This year’s Longboard World championship, the OXBOW Wave Sliders, will take place on the beach of Makaha on Hawaii from October 29 to November 7, 2010. The current selection of riders is impressive: the best longboarders worldwide will gather upon this famous surf spot so as to land the coveted title of ASP World Longboard champion.
The Australian titleholder Harley Ingleby will indeed be challenged this year. The local Hawaiian heroes Bonga Perkins and Duane DeSoto will put all their strengths into the competition in order to win the title in front of the Hawaiian audience. The best European longboarders, Antoine Delpero and Ben Skinner will put their hearts and souls into challenging a bunch of talented Hawaiian, Californian and Brazilian athletes
Lee Stone a British Jet Skier from Chesterfield, England has clinched his fifth World title having been crowned IJSBA Pro Freestyle World Champion for 2010 after competing at the International Jet Sport Boating Association World Finals in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.
The 19 year-old was one of 15 RYA National Jet Skiers to represent the UK at the 29th Annual World Finals. 667 entries from 36 states of the USA and a total of 37 Nations attend the games in a bid for 48 World Titles, including 43 closed-course racing classes, three slalom classes as well as Pro Freestyle and Amateur Freestyle provided World Champions at the eight day competition … Details
There are all sorts of crazed statistics about the new $3.1m Bugatti Veyron Super Sport with which you can fray the outer edges of your imagination. Quite apart from the fact that it boasts 198hp beyond that of the regular 987hp Veyron and can do 268mph, when the crankshaft of this car’s 8.0-liter W16 engine is rotating at precisely 6400rpm in seventh gear, it will quaff its way through a 100-liter tank of fuel in just under eight minutes.
The W16 quad-turbo engine also develops its maximum torque figure the entire time between 3,000 and 5,000rpm, so there is no torque “peak” as such. How much twisting power does it actually generate? … Details & Pictures