More, but Can It Be Worth $204,000?
The story of the 2011 Porsche 911 Speedster goes back well over a half century, although the legend took only a matter of months to establish.
Conceived in 1954 by Max Hoffman, Porsche’s distributor in the U.S., as a stripped-down, bargain-price version of the Porsche 356, one of the first examples was purchased shortly after the car’s debut on September 1 for $4,000 by James Dean, an aspiring young actor. He went racing with it, and when he died in a traffic accident only a year later in a Porsche 550 Spyder, the Speedster achieved mythic proportions in the popular consciousness … Details & Pictures
 Here’s some tire shredding goodness from your friends at Hot Rod Magazine. Vaughn Gittin Jr. took this 2011 Ford Mustang GT out for some slideways action at the SEMA show in Las Vegas
General Motors Co. and its motorsports entity – GM Racing – has committed to fielding a Chevrolet-branded Twin-Turbo V6 racing engine to compete against Honda in the IndyCar Series beginning with the 2012 season. The announcement will be made this Friday, November 12, at a venue yet to be determined, although a press conference at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway would not be unexpected. The one thing that IndyCar needed to … Details
Raised From the Dead Once More, but Can It Be Worth $204,000?