The Porsche 959 was never meant to come to America. In fact, it wasn’t even meant to be a car, really.
Built to showcase Porsche’s stature as a world leader in automotive technology, the Porsche 959 utilized every ounce of brilliance within Porsche R&D when it appeared as the “Gruppe B” at the 1983 Frankfurt Auto Show. It left behind the traditional engineering of the Porsche 911 (which still showed evidence of the Volkswagen Beetle) and embraced the future: a turbocharged, liquid-cooled flat-6, six-speed transmission, all-wheel drive, double-wishbone suspension and even run-flat tires … Details & Pictures
Coming off the best finish for the Doran Racing Rolex Series team in five years, drivers Memo Gidley and Dion VonMoltke are eager to take things to another level at this weekend’s Bosch Engineering 250 at Virginia International Raceway.
The No. 77 McDonald’s Doran placed fourth at Barber Motorsports Park earlier this month, and Gidley is hopeful of building on that. “There is nothing like a good finish to pump everybody up … Details & Pictures
As we reported back on January 29, Valentino Rossi tested, yet again, in a Ferrari F1 car earlier this year. He is stunningly quick on four wheels. His most recent test with Ferrari resulted in his lapping Catalunya just one-tenth of a second off Kimi Raikkonen’s pole lap in a Ferrari in 2008. Ferrari loves Rossi and fully believes Rossi could be F1 world champion
Rossi has repeatedly, and publicly, denied that he is interested in moving to F1. Money wouldn’t necessarily be the issue. Although Rossi is believed to earn 20 million dollars a year in MotoGP, between salary and endorsements, salaries, in general, are … Details
Race to the Party Formula DRIFT Demo on Hollywood Blvd with Formula Drift drivers Samuel Hübinette, Michael Essa, Joon Maeng, Mad Mike Whiddett and Justin Pawlak