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Back-to-back come-from-behind wins earn the Australian his third ASP crown; Slater wins Pipeline Masters, while Florence takes Triple Crown in a historic day at Pipeline.
Mick Fanning had to put Kelly Slater out of his mind heading into the final day of competition at the Billabong Pipeline Masters on Oahu’s North Shore. In his quest for a third ASP world title Fanning was in control of his own destiny, needing only to advance through two more rounds of competition in order to clinch it.
If he could just do that it wouldn’t matter what Slater did. But if he failed to advance to the semifinals, and Slater won the event, something he’s done six times before, that would mean 12 titles for Slater … More
The Porsche 959 is known as a road-going technological tour de force from the 1980s. It featured four-wheel drive, twin turbochargers, and a top speed nearing 200 miles per hour. And then in 1986, in won the Paris-Dakar Rally.
The 959 was initially developed by Porsche to take part in Group B racing, which was a set of standards devised for both track and rally racing. It allowed for huge amounts of horsepower and not very much relatively in terms of safety, so when it became primarily rally-focused and then banned altogether Porsche just kinda went “aw screw it” and just developed … More