The Sonoma Historic Motorsports Festival – the new event at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, Calif., put on by Steve Earle’s General Racing group, formerly involved with the Monterey Historic Races at Laguna Seca – has announced its selection of 375 cars, from a pool of more than 500 seeking entry. The event takes place over the weekend of June 5-6. Earle, best known for founding the Monterey Historic Races over three decades ago, said he is “gratified†by the quality and quantity of the entry applications … Details
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2008 – Jeff Gordon drives a Williams-BMW FW24, the car that Juan Pablo Montoya drove during the 2002 Formula 1 World Championship. Montoya drives Jeff Gordon’s #24 Chevrolet Monte Carlo Winston Cup car. This is a 2002 chassis. This took place in the Grand Prix Road Course at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
There are people at Porsche who say that Audi doesn’t care about the 911. That chasing BMW’s volumes rather than making 20,000 specialist sports cars a year is what captures Audi’s attention.
They may be right, but even so it’s uncanny how closely the specification of the new R8 Spyder, launched first in V10 form, matches that of Porsche’s 911 Turbo cabriolet. And, as with the 911, Audi thinks that those who buy its fixed-head R8 probably don’t fit the same profile as choosers of its soft-top supercar …Â Details
Formula One cars could be racing with a backdrop of the Manhattan skyline if Bernie Ecclestone gets his way.
The F1 boss wants to help set up a New York Grand Prix in 2012.
“(It would be) in front of Manhattan in New Jersey, with the skyscrapers in the background,†Ecclestone said in Thursday’s Gazzetta dello Sport. “Fifteen minutes from the center of New York to the circuit would be marvelous.â€
There hasn’t been a grand prix in the United States since 2007, when … Details
